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Social Media Is a Threat for Democracy! A Political Perspective for Analysing and Diminishing Harm

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Social media platforms, once hailed as potential champions of dialogue, have evolved into commodified spaces in which their business models incentivize hate speech, misinformation, polarization, and the political fragmentation of society, benefiting corporate and political elites while eroding democracy.
Itziar Castelló, Elanor Colleoni, Andreas Georg Scherer, Hannah Trittin‐Ulbrich   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

COVID-19 and the "Film Your Hospital" Conspiracy Theory: Social Network Analysis of Twitter Data. [PDF]

J Med Internet Res, 2020
Ahmed W, López Seguí F, Vidal-Alaball J, Katz MS.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

From Platform Design to Attention Governance: Rethinking Social Media Externalities

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Social media platforms have become central infrastructures through which information is produced, distributed, and contested in contemporary societies, with growing consequences for organizations, social interactions, and democracy. Yet, management and organization scholars tend to treat social media platforms as contexts rather than focal ...
Mirko Benischke, Corinne Post
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Relationship Between Conspiracy Theory Beliefs and Adherence to Government Guidelines During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Perceived Control and Trust in Social Media and Traditional Sources of Information. [PDF]

Healthcare (Basel)
Epifanio MS, Spicuzza V, Riolo M, Cusumano E, Piombo MA, La Grutta S.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Who endorses conspiracy theories? A moderated mediation model of Chinese and international social media use, media skepticism, need for cognition, and COVID-19 conspiracy theory endorsement in China. [PDF]

Comput Human Behav, 2021
Su Y, Lee DKL, Xiao X, Li W, Shu W.
europepmc   +1 more source

Relative Autonomy beyond the State: Private Transnational Regulation and the Politics of Labour Governance in Bangladesh

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Private transnational governance institutions increasingly acquire regulatory authority in contexts of weak or inactive state regulation, yet their capacity to exercise it remains contested. We extend Poulantzas' concept of relative autonomy, understood as the capacity to act with organizational independence from specific fractions of capital ...
Mahreen Khan, Jimmy Donaghey, Juliane Reinecke   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Correlates of COVID-19 conspiracy theory beliefs in Japan: A cross-sectional study of 28,175 residents. [PDF]

PLoS One
Sato Y, Kawachi I, Saijo Y, Yoshioka E, Osaka K, Tabuchi T.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

COVID-19 and the 5G Conspiracy Theory: Social Network Analysis of Twitter Data. [PDF]

J Med Internet Res, 2020
Ahmed W, Vidal-Alaball J, Downing J, López Seguí F.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Leveraging artificial intelligence to identify the psychological factors associated with conspiracy theory beliefs online. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Kunst JR, Gundersen AB, Krysińska I, Piasecki J, Wójtowicz T, Rygula R, van der Linden S, Morzy M.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Five Epistemic Arguments for Workplace Democracy Over Workplace Republicanism

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article intervenes in the debate between workplace democracy and workplace republicanism by examining their relative capacities to protect workers' epistemic agency and epistemic capacities, an angle that remains underexplored in the workplace justice literature.
Chi Kwok
wiley   +1 more source