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Bad news for (young) gamers: Using gaming platforms as news sources is more intimately associated with radical belief dispositions than other online spaces

open access: yesPolitical Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 6, December 2026.
Abstract This study explores how digital news use among young Europeans links to radical belief dispositions, particularly within gaming platforms and messengers, where socio‐affective dynamics shape engagement with political information. We argue that online groups are an overlooked locus for biased information processing and the normalization of ...
Simon Greipl   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating the Conversation: How Can the News Media Responsibly Communicate Drug Use to the Australian Community?

open access: yesDrug and Alcohol Review, Volume 45, Issue 6, September 2026.
ABSTRACT News media plays an integral role in facilitating public discourse, influencing attitudes and shaping policy decisions on drugs. Negative, sensationalist or inaccurate media coverage of drugs can lead to negative or stigmatising attitudes towards people who use drugs or who are associated with drugs. This can and should be changed.
Steph Kershaw   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A comprehensive review of machine learning-based models for fake news detection [PDF]

open access: yesBIO Web of Conferences
The internet's role in the spread of fake news has made it a serious problem that calls for sophisticated techniques for its automatic detection. To counter the quick spread of misleading material on social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter ...
Dheyaa Radhi Ahmed   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tagging the Emirate: Language, Coordination and the Taliban's Digital Pursuit of Legitimacy

open access: yesGlobal Policy, Volume 17, Issue 3, Page 487-497, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines how political actors leverage social media in Afghanistan as a tool for political legitimation. Framing social media as a potential supply of legitimacy, it analysed X (formerly known as Twitter) content posted by the former Afghan government, humanitarian and Taliban political accounts between January 2020 and December ...
Hannah Oates
wiley   +1 more source

The Labeling Dilemma: Study of Clickbait Datasets and their Methodologies

open access: yesFoundations of Computing and Decision Sciences
In today’s digital ecosystem, there is a dominance of attention driven content platforms that promote sensationalism over informational quality. These platforms use various means to manipulate users. Clickbait is among them.
Shrivastava Avinash   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Hollowing Out of News: The Implications of the Erosion of Public Interest Journalism

open access: yesAccounting &Finance, Volume 66, Issue 2, Page 1027-1039, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the structural erosion of public interest journalism and its implications for public accountability, institutional trust and research. Focusing on Australia, with Anglo‐American comparisons, it shows how economic, technological and regulatory disruptions have undermined investigative journalism, thereby weakening scrutiny ...
Clinton Free
wiley   +1 more source

Semi-supervised clickbait detection in low-resource settings via attention-guided fusion with Cosine regularization

open access: yesDiscover Computing
Clickbait refers to sensationalized and misleading headlines designed to attract user attention, often at the cost of informational credibility. Despite significant progress in clickbait detection for high-resource languages, low-resource languages such ...
Ashfaq Mahmud Fahim, Md. Rashadur Rahman
doaj   +1 more source

Solutionism for the Many, Regulation for the Few: How Online Media Bundles the Policies on the Future of Work in Indonesia

open access: yesReview of Policy Research, Volume 43, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT The future of work (FoW), that is, how new technologies from automation to artificial intelligence affect the workplace, has become such a salient topic that its framing matters for the evolution of important policy areas from social protection to market and labor regulation.
Achim Kemmerling, Viddy Ranawijaya
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the effectiveness of virtual reality in combating misinformation on climate change

open access: yesPolitical Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 1, February 2026.
Abstract Our research examines the potential of immersive virtual reality (VR) in countering climate change misinformation. By creating VR simulations of future climate scenarios, we visually depict the potential impacts of rising temperatures and sea level rise on communities and ecosystems.
Elif Erisen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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