Marking the first year of a new editorial team,
@danmercea.bsky.social reflects on iCS’s evolving role in the field. The journal looks back to move forward, reaffirming our commitment to rigour and to the well-being of the academic community.
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Based on fieldwork in China, this article shows how the Tour Yunnan platform centralises governance in messy, negotiated ways. It introduces the infrastructural key to explain how data lock-in only sometimes activates central power.
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Based on fieldwork in China, this article shows how the Tour Yunnan platform centralises governance in messy, negotiated ways. It introduces the infrastructural key to explain how data lock-in only sometimes activates central power.
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This article examines how Freedom Convoy supporters on X have evolved their messaging over time. Early posts focused on mobilisation and logistics, while later ones leaned on anger and fear to hold a shrinking protest community together. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This article examines how Freedom Convoy supporters on X have evolved their messaging over time. Early posts focused on mobilisation and logistics, while later ones leaned on anger and fear to hold a shrinking protest community together. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This article argues that brelfies, or breastfeeding selfies, help UK mothers mark pride in feeding, find support, and push to normalise breastfeeding online.
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This article argues that brelfies, or breastfeeding selfies, help UK mothers mark pride in feeding, find support, and push to normalise breastfeeding online.
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This paper analyses how mom vlogs mix platform, care, and cultural values into two motherhood ideals, entrepreneurial and traditional, encouraging personal coping rather than calls for structural change.
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This paper analyses how mom vlogs mix platform, care, and cultural values into two motherhood ideals, entrepreneurial and traditional, encouraging personal coping rather than calls for structural change.
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This article scrutinises how self-interest and public-interest nudges shape news engagement on social media. It argues that nudges prompt small shifts in who people follow, while also explaining why these effects vary across settings.
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This article scrutinises how self-interest and public-interest nudges shape news engagement on social media. It argues that nudges prompt small shifts in who people follow, while also explaining why these effects vary across settings.
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My OA paper in @icsjournal.bsky.social, “Holographic authenticities: Constructing the real in the encounter with Holocaust survivors”, explores discourses of historical and technological authenticity.
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My OA paper in @icsjournal.bsky.social, “Holographic authenticities: Constructing the real in the encounter with Holocaust survivors”, explores discourses of historical and technological authenticity.
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This article follows #MeToo conversations on Twitter/X to show how activism gradually gave way to polarisation. As political identities took over, partisan debates reshaped the movement’s online visibility and momentum.
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This article follows #MeToo conversations on Twitter/X to show how activism gradually gave way to polarisation. As political identities took over, partisan debates reshaped the movement’s online visibility and momentum.
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Analysing posts from Weibo, this article traces how Chinese views of AI mental health care changed over time. What began with optimism turned to caution, as everyday experiences raised questions about trust and effectiveness.
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Analysing posts from Weibo, this article traces how Chinese views of AI mental health care changed over time. What began with optimism turned to caution, as everyday experiences raised questions about trust and effectiveness.
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Focusing on the Dimensions in Testimony project, this article examines how visitors experience virtual Holocaust survivors as authentic. It argues that emotion and mediation together shape what feels real in digital memory.
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Focusing on the Dimensions in Testimony project, this article examines how visitors experience virtual Holocaust survivors as authentic. It argues that emotion and mediation together shape what feels real in digital memory.
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Reviewing 57 studies, this article maps how digital engagement shapes young people’s learning and wellbeing. It argues that online opportunities and risks depend on socioeconomic resources, not technology alone.
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Reviewing 57 studies, this article maps how digital engagement shapes young people’s learning and wellbeing. It argues that online opportunities and risks depend on socioeconomic resources, not technology alone.
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Nomophobia, impulsivity, and self-esteem intersect in complex ways. This article shows how fear of disconnection and low self-control combine to fuel compulsive smartphone use among South Korean students.
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Nomophobia, impulsivity, and self-esteem intersect in complex ways. This article shows how fear of disconnection and low self-control combine to fuel compulsive smartphone use among South Korean students.
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How can researchers collect mobile data responsibly? This article tests several data donation methods in Switzerland and finds that manual entry encourages more people to share their app use.
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How can researchers collect mobile data responsibly? This article tests several data donation methods in Switzerland and finds that manual entry encourages more people to share their app use.
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Using data from Chile, this article argues that question wording and framing influence how adolescents engage with web surveys on media and politics, shaping when they respond and when they disengage.
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Using data from Chile, this article argues that question wording and framing influence how adolescents engage with web surveys on media and politics, shaping when they respond and when they disengage.
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Gifting, play, and queer connection on Lespark. This article shows how gamification turns intimacy into visibility in digital spaces.
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Gifting, play, and queer connection on Lespark. This article shows how gamification turns intimacy into visibility in digital spaces.
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Sun and Zhao analyse U.S. data to separate how age, generation, and time each affect online health information seeking. They conclude that digital health gaps persist, driven more by generational habits than by ageing itself.
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Sun and Zhao analyse U.S. data to separate how age, generation, and time each affect online health information seeking. They conclude that digital health gaps persist, driven more by generational habits than by ageing itself.
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Digital inclusion efforts can backfire. Based on fieldwork in the Netherlands, Smit and colleagues show how one program turned citizenship into an obligation for low-literate participants rather than a source of empowerment.
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Digital inclusion efforts can backfire. Based on fieldwork in the Netherlands, Smit and colleagues show how one program turned citizenship into an obligation for low-literate participants rather than a source of empowerment.
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Using national data from China, Fu and Peng find that internet use promotes productive ageing by strengthening friendships that encourage work, caregiving, and volunteering. Online connection becomes a pathway to social participation.
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Using national data from China, Fu and Peng find that internet use promotes productive ageing by strengthening friendships that encourage work, caregiving, and volunteering. Online connection becomes a pathway to social participation.
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Reviewing over 1,300 studies, Fam maps TikTok as an academic field. The review outlines its main research areas and emerging debates, calling for a clearer agenda to guide future scholarship.
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Reviewing over 1,300 studies, Fam maps TikTok as an academic field. The review outlines its main research areas and emerging debates, calling for a clearer agenda to guide future scholarship.
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Cohen and Toch examine how conservative users on X reframe the idea of “algorithmic bias” to accuse ChatGPT of anti-conservative bias. They reveal how political actors hijack liberal tech discourses to advance new ideological agendas.
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Cohen and Toch examine how conservative users on X reframe the idea of “algorithmic bias” to accuse ChatGPT of anti-conservative bias. They reveal how political actors hijack liberal tech discourses to advance new ideological agendas.
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Zhuang and Goggin call for disability to be central in governing generative AI. They show how rapid innovation risks reproducing exclusion and argue for inclusive policies that treat accessibility as core to AI ethics.
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Zhuang and Goggin call for disability to be central in governing generative AI. They show how rapid innovation risks reproducing exclusion and argue for inclusive policies that treat accessibility as core to AI ethics.
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Cools analyses how the ideals of responsible AI are implemented in practice. This article reveals how competing demands and institutional gaps make turning ethical principles into concrete action a persistent challenge.
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Cools analyses how the ideals of responsible AI are implemented in practice. This article reveals how competing demands and institutional gaps make turning ethical principles into concrete action a persistent challenge.
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Based on interviews with scientists active on social media, Zhang shows how credibility is not only claimed but performed. The study reveals how online visibility reshapes trust and authority in public science.
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Based on interviews with scientists active on social media, Zhang shows how credibility is not only claimed but performed. The study reveals how online visibility reshapes trust and authority in public science.
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Using machine learning, this study tracks how gambling firms adapted to COVID-19 by reshaping their online marketing, exposing how crises accelerate strategic and regulatory change in digital industries.
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Using machine learning, this study tracks how gambling firms adapted to COVID-19 by reshaping their online marketing, exposing how crises accelerate strategic and regulatory change in digital industries.
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This article examines generative AI through the lens of the information commons. Authors argue that while commons management offers insights for governance, it cannot, by itself, address AI’s challenges to knowledge and control.
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This article examines generative AI through the lens of the information commons. Authors argue that while commons management offers insights for governance, it cannot, by itself, address AI’s challenges to knowledge and control.
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Tracking #StopAsianHate on Twitter across 2021–2022, Wang and colleagues show how the movement lost momentum as networks fragmented. Their study reveals that serial participants are vital for sustaining online anti-racism activism.
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Tracking #StopAsianHate on Twitter across 2021–2022, Wang and colleagues show how the movement lost momentum as networks fragmented. Their study reveals that serial participants are vital for sustaining online anti-racism activism.
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