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Webtoons, Desperately Seeking Viewers: Interactive Creativity in Social Media Platforms and Cultural Appropriation of Global Media Production 网络卡通，拼命寻找观众：社交媒体平台的互动创意与全球媒体制作的文化挪用

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-11-06 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241292577

Sunny Yoon

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How Migrants Experience Information Uncertainty and Vulnerability: Lessons for (Dis)information Studies 移民如何体验信息的不确定性和脆弱性？对（失）信息研究的启示

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-10-30 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241292571

Ignacio Siles, María Fernanda Salas, Silvio Waisbord

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What You Perceive Is What You Get: Enhancing Rumor-Combating Effectiveness on Social Media Based on Elaboration Likelihood Model 所见即所得：基于阐释可能性模型提高社交媒体上的谣言打击效果

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241288809

Cheng Zhou, Qian Chang

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It’s Fine If Others Do It Too: Privacy Concerns, Social Influence, and Political Expression on Facebook in Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States 如果别人也这样做就好了：加拿大、法国、德国、英国和美国 Facebook 上的隐私关注、社会影响和政治表达

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241290334

Christian Pieter Hoffmann, Shelley Boulianne

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Disinformation and the Ghost of Margaret Sanger 虚假信息和玛格丽特-桑格的幽灵

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241290848

Sarah Whitmarsh

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241288448

Claire M. Segijn, Joanna Strycharz, Anna Turner, Suzanna J. Opree

{"title":"Conversation-Related Advertising and Electronic Eavesdropping: Mapping Perceptions of Phones Listening for Advertising in the United States, the Netherlands, and Poland","authors":"Claire M. Segijn, Joanna Strycharz, Anna Turner, Suzanna J. Opree","doi":"10.1177/20563051241288448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241288448","url":null,"abstract":"People report receiving ads on their mobile device that are seemingly related to previous offline conversations (i.e., conversation-related advertising). They may think that this is because their electronic devices are eavesdropping (i.e., e-eavesdropping). To gain insights into the scope and characteristics of conversation-related advertising and e-eavesdropping beliefs, we conducted a survey in the United States ( n = 300), the Netherlands ( n = 293), and Poland ( n = 293). These countries were chosen based on their differences in privacy regulations and history with state surveillance. We find that belief in conversation-related advertising is a widespread cross-country phenomenon, which is higher in the United States compared with European countries. In addition, between half and two-thirds of respondents believe e-eavesdropping is a likely explanation for it. We find that social media is a main contributing factor through which people hear about and most often see conversation-related advertising. Moreover, in response to such advertising, respondents experience more negative than positive affect. The results show that this is a prevalent and timely phenomenon that warrants more research. This carries implications for the (social) media industry and regulators, as it highlights the importance of transparency and (insufficient) individual understanding of data collection and processing.","PeriodicalId":47920,"journal":{"name":"Social Media + Society","volume":"131 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142536509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Biased Social Media Debates About Terrorism? A Content Analysis of Journalistic Coverage of and Audience Reactions to Terrorist Attacks on YouTube 关于恐怖主义的有偏见的社交媒体辩论？对 YouTube 上有关恐怖袭击的新闻报道和受众反应的内容分析

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-10-25 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241290113

Liane Rothenberger, Valerie Hase

{"title":"Biased Social Media Debates About Terrorism? A Content Analysis of Journalistic Coverage of and Audience Reactions to Terrorist Attacks on YouTube","authors":"Liane Rothenberger, Valerie Hase","doi":"10.1177/20563051241290113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241290113","url":null,"abstract":"Social media are an important source of news during crises such as terrorist attacks. However, how news media and their audiences make sense of terrorism on social media is subject to bias, for example, given their differential treatment of terrorism by right-wing versus Islamist extremist perpetrators. In this study, we analyze how incident- and perpetrator-related characteristics of terrorist attacks are associated with bias in public debates about terrorism on YouTube. We focus on selectiveness in which attacks are covered (gatekeeping bias), how attacks are covered (presentation bias), and how audiences react to coverage (audience bias). Methodologically, we employ a manual and an automated content analysis of terrorism coverage by five international broadcasters on YouTube ( N = 643, 2018–2020) and related user comments ( N = 193,721). Our findings illustrate how sociocultural contexts shape news bias in terrorism coverage, both in the form of gatekeeping bias and presentation bias—but we conclude with less evidence for audience bias in public reactions to terrorism, at least on social media. Consequently, journalists should critically question working routines in covering crises to avoid reinforcing power imbalances, especially those from Western contexts.","PeriodicalId":47920,"journal":{"name":"Social Media + Society","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142490947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Decoding Online Narratives and Unraveling Complexities in the Rohingya Refugee Crisis 解码网上叙事，揭开罗兴亚难民危机的复杂面纱

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-10-18 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241288942

Tanvir Ahammad, Siam Ahmed, Selina Sharmin

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The Listening Public in Public Diplomacy: How Did the Public Respond to President Zelensky on Twitter? 公共外交中的倾听者：公众如何在 Twitter 上回应泽伦斯基总统？

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-10-17 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241288960

Lassi Rikkonen, Pekka Isotalus

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Visualizing Authority: Rise of the Religious Influencers on the Instagram 权威可视化：Instagram 上宗教影响者的崛起

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Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-10-08 DOI: 10.1177/20563051241286850

Harry Febrian

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