📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: In @icsjournal.bsky.social, Laura Guntrum & Verena Lasso Mena (both @tuda.bsky.social) analyze violence against environmental and human rights defenders in northern Colombia. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

#OutNow in #iCS In the introduction to this Special Issue on Critical Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity, Spencer argues that thinking through fixing offers common ground for rethinking how insecurity is understood and addressed. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Cybersecurity work is not about finding fixes. Jensen, Kocksch and Wagenknecht argue for moving beyond solutionism by experimenting with tools that help practitioners think through dilemmas, compromises, and care. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS This article argues that tackling Cyberchondria requires more than individual self-control. Drawing on national survey data, it highlights the combined roles of literacy, care, and social support in protecting mental health. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS From demystifying to domesticating. Studying JournalismAI training, this article shows how courses shape journalists’ relationships with AI and naturalise particular visions of its use in the newsroom. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Generative AI is moving fast. Governance is lagging behind. Duke Sanford professor Phil Napoli and alumna Suher Adi MPP'24 examine what social media’s regulatory failures can teach us about governing AI. @icsjournal.bsky.social article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS How do memes help imagine climate futures otherwise? Musih, Trillò and Hallinan analyse future compass memes as visual tools that disrupt dominant climate imaginaries and expand political imagination. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS How do people form views on regulating TikTok and Douyin? Comparing China and the US, this article shows how perceived influence, platform experiences and algorithmic awareness shape support for regulation. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS From surveillance fears to signalling moderation. This article examines how activist organisations make choices about privacy technologies and why many deliberately live with digital insecurity. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS How do councilwomen practice Everyday Feminism? This article shows how women’s interests take different forms on Facebook and in council meetings, reshaping local political representation. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Who shapes democracy in the age of AI? Miklian and Hoelscher study Silicon Valley coders and the rise of a new digital divide built around information quality. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS. Using large-scale survey data, Henry et al show how public attitudes towards AI-generated sexual images depend on consent, relationships and how images are used, showing strong condemnation but uneven awareness, doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Is social media really to blame? Bailey et al. show how young adults’ primary news source shapes political and civic engagement in the US.

#OutNow in #iCS What does it mean to call yourself a “TikTok refugee”? This article examines how US users perform resistance, tourism and colonial tropes after migrating to RedNote. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Who benefits from remote internships? Drawing on interviews with students, this article links boundary management to inequality in early-career opportunities. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS From reading and sharing to curating and disconnecting, this paper explains how safety structures political participation inside everyday messaging groups. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS This article examines how the EU’s NIS2 and Cyber Resilience Act turn cybersecurity by design into a socio-technical practice shaping platform governance. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Franco and Stegeman investigate how content moderation works as labour management on erotic webcam platforms, governing behaviour, income, and risk while sidestepping worker accountability. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...

Thrilled to see @ktmac.bsky.social and my paper on robots.txt and infrastructural consent published here!!

#OutNow Digital Collection in #iCS Migration and Digital Media brings together 18 articles examining how digital media shape migration, borders, intimacy, and inequality, and how migration shapes technologies. Edited by Bartlett, Leurs, and Mena Montes. www.tandfonline.com/journals/ric...

#OutNow in #iCS Echo chambers look different when seen through folk theories. This comparative study shows that users in the US and China explain information homogeneity in ways that diverge sharply from academic, algorithm-focused accounts. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Do AI-written birthday messages harm friendships? Experiments show they usually feel less sincere, but personalisation and close ties make a real difference. When context and effort are visible, AI messages land better. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS What happens to Benjamin’s “aura” in the age of generative AI? This article argues that GenAI intensifies distantiation and automates remix at scale, deepening the precariousness of creative labour under platform capitalism. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS What do teens actually do with social media? Drawing on ethnographic work with 1teens in Barcelona, this article maps everyday practices across 13 platforms and shows how they use them strategically rather than as a single “online world.” doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS This review maps what we know about social media manipulation across 83 studies and shows how the field still overemphasises elections, state actors, and Twitter/X, while missing cross-platform and multimodal tactics. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Wang, Zhang and Liang argue that privacy is central to whether people see AI public services as legitimate. Their vignette study shows that AI is often judged as riskier without additional privacy benefits, while human-AI collaboration can ease concerns. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS “Infrastructural consent” is when consent becomes a protocol. This article shows how robots.txt flattens ethical debate into technical parameters, and why the AI scraping “consent crisis” exposes problems in web architecture. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Our (@yidon.bsky.social, @foucaultwelles.bsky.social) new paper about "TikTok refuge" is out on @icsjournal.bsky.social. We argued that American TikTokers' self-labeling as refugees is a stylish roleplay, trivializing refugee exigency and diluting refugee discourses. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Baram and Lin show how false-flag cyber operations manipulate identity and intent, creating uncertainty that can destabilise crisis management and heighten escalation risks between states. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS This article argues that generative AI risk perception depends on digital agency as much as fear. Survey evidence shows tech-savvy users may underestimate GenAI’s societal risks, while less familiar users may overestimate them. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS This article explores how people domesticate genAI chatbots in daily life. Interviews with women Replika users show how chores, shopping and casual talk sit alongside imaginaries of consciousness and emotional attachment. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Who profits from platform opacity? Drawing on ethnographic research in Turkey, this article examines social media experts who monetise platform know-how, push self-branding across professions, and help platforms rule. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Who owns citizen science data? This article follows FAIR principles in practice and shows how they spark tensions around sharing, authority and participant oversight within open science infrastructures. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS This article questions the idea that online scientific discussions compete for limited attention. Using Weibo data on GMOs, climate change and AI, it finds complex subtopic relations and little evidence of a zero-sum game. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Using a two-wave US panel survey, this article tracks how people responded to Musk’s Twitter takeover. It finds partisan divides, but also a “wait and see” pattern in which users say they will cut back without changing their behaviour. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS During Belgium’s 2024 election campaign, this study links perceived exposure to populist ads to declining trust in democracy and shows the reverse effect too. A feedback loop that can deepen political distrust. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS This article argues that fear does not automatically drive a self-reinforcing cycle of media consumption. A longitudinal study in Germany finds that media use can also reduce health and financial fears. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Who worries most about digitalisation? Using European Social Survey data from across 30 countries, this article shows concerns cluster by age and education more than income or geography, and rise with digital literacy and exposure. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Based on a planned AI datacentre in northern Sweden, this article examines how sustainability is negotiated, contested, and reframed when eco-modernist visions collide with local resistance. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Using panel surveys from Greece and Brazil, this article shows that low news use is tied to higher belief in misinformation and lower trust in elections. In contrast, people who selectively avoid political news are less likely to vote. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS This review synthesises research on older adults’ news and information use on social media and messenger apps and outlines priorities for future, more theory-driven work. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Virtual therapy in Buenos Aires is a matter of class. Boczkowski’s ethnography with clinicians traces how social position structures who is offered online care. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS This special issue introduction brings together work from ASA 2024 to humanise digital governance and challenge reductionist accounts that treat technology as the driver, foregrounding negotiated sociotechnical systems instead. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Digital literacy can be taught. This meta-analysis of school interventions with children and adolescents shows where gains are strongest and offers guidance for educators and policymakers. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS A 14-day diary study links dips in daily mood among Chinese students to problematic short-video use. Rumination intensifies this link, while higher self-control interrupts it. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS This paper maps how emotional cues in Facebook posts during Scandinavian elections shape engagement, revealing that populist parties gain particular visibility when their messages provoke anger. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS In this article, Mike Ananny argues that governing generative AI is “scale work”, using synthetic journalism to show how AI collides with news practices, infrastructures and audiences across multiple levels. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS Analysing more than 870,000 tweets, this article shows how #savewomenssports moved from focusing on individual athletes to anchoring itself in wider debates about gender fluidity and the sex binary. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

#OutNow in #iCS In the first year after Dobbs, local news in restriction states broadly framed abortion through broader themes rather than isolated cases, shaping how public debate on a key women’s issue unfolded. doi.org/10.1080/1369...