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26 Feb 2023 • Journal Article • Social Media+ Society
TikTok as a Key Platform for Youth Political Expression: Reflecting on the Opportunities and Stakes Involved
AbstractReflecting on 6 years of our research—which began on musical.ly and transitioned into TikTok—we argue that TikTok is a vital space to study social movements due to its centrality in youth lives and its ability to give voice to youth political expression in richly creative ways. We see the political expression happening on TikTok as a harbinger of the changing nature of
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22 Feb 2023 • Journal Article • Communication Methods and Measures
Leveraging Researcher Domain Expertise to Annotate Concepts Within Imbalanced Data
AbstractAs more computational communication researchers turn to supervised machine learning methods for text classification, we note the challenge in implementing such techniques within an imbalanced dataset. Such issues are critical in our domain, where, in many cases, researchers attempt to identify and study theoretically interesting categories that can be rare in a target
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7 Feb 2023 • Journal Article • Contrastive Pragmatics
“But Then Again, Too Few to Mention”: Negotiating Regret in Israeli and American News Interviews
AbstractThis study adopts a contrastive pragmatic approach to examine the meanings and functions of public regret in two linguacultures. We located questions of regret realized by news interviewers in Israel and the United States between the years 2010 and 2020 using keyword searches in databases of diverse radio and television broadcast news media. Contrastive analysis of
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30 Jan 2023 • Journal Article • Journal of Communication
Do people learn about politics on social media? A meta-analysis of 76 studies
AbstractCitizens turn increasingly to social media to get their political information. However, it is currently unclear whether using these platforms actually makes them more politically knowledgeable. While some researchers claim that social media play a critical role in the learning of political information within the modern media environment, others posit that the great
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30 Jan 2023 • Journal Article • Journal of Communication
How iconic news images travel: republishing and reframing historic photographs in Israeli newspapers
AbstractIconic photographs are symbolically dense images characterized by broad circulation over time and recognition by large publics. Following this definition, we track the republication and reframing, over nearly 70 years, of 15 news photographs previously identified as most recognized by the Israeli public. Distinguishing between “discrete icons” (singular photographs of
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19 Dec 2022 • Journal Article • The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion
Challenges in Jewish Communities Online
AbstractThis chapter charts the response of Jewish groups to encounters with digital networks. It outlines the development of Jewish communities online, surveying their characteristics and varieties. Highlighting the divides between Jewish denominations, as well as between Israel and the Diaspora, the chapter traces the evolution of online Jewish communities diachronically
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Dec 2022 • Journal Article • International Journal of Communication
From System to Skill: Palo Alto Group’s Contested Legacy of Communication
AbstractIn the past few decades, the notion of “communication skills” has become increasingly dominant in cultural discourse, as such skills are deemed crucial for success in seemingly various professional occupations and in diverse aspects of an individual’s life. This study traces the development of the notion of communication as skills that emerged from the theoretical and
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30 Nov 2022 • Journal Article • Theory, Culture & Society
The Recording Cure: A Media Genealogy of Recorded Voice in Psychotherapy
AbstractThis article explores the relationship between psychotherapy and sound reproduction technologies from the early 20th century to the present. Subscribing to a media genealogy approach, it traces the changing status of the recorded voice in therapy as set against broader transformations in the field of mental health. Delving into the recorded voice’s diverse applications
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29 Nov 2022 • Journal Article • Information, Communication & Society
Perceived prevalence of misinformation fuels worries about COVID-19: a cross-country, multi-method investigation
AbstractData suggests that the majority of citizens in various countries came across ‘fake news’ during the COVID-19 pandemic. We test the relationship between perceived prevalence of misinformation and people’s worries about COVID-19. In Study 1, analyses of a survey across 17 countries indicate a positive association: perceptions of high prevalence of misinformation are
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15 Nov 2022 • Journal Article • New Media & Society
Use this sound: Networked ventriloquism on Yiddish TikTok
AbstractThis article explores body–voice entanglements in TikTok through the prism of ventriloquism. It suggests that TikTok is an app of network ventriloquism, that is, an audiovisual technology–based web of dissociations and reconfigurations of users’ bodies and voices. Yiddish serves as a case study for how TikTok’s features build an infrastructure for language, heritage
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