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Examining the cultural dimension of contact-tracing app adoption during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-country study in Singapore and Switzerland 2019冠状病毒病大流行期间接触者追踪应用程序采用的文化维度:在新加坡和瑞士进行的一项跨国研究

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2023-08-18 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2022.2082880

Sarah Geber, S. Ho

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Clones and zombies: rethinking conspiracy theories and the digital public sphere through a (post)-colonial perspective 克隆与僵尸:从(后)殖民视角重新思考阴谋论与数字公共领域

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2023-08-09 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2023.2239890

I. Gagliardone, Matti Pohjonen, S. Diepeveen, Samuel Olaniran

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Connecting in the Gulf: exploring digital inclusion for Indigenous families on Mornington Island 连接海湾:探索莫宁顿岛土著家庭的数字包容

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2023-07-11 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2023.2230262

Amber Marshall, Kim Osman, Jessa Rogers, Thu Pham, H. Babacan

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Digital Working Lives: Worker Autonomy and the Gig Economy 数字工作生活:工人自治和零工经济

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2023-06-21 DOI: 10.1080/1369118x.2023.2227687

Guanqin He

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Memecry: tracing the repetition-with-variation of formulas on 4chan/pol/ 记忆:追踪4chan/pol/上公式的重复变化

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2023-05-26 DOI: 10.1080/1369118x.2023.2216769

Sal Hagen, Tommaso Venturini

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引用次数: 2

Beyond myopia in communications and the sociology of media 超越传播学和媒体社会学的短视

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2023-04-04 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2023.2195902

D. Kidd, Timothy Recuber, Matthew N. Atwell, Tyler Burgese, Andrew Chelius, Jaggar DeMarco, Dana Gallant, Benjamin Guidry, Glen Hartenbaum, C. Joyce, Ye Ju Ki, Kyle McDonald, Lindsay Metzker, Julia Scheffler, Victoria Vazquez, J. Walsh, FengYi Yin

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Critical discourse analysis guided topic modeling: the case of Al-Jazeera Arabic 批判性话语分析引导的话题建模:以阿拉伯半岛电视台为例

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2023-02-26 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2023.2166364

Toni Rouhana

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The Stepping into Visibility Model: reflecting on consequences of social media visibility – a Global South perspective 进入能见度模式:反思社会媒体能见度的后果-全球南方的视角

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2023-01-25 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2021.1954228

I. Rega, A. Medrado

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Revisiting networked China: challenges for the study of digital media and civic engagement 重新审视网络化的中国:数字媒体与公民参与研究的挑战

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2023-01-25 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2022.2161831

Stephen D. Reese, Wenhong Chen, Z. Pan

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引用次数: 1

Ethical ambiguity and complexity: tech workers’ perceptions of big data ethics in China and the US 伦理模糊性与复杂性:中美科技工作者对大数据伦理的看法

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2023-01-23 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2023.2166357

Di Di

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