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Rise of the Zombie Papers: Infecting Germany’s Local and Regional Public Media Ecosystem 僵尸论文的兴起：影响德国地方和地区公共媒体生态系统

IF 3.1 2区文学

Media and Communication Pub Date : 2023-06-15 DOI: 10.17645/mac.v11i3.6816

K. Assmann

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引用次数: 1

Digital Media Domestication and Job Paths Among Older People: An Ethnographic Investigation 数字媒体在老年人中的本土化与就业路径：一项民族志调查

IF 3.1 2区文学

Media and Communication Pub Date : 2023-06-07 DOI: 10.17645/mac.v11i3.6710

Simone Carlo, Giulia Buschicchio

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引用次数: 1

Barriers to Participation in Polarized Online Discussions About Covid-19 and the Russo-Ukrainian War 参与关于新冠肺炎和俄乌战争的两极在线讨论的障碍

IF 3.1 2区文学

Media and Communication Pub Date : 2023-06-06 DOI: 10.17645/mac.v11i3.6657

M. Novotná, Alena Macková, Karolína Bieliková, Patrícia G. C. Rossini

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引用次数: 2

Datafication Markers: Curation and User Network Effects on Mobilization and Polarization During Elections 数据标记：遏制和用户网络对选举期间动员和两极分化的影响

IF 3.1 2区文学

Media and Communication Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.17645/mac.v11i3.6641

Emilija Gagrčin, Jakob Ohme, Lina Buttgereit, Felix Grünewald

引用次数: 1

Platforms and Exposure Diversity: Towards a Framework to Assess Policies to Promote Exposure Diversity 平台和曝光多样性：建立一个评估促进曝光多样性政策的框架

IF 3.1 2区文学

Media and Communication Pub Date : 2023-05-23 DOI: 10.17645/mac.v11i2.6401

Heritiana Ranaivoson, Nino Domazetovikj

{"title":"Platforms and Exposure Diversity: Towards a Framework to Assess Policies to Promote Exposure Diversity","authors":"Heritiana Ranaivoson, Nino Domazetovikj","doi":"10.17645/mac.v11i2.6401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v11i2.6401","url":null,"abstract":"The fragmentation of consumption and algorithms’ increasing impact on how content is recommended and displayed makes it even more important to analyse and promote exposure diversity, i.e., the extent to which audiences are exposed to, discover, and engage with diverse content. Although there is a growing literature addressing how to define media diversity in the context of the challenges posed by platformisation, this article translates the normative dimensions into a framework for operationalising exposure diversity into a tangible policy goal, taking into account datafication and its consequences in terms of increasing data requirements towards platforms. The main objective of this study is to analyse initiatives to assess exposure diversity in the platform era and to discuss how such assessment could be improved, particularly for policy initiatives. This involves addressing several challenges of existing approaches for the assessment of exposure diversity related to defining an appropriate frame of reference, determining the degree of diversity required, dealing with data transparency issues, and promoting user autonomy. To achieve this, we propose a framework for analysing initiatives aimed at assessing and promoting exposure to media diversity. Our framework is composed of four key features: measures (type of initiative), metrics (quantifying exposure diversity), data collection methods, and data requirements. We apply this framework to a set of 13 initiatives and find that policy initiatives can benefit from adopting metrics based on distances and experimenting with data collection methods.","PeriodicalId":18348,"journal":{"name":"Media and Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48257289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Mobilization in the Context of Campaign Functions and Citizen Participation 运动功能与公民参与背景下的动员

IF 3.1 2区文学

Media and Communication Pub Date : 2023-05-22 DOI: 10.17645/mac.v11i3.6660

A. Wurst, K. Pohl, J. Haßler

{"title":"Mobilization in the Context of Campaign Functions and Citizen Participation","authors":"A. Wurst, K. Pohl, J. Haßler","doi":"10.17645/mac.v11i3.6660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v11i3.6660","url":null,"abstract":"Mobilization strategies are an essential part of political parties’ campaign communication. By mobilizing voters and supporters, parties promote civic participation in politics, the forms of which have multiplied given the possibilities of user activities on social media. To define their online mobilization strategies, parties have to choose which forms of participation (e.g., voting, donating, or liking or sharing a post) they will seek to mobilize. Understanding mobilization as a communicative appeal to engage audiences in participatory actions, in our study we conceptually linked parties’ mobilizing appeals with three campaign functions—information, interaction, and mobilization—to systematize different types of mobilization. We applied that categorization to the social media campaigns of parties and top candidates in Germany and conducted a manual quantitative content analysis of 1,495 Facebook and 1,088 Instagram posts published in the run-up to the 2021 federal election. Results show that parties primarily mobilized their audiences to vote and seek out more information (e.g., on the party’s website). Although user reactions are generally an important factor of performance on social media, parties mostly avoided calls to like, share, or comment on posts. When compared, the strategies of parties and candidates indicate that mobilization is more the task of parties than of candidates. Differences between Facebook and Instagram can be attributed to the different technical affordances of the platforms. Because Facebook, unlike Instagram, supports clickable links in posts, parties are more likely to encourage users on Facebook to seek out more information online.","PeriodicalId":18348,"journal":{"name":"Media and Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49541258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Older Adults Learning Digital Skills Together: Peer Tutors’ Perspectives on Non-Formal Digital Support 老年人一起学习数字技能:同伴导师对非正式数字支持的看法

IF 3.1 2区文学

Media and Communication Pub Date : 2023-05-22 DOI: 10.17645/mac.v11i3.6742

Viivi Korpela, Laura Pajula, R. Hänninen

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引用次数: 2

Fridays for Future and Mondays for Memes: How Climate Crisis Memes Mobilize Social Media Users 周五为未来，周一为表情包:气候危机表情包如何动员社交媒体用户

IF 3.1 2区文学

Media and Communication Pub Date : 2023-05-18 DOI: 10.17645/mac.v11i3.6658

Michael Johann, Lukas Höhnle, Jana Dombrowski

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引用次数: 1

Experiencing Political Advertising Through Social Media Logic: A Qualitative Inquiry 从社交媒体逻辑体验政治广告：一个定性探究

IF 3.1 2区文学

Media and Communication Pub Date : 2023-05-16 DOI: 10.17645/mac.v11i2.6412

Martín Echeverría

{"title":"Experiencing Political Advertising Through Social Media Logic: A Qualitative Inquiry","authors":"Martín Echeverría","doi":"10.17645/mac.v11i2.6412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v11i2.6412","url":null,"abstract":"<span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\" lang=\"EN-US\">The allocation of political advertising in social media is rising in Western campaigns. Yet audiences, unlike those of television advertising, are no longer isolated and passive consumers of linear discourses from politicians; users can now interact, share, and merge political advertising with other messages. Literature has dealt with the effects of such affordances separately, yet not in an integrative, holistic way that makes it possible to observe how they interact with each other. Hence, this article explores qualitatively how users experience, engage with, and make sense of political advertising in social media, and how its affordances mediate the attitudes, responses, and meanings users bring to political advertising and its sponsors. Under the lenses of the theory of social media logic, which points out the properties of social media—popularity, programmability, datafication, and connectivity—that structure users’ experiences, we conducted six focus group sessions with Mexican users (<em>n</em> = 34) during the 2021 federal campaigns. Findings show the fuzziness of digital advertising for users, which blurs with other formats like infographics or memes, the crucial role of individual linkages for advertising attention and attitude formation, a mismatch between the platform’s political feed and citizens’ information needs, and the tactics users perform to tame or avoid political content, disengaging them from campaigns.</span>","PeriodicalId":18348,"journal":{"name":"Media and Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49313528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Digital Platforms and Infrastructure in the Realm of Culture 文化领域的数字平台和基础设施

IF 3.1 2区文学

Media and Communication Pub Date : 2023-05-16 DOI: 10.17645/mac.v11i2.6422

D. Hesmondhalgh, Raquel Campos Valverde, D. Bondy, Valdovinos Kaye, Zhongwei Li

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引用次数: 5