Alcides Velasquez et al. explore how neoliberal ideology shapes the experience and management of stigma among Latinos/as, identifying “blame” as an additional mechanism of neoliberal stigma wherein Latinos/as are scapegoated for systemic social and economic difficulties.
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Analyzing AI visuals of the 2025 California wildfires on social media, Menna Elhosary et al. argue that visual generative AI amplifies both the communicative power and the risks of misinformation in crisis visuals.
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@juanof9.bsky.social dissects the state of information sovereignty in Latin America, by tracing newsrooms' dependency on third-party digital infrastructure across 6 countries
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Mir Hasib and Lyombe Eko comparative analyze AI governance frameworks of the EU and the UN, interrogating the Kantian ideals embedded in both and unveiling structural challenges in the fulfillment of these ideals.
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Luise Anter and @kuempelanna.bsky.social study how young adult users verify information on TikTok, challenging the applicability of traditional credibility models and highlighting the need to account for platform affordances.
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Ge Zhu and Rachel Young explore how health TV cultivates beliefs in traditional Chinese medicine for self-care and personal responsibility, in line with the Chinese state's policy priorities for managing rapid population aging.
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Alexandra Colombier Vanijaka and Duncan McCargo deliver a critical analysis of Thailand's hybrid platformism in shaping journalism and media power, highlighting parallels with Indonesia and the Philippines.
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Stephen Hutchings apply cross-cultural discourse analysis and genealogical methods to unpacking the inconsistent relationship deep state conspiracism has with disinformation, arguing for a rethinking of approaches to disinformation's role in the truth-democracy crisis.
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With Norway as the context, Marika Lüders unpack the moral complexities of teenagers' media experiences in an omnipresent and saturated media environment.
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With a mixed-method study, @qingyuesun.bsky.social and colleagues examine the industrialized influencer labor in China's multichannel networks, where "creativity, authenticity, and intimacy are institutionally structured and reproduced at scale"
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