@icsjournal.bsky.socialThis article systematically reviews recent empirical research on the role of emotions in populist politics. Following PRISMA guidelines, 51 peer-reviewed studies across political science, psychology, communication, & sociology were reviewed.
@icsjournal.bsky.socialThe authors carry out a scoping review looking at social media platforms and the spreading of hate speech targeting sexual and gender minorities. The full-text database includes n = 145 full-text papers.
@icsjournal.bsky.socialThis study examines how family-level socioeconomic status and country-level income inequalities moderate the relationship between Problematic Social Media Use and adolescents’ psychological complaints and life satisfaction.
@icsjournal.bsky.socialThis study centers the experiences of dating app users on the popular platforms Bumble and Tinder, and how they manage their own safety. It is based on in-depth qualitative interviews with 42 dating app users in the US.
@icsjournal.bsky.socialThis study provides a validated tool that evaluates serious games through both ludic and pedagogical perspectives, unlike other scales that prioritize primarily on one aspect.
@icsjournal.bsky.socialThis experimental study investigates how social nudges influence bystander reactions within a 3×3 design, varying nudge type (awareness nudge vs. awareness & behavioral nudge vs. no nudge) & hostility type (incivility vs. intolerance vs. civil).
@icsjournal.bsky.socialThis study examines adults’ in situ encounters with suspected misinformation to better understand how it is experienced in daily life.
@icsjournal.bsky.socialThis study investigates how individuals responded to insults on social media and what are relevant factors that may influence different responses.
@icsjournal.bsky.socialDrawing on Third-Person Effect (TPE) theory, this study investigates how exposure to warning labels on AI-generated disinformation shapes perceptual effects and behavioral consequences during the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election.
@icsjournal.bsky.socialThis study develops and tests the AI-Based Risk Information-Seeking Model (ARISM), which incorporates AI-related cognitive and affective factors, including privacy concerns and AI anxiety.
@icsjournal.bsky.socialThis research investigates the adoption, integration, and everyday use of social media by married, stay-at-home, conservative Muslim migrant women who followed their husbands from Turkey to the UK, living in Sussex.
@icsjournal.bsky.socialWhy do certain topics attract more public attention than others on digital platforms? The authors propose a dynamic cross-platform spillover explanation, examining how cross-platform trending influences public attention to political topics.
@icsjournal.bsky.socialDrawing on Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis of 1,500 TikTok videos, this study examines how non-Latinas and Latinas interact with ‘Latina makeup’ filters.
@icsjournal.bsky.socialThis paper offers a theoretical examination of AI-generated outputs, employing fact-checking as an epistemic lens.
@icsjournal.bsky.socialThis study employs the Fill-Mask Association Test in four principal Chinese Pre-trained language models (PLMs) with reference to the English PLMs.
@icsjournal.bsky.socialThis study examines the dynamics of cross-ideological communication across 11 major subreddits over 16 years. Going beyond purely textual elements, the authors analyse a broad range of possibilities for overlaps between subreddits.
@icsjournal.bsky.socialThis study examines the impact of cyberchondria on depressive symptoms using data from a nationally representative sample (N = 1,500) of Chinese adults.
@icsjournal.bsky.socialAnand Badola reviews 'Safe havens for hate: the challenge of moderating online extremism’ by Tamar Mitts. The core argument focuses on the difference in moderation policies across different platforms that creates safe havens for extremist actors.
@icsjournal.bsky.socialDrawing on interviews with members of Brazil’s Congress, this study investigates how politicians incorporate audience analytics into their communication strategies.
@icsjournal.bsky.socialApplying the Draw-a-Scientist Test framework, the authors analyzed stereotypical representations of scientists in images generated by DALL·E 3 and examined potential amplification by benchmarking against Google Images.