ConferenceConference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings · May 11, 2024
Video-sharing platforms such as TikTok have offered new opportunities for d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) people to create public-facing content using sign language - an integral part of DHH culture. Besides sign language, DHH creators deal with a variety ...
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Journal ArticleInformation Communication and Society · January 1, 2024
This study examines the revolutionary role of MCNs (multi-channel networks) in China's influencer market, focusing on their impact on cultural production. While existing scholarship has explored influencer precarity and platform dependency, the role of MCN ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Press/Politics · October 1, 2023
While research on flagging misinformation and disinformation has received much attention, we know very little about how the flagging of propaganda sources could affect news sharing on social media. Using a quasi-experimental design, we test the effect of s ...
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Journal ArticleNew Media and Society · June 1, 2023
This article critically examines South Korea and China’s COVID-19 tracking apps by bridging surveillance studies with feminist technoscience’s understanding of the “politics of care”. Conducting critical readings of the apps and textual analysis of discurs ...
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Journal ArticleSocial Media and Society · April 1, 2023
The study examines the dynamics and multiplicity of political influencers on Twitter by focusing on the discussion of six China-related political events between 2017 and 2020. We consider influence as communication practices aimed to shape the flow of onli ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2023
The development of new information technologies has profoundly altered how personal data are collected and analyzed by states. This chapter explores the changes by focusing on the algorithmic turn of China's citizen surveillance. We argue that citizens hav ...
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Journal ArticleNew Media and Society · January 1, 2023
Although China’s social credit system (SCS) is widely portrayed by Western media as repressive surveillance, recent studies show that it receives high levels of support among Chinese citizens. Previous research suggests that people support the SCS because ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Communication Gazette · January 1, 2023
This study examines people's acceptance of the fifth generation (5G) of wireless and mobile communication technologies at a time when such services and devices were just approaching consumer availability. It utilizes the Technological Acceptance Model to t ...
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Journal ArticlePolicy and Internet · March 1, 2022
This article examines citizen scoring in China's Social Credit Systems (SCSs). Focusing on 50 municipal cases that potentially cover 210 million population, we analyze how state actors quantify social and economic life into measurable and comparable metric ...
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Journal ArticleCommunication Research · July 1, 2021
Research has long considered the role interpersonal persuasion plays in shaping how citizens form their political opinions and cast their votes. Yet few studies have examined how experiences with online persuasion might influence broader deliberative orien ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Digital Media and Policy · June 1, 2021
This article examines the rise of TikTok in three aspects: globalization strategies, data and content policies, and geopolitical implications. Instead of focusing on app features and uses within the platform proper, we situate and critically analyse TikTok ...
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Journal ArticleCyberpsychology, behavior and social networking · June 2021
Social endorsement cues (SEC) offer information about how online users have engaged and evaluated online content. Some view that SEC thus can serve as useful heuristics when users evaluate the credibility of news content on social media. At the same time, ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Communication · January 1, 2021
This study examines China’s ambitions to strengthen propaganda by creating a platform called Xuexi Qiangguo. Though platform studies have explored the important role of the U.S.-based platforms, we know very little about the intervention of state power in ...
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Journal ArticleSocial media + society · July 2020
As COVID-19 is rapidly spreading around the world, some countries have launched or plan to implement contact-tracing apps to detect exposure risks. In China, the government relies on Health Code, developed by Alipay and WeChat, for identifying people poten ...
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Journal ArticleCommunication and the Public · December 1, 2019
The New Silk Road has been considered as China’s core foreign policy since 2013. This initiative is paralleled by the expansion of China’s official media on Western networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter. These projects indicate China’s ambitious p ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Communication · February 1, 2019
Expression has the power to shape how we see ourselves. In this paper, we argue that the dynamics of political expression on social media can influence not only political behavior, but also citizens' more fundamental political self-concepts. Specifically, ...
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Journal ArticlePolicy and Internet · December 1, 2018
Big data technologies have been adopted by both the public and private sectors to develop and expand surveillance capacities. This article traces the institutional processes and political-economic interests of the public and private stakeholders involved i ...
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