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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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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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Smartphones in the university classroom: less problematic than we tend to think? 大学课堂上的智能手机：问题比我们想象的要少？

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2023-01-18 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2023.2166358

L. Bonneville, Diane Riddell

{"title":"Smartphones in the university classroom: less problematic than we tend to think?","authors":"L. Bonneville, Diane Riddell","doi":"10.1080/1369118X.2023.2166358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2023.2166358","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Smartphones are a key part of life for university and college students, and indeed for many people [Pew Research Center. (2021, April 7). Mobile fact sheet. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/]. A growing body of research suggests that these technological devices, when used in a classroom, lead to various issues and problems for students from distraction/loss of focus to procrastination, and ultimately impact performance and grades. Media coverage has pointed to smartphones as a scourge responsible for the decline of an entire generation of university and college students. Much of the research, while important and timely, tends to study what technological devices ‘do to’ people. There has been less focus on how students temper their use of smartphones in a classroom and while doing schoolwork – in other words, what they ‘do with’ their technological devices, such as smartphones. This research was completed in Winter 2021 via online survey with 632 undergraduate students at a large Canadian University. It found that students employ a variety of strategies that help mitigate the risks of smartphone use. These include installing apps that manage time on various platforms, turning off notifications, or placing their phone in a coat or bag. Some students turn off their phone or leave it in another room when taking online classes. This study positioned the students themselves as ‘experts’ in the use of their smartphones. The findings suggest that many students feel they limit their smartphone use in class or while studying far better than professors and the media suggest.","PeriodicalId":48335,"journal":{"name":"Information Communication & Society","volume":"26 1","pages":"1008 - 1022"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45216543","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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Disciplinary brakes on the sociology of digital media: the incongruity of communication and the sociological imagination 数字媒体社会学的学科刹车：传播与社会学想象的不协调

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2023-01-18 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2023.2166365

Keith N. Hampton

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Investigating how the interaction between individual and circumstantial determinants influence the emergence of digital poverty: a post-pandemic survey among families with children in England 调查个人和环境决定因素之间的互动如何影响数字贫困的出现：一项针对英国有孩子家庭的疫情后调查

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2023-01-18 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2023.2166359

Maria Laura Ruiu, Massimo Ragnedda, F. Addeo, Gabriele Ruiu

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Rage against the streaming studio system: worker resistance to Hollywood’s networked era 对流媒体工作室系统的愤怒：工人对好莱坞网络时代的抵制

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2023-01-18 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2023.2166363

A. J. Christian, Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin

{"title":"Rage against the streaming studio system: worker resistance to Hollywood’s networked era","authors":"A. J. Christian, Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin","doi":"10.1080/1369118X.2023.2166363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2023.2166363","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Every global media conglomerate in the United States has a streaming video platform. Unlike their streaming competitors from Silicon Valley, the early years of Hollywood streaming push emerges from a Studio System. The emergent Streaming Studio System is not as integrated as the Classic Hollywood Studio System, but it shares some important similarities. Most important is the seamless integration of production, distribution, and exhibition. The streamers increasingly make and release projects exclusively to consumers via exhibition portals they control. But workers are fighting back against the power of the streamers as they exacerbate inequality and working conditions in the media industry, mirroring the widening inequality at the dawn of the twenty-first century. They are using the more open digital platforms to organize and share their stories. This article explores worker strategies for resisting Hollywood’s digital empire in three ways: (1) a survey of film/TV workers in Chicago, a regional hub for ‘runaway production’ where state tax credits lowers production costs to allow for increases in production; (2) an analysis of stories posted to the @ia_stories page of crew members represented by the IATSE union; and (3) an analysis of ‘above-the-line’ activism, including solidarity campaigns launched after the 2020 #BlackLivesMatter protests (e.g., #EndLatinXClusion, #Hollywood4BlackLives, #ChangeHollywood), contractual innovations from advocacy groups like Color of Change’s Inclusion Rider, and the threat of another Writers Guild strike.","PeriodicalId":48335,"journal":{"name":"Information Communication & Society","volume":"26 1","pages":"923 - 940"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46455300","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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Correcting overconfidence in online privacy: experimenting with an educational game 纠正对网络隐私的过度自信:一款教育游戏的实验

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2023-01-18 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2023.2166360

Kristyn L. Karl, Yu-Li Tao

{"title":"Correcting overconfidence in online privacy: experimenting with an educational game","authors":"Kristyn L. Karl, Yu-Li Tao","doi":"10.1080/1369118X.2023.2166360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2023.2166360","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Widespread use of the Internet means that online privacy, or how to protect one’s private information while engaging in online activity, has become a concern for many individuals. Research has investigated people’s online privacy experience, including online privacy attitudes, confidence, and behaviors. However, not much attention has been paid to how online privacy confidence could be misperceived and how educational tools can correct such overconfidence. Guided by the protection motivation theory, this research examines online privacy confidence and is composed of two studies: Study 1 reveals that online users misrepresent their online knowledge and may have overconfidence as a result. Inspired by this finding and previous research, Study 2 avoids self-reported measures of online knowledge and instead directly evaluates online privacy knowledge (using OPLIS) and its impact on online privacy confidence. Using a survey experiment, we find playing an online privacy educational game increases confidence overall and, importantly, corrects overconfidence. Despite this, we do not find any evidence that correction leads to increased information-seeking. The findings shed light on what online users themselves and organizations, such as universities, industry, and government agencies, can do to better educate individuals about online privacy while calling attention to the need for continued research regarding the underlying mechanisms and downstream behavioral consequences.","PeriodicalId":48335,"journal":{"name":"Information Communication & Society","volume":"26 1","pages":"990 - 1007"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41571319","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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Fair privacy: how college students perceive fair privacy protection in online datasets 公平隐私：大学生如何看待在线数据集中的公平隐私保护

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2023-01-12 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2023.2166361

Yu-Li Tao, Wendy Wang

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Disney animated movies, their princesses, and everyone else 迪士尼动画电影，他们的公主们，以及其他人

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2023-01-12 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2023.2166362

Alia R. Tyner-Mullings

{"title":"Disney animated movies, their princesses, and everyone else","authors":"Alia R. Tyner-Mullings","doi":"10.1080/1369118X.2023.2166362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2023.2166362","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In April 2021, The Walt Disney Company (Disney) announced the Ultimate Princess Celebration, ‘a year-long event spotlighting the courage and kindness these Disney heroines inspire in fans all around the world’ (Deitchman, 2021). Princesses have remained an important element of Disney’s identity and the movies they create. Broadening research beyond these characters and examining a larger sample demonstrated distinctions in the characteristics present in Official Disney Princess (ODP) movies, Actual Princess (AP) movies, and the 45 in the full catalog (All-Movies) that are or share characteristics with Disney Princess Movies. This article compares the race, class, and gender of the protagonist and antagonist as well as other story elements of 45 animated or partially animated movies that typify Disney’s ‘Classics Period’ between 1937 and 2017 across those three groups. This work examines the ways in which the ODP and AP are different from the overall catalog and violate some of the Disney norms to which we are accustomed while fully embracing others. The research found that while the Official Princess movies had more racial diversity in the main characters than the overall catalog, for example, they also had more stereotypical female villains, more magic, and more romance. Acknowledging these divisions can lead to more robust research where a research sample can be critically collected based on the topic of interest. This article provides a foundation for those examinations.","PeriodicalId":48335,"journal":{"name":"Information Communication & Society","volume":"26 1","pages":"891 - 903"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48557444","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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Digital inequalities and public health during COVID-19: media dependency and vaccination COVID-19期间的数字不平等与公共卫生:媒体依赖和疫苗接种

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2023-01-12 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2023.2166356

Grant Blank, Bianca C. Reisdorf

{"title":"Digital inequalities and public health during COVID-19: media dependency and vaccination","authors":"Grant Blank, Bianca C. Reisdorf","doi":"10.1080/1369118X.2023.2166356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2023.2166356","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT During the COVID-19 pandemic information about the transmission of the virus came out slowly and recommended practices changed over time. This made communication media, like the Internet, especially important. Few prior studies have considered how digital inequalities influence information flows. Building on three research streams – vaccine hesitancy, information-seeking, and digital inequalities – we examine how digital inequalities, health media, and mass media affect COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. Using representative survey data of US Internet users, our structural equation model demonstrates the importance of digital inequalities and media use for vaccine hesitancy. Digital inclusion plays an important role in public health. It leads to increased health information-seeking, which reduces vaccine hesitancy. Our model presents evidence supporting a comprehensive policy approach to vaccine hesitancy beyond factors like socio-demographics and prior health beliefs to include broader factors like digital equity measures and sources of health information. Where and how people find information on public health issues seems to be as important as demographics.","PeriodicalId":48335,"journal":{"name":"Information Communication & Society","volume":"26 1","pages":"1045 - 1065"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45985658","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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