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Social Media; Communication Studies; Cyberculture; Sociology; Political Communication; Internet Studies. Published by Routledge.
Also at @icsjournal.bsky.social

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Migration and Digital Media brings together 18 articles examining how digital media shape migration, borders, intimacy, and inequality, and how migration shapes technologies.
Edited by Bartlett, Leurs, and Mena Montes.
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This article puts mistrust at the centre of media literacy. Park, Notley, Thomson, Hourigan & Dezuanni compare verification confidence with people’s ability to detect misinformation.

https://t.co/tMLUViDWFN

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Deepika Kashyap reviews Carlson & Frazer’s Indigenous Digital Life, a book on social media, Indigenous self-governance, colonial power and everyday online practice.

https://t.co/OrDtq48URG

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How do people over 60 use social media and messenger apps for news and information? Anter, Fischer & Kümpel offer a close qualitative account of everyday digital information use in Germany.

https://t.co/nwAn6HvxO5

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Passive scrolling, purposeful interaction and pandemic conditions all matter in studies of social media and isolation. This review maps the evidence on young adults from 2000 to 2024.

https://t.co/AiLPtP11vV

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Gender equity at work is shaped in everyday interactions, including who speaks, who is interrupted and who feels visible. This article examines how video conferencing changes those dynamics.

https://t.co/UW04HSJwbb

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Election researchers often work with platform data that is costly, temporary or incomplete. Lukito & Mimizuka argue for broader access routes, shared archives and better ways to study what users actually see.

https://t.co/V1gLv2x6Ag

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LinkedIn Recruiter and HireVue offer a window into the politics of AI-mediated recruitment. Fernandez Cruz & Orr examine how hiring platforms frame fairness, efficiency and human discretion.

https://t.co/JBdBfvKmD8

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Undisclosed ads on TikTok are assessed through the lens of the law, platform rules, and everyday judgment. Taylor Annabell traces how calling out influencers can protect followers while producing new harms.

https://t.co/gprV0Mx6NO

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From Unix jails to Docker and Kubernetes, Nathan Kim traces the history of software containers as logistical forms that enable cloud capital to circulate across platforms and infrastructures.

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Using US survey data, Shea et al. show how local news, social media, community organisations and farmers' markets jointly shape participation and sense of community.

https://t.co/tW0ubCq7NH

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Dragić & Deng examine how Chinese gay men encounter LGBTQ+ social media content in a context shaped by stigma, censorship and algorithmic mediation.

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From peer advice to brand confusion, Reddit offers a window into how people negotiate obesity treatment online. In this article, Abbas & Nyadzayo connect OMM debates to digital health communication and harm reduction.

https://t.co/FwG0Uk7SIC

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Gahn & Kruschinski separate targeting from tailoring in political social media advertising, offering a framework for studying how parties reach audiences and adapt messages.

https://t.co/Xv6r1GCy9Y

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In an experiment with Twitter posts, Tang & Millet find that source credibility can help users recognise real news while making fake news harder to detect.

https://t.co/RxTYM2sMTH

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What changes when disinformation is studied not only as a communication problem, but also in relation to cybersecurity?

In our recent paper in @icsjournal, with @JoseARuiperez and @juanchoaguado, we examine how social science research has framed this connection ⬇️

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On Xiaohongshu, influencers gain visibility through platform-managed groups that organise competition, rewards, and norms. Liu uses “clustered governance” to explain how these arrangements shape creator labour and autonomy.

https://t.co/pxZpMNRqWh

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Creator work often depends on uncertainty, hope, and attachment as much as strategy. This article explores how content creators make sense of platform labour through what the authors call “enchanted sensemaking”.

https://t.co/FsFEDl85Ht

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In this article, Jensen shows how adolescent girls’ phone use on a night out sits within a culture of care, from location sharing to media involvement shields.

https://t.co/fW2rKxRdqS

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Using Discord data from Axie Infinity communities, this article traces how “play-to-earn” economies turn players into investable subjects, developing the concept of self-assetisation.

https://t.co/GBXJDhYtDm

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Bad domains, unequal exposure. Shen and Sood combine browsing logs with malware data to map who encounters malicious websites, and how often those encounters cause online harm.

https://t.co/QaINUEDYHS