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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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...
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...
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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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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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...
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...
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, this article highlights how stakeholder expectations shape the continued use of videoconferencing for engagement across Europe.
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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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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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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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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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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....
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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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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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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....
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....
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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, 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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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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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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