#OutNow in #iCS This paper employs a social simulation approach that draws on political communication and social influence theories to explain how echo chambers can emerge on social media platforms. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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#OutNow in #iCS Humanoid social robots collect personal data and offer personalized services, fostering user reliance. The authors developed a model of initial trust formation and tested it through a study with participants. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Examining initial trust development and trusting intentions toward humanoid social robots
Humanoid social robots (HSRs) collect personal data and offer personalized services, fostering user reliance. Unlike passive tools, HSRs actively engage in interactions, making initial trust – form...
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#OutNow in #iCS This mixed-methods longitudinal study involved 98 participants who were randomly assigned to receive a smart speaker immediately or after three months. Wellbeing and loneliness were measured, alongside in-depth qualitative interviews. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
An exploration of smart speakers to support independence, competence, and relatedness for older adults at risk of digital exclusion in public and social housing
This was mixed-methods longitudinal study where ninety-eight participants were randomly assigned to receive a smart speaker immediately (intervention group) or after three months (wait-list control...
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#OutNow in #iCS This study explores everyday use of hashtags through the Swedish feminist initiative #Kvinnostrejk (women’s strike), mobilised continuously since 2021. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Everyday feminist tagging as techno-rhetorical strategy: interference and curation through Instagram hashtags in #Kvinnostrejk
Hashtag use in online protest is widespread and well-researched. Yet scholarship has largely focused on viral moments and large-scale mobilisations, leaving everyday, platform-native, and sustained...
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#OutNow in #iCS Using data from a nationally representative survey of adults in the United States, the authors examine the role of household characteristics and housing market conditions in organizing exposure to property-based smart devices. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Privacy and power in the smart home: housing market conditions and exposure to smart devices in home environments
The diffusion of smart home technology is often studied through a lens of adoption, where preferences, attitudes, and inequalities in access and use are a key concern. In this article, we shift to ...
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#OutNow in #iCS This paper examines a profound philosophical disjunction in platform capitalism. The authors demonstrate how digital platforms function as emergent entities whose causal powers and properties transcend their constituent technological components. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The missing ontology: why platform interventions systematically fail
This paper examines a profound philosophical disjunction in platform capitalism: corporate actors, despite their technological orientation, operate as practical realists through sophisticated mecha...
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#OutNow in #iCS Using a four-wave panel survey in Sweden, this study examines cross-sectional and longitudinal intra-individual dynamics linking media use and misperceptions across multiple issue domains. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Media effects, selection effects, or no effects? A longitudinal analysis of the relationship between media use and misperceptions
Recent debates about misinformation often assume that repeated media exposure reinforces inaccurate beliefs over time. Using a four-wave panel survey in Sweden (N = 3,530), this study examines cros...
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#OutNow in #iCS How are self, identity, and personhood shaped by personalization algorithms? Making It Personal by Tanya Kant offers multifaceted insights grounded in qualitative data and supported by sharp historical and discursive analysis. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Making it personal: Algorithmic personalization, identity, and everyday life
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#OutNow in #iCS Focusing on this emerging archetype that the author terms ‘Masculine Optimization Influencers’ , this paper employs Sara Ahmed’s concept of ‘affective economies’ to excavate the affective dimensions that characterize this cohort’s content. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Masculine optimization influencers and the sacrality of self-optimization
Self-optimization has become a dominant idiom of contemporary American masculinity, crystallizing in a rising cohort of male influencers centered around reaching ‘maximum potential’ physically and ...
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#OutNow in #iCS The paper undertakes an analysis of features across popular child finance apps, exploring their role in the datafication of children’s financial and economic participation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Platforming pocket money: family finance apps and the datafication of child economies
Family finance apps are digital platforms that offer possibilities for reshaping children’s consumer socialization and economic agency. These finance apps incorporate functions for both parents and...
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#OutNow in #iCS Through a cross-national survey, the study finds that individuals experiencing economic hardship and holding negative attitude toward AI express significantly less support for AI-driven welfare decisions than their counterparts. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Socioeconomic and digital divides in public support for AI-driven welfare decisions: cross-national evidence from 21 countries
As governments increasingly deploy artificial intelligence (AI) for automated decision-making, little is known about why citizens differ in their attitudes toward AI-driven decision-making in the p...
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#OutNow in #iCS This article utilizes dimensions of ‘hybrid space,’ including access, agency, and awareness, as a framework to evaluate the politics of AI in smart cities from a disability perspective. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Disability and AI in smart cities: centering access, agency, and awareness in hybrid spaces
Studies show AI can reproduce societal stereotypes and stigmas, including those related to ability. Intrinsically, there is conflict between AI’s standardization and disability studies’ critique of...
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#OutNow Digital Collection in #iCS This study examines how major political events shape affective engagement patterns in a hyperpartisan pro-Bolsonaro network of Facebook accounts. Authors analyzed over 12 million posts across 2021–2023. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Measuring partisan community dynamics: a longitudinal analysis of affective engagement in pro-Bolsonaro Facebook networks
This study examines how major political events shape affective engagement patterns in a hyperpartisan pro-Bolsonaro network of Facebook accounts. Hyperpartisan communities are often characterized a...
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#OutNow Digital Collection in #iCS This research considers the concept of transparency in facial recognition technologies governance by asking: What does transparency as best practice mean in the development and implementation of facial recognition systems? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Typology of transparency as best practice: evidence from facial recognition technologies in Australia
Facial recognition technologies (FRTs) are commonly used in Australia in an under-regulated environment. Only two regulatory mechanisms currently direct FRT use – industry self-regulation and Austr...
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#OutNow Digital Collection in #iCS This article theorizes ‘data throttling’ in China as infrastructural governance of digital citizenship via allocative control of speed. It is based on interviews with high-data users & a small corpus of social-media discourse. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Selling speed, suspending citizenship: data throttling, instantaneous downgrading, and the politics of connectivity in China
This article theorizes ‘data throttling’ in China as infrastructural governance of digital citizenship via allocative control of speed. In ‘unlimited’ / ‘high-volume’ plans, connections are slowed ...
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#OutNow Digital Collection in #iCS This study, using a large-scale analysis of comments from three major gender-based violence incidents in China, examines how moral-entity expansion in online gender debates is associated with the adoption of moral frames. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Linking names with frames: the interplay of moral entities and moral frames in Chinese online gender debates
This study examines how moral-entity expansion in online gender debates is associated with the adoption of moral frames. Using a large-scale analysis of comments from three major gender-based viole...
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#OutNow in #iCS To identify the digital health divide, the authors propose the Digital Health Capital (DHC) framework to scrutinize the digital health divide in the emerging technology landscape. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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#OutNow in #iCS The author maps the field of platform studies through the emic–etic distinction & its underlying political and empirical stakes. The article reconstructs a synthetic historical account with ‘platforms’ and ‘platformization’ as its throughline. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The politics of platformization: genealogy from administrative reform to platform governance
Platform studies have been dominated by analytical and evaluative frameworks attuned to Silicon Valley techno-capitalism. This article joins a growing body of work that unsettles this universalizin...
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#OutNow in #iCS This article examines Google Stadia, a cloud gaming platform that closed after less than four years despite being built on Google’s global infrastructure. Through a thematic analysis of 170 documents, the authors investigate Stadia’s failure. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Infrastructural hubris and platform power: the failed scalability of Google Stadia
This article examines Google Stadia, a cloud gaming platform that closed in 2023 after less than four years despite being built on Google’s global infrastructure. Through a thematic analysis of 170...
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#OutNow in #iCS The authors explore how young adults make sense of their social media use in relation to wellbeing, focusing on their algorithmic imaginaries, practices and sense of agency. Their analysis draws on 125 data accounts. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Consumptive curation for self-care: in search of clumsier algorithms
In this article, we explore how young adults make sense of their social media use in relation to wellbeing, focusing on their algorithmic imaginaries, practices and sense of agency. Our analysis dr...
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#OutNow in #iCS The authors evaluated the accuracy, quality, and implications of outputs produced by generative artificial intelligences (AI) related to politics and electoral processes during the 2024 United States elections. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Inaccuracies, omissions, and bullshit: 2024 U.S. elections through the eyes of ChatGPT
This study evaluated the accuracy, quality, and implications of outputs produced by generative artificial intelligences (AI) related to politics and electoral processes during the 2024 United State...
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#OutNow in #iCS This study examines how developers and researchers navigate the tension between personalization and privacy in the datafication process in Socially Assistive Robot development for older people. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Balancing personalization and privacy: datafication challenges in socially assistive robotics for older persons
The promise of Socially Assistive Robots (SARs) to deliver personalized care for older persons depends heavily on extensive data collection, raising concerns about privacy, autonomy, trust, and the...
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#OutNow in #iCS This study examines how mainstream media outlets in the Global North & Global South politically frame AI, emphasising the implications for digital governance & public opinion. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Weapon, wonder or both? Political framings of AI in global north and south media
As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly understood as a political infrastructure and a decision-making technology with the potential to reshape institutions and reconfigure power relations,...
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#OutNow in #iCS Volme 29, Issue 8 is out with articles on topics including the effects of deepfakes, a critical analysis of AI in hiring practices, and exploring German far-right social movement networks. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/2...
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#OutNow in #iCS The authors examine how contributors characterize the 2025 CDC Data Purge as a perceived threat to their freedom(s) and articulate motivations to regain such freedom(s), as well as describe their efforts to archive data as a means of restoration. doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Reddit users’ reactance to the 2025 CDC Data Purge: characterizing the removal of health information as a perceived threat to individual freedom
Following an executive order signed by Donald Trump to prevent ‘woke ideology’ from permeating everyday American lives and institutions, the Department of Health and Human Services complied by remo...
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#OutNow in #iCS The authors argue that latent communicative figurations are facilitated by platform affordances that enable the curation of visibility, allowing actors to form latent ties for mobilising partners to create and publish social media content. doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Latent communicative figurations: mapping quasi-visible strategic relational structures on Facebook
This study conceptualises latent communicative figurations, which are quasi-visible relational structures formed through social media affordances, for example as provided by partnership advertiseme...
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#OutNow in #iCS Platforms are key intermediaries of public and political communication, both heralded as facilitators of bottom-up democracy and condemned as democracy’s greatest danger. The authors identify and compare election-related policies on key social media platforms. doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Fixing election interference, safeguarding election integrity? Developments and dynamics of election-related policies on social media platforms
Platforms are key intermediaries of public and political communication, both heralded as facilitators of bottom-up democracy and condemned as democracy’s greatest danger. From misinformation to hat...
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#OutNow in #iCS Drawing on the uses and gratifications theory and social learning theory, this study establishes a convergence model to examine the predictors of dating app adoption and subsequent offline hookup intentions among 414 male rural migrant workers in China. doi.org/10.1080/1369...
From swipes to intimacy: dating app adoption and offline hookup intention among male rural migrant workers
Drawing on the uses and gratifications theory and social learning theory, this study establishes a convergence model to examine the predictors of dating app adoption and subsequent offline hookup i...
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#OutNow in #iCS Drawing on survey data, this article explores public perceptions of AI in Italy through the lens of science communication as a ‘social conversation around science’. The findings show a persistent gap between exposure to AI and perceived understanding of it. doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Italians’ attitudes towards AI: how technology issues travel across social conversation
This paper explores public perceptions of artificial intelligence (AI) in Italy through the lens of science communication as a ‘social conversation around science’. Drawing on nationally representa...
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#OutNow in #iCS This article examines the role of multimodal framing and gender identity cues. The authors analysed 22,925 posts and 1.15 million comments related to sexual violence on Weibo, one of the most prominent social media platforms in China. doi.org/10.1080/1369...
The viral gender antagonism on social media: examining the role of multimodal framing and gender identity
What drives viral gender-antagonistic discourse on social media? This study proposes to examine the role of multimodal framing and gender identity cues. We analyzed 22,925 posts and 1.15 million co...
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