#OutNow in #iCS Drawing on a qualitative analysis of digital platforms during the 2022 Brazilian elections, this article uncovers how online misogyny targeted women candidates, highlighting the dangers such abuse poses to democratic participation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS What does “social cohesion” mean in practice? This article examines civil-society debates, revealing how organisations use value talk (trust, participation, solidarity) to promote different visions of collective life. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS Analysing patterns of online commenting, this article shows how a small group of conservative “super-commenters” fuels conspiracy beliefs and drives a hook-shaped curve of polarisation across the political spectrum. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS When protest organisers on Telegram and politicians on Twitter sound alike, boundaries blur. This piece tracks populist frames across platforms, revealing language overlaps linking alternative media and mainstream politics. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This article explores how China’s pilot free trade zones are increasing digital inequality in cities, favouring those with better digital skills and resources. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This article analyses data from nine European countries to explore how media use and cultural orientations influence support for radical right-wing parties. Findings reveal patterns linking news habits, identity orientations, and politics. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This article explores disability identities in VR gaming in China. Interviews with 22 players with mobility impairments reveal how digital gaming fosters inclusion, challenges stereotypes, and prompts reflection on everyday exclusion. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This article examines how generative AI reshapes crisis communication. Analysing case studies, it shows AI can amplify anxiety through misinformation, but also foster resilience when used for trusted messaging and support. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This article shows the limits of informed consent in data donation. Participants valued seeing their own data, yet often misunderstood the process, overlooking ways to control or delete information. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Drawing on ethnography and 16,000 posts from a Polish drugs market forum, this article shows how spaces built for transactions also develop communal ties. Egalitarian ideals often coexist with hierarchies, complicating the concept of a virtual community. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS This article compares TikTok and Spotify hit charts, showing how platformisation works differently. Spotify favours major labels, while TikTok sustains fewer but longer-lasting songs, with little crossover between the two. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS Surveying 381 Chinese dating app users, Hu & Thomas show that anxious attachment is linked to feeling less successful and worse after use. Yet strong anonymity affordances soften these effects, suggesting design features matter for user well-being. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS In this article, Choi employs stochastic actor-oriented modelling of survey and log data from a presidential election to demonstrate how personalised news curation influences political involvement. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS Zhao, Wu & Zhang analyse Alter Ego, the first avatar-based singing competition, to show how digital-humans reshape talent shows. Through multimodal discourse analysis, they trace empowerment, divergence and disempowerment in contestants’ performances. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Flores-Yeffal follows two Mexican vendors over 2.5 years to show how live-streaming on Facebook and TikTok builds more than sales. Through stories, emotions and cultural exchange, broadcasters and audiences co-create strong virtual communities. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS Using Decentraland, Mannan, De Filippi, and Merk show how legitimacy and loyalty feed each other. High-stakes users practise self-legitimation to protect value, while others turn to exit or voice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS Drawing on 34 interviews with low-income Latina/o/x adults in the U.S., this article shows how struggles with digital access are shaped not only by individual resources but also by household, community and institutional factors. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS How do conversational AIs deal with discriminatory content? Ta, Zeng & Li compare six leading systems across languages and platforms, showing sharp differences in refusal rates and strategies, from moral lecturing to cultural alignment. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Li, Ding & Wang follow 759 children in Jilin, China, over two waves to test how digital literacy shapes well-being and online behaviour. Results show literacy reduces exclusion and supports mental health, especially in urban contexts. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Based on focus groups with 116 children in Vienna, this article explores how young people understand and negotiate their right to privacy on social media, exposing the limits of current laws and platform policies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS Machado, Xavier and Ishitani study how women connect their values with the features of digital games. Drawing on interviews and survey data, they demonstrate how design choices can better reflect the diverse ways people engage with play. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS Drawing on discourse analysis of Nepali social media, this study traces how narratives around rape circulate online—revealing a fraught terrain of resistance, victim-blaming, and slut shaming. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This review article examines how XR scholarship still centres able-bodied norms. It calls for research that engages disability as more than a use case—critiquing design assumptions and championing inclusive imaginaries. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This article examines how different media environments influence civic norms among U.S. Latinx communities. It highlights how media exposure helps shape political expression, dialogue and a sense of participatory belonging. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS This article explores how AI futures are imagined across Asia. Analysing sociotechnical imaginaries in China, India, and Japan reveals how techno-developmentalism reflects divergent national ambitions, anxieties, and paths to modernity. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Instagram AR filters are not just playful tools. This article uncovers how they reinforce Eurocentric beauty ideals and racialised sameness, contributing to a digital culture where visual norms are shaped by platform design. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This article takes a sharp look at the politics of AI hype. Beneath bold promises lies a lack of scrutiny over regulation, equity and power—raising urgent questions about who benefits from dominant narratives. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Through the lens of Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict, this article examines how hashtags and hatetags are mobilised on social media. It shows how digital campaigns blur the line between activism and antagonism in contested political spaces. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS E-cigarette messaging on social media is anything but random. This new study maps how content spreads, linking actors, algorithms and formats through an integrated infodemiology framework that reveals key dynamics of online influence. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Drawing on a social capital perspective, this article explores how cancer vlogs on YouTube become collective support spaces, where trust, empathy, and shared experience help build meaningful bonds between vloggers and viewers. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS When politicians slam the media as “fake news,” does it stick? This study shows repeated exposure to such claims heightens media distrust, especially among audiences already primed to be sceptical. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS What works better? Detailed lessons or quick tips? This article puts a shortcut-style media literacy tool to the test, showing it can build lasting resilience to misinformation using Protection Motivation Theory. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS How do hashtags get hijacked? This study dives into narrative shifts and attention redirection in #MeToo and #COVID19 cases, showing how social bots help distort discourse and steer public opinion online. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Drawing on survey data from Ghana, this study shows how digital inequality is shaped by both disability type and income, highlighting how visual and physical impairments intersect with economic disadvantage to limit internet use. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Petronis, Roth & Olteanu show how during COVID-19, social and biomedical contagion were entangled. Tracing long COVID discourse, they call to move beyond “infodemic” framings to include affect, desire, and legitimisation via virality. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Drawing on interviews from the 2022 mpox outbreak, this article explores how risk communication unfolded across social media, balancing urgent messaging with the ethical fallout of stigma and moral panic. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Zhang applies Sentence-BERT to trace AI discourse on X, uncovering how narratives of futurity and expertise emerge through platform dynamics—shaping what AI is imagined to be, and by whom. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Immersive, addictive, therapeutic—this review of 44 studies shows how VR in the metaverse blurs lines between harm and healing. Bojić et al. call for frameworks that go beyond traditional models to govern this dual potential. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS This article examines La Qi, a data annotation practice in China where mundane AI labour doubles as governance. It reveals how annotators help enact state-aligned regulation, blurring boundaries between compliance, control, and computation. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Song updates Hall’s encoding/decoding framework for digital platforms, introducing four new concepts—de/encoding, lincoding, affordecoding, and en/decoding—to show how ideology is reproduced and contested in the age of platform capitalism. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS This article shows that digital civic infrastructure affects political participation differently in rural and urban areas, highlighting unique trade-offs related to broadband access and the flow of local information. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Can digital tools shift how rural residents view ecological policy? This paper finds that short video platforms are especially effective in reducing bias by boosting knowledge, attention, and risk awareness. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Valencia, Domínguez-Serrano & Gálvez-Muñoz map how mutual shaping approaches are used to study gender and social networks. Their review highlights dominant methods and gaps, offering new directions for more reflexive scholarly research. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

1/ 🚨New article out! 𝗖𝗮𝗻’𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝘆𝗽𝗲: 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜’𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 What happens in the so-called AI revolutions? And what role does hype play in them? This article proposes a methodological framework for studying AI and its hype. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/studyhype 🧵👇

Book reviews keep #iCS at the heart of evolving debates. Want to shape the conversation? 🚨 Pick a title and join us. 📚 Contact Víctor Ávila Torres (Lincoln) after browsing: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

#OutNow in #iCS The 2023 WGA strike marked a key moment in worker-led AI governance. Grohmann, Campos Rocha & Guilherme show how writers used collective power to frame generative AI as a labour issue—and secure contract protections. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Transnational Korean women content creators navigate algorithmic visibility that exposes them to harm. This article examines their strategies for managing unwanted attention and reclaiming agency on global platforms. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Young users face hidden risks shaped by the design of platforms. This article asks whether platform literacy equips them to recognise and resist those risks, or if structural vulnerabilities demand more than individual knowledge. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS What counts as algorithmic discrimination? This piece develops a grounded concept rooted in empirical cases, revealing how unequal outcomes emerge from routine design and classification practices. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS In her review, Nikoo Karimi reflects on Love and Technology, Fabian Broeker’s ethnography of dating app users in Berlin, praising its depth and attention to mediated intimacy, while noting space for further engagement with ambiguity. doi.org/10.1080/1369...