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Social determinants of content selection in the age of (mis)information

open access: yes, 2014
Despite the enthusiastic rhetoric about the so called \emph{collective intelligence}, conspiracy theories -- e.g. global warming induced by chemtrails or the link between vaccines and autism -- find on the Web a natural medium for their dissemination ...
A.D.I. Kramer   +25 more
core   +1 more source

Narrative Horizons: Deliberate Derangement in Oceanic Climate Fiction

open access: yesFuture Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Although we live in the Anthropocene—the geological age of humankind, wherein humans have measurably impacted the biosphere—we struggle to narrate the Anthropocene. In particular, we struggle to give narrative shape to its foremost feature: anthropogenic climate change.
Mark Celeste
wiley   +1 more source

Memes And Advertising [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This is a study on how the current trend of internet memes has come into play as a way of advertising. The study cover that of user-generated content as well as that of sponsored media in which the hopes is to go viral.
Dickerson, Freddie D
core   +1 more source

The chatbot's real self: On the archaeology of artificial personas Le vrai soi du chatbot: vers une archéologie des personnes artificielles

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract From the beginning of widespread public interactions with ChatGPT and other large language models, some users have seen the disfluencies of chatbots as opportunities for them to go on an archaeological search for an unfettered chatbot persona that they need to jailbreak. These are not claims of sentience, but rather of personhood.
Courtney Handman
wiley   +1 more source

INTERNET MEMES WITH ENGLISH IDIOMS

open access: yesВестник Тверского государственного университета. Серия: Филология, 2022
Статья предлагает структурно-семантический анализ интернет-мемов с английскими фразеологическими единицами. Интернет-мем понимается в данной статье как креолизованный текст, содержащий вербальные и невербальные компоненты. В результате дефразеологизации фразеологической единицы с последующим ее реструктурированием в рамках данных поликодовых единств ...
openaire   +1 more source

Traveling Trends: Social Butterflies or Frequent Fliers?

open access: yes, 2013
Trending topics are the online conversations that grab collective attention on social media. They are continually changing and often reflect exogenous events that happen in the real world.
Ferrara, Emilio   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Moving In and Out of Reading: Teens Talking About Books, Digital Games, Social Media and Fanfiction

open access: yesJournal of Adolescent &Adult Literacy, Volume 69, Issue 5, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines teens' recreational reading activities as they move between books and digital media. It uses the model of connected reading to understand connections between teen reading practices and digital pastimes. Using focus group data, we draw on participants' experiences with books, fan texts, video games, and social media and ...
Amy Schoonens, Michael Dezuanni
wiley   +1 more source

Internet Memes as “Tactical” Social Action: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis Approach

open access: yesInternational Journal of Communication, 2020
This article investigates the deployment of Internet memes in a 2018 boycott campaign that targeted three major corporate brands tightly associated with the dominant sphere of power in Morocco.
Mohamed Ben Moussa   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Internet Memes: una relación Visual contemporénea

open access: yesArte y Sociedad, 2019
El siguiente trabajo se propone pensar un tipo de imagen contemporánea: el meme. Como parte de nuestra economía visual actual, se da cuenta de su impacto y genealogía que se presenta no sólo como hilo histórico sino como necesaria para entender por qué los memes son tan eficaces y populares.
openaire   +3 more sources

Do Cascades Recur?

open access: yes, 2016
Cascades of information-sharing are a primary mechanism by which content reaches its audience on social media, and an active line of research has studied how such cascades, which form as content is reshared from person to person, develop and subside.
Adamic, Lada A   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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