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#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. tandfonline.com/journals/ric…

Migration and Digital Media

Explore the article collection: Migration and Digital Media. Published in Information, Communication & Society.

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#OutNow in #iCS This article puts mistrust at the centre of media literacy. Park, Notley, Thomson, Hourigan & Dezuanni compare verification confidence with people’s ability to detect misinformation. doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.202…

Mistrust as a precondition for critical thinking and media literacy

Media literacy can help individuals identify misinformation, including content that is deliberately and falsely presented as news. A key yet underexplored component of media literacy is how mistrus...

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#OutNow in #iCS Deepika Kashyap reviews Carlson & Frazer’s Indigenous Digital Life, a book on social media, Indigenous self-governance, colonial power and everyday online practice. doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.202…

Indigenous digital life: the practice and politics of being Indigenous on social media

Published in Information, Communication & Society (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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#OutNow in #iCS How do people over 60 use social media and messenger apps for news and information? Anter, Fischer & Kümpel offer a close qualitative account of everyday digital information use in Germany. doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.202…

Older adults’ perceptions, needs, and uses of social media and messenger apps as sources of...

With the ongoing digitization of communication, older adults are increasingly integrating social media and messenger apps into their everyday information repertoires. However, fine-grained knowledg...

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#OutNow in #iCS Passive scrolling, purposeful interaction and pandemic conditions all matter in studies of social media and isolation. This review maps the evidence on young adults from 2000 to 2024. doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.202…

The relationship between social media use and social isolation in young adults: a systematic review

Social isolation has become a growing public health concern, with increasing attention to the potential role of social media in shaping social connection and disconnection. This systematic review s...

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#OutNow in #iCS Gender equity at work is shaped in everyday interactions, including who speaks, who is interrupted and who feels visible. This article examines how video conferencing changes those dynamics. doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.202…

From the room to the screen: how video conferencing reshapes gendered interpersonal behaviors

Amidst debates about remote work and the return to office, less is known about how video conferencing reshapes gender differences in interpersonal behaviors, potentially mitigating or reproducing g...

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#OutNow in #iCS Election researchers often work with platform data that is costly, temporary or incomplete. Lukito & Mimizuka argue for broader access routes, shared archives and better ways to study what users actually see. doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.202…

Price, proficiency, or permission: assessing platform data access for election research

In order for researchers and citizens to understand the significance of social media platforms to political campaigns and elections, it is necessary to maintain a transparent and responsible framew...

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#OutNow in #iCS LinkedIn Recruiter and HireVue offer a window into the politics of AI-mediated recruitment. Fernandez Cruz & Orr examine how hiring platforms frame fairness, efficiency and human discretion. doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.202…

Evaluating metrics of fairness: a critical analysis of AI in hiring practices

AI-mediated hiring is increasingly recognized as a high-stakes domain under emerging global regulatory frameworks, prompting new questions about how notions of fairness and suitability are construc...

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#OutNow in #iCS Undisclosed ads on TikTok are assessed through the lens of the law, platform rules, and everyday judgment. Taylor Annabell traces how calling out influencers can protect followers while producing new harms. doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.202…

Calling out disclosures, protecting followers: the new governors of influencer culture on TikTok

Influencer marketing is a core monetisation practice within the creator economy, which contributes to the presence of commercial content on platforms. To ensure audiences are informed, influencers ...

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#OutNow in #iCS From Unix jails to Docker and Kubernetes, Nathan Kim traces the history of software containers as logistical forms that enable cloud capital to circulate across platforms and infrastructures. doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.202…

Hyperscalers as logistical regimes: software containers and the circulation of cloud capital

This article analyzes the software container as a device central to the rise of cloud capitalism. Firms like Google pioneered software containers internally as infrastructure for their own producti...

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#OutNow in #iCS Using US survey data, Shea et al. show how local news, social media, community organisations and farmers' markets jointly shape participation and sense of community. doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.202…

Integrating farmers markets into a communication infrastructure model: the moderating role of...

What drives civic engagement in today’s complex communication environment? Guided by Communication Infrastructure Theory (CIT), this study used nationally representative survey data (N = 5,141) to ...

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#OutNow in #iCS Dragić & Deng examine how Chinese gay men encounter LGBTQ social media content in a context shaped by stigma, censorship and algorithmic mediation. doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.202…

Algorithmic ambivalence: LGBTQ  social media and mental health among Chinese gay men

This study investigates how Chinese gay men engage with LGBTQ content on social media and how such interactions shape their psychological well-being. In a context of stigma and censorship, platfor...

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#OutNow in #iCS From peer advice to brand confusion, Reddit offers a window into how people negotiate obesity treatment online. In this article, Abbas & Nyadzayo connect OMM debates to digital health communication and harm reduction. doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.202…

Stigma to skepticism: online consumer narratives of obesity management medications

Recent glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, commonly known as Obesity Management Medications (OMMs), have disrupted clinical and public conversations about obesity. Although clinical outcomes...

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#OutNow in #iCS Gahn & Kruschinski separate targeting from tailoring in political social media advertising, offering a framework for studying how parties reach audiences and adapt messages. doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.202…

Targeting and/or tailoring?! A theoretical framework and its application to political social media...

Despite the widespread use of data-driven campaigning (DDC), there is limited conceptual clarity and empirical understanding of how political parties employ the advertising strategies of targeting ...

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#OutNow in #iCS In an experiment with Twitter posts, Tang & Millet find that source credibility can help users recognise real news while making fake news harder to detect. doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.202…

Examining the influence of social media cues and platform perceptions on fake news detection

This study investigates how source credibility, collective social endorsement, and users’ perceptions of Twitter's helpfulness for news consumption influence fake news detection on social media. We...

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What changes when disinformation is studied not only as a communication problem, but also in relation to cybersecurity? In our recent paper in @icsjournal, with @JoseARuiperez and @juanchoaguado, we examine how social science research has framed this connection ⬇️
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#OutNow in #iCS On Xiaohongshu, influencers gain visibility through platform-managed groups that organise competition, rewards, and norms. Liu uses “clustered governance” to explain how these arrangements shape creator labour and autonomy. doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.202…

Clustered governance: how Chinese social media platforms curate and control influencers’ content...

This study conceptualises the governance strategies of Xiaohongshu (RedNote), a Chinese e-commerce social media platform, as clustered governance: organising select creators into platform-managed, ...

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#OutNow in #iCS Creator work often depends on uncertainty, hope, and attachment as much as strategy. This article explores how content creators make sense of platform labour through what the authors call “enchanted sensemaking”. doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.202…

Enchanted sensemaking among content creators

The content creator industry is growing and evolving, with creators assuming increasingly prominent roles in society through the generation and circulation of content that impacts audiences’ online...

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#OutNow in #iCS In this article, Jensen shows how adolescent girls’ phone use on a night out sits within a culture of care, from location sharing to media involvement shields. doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.202…

‘Us girls … we have such a strong support system': mediated care among adolescent girls on a night...

In contemporary public and scientific discourse, the role of social media in young people’s lives is frequently problematized. However, technologies are often involved in practices of care, and thi...

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#OutNow in #iCS Using Discord data from Axie Infinity communities, this article traces how “play-to-earn” economies turn players into investable subjects, developing the concept of self-assetisation. doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.202…

From player to asset: venture labor in axie infinity

This paper examines crypto economies in ‘play-to-earn’ games via a case study of Axie Infinity (Sky Mavis, 2018). High entry costs spawned ‘scholarships’ in which asset-owning managers lease Axies ...

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#OutNow in #iCS Bad domains, unequal exposure. Shen and Sood combine browsing logs with malware data to map who encounters malicious websites, and how often those encounters cause online harm. doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.202…

Bad domains: exposure to malicious content online

Concerns about digital inequality in the United States increasingly extend beyond access and skills to differences in online safety. We examine demographic inequality in exposure to malicious websi...

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