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On the afternoon of 9 August 2014, 18-year-old Michael ‘Mike’ Brown was shot and killed by Officer Darren Wilson in the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri. Brown’s body lay […]
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Bias accusations have eroded trust in journalism to impartially check facts. Traditionally journalists have avoided responding to such accusations, resulting in an imbalanced flow of arguments about the news media. […]
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The 2020 election and its aftermath present an opportunity to understand how audiences’ changing news consumption patterns within an expanded, digitized, and polarized media environment shape electoral judgments. This paper […]
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The theoretical framework of media use strategies analyzes media use as a strategic practice, focusing on styles of acting, spatiotemporal arrangements, user attitudes, the focus of attention during reception, and […]
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The hashtag campaign around #TWforWHO and #TaiwanCanHelp aimed to bring international attention to Taiwan’s exclusion from the global COVID-19 pandemic response. We use this campaign as a case study to […]
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Around the world, TikTok has provided visibility to small-scale local businesses with popular origins, integrating local vernaculars and traditional family life into a popular social media economy. In this article, […]
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This study examines the antecedents of reporting harmful comments on the platform from a user’s perspective, focusing on perceived media effects. Although some research has examined the “report” or “flag” […]
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Most disinformation research focuses on blatantly communicated disinformation. However, disinformation is often communicated more implicitly. In this study, we examined both the effects of suggestive disinformation (implicitly communicated as a […]
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As part of navigating the visibility logics of the creator economy, influencers may leverage their visibility to promote social justice by drawing attention to specific social causes and political issues. […]
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Much empirical research has examined the nexus between trust in public institutions and media use, but most of which is Western-centric. We steer off this lane using Afrobarometer survey data […]
