Information, Communication & Society

#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 This paper examines how young children aged 0–5 years build digital resilience within interconnected home and community contexts. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS Three recent monographs illustrate how to investigate the intersection of capital and expertise through attention to micro- and meso-level practices. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This paper builds on sociological perspectives on emotions and advances existing research on the interplay between data visualisation and emotions by proposing the concept of ‘emotional repository’ to describe data visualisations. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This study examines the use of Facebook by political actors across eight European countries – Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Kosovo, Norway, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom – as they attempt to engage voters through calls to action. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This article uses Black technofeminism to examine how artificial intelligence (AI) anthropomorphization coincides with racialized and gendered dehumanization. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS Jennifer Forestal provides a response to Kreiss and Neill’s essay. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This study advances research on hybrid media environments by showing that combinations of various sources function as infrastructures of public evaluation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS Drawing on in-depth interviews with 20 knowledge workers, this study examines what is being transformed in the workplace and how these shifts are being perceived by the knowledge workers who use GenAI. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This article investigates increasing alignment between the anti-gender galaxy and anti-trans groups by looking at the symbolic synergies that these two collective endeavors create in and through social media discourse. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This study investigates degrees of polarization in political climate protest debates on TikTok. It draws on a dataset of automatically transcribed TikTok videos posted by German politicians between 2022 & 2025, alongside associated user comments. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This paper outlines benefit recipients’ views towards the sharing of data that is collected about them when they routinely interact with social security services. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This study examines how Ukrainian and Russian political elites communicate on Telegram during the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This study is the first to experimentally examine trusting beliefs in dating algorithms. Findings suggest a self-fulfilling prophecy of beliefs about algorithmic social processes and warrant more future investigation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS The authors extend Beer’s concept of the data gaze, drawing from qualitative empirical examples to illustrate how young people navigate and incorporate datafied ways of seeing and knowing in their everyday practices. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This article examines how social media discussions within a protest movement intersect with local news coverage, focusing on the French Gilets Jaunes in the Var department. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This scoping review synthesizes 65 empirical studies on social media effects in the context of migration published between 2020 and 2025. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This paper turns attention to the ontological and epistemological ‘nuts’ and ‘bolts’ of claims about digital technologies, social life and the future. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This commentary by Noortje Marres offers some reflections on the ‘power of the fix' in cybersecurity and its wider implications for technological democracy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS Drawing on a quantitative survey of N = 1138 communication scientists and four qualitative focus groups, this study provides the first comprehensive mapping of genAI use across communucation research stages and contexts. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS In this article, the author proposes a media-genealogical approach to situate the claim of ‘democratization’ within a broader development in the infrastructuralisation and platformisation of computing. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS Maria K. Alberto reviews 'Gaia’s Web: how digital environmentalism can combat climate change, restore biodiversity, cultivate empathy, and regenerate the Earth’ by Karen Bakker, where she offers a hopeful perspective on digital environmentalism. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This 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. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS The 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. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This 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. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This 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. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This study provides a validated tool that evaluates serious games through both ludic and pedagogical perspectives, unlike other scales that prioritize primarily on one aspect. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This 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). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This study examines adults’ in situ encounters with suspected misinformation to better understand how it is experienced in daily life. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This study investigates how individuals responded to insults on social media and what are relevant factors that may influence different responses. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS Drawing 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. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This 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. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This 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. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS Why 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. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS Drawing on Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis of 1,500 TikTok videos, this study examines how non-Latinas and Latinas interact with ‘Latina makeup’ filters. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This paper offers a theoretical examination of AI-generated outputs, employing fact-checking as an epistemic lens. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This study employs the Fill-Mask Association Test in four principal Chinese Pre-trained language models (PLMs) with reference to the English PLMs. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This 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. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This study examines the impact of cyberchondria on depressive symptoms using data from a nationally representative sample (N = 1,500) of Chinese adults. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS Anand 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. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS Drawing on interviews with members of Brazil’s Congress, this study investigates how politicians incorporate audience analytics into their communication strategies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS Applying 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. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This article presents findings from a research project that worked with disadvantaged communities across Australia to examine digital inclusion in low-income families and the role of social infrastructure in supporting digital participation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS The authors ask how the providers of research information legitimize the need for the datafication of research & thus for their tools by looking at the providers’ narratives of transparency & how they differ according to their business model. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS The authors develop a more elaborated conceptualisation of generational differences & propose to understand disinformation not as a set of factual errors to be corrected but as a communicative practice that involves interpretation & interaction. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This article offers a theoretical critique of deliberation using artificial intelligence, focusing on systems that operationalize deliberation as a consensus-optimizing procedure. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This study examines how true versus false messages shape trust in cancer-vaccine information on social media, alongside skepticism and worry, and tests the moderating roles of source credibility and deception-detection self-efficacy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This article presents nationally representative evidence of gendered patterns in perceptions of Artificial intelligence decision bias and gender inclusivity. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This paper investigates how two groups of activists – ‘professional’ (civil society members) and ‘independent’ activists (using primarily social media for activism) – construct the political power of digital technologies in everyday practice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS This article analyses the interaction between broader political, economic and cultural changes and the local experiences of citizens using the Amazon Ring doorbell, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OutNow in #iCS Drawing on the theoretical framework of algorithmic imaginaries, this study investigates how Chinese parent vloggers of autistic children on Douyin imagine and enact their relationships with algorithms. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....