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Information, Communication & Society
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Social Media; Communication Studies; Cyberculture; Sociology; Political Communication; Internet Studies. Published by Routledge. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rics20
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Marking the first year of a new editorial team,
@danmercea.bsky.social reflects on iCS’s evolving role in the field. The journal looks back to move forward, reaffirming our commitment to rigour and to the well-being of the academic community.
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Editorial comment: looking back to go forward
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Resilience to misinformation has layers. This article introduces a framework that links individual, media–political, and societal factors, illustrated through the West African context. doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Measuring resilience to misinformation: a multilevel framework illustrated in the west African context
In the digital age, the rapid spread of misinformation poses a significant threat to societies worldwide. This study addresses a gap in understanding and measuring resilience to misinformation by d...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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David Beer reads Mbembe’s Brutalism as a striking meditation on power without an outside. Calculation, extraction, and environmental collapse form the terrain of this unsettling thought-image of our computational age.
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Brutalism
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November 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Merz and von Sikorski use latent profile analysis to show that young adults do not respond to influencers in the same way. Only specific user groups report feeling politically influenced, challenging broad claims about their effects. doi.org/10.1080/1369...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Extending the technology acceptance model, this article highlights how stakeholder expectations shape the continued use of videoconferencing for engagement across Europe.
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Extending the technology acceptance model: videoconferencing as a tool for stakeholder engagement
Catalyzed by the COVID-19 pandemic’s social distancing measures and lockdowns, videoconferencing (VC) is now widely used by public, private, and nongovernmental organizations to reach and engage wi...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Influencers mix ads with intimacy on TikTok. This article maps how commercial messages slip into playful clips and lifestyle posts, raising questions about transparency on a platform built around trends.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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In otome games, Chinese women craft rich emotional ties with virtual partners. This article argues that such play develops intimate literacies that mix pleasure, critique, and resistance to the ideologies embedded in these stories.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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For young climate activists in the Netherlands, social media is both a trigger and a tool. This article explores how eco anxiety emerges from constant exposure, yet also fuels determination and careful content curation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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This paper distinguishes wanting to avoid news from actually staying away from it online. It finds that people who do both end up with lower political knowledge, underscoring the need to study intent and behaviour together. doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Disentangling intent and behaviour: news avoidance and its implications for political knowledge
The study of news avoidance has been hindered by conceptual fuzziness and a lack of consistent operationalization and measurement methods. This leaves us unclear about what really constitutes news ...
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November 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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This article uses Q methodology to explore what explainable AI should look like in healthcare. It identifies four stakeholder positions and explains why clinicians, developers, managers, and policymakers want different forms of transparency. doi.org/10.1080/1369...
November 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Blame and solidarity shared the same feed during COVID-19. Drawing on UK Twitter, this paper traces how supportive messages about minority groups can outweigh attacks. doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Othering discourse online in the UK during a time of crisis: a case study of opinion expressed on Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic
During major public crises, racially motivated blame is common when ethnic minorities are portrayed by the mainstream media as ‘others’ to whom blame is ascribed. In response to crises, social medi...
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November 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Among teens in Spain, gaming is never just gaming. This article reveals how gender and class shape who gets to play, who feels like a “real” gamer, and how inequalities spill into ideas about representation and fairness. doi.org/10.1080/1369...
The videoludic gender divide: an analysis of gender inequalities among adolescents in gaming culture
This article has a dual objective. First, it analyzes adolescents’ access to video games, their gaming practices, and perceptions regarding gamer identity and gaming culture. Second, it examines ho...
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November 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Image-generating AI does not simply mirror the world. This article shows that AI portraits of STEM professionals overwhelmingly depict male, white, older figures, and people respond to these biases differently depending on who is portrayed. doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Algorithmic bias in image-generating artificial intelligence: prevalence and user perceptions
Image-generating AI is among the most popular generative AI applications, likely changing the visual mediated environments humans are exposed to on a mass scale. Prior work found that AI can be bia...
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November 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Based on fieldwork in China, this article shows how the Tour Yunnan platform centralises governance in messy, negotiated ways. It introduces the infrastructural key to explain how data lock-in only sometimes activates central power.
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Clicking to activate the key: unlocking the infrastructural potential of digital platforms through improvised relationships
This article introduces the concept of the infrastructural key to examine the contingent and negotiated processes through which digital platforms enact centralized power and activate infrastructura...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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This article examines how Freedom Convoy supporters on X have evolved their messaging over time. Early posts focused on mobilisation and logistics, while later ones leaned on anger and fear to hold a shrinking protest community together. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Episodes of sustained protest: temporal patterns of online mobilization on X
The rise of social media has allowed the rapid manifestation of collective actions that are both large in scale and persist over extended periods of time. Yet, little is known about how the mobiliz...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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This article argues that brelfies, or breastfeeding selfies, help UK mothers mark pride in feeding, find support, and push to normalise breastfeeding online.
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Experiences of brelfie-taking and sharing by UK breastfeeding mothers
Breastfeeding selfies, otherwise known as ‘brelfies’, are popular in parenting communities. However, such content has been shown to elicit both positive and negative comments when shared more broad...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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This paper analyses how mom vlogs mix platform, care, and cultural values into two motherhood ideals, entrepreneurial and traditional, encouraging personal coping rather than calls for structural change.
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Broadcasting the good mom: a cross-national analysis of mom vloggers and their audiences
With the rise of social media, mothers around the world publicly share their experiences with raising children, shaping broader notions of what motherhood is and should be. While scholars have docu...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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This article scrutinises how self-interest and public-interest nudges shape news engagement on social media. It argues that nudges prompt small shifts in who people follow, while also explaining why these effects vary across settings.
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Promoting news and political information consumption on social media with self-interest and public-interest nudges
Most citizens do not consume news and politics, which weakens democratic resilience. This project employs theoretical nudges highlighting the benefits of following news and politics to oneself and ...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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How do users of emerging technologies make sense of their realness?

My OA paper in @icsjournal.bsky.social, “Holographic authenticities: Constructing the real in the encounter with Holocaust survivors”, explores discourses of historical and technological authenticity.

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Holographic authenticities: constructing the real in the encounter with virtual Holocaust survivors
While Holocaust memory presents the moral and political imperative to reckon with historical truths, digital projects of commemoration are immersed in a ‘post-truth’ landscape of suspicion over the...
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November 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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This article follows #MeToo conversations on Twitter/X to show how activism gradually gave way to polarisation. As political identities took over, partisan debates reshaped the movement’s online visibility and momentum.
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From activism to polarization: temporal dynamics of #MeToo politicization on Twitter/X
This study is focused on how social media activism is politicized over time, attending to diverse groups of users and their response to real-world events on social media. Extending the scholarship ...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Analysing posts from Weibo, this article traces how Chinese views of AI mental health care changed over time. What began with optimism turned to caution, as everyday experiences raised questions about trust and effectiveness.
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Why does the public accept or reject AI mental health care in China? A sentiment and dynamic topic analysis based on social media data
Existing research on public attitudes toward the application of AI in mental health care primarily focused on small-sample, cross-sectional analyses, with limited attention to the dynamic evolution...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Focusing on the Dimensions in Testimony project, this article examines how visitors experience virtual Holocaust survivors as authentic. It argues that emotion and mediation together shape what feels real in digital memory.
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Holographic authenticities: constructing the real in the encounter with virtual Holocaust survivors
While Holocaust memory presents the moral and political imperative to reckon with historical truths, digital projects of commemoration are immersed in a ‘post-truth’ landscape of suspicion over the...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Reviewing 57 studies, this article maps how digital engagement shapes young people’s learning and wellbeing. It argues that online opportunities and risks depend on socioeconomic resources, not technology alone.
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Digital engagement and youth: a scoping review of opportunities, risks, and the role of socioeconomic resources
The rapid expansion of digital technologies has created both opportunities and risks for young people. Previous research shows that their digital engagement is often driven by educational or inform...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Nomophobia, impulsivity, and self-esteem intersect in complex ways. This article shows how fear of disconnection and low self-control combine to fuel compulsive smartphone use among South Korean students.
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Nomophobia and compulsive smartphone use: a moderated mediation effect of impulsivity and self-esteem
This study examined the relationship between nomophobia and compulsive smartphone use (CSU) among South Korean university students, focusing on the mediating role of impulsivity and the moderating ...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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How can researchers collect mobile data responsibly? This article tests several data donation methods in Switzerland and finds that manual entry encourages more people to share their app use.
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What is the best way of collecting data donations? An experiment assessing the feasibility of different data donation approaches to measure mobile and app usage
Smartphones are now ubiquitous in daily life, requiring the development of accurate methodologies to study their impact on various aspects of human experience. A promising approach to collect mobil...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM