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Making the struggle for climate jobs common—confessions from an activist professor 为气候工作岗位而奋斗--一位激进教授的自白

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Frontiers in Communication Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1378343

Andreas Ytterstad

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Unveiling misinformation on YouTube: examining the content of COVID-19 vaccination misinformation videos in Switzerland 揭开 YouTube 上错误信息的面纱：研究瑞士 COVID-19 疫苗接种错误信息视频的内容

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Frontiers in Communication Pub Date : 2024-02-29 DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1250024

Edda Humprecht, S. Kessler

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When belief becomes research: conspiracist communities on the social web 当信仰变成研究：社交网络上的阴谋论社区

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Frontiers in Communication Pub Date : 2024-02-28 DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1345973

Katie Greer, Stephanie Beene

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Deconstructing Ex Machina (2014): a feminist-psychoanalytic exploration of female artificial intelligences 解构《机器姬》（2014）：对女性人工智能的女性主义-心理分析探索

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Frontiers in Communication Pub Date : 2024-02-28 DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1349874

Yongde Dai

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Faculty computer-mediated communication apprehension during shift to emergency remote teaching: implications for teacher-student interactions and faculty organizational outcomes 教师在向紧急远程教学转变过程中的计算机辅助交流忧虑：对师生互动和教师组织成果的影响

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Frontiers in Communication Pub Date : 2024-02-23 DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1271214

Kristen L. Farris, Luke A. Dye, Marian L. Houser, C. Erik Timmerman

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USGS and social media user dialogue and sentiment during the 2018 eruption of Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai‘i 美国地质调查局和社交媒体用户在 2018 年夏威夷基劳埃阿火山爆发期间的对话和情绪

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Frontiers in Communication Pub Date : 2024-02-22 DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.986974

Robert T. Goldman, Sara K. McBride, Wendy K. Stovall, D. Damby

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Communication, theory of change, and clean energy 交流、变革理论和清洁能源

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Frontiers in Communication Pub Date : 2024-02-22 DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1381928

Robert Cox

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Facilitating patient portal engagement: a channel expansion and behavior change wheel perspective 促进患者门户参与：渠道拓展和行为改变轮的视角

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Frontiers in Communication Pub Date : 2024-02-21 DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1272825

Weidan Cao, Xiaohui Cao

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What makes a multimodal construction? Evidence for a prosodic mode in spoken English 什么是多模态结构？英语口语中的拟声模式证据

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Frontiers in Communication Pub Date : 2024-02-19 DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1338844

Claudia Lehmann

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Automatic speech recognition and the transcription of indistinct forensic audio: how do the new generation of systems fare? 自动语音识别和模糊法证音频的转录：新一代系统表现如何？

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Frontiers in Communication Pub Date : 2024-02-14 DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1281407

Debbie Loakes

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