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Selective and consistent news avoidance in Aotearoa New Zealand: motivations and demographic influences

Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 20, Issue 4, Page 619-638, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This study explores selective and consistent news avoidance in Aotearoa New Zealand. Existing research suggests that selective news avoidance rates are high in Aotearoa New Zealand (Myllylahti M, Treadwell G. 2023. Trust in News in Aotearoa New Zealand 2023. Journalism, Media and Democracy: AUT Research Centre for Journalism, Media & Democracy.
Alex Beattie, John Kerr, Richard Arnold
wiley   +1 more source

Digital Hyperconnectivity and the Queer Self

Sociology Compass, Volume 19, Issue 11, November 2025.
ABSTRACT This article examines the production of the queer self within digital hyperconnectivity, focusing on how online platforms mediate objectification, visibility, and the production of the social self. Drawing on sociological literature, it explores how digital affordances—such as accessibility, selectivity, and abundance—reshape identifications ...
Joseph Kaplan Weinger
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of YouTube User‐Generated Content on News Dissemination and Youth Information Reception

Health Expectations, Volume 28, Issue 5, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Background User‐generated content (UGC) on YouTube has reshaped news dissemination, fostered engagement, raised concerns about credibility, algorithmic influence and the spread of misinformation. This study addresses the gap in understanding how UGC engagement, trust and algorithmic awareness influence digital news consumption.
Wu Chunqiong, Jiang Shan, Sun Jianhong, Liu Yingqi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Methodological Framework for AI-Driven Textual Data Analysis in Digital Media

Future Internet
The growing volume of textual data generated on digital media platforms presents significant challenges for the analysis and interpretation of information.
Douglas Cordeiro, Carlos Lopezosa, Javier Guallar   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Internet Research Agency Campaign to Influence the 2016 US Presidential Elections: A Rhetorical Analysis

Journal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 35, Issue 5, September/October 2025.
ABSTRACT The centrality of information and communicative processes in persuading society has, historically, made the media one of the key networks of power and influence in society. The rapid expansion of social media platforms has, however, enabled revolutionary changes in how this power is wielded and how persuasion occurs.
Nick Nelson, Darrin Hodgetts, Kerry Chamberlain   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Literature Review of Textual Cyber Abuse Detection Using Cutting‐Edge Natural Language Processing Techniques: Language Models and Large Language Models

WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Volume 15, Issue 3, September 2025.
Summary of the methodology and sequential steps conducted during the review. ABSTRACT The success of social media platforms has facilitated the emergence of various forms of online abuse within digital communities. This abuse manifests in multiple ways, including hate speech, cyberbullying, emotional abuse, grooming, and shame sexting or sextortion. In
J. Angel Diaz‐Garcia, Joao Paulo Carvalho   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The promise and peril of interpersonal political communication

Political Psychology, Volume 46, Issue S1, Page 167-212, August 2025.
Abstract At present, the field of political psychology lacks an effective framework to conceptually organize the findings from the voluminous literature assessing whether interpersonal political interaction makes democracy better or worse. Historically, the scholarship examining various styles of interactions has remained siloed; scholars have not ...
Jaime E. Settle
wiley   +1 more source

Heuristic Feature Selection for Clickbait Detection

, 2018
We study feature selection as a means to optimize the baseline clickbait detector employed at the Clickbait Challenge 2017. The challenge's task is to score the "clickbaitiness" of a given Twitter tweet on a scale from 0 (no clickbait) to 1 (strong clickbait).
Wiegmann, Matti, Völske, Michael, Stein, Benno, Hagen, Matthias, Potthast, Martin   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Co‐Designing a Framework for Social Media Health Communication to Young People: A Participatory Research Study

Health Expectations, Volume 28, Issue 2, April 2025.
ABSTRACT Background Social media became a key communication channel for public health agencies during the COVID‐19 pandemic, especially for reaching younger populations less engaged with traditional channels. However, official social media health communication often fails to appeal to young people. Improving public health agency use of social media for
Melody Taba, Julie Ayre, Kirsten McCaffery, Diana Vassilenko, Ivan C. K. Ma, Tara Haynes, Julie Leask, Andrew Wilson, Carissa Bonner   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Disruptive diversity: Exploring racial commodification in the Norwegian cultural field

The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 407-422, March 2025.
Abstract Scholars have suggested that the heightened focus on diversity in Western cultural fields may drive forms of racial commodification, impacting cultural representations of ‘race’. However, few studies apply Bourdieu's theory of cultural production to understand how racial commodification may also disrupt field dynamics.
Sabina Tica
wiley   +1 more source