Melanie Es Kohnen,Felan Parker,Benjamin Woo
Melanie Es Kohnen
San Diego Comic-Con is North America's premiere fan convention and a key site for mediating between media industries and fandom. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced Comic-Con to abruptly move its programming onto an array of digital platf...
Conceptualizing platformed conspiracism: Analytical framework and empirical case study of BitChute and Gab [0.03%]
平台阴谋论的概念化：BitChute和Gab的分析框架和实证案例研究
Daniela Mahl,Jing Zeng,Mike S Schäfer
Daniela Mahl
This article introduces the notion of platformed conspiracism to conceptualize reconfigured forms of conspiracy theory communication as a result of the mutual shaping between platform specificities and emergent user practices. To investigat...
'Conspiracy theories should be called spoiler alerts': Conspiracy, Coronavirus, and affective community on Russell Brand's YouTube Comment Section [0.03%]
“阴谋论应该被称为预警信息”：阴谋、新冠病毒与Russell Brand的YouTube评论区中的情感共同体
Birkbeck
Birkbeck
This paper examines how conspiracy theories anchor affective communities through an analysis of the YouTube comment section for the actor and comedian turned political influencer Russell Brand. Comparing videos before and after Brand's shif...
Desirable work: Creative autonomy and the everyday turn in game production [0.03%]
理想的工作：游戏制作中的创意自主权和日常转向
Chris J Young
Chris J Young
Based on an ethnography of gamemaking in the Toronto game development scene, I introduce the concept of the everyday gamemaker to reveal how the everyday turn of game production work has transformed the identities of gameworkers. Whereas, p...
Roberto Ulloa,Ana Carolina Richter,Mykola Makhortykh et al.
Roberto Ulloa et al.
Implicit and explicit gender biases in media representations of individuals have long existed. Women are less likely to be represented in gender-neutral media content (representation bias), and their face-to-body ratio in images is often lo...
"The real ethernet": The transnational history of global Wi-Fi connectivity [0.03%]
“真正的以太网”：全球Wi-Fi连接的跨国史
Maria Rikitianskaia
Maria Rikitianskaia
Wi-Fi is an integral and invaluable part of our media practices. Wireless networks are blended into our media environment and, in terms of infrastructural importance, have become comparable with electricity or water. This article offers a n...
Online social connections and Internet use among people with intellectual disabilities in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic [0.03%]
英国智力障碍人士在新冠大流行期间的线上社交联系和互联网使用情况
Sue Caton,Chris Hatton,Amanda Gillooly et al.
Sue Caton et al.
Having a disability, in particular, an intellectual disability, is associated with Internet non-use. This article explores how people with intellectual disabilities used the Internet across the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic. I...
Hyunyi Cho,Julie Cannon,Rachel Lopez et al.
Hyunyi Cho et al.
Concerns over the harmful effects of social media have directed public attention to media literacy as a potential remedy. Current conceptions of media literacy are frequently based on mass media, focusing on the analysis of common content a...
Digital contact does not promote wellbeing, but face-to-face contact does: A cross-national survey during the COVID-19 pandemic [0.03%]
数字联系并不能促进幸福感，但面对面的接触可以：一项关于COVID-19大流行期间跨国调查的研究
Martha Newson,Yi Zhao,Marwa El Zein et al.
Martha Newson et al.
With restricted face-to-face interactions, COVID-19 lockdowns and distancing measures tested the capability of computer-mediated communication to foster social contact and wellbeing. In a multinational sample (n = 6436), we investigated how...
Influence of the pandemic lockdown on Fridays for Future's hashtag activism [0.03%]
新冠肺炎疫情封锁对“为未来罢课”(hashtag)活跃主义的影响
Jörg Haßler,Anna-Katharina Wurst,Marc Jungblut et al.
Jörg Haßler et al.
Social movement organizations (SMOs) increasingly rely on Twitter to create new and viral communication spaces alongside newsworthy protest events and communicate their grievance directly to the public. When the COVID-19 pandemic impeded st...