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“You can explore it more online”: a qualitative study on Australian women’s use of online health and medical information

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background Previous research has demonstrated the importance of search engines, websites, online discussion groups and social media groups for women in developed countries looking for health and medical information, but few studies have focused on ...
Sarah Maslen, Deborah Lupton
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Apps as Artefacts: Towards a Critical Perspective on Mobile Health and Medical Apps

open access: yesSocieties, 2014
Although over 100,000 health and medical mobile apps have been placed on the market, few critical social analyses have been yet undertaken of the role of these apps in healthcare, preventive health and health promotion.
Deborah Lupton
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond Techno-Utopia: Critical Approaches to Digital Health Technologies

open access: yesSocieties, 2014
This editorial presents an overview of digital health technologies, discusses previous research and introduces the contributions to the special issue “Beyond Techno-Utopia: Critical Approaches to Digital Health Technologies”.
Deborah Lupton
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What's APPening to news? A mixed-method audience-centred study on mobile news consumption [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
News is increasingly being consumed on a multitude of media devices, including mobile devices. In recent years, mobile news consumption has permeated individuals’ news consumption repertoires.
Courtois, Cédric   +3 more
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New Media as Event

open access: yesSynthesis philosophica, 2017
The Event is a philosophical concept coming out of the Continental tradition (Heidegger, Deleuze, Badiou, Žižek), useful for designating historical situation in which a multiplicity suddenly acquires a critical mass. After tracing the concept’s genealogy in the aforemen­ tioned thinkers, we argue that the term is useful for thinking about the variety ...
Burnham, Clint   +1 more
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Predicting Factuality of Reporting and Bias of News Media Sources [PDF]

open access: yesConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2018
We present a study on predicting the factuality of reporting and bias of news media. While previous work has focused on studying the veracity of claims or documents, here we are interested in characterizing entire news media.
R. Baly   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Audience-Based Indicators for News Media Performance: A Conceptual Framework and Findings from Germany

open access: yesMedia and Communication, 2020
Many attempts to conceptualize and to assess the performance of media systems or single news media outlets focus on the “supply side” of public communication, operationalized as characteristics of the news content and the form of presentation.
Uwe Hasebrink, Sascha Hölig
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of Social Media News Overload on Social Media News Avoidance and Filtering: Moderating Effect of Media Literacy

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
In the present era of information technology, people tend to seek out news to enhance their current knowledge and awareness and to gain literacy. The reliance on seeking out news and relevant information has become very necessary to accomplish personal ...
Qiuxia Tian
doaj   +1 more source

Mediatisation, Marginalisation and Disruption in Australian Indigenous Affairs

open access: yesMedia and Communication, 2016
This article considers how changing media practices of minority groups and political and media elites impact on democratic participation in national debates. Taking as its case study the state-sponsored campaign to formally recognise Indigenous people in
Kerry McCallum   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

New media – new pleasures?

open access: yesInternational Journal of Cultural Studies, 2006
The promotional and academic discourse surrounding new media suggests that they offer more fun and more pleasure than existing or traditional media. However, academic work within media and cultural studies has failed to interrogate these claims empirically.
Kerr, Aphra   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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