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Misinformation and professional news on largely unmoderated platforms: the case of telegram 基本上不受干扰的平台上的虚假信息和专业新闻：电报的案例

IF 2.6 2区社会学

Journal of Information Technology & Politics Pub Date : 2022-05-25 DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2022.2076272

A. Herasimenka, Jonathan Bright, Aleksi Knuutila, P. Howard

引用次数: 7

Blue bird in a coal mine: How 2020 Democratic presidential candidates framed climate change on Twitter 煤矿里的蓝鸟:2020年民主党总统候选人如何在推特上描述气候变化

IF 2.6 2区社会学

Journal of Information Technology & Politics Pub Date : 2022-05-18 DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2022.2069182

Lindsey Meeks

引用次数: 1

How politicians adapt to new media logic. A longitudinal perspective on accommodation to user-engagement on Facebook 政客们如何适应新媒体的逻辑。Facebook用户参与度的纵向视角

IF 2.6 2区社会学

Journal of Information Technology & Politics Pub Date : 2022-05-15 DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2022.2076271

Pablo Jost

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引用次数: 8

You’ve never been welcome here: exploring the relationship between exclusivity and incivility in online forums 你在这里从来都不受欢迎：探索在线论坛中的排他性和无礼之间的关系

IF 2.6 2区社会学

Journal of Information Technology & Politics Pub Date : 2022-05-03 DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2022.2069180

Russell W. Hansen

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引用次数: 1

Measuring the impact of candidates’ tweets on their electoral results 衡量候选人推文对选举结果的影响

IF 2.6 2区社会学

Journal of Information Technology & Politics Pub Date : 2022-05-02 DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2022.2069181

Evangelia Kartsounidou, Dimitra Papaxanthi, Ioannis Andreadis

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引用次数: 0

Attack or Block? Repertoires of Digital Censorship in Autocracies 攻击还是阻拦?专制国家的数字审查机制

IF 2.6 2区社会学

Journal of Information Technology & Politics Pub Date : 2022-04-26 DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2022.2037118

Lukas Kawerau, Nils B. Weidmann, A. Dainotti

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引用次数: 7

Competing for attention on Twitter during the 2012 and 2016 U.S. presidential debates 2012年和2016年美国总统辩论期间在推特上争夺关注

IF 2.6 2区社会学

Journal of Information Technology & Politics Pub Date : 2022-04-19 DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2022.2063216

Josephine Lukito, Jon C. W. Pevehouse

引用次数: 1

Cookies and content moderation: affective chilling effects of internet surveillance and censorship Cookie和内容节制：网络监控和审查的情感寒蝉效应

IF 2.6 2区社会学

Journal of Information Technology & Politics Pub Date : 2022-04-19 DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2022.2063215

Elizabeth Stoycheff

引用次数: 4

Depersonalize and attack: facebook campaigns of populist candidates in Greece during the 2019 Greek national elections 去人格化和攻击:2019年希腊全国大选期间，希腊民粹主义候选人在facebook上的竞选活动

IF 2.6 2区社会学

Journal of Information Technology & Politics Pub Date : 2022-03-31 DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2022.2054484

A. Triantafillidou, G. Lappas

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引用次数: 0

Understanding the democratic role of perceived online political micro-targeting: longitudinal effects on trust in democracy and political interest 理解感知的网络政治微观目标的民主作用：对民主信任和政治利益的纵向影响

IF 2.6 2区社会学

Journal of Information Technology & Politics Pub Date : 2022-03-17 DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2021.2016542

Jörg Matthes, Melanie Hirsch, Marlis Stubenvoll, Alice Binder, S. Kruikemeier, S. Lecheler, L. Otto

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引用次数: 4