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Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
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This study explores how social media logic combined with mass media logic challenges the practice of news journalism. By operationalizing different media logics through the relevant sets of news factors and using in-depth expert interviews with ...Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published Jul 25, 2024
Current Sociology
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The conspiracy theory known as ‘Pizzagate’ gained a cult following on alt-right forums, ultimately prompting one believer to conduct a shooting on the pizzeria identified by online conspiracists. A thematic analysis of 767 tweets referencing Pizzagate ...Open AccessResearch articleFirst published Jul 29, 2021
International Sociology
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Previous studies on the impact of Internet-powered media on health promotion have often neglected the relationship between message recall and health behaviour. Such neglect makes it look as though exposure to media messages automatically leads to recall. ...Open AccessResearch articleFirst published Oct 26, 2020
Social Science Information
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The COVID-19 pandemic has fostered an unprecedented number of conspiracy theories about the virus and the vaccine against the disease. Current research has tried to make sense of the effects of conspiracy narratives and debunking them in both mainstream ...Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published Oct 12, 2023
Social Compass
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This article examines discussions on the reddit.com forum r/atheism in comparison with rhetoric found in contemporary atheist organizations and among leading figures within the atheist movement. We demonstrate how the culture of r/atheism converges with ...Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published Jan 21, 2019
Current Sociology
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With the rise of social media, forms of communication emerge that are increasingly defined by the use of images. From the perspective of biographical research and visual sociology, the article addresses the question in how far biographical work becomes ...Open AccessResearch articleFirst published Nov 3, 2022
Social Science Information
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Social media are said to offer seemingly endless ways of connecting with people in a variety of online spaces. The mediated form that such communication takes has re-opened many theoretical debates regarding the status of relationships that are organized ...Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published May 13, 2014
International Sociology
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The World Health Organization has not only signaled the health risks of COVID-19, but also labeled the situation as infodemic, due to the amount of information, true and false, circulating around this topic. Research shows that, in social media, falsehood ...Open AccessResearch articleFirst published Apr 15, 2020
Current Sociology
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Disasters are often described as exceptional moments that demand global solidarity. A ‘state of humanitarian exception’ emerges as citizens foreground norms of compassion and cooperation while contestatory discourse – the argumentative, blame-seeking and ...Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published Jul 5, 2016
Current Sociology
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This article looks at the construction and performance of gendered identity through a sub-section of Facebook web pages belonging to the Slut Walk movement. The authors’ analysis suggests that gender is constructed through the subjects’ participation in ...Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published Sep 25, 2014
