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Beyond Mere Algorithm Aversion: Are Judgments About Computer Agents More Variable?

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Communication Research Pub Date : 2024-12-11 DOI: 10.1177/00936502241303588

Jürgen Buder, Fritz Becker, Janika Bareiß, Markus Huff

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Network Agenda Setting, or Networked Framing? (Non)correspondence Between User and Right-Wing Media Semantic Networks on YouTube

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Communication Research Pub Date : 2024-12-11 DOI: 10.1177/00936502241300803

Yuan Hsiao, Matthew Hindman

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Inferring human vision in a human-like way: Key factors influencing the cognitive processing of level-1 visual perspective-taking

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Communication Research Pub Date : 2024-11-28 DOI: 10.1177/00936502241302569

Song Zhou, Huaqi Yang, Ming Ye, Ning Ding, Tao Liu

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How Political Overconfidence Fuels Affective Polarization in Cross-cutting Discussions

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Communication Research Pub Date : 2024-11-28 DOI: 10.1177/00936502241301174

Han Lin, Yonghwan Kim

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Personality, Attachment, and Pornography: A Meta-Analysis 人格、依恋和色情：元分析

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Communication Research Pub Date : 2024-10-29 DOI: 10.1177/00936502241287834

Mehdi Akbari, Shiva Jamshidi, Zahra Sadat Hosseini, Sonay Sheikhi, Rezvaneh Asadi Asadabad, Mahshid Zamani, Paul J. Wright

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Expansion and Exploration of the Superdiffuser Model With Agent-Based Modeling 利用基于代理的建模扩展和探索超级扩散器模型

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Communication Research Pub Date : 2024-10-22 DOI: 10.1177/00936502241285574

Christopher J. Carpenter, Shannon M. Cruz, Reed M. Reynolds

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“None of Us Wanted to be at This Party, But What a Guest List”: How Technology Workers Position Themselves on LinkedIn Following Layoffs "我们都不想参加这个派对，但来宾名单真不错"：裁员后，技术人员如何在 LinkedIn 上定位自己

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Communication Research Pub Date : 2024-10-18 DOI: 10.1177/00936502241289483

Camille G. Endacott, Lauren Millender, Jordan Duran, Miguel Wilson

{"title":"“None of Us Wanted to be at This Party, But What a Guest List”: How Technology Workers Position Themselves on LinkedIn Following Layoffs","authors":"Camille G. Endacott, Lauren Millender, Jordan Duran, Miguel Wilson","doi":"10.1177/00936502241289483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502241289483","url":null,"abstract":"Mass layoffs offer a unique and understudied context to understand how affected workers communicate the involuntary, collective nature of their organizational exit. In this study, we explored the communicative strategies that workers affected by mass layoffs in the technology industry used to engage in impression management by analyzing LinkedIn posts ( N = 362). Our findings showed that workers engaged in proactive impression management by drawing on targets of identification (such as positioning themselves within the collective group of affected workers and highlighting their former membership with prestigious companies) to minimize blame for their layoff and signal their employability. Our findings also suggest that, amid environmental shock and in digital environments, individuals enact remarkably similar communicative strategies to one another, suggesting that this type of organizational exit announcement is a distinct emergent genre for impression management. We discuss our findings’ implications for our understanding of organizational exit and work-related online impression management behavior.","PeriodicalId":48323,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142449578","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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“I’ll Change My Beliefs When I See It”: Video Fact Checks Outperform Text Fact Checks in Correcting Misperceptions Among Those Holding False or Uncertain Pre-Existing Beliefs "当我看到它时，我会改变我的信仰"：视频事实核查在纠正那些持有错误或不确定既有信仰的人的错误观念方面优于文字事实核查

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Communication Research Pub Date : 2024-10-18 DOI: 10.1177/00936502241287870

Viorela Dan, Renita Coleman

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Caught Within the Family System: An Examination of Emerging Adults’ Dilemmas in Navigating Sibling Depression 被困在家庭系统中：研究新成人在面对兄弟姐妹抑郁时的困境

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Communication Research Pub Date : 2024-10-17 DOI: 10.1177/00936502241290863

Jade Salmon, Tamara D. Afifi

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Lost in a Maze? On the Philosophical Problems With Differential and Individual-Level Susceptibility in Research on Media Effects 迷失在迷宫中？论媒体效应研究中差异和个体水平易感性的哲学问题