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{"title":"From the fringes into mainstream politics: intermediary networks and movement-party coordination of a global anti-immigration campaign in Germany","authors":"U. Klinger, W. Lance Bennett, C. Knüpfer, F. Martini, Xixuan Zhang","doi":"10.1080/1369118X.2022.2050415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2050415","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Many liberal democracies have witnessed the rise of radical right parties and movements that threaten liberal values of tolerance and inclusion. Extremist movement factions may promote inflammatory ideas that engage broader publics, but party leaders face dilemmas of endorsing content from extremist origins. However, when that content is shared over larger intermediary networks of aligned supporters and media sites, it may become laundered or disconnected from its original sources so that parties can play it back as official communication. With a dynamic network analysis and various-time series analysis we tracked content flows from the German version of a global far-right anti-immigration campaign across different media platforms, including YouTube, Twitter, and collections of far-right and mainstream media sites. The analysis shows how content from the small extremist Identitarian Movement spread over expanding networks of low-level activists of the Alternative for Germany party and far-right alternative media sites. That network bridging enabled party leadership to launder the source of the content and roll out its own version of the campaign. As a result, national attention became directed to extremist ideas.","PeriodicalId":48335,"journal":{"name":"Information Communication & Society","volume":"26 1","pages":"1890 - 1907"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44331655","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}

{"title":"Exploring digital humanities in India: pedagogies, practices, and institutional possibilities","authors":"Shailendra Kumar Singh","doi":"10.1080/1369118x.2022.2055486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2022.2055486","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48335,"journal":{"name":"Information Communication & Society","volume":"26 1","pages":"1492 - 1493"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49164519","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}

{"title":"To disclose or not to disclose? Factors related to the willingness to disclose information to a COVID-19 tracing app","authors":"Moritz Jörling, S. Eitze, Philipp Schmid, C. Betsch, J. Allen, Robert Böhm","doi":"10.1080/1369118X.2022.2050418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2050418","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Contact-tracing apps have been identified as a promising technology to curb the spread of COVID-19. To be effective, a sufficient number of individuals need to install the app and disclose information like COVID-19 infection to such an app. Yet, usage data demonstrate that a large number of app users does not disclose COVID-19 infection to the app. Hence, in two studies (overall N = 1522), we investigate factors related to individuals’ willingness to actively disclose information to such an app. In a preregistered online experiment conducted two months before the app launch onto the German market, we find that disclosure willingness increases when the app’s prosocial benefit or a social-life-enabling benefit is emphasized (vs. no benefit emphasized). In a subsequent, quota-representative survey study conducted two months after the app launch onto the German market, we adapted and extended the Technology Acceptance Model 2 (TAM2) to the context of prosocial information sharing in tracing apps. We find that the perceived prosocial benefit of the app, trust in public institutions, and fear of COVID-19 are the relevant predictors. Moreover, we demonstrate that the relation between perceived prosocial benefit and disclosure willingness is moderated by perceived ease of use. Results are discussed with regard to effective implementation and communication strategies for tracing apps, and the general role of prosocial concerns for technology usage to address major societal challenges.","PeriodicalId":48335,"journal":{"name":"Information Communication & Society","volume":"26 1","pages":"1954 - 1978"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59865893","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}

{"title":"Infrastructuring digital sovereignty: a research agenda for an infrastructure-based sociology of digital self-determination practices","authors":"F. Musiani","doi":"10.1080/1369118X.2022.2049850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2049850","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Today, a number of high-profile initiatives across the globe are concrete implementations of the ‘digital sovereignty’ principle: i.e., the idea that states should ‘reaffirm’ their authority over the Internet and the broader digital ecosystem, to protect their citizens, institutions, and businesses from the multiple challenges to their nation’s self-determination in the digital sphere. According to this principle, sovereignty depends on more than supra-national alliances or international legal instruments, military might or trade: it depends on locally owned, controlled and operated innovation ecosystems, able to increase states’ technical and economic independence and autonomy. Presently, digital sovereignty is understood primarily as a legal concept and a set of political discourses. As a consequence, it is predominantly analyzed by political science, international relations and international law. However, the study of digital sovereignty as a set of infrastructures and socio-material practices has been comparatively neglected. This article explores how the concept of digital sovereignty can be studied via the infrastructure-embedded ‘situated practices’ of various political and economic projects which aim to establish autonomous digital infrastructures in a hyperconnected world. Although the article focuses primarily on outlining the agenda for a wider and comparative research program, I will place a specific focus on Russia, subject of an ongoing research project, as a pilot case.","PeriodicalId":48335,"journal":{"name":"Information Communication & Society","volume":"25 1","pages":"785 - 800"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48890208","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}

{"title":"Embedded reproduction in platform data work","authors":"Julian Posada","doi":"10.1080/1369118X.2022.2049849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2049849","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the experiences of Latin American data workers who annotate data for machine learning algorithms through labor platforms. It introduces the notion of ‘embedded reproduction’: the relationship between embeddedness, the degree to which non-economic institutions and their social environment constrain socioeconomic activity, and social reproduction, or the activities that nurture, maintain, and regenerate the workforce. The analysis of 38 interviews with platform workers suggests they are situated in a highly disembedded market due to the lack of regulations on the data production process, giving free rein to platforms to set rules to their detriment. This article explores how this disembeddedness shapes social reproduction by studying three forms of collective social support received by workers: from family members, neighbors and local communities, and online groups. The support of these networks is primarily local, depends on high levels of trust, and is gendered. These findings suggest that platform data work is unsustainable from an embedded reproductive perspective since platform intermediation leads workers and local communities to carry out the social and economic risks associated with this form of gig work. This research invites a dialogue between the embeddedness framework with social reproduction as well as a consideration of the importance of nature and natural resources in the study of social environments.","PeriodicalId":48335,"journal":{"name":"Information Communication & Society","volume":"25 1","pages":"816 - 834"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43778283","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}

{"title":"When a door becomes a window: using Glassdoor to examine game industry work cultures","authors":"K. Bergstrom","doi":"10.1080/1369118X.2022.2048048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2048048","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Despite a growing interest in its labour conditions, research about the games industry remains constrained by the streetlight effect. Non-disclosure and non-disparagement agreements, or HR blocking access for embedded research, are examples of how the industry can shield itself from outside view. Furthermore, when access is granted, researchers might find themselves constrained by their own timelines (tenure clocks, graduation deadlines, etc.) that are antithetical to long-term, embedded ethnographic research. In this article, I discuss an opportunity to look behind the curtain of the game industry via employee reviews left on Glassdoor, a popular job-seeking website. These reviews provide a means to gather worker perspectives in a way that reduces the potential for harm for those who speak out to counter the dominant, PR-polished narratives about working in the game industry being a ‘dream job.’ To demonstrate Glassdoor’s utility as a supplemental data source for investigations of industry workplace cultures, I draw on employee reviews describing their experiences at Riot Games, developer of the Multiplayer Online Battle Arena League of Legends. These first-hand accounts of working at Riot provide a view into the games industry, allowing observation of how problematic work cultures become normalized, and ultimately, how workers who do not come to internalize these norms may be pushed out.","PeriodicalId":48335,"journal":{"name":"Information Communication & Society","volume":"25 1","pages":"835 - 850"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43029520","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}

{"title":"Clickbait for climate change: comparing emotions in headlines and full-texts and their engagement","authors":"Zhan Xu, Mary Laffidy, L. Ellis","doi":"10.1080/1369118X.2022.2050416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2050416","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Anthropogenic climate change remains a polarizing topic. As most social media users share articles solely relying on the headline, this raises the question of how emerging digital media reporting – especially in the headlines – shapes the perception of climate change issues and engages audiences. Guided by the dual-systems emotion model and discrete-emotions model, this study compared emotion words used in headlines versus full text among climate change articles – and their social media engagement, using computational methods. Findings suggested that climate change support headlines were more likely to use fear words while denial headlines were significantly more likely to contain emotion words, negatively-valenced words, as well as words for anger, anticipation, disgust, sadness, and surprise. Regarding the full text, denial articles were more likely to contain emotion words, negatively-valenced words, and many discrete emotions related words than support articles. A denial article’s engagement was predicted by the total number of emotion words contained in its headline, whereas a support article’s engagement was predicted by negatively-valenced words and words for fear used in its headline. Emotions contained in the full text did not predict support and -denial articles’ engagement. Findings provide practical guidance on how to increase the engagement level of climate change articles.","PeriodicalId":48335,"journal":{"name":"Information Communication & Society","volume":"26 1","pages":"1915 - 1932"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43911307","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}

{"title":"Constructing young selves in a digital media ecology: youth cultures, practices and identity","authors":"Liza Tsaliki","doi":"10.1080/1369118X.2022.2039747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2039747","url":null,"abstract":"With childhood blurring into youth in most contemporary Western societies, public perceptions and concern about ‘the young’ seem to proliferate as a result of the urge to police the boundary between childhood and youth – whether regarding sexual health (as a corollary of sexual experience or sexual knowledge), children’s and youth’s media uses and cultural practices, or consumption of popular culture. Though the ‘new sociology of childhood’ paradigm (Alanen, 1992; King, 1999) has extensively addressed how often media and popular culture is portrayed as the culprit for the disappearance of childhood innocence (Buckingham, 2011), young people’s growing participation in consumer culture in the twenty-first century has fueled parental, academic and social concern and has brought a renewed media attention to the changing dynamics of childhood and youth. As new media technologies and marketing strategies offer new affordances to young people in terms of their repertoires of cultural practices and uses, they inevitably give rise to numerous anxieties. Scholarly work and research upon the way in which we talk about children and youth gradually abounds, especially in a cross-cultural context (see for example Clapton, 2015; Hier, 2011; Krinsky, 2008; Petley et al., 2013; Tsaliki & Chronaki, 2020a), signaling how ‘risk’ has insidiously crept into our understandings of children and youth and the social policy directed at them, and how it is tied to a notion of ‘responsibilization’ within neoliberalism. Furthermore, once we take into account how the disciplinary power of neoliberalism has become a common conceptual currency across national and cultural borders, discussing how neoliberal self-governance permeates the cultures of childhood and youth becomes even more pertinent. It is due to such ‘risk talk’ – driving policy-making at national, cross-national and global level for some time now – that the ‘discursive formations’ (Foucault 1976/1980 in Thompson, 1998, pp. 23–24) of children and teens in (preand) post-millennial times construct under 18s as always ‘at risk’ of being harmed (from almost everything – too much food, too much fun, too much sex, too much popular culture, too much technology) (Tsaliki & Chronaki, 2020b, p. 8). As these discursive formations of anxiety unfold recurrently across cultures, they constitute a regime of truth and show that power is not a mere top-down imposition, but circulates productively at all levels, and creates ‘transmediated continuity’ (Jones & Weber, 2015). For example, the effort to monitor youth sexuality, alcohol consumption,","PeriodicalId":48335,"journal":{"name":"Information Communication & Society","volume":"25 1","pages":"477 - 484"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44917217","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}

{"title":"Imaginative play in digital environments: designing social and creative opportunities for identity formation","authors":"S. Livingstone, Kruakae Pothong","doi":"10.1080/1369118X.2022.2046128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2046128","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Digital technologies afford ample opportunities for children’s development, identity formation, imagination and sociability through free play. At stake, we argue, is children’s agency. Yet free play is under threat in both digital and nondigital contexts. Recognising that different configurations of the contexts in which play occurs affect whether and how children can play on their own terms, this article draws on the long tradition of research on child-led or free play in natural or nondigital contexts to explore children’s play in digital contexts. Combining qualitative and quantitative research methods, we examine the qualities of children’s play and the factors that shape it so as to reimagine, together with children, parents and professionals working with children, a digital environment that could better serve children’s best interests. The findings show that the qualities of children’s play are strikingly similar in digital and nondigital contexts but that children find certain social-technical configurations restrictive of their agency and freedom to develop their identity through play in digital contexts. Based on children’s implicit and explicit calls for change, we propose a ‘playful by design’ approach by which designers and providers of digital products and services could urge those with the powers to redesign digital environments to prioritise digital features that promote children’s imaginative, social, open-ended, risk-taking and stimulating play while limiting the risks to children’s safety, privacy and self-determination that arise from commercial interests.","PeriodicalId":48335,"journal":{"name":"Information Communication & Society","volume":"25 1","pages":"485 - 501"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43025086","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}

{"title":"The web of meaning: The internet in a changing Chinese society","authors":"Shaohua Guo","doi":"10.1080/1369118X.2022.2048049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2048049","url":null,"abstract":"The web of meaning: The internet in a changing Chinese society is an ambitious work that endeavors to theorize the study of digital media by connecting seemingly separate, yet inher-ently intertwined, communities, practices, and discourses. This book illustrates how a revi-sion of Bourdieu ’ s notion of ‘ fi eld ’ sheds light on understanding the ways in which diverse actors compete for the construction of meanings online. The author argues that the transfor-mative potential of the Chinese Internet lies in its ability to give rise to ‘ symbolic spaces, ’ which simultaneously have been created and shaped by contemporary events in China. The fi rst two chapters (Introduction and Chapter 1) lay out the book ’ s analytical frame-work and theoretical basis. Some of the essential concepts the book draws on are ‘ discursive fi elds, ’ ‘ symbolic power, ’ ‘ symbolic space, ’ and relational thinking. In detailing the process of competition for symbolic power among various actors, the introduction chapter proposes to approach the Chinese Internet as a ‘ discursive site ’ that congregates diverse players, mediates online sociality, and produces new social roles (p. 40). Chapter 2 situates the rise of the Chinese Internet against the backdrop of China ’ s economic reforms and structural transform-ation in the cultural realm. It showcases how the Chinese Internet constitutes a symbolic space that nurtures the rise of multifarious publics, facilitates symbolic transactions, and reformulates power relations. The empirical","PeriodicalId":48335,"journal":{"name":"Information Communication & Society","volume":"25 1","pages":"2333 - 2334"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48156048","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}