Pub Date : 2024-02-25DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2024.2316679
Nora Kirkizh, Roberto Ulloa, Sebastian Stier, Jürgen Pfeffer
Anecdotal evidence suggests that the surge of populism and subsequent political polarization might make voters’ political preferences more detectable from digital trace data. This potential scenari...
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Pub Date : 2024-02-20DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2024.2312883
Silvia Decadri, Fedra Negri
We investigate gender disparities in politics through an exploration of the Italian political Twitterverse. Using network analysis and structural topic models on a novel dataset of Italian politici...
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Pub Date : 2024-02-19DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2024.2317388
Xia Zheng, Yanqin Lu, Jae Kook Lee, Jihyang Choi
Drawing on the revised communication mediation model and the relative hostile media framework, this study examines the roles of political discussions in the relationship between social media news u...
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Pub Date : 2024-02-19DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2024.2319867
Mihee Kim
This study investigated how people’s perceptions of the fakeness of Facebook posts and their intentions to take corrective actions are affected by the sources of those posts and their preferences f...
{"title":"The role of sources of fake political news in corrective intentions on Facebook: investigating a moderated mediating model of perceived news fakeness and candidate preference in the 2022 Korean presidential election","authors":"Mihee Kim","doi":"10.1080/19331681.2024.2319867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2024.2319867","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated how people’s perceptions of the fakeness of Facebook posts and their intentions to take corrective actions are affected by the sources of those posts and their preferences f...","PeriodicalId":47047,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Technology & Politics","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139910510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-02-13DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2024.2318404
Catarina Pereira, Raquel da Silva, Catarina Rosa
The rise of political polarization within western societies has been portrayed by events such as the United States Capitol riot or the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union. In this context...
美国国会大厦骚乱或英国退出欧盟等事件都反映了西方社会政治两极分化的加剧。在这种背景下...
{"title":"How to measure political polarization in text-as-data? A scoping review of computational social science approaches","authors":"Catarina Pereira, Raquel da Silva, Catarina Rosa","doi":"10.1080/19331681.2024.2318404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2024.2318404","url":null,"abstract":"The rise of political polarization within western societies has been portrayed by events such as the United States Capitol riot or the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union. In this context...","PeriodicalId":47047,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Technology & Politics","volume":"92 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139762368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-02-02DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2024.2308886
Ofra Klein, Hans-Joerg Trenz, Nadine Hesse
Research on political conflict often overlooks the role of visual-based platforms like Instagram in expressing political discontent, focusing primarily on textual content from newspapers and social...
{"title":"Political conflict on Instagram during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe: challenges of a cross-country comparison of visual content","authors":"Ofra Klein, Hans-Joerg Trenz, Nadine Hesse","doi":"10.1080/19331681.2024.2308886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2024.2308886","url":null,"abstract":"Research on political conflict often overlooks the role of visual-based platforms like Instagram in expressing political discontent, focusing primarily on textual content from newspapers and social...","PeriodicalId":47047,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Technology & Politics","volume":"88 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139762422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-16DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2023.2300845
Julien Labarre
French news channel CNEWS is regularly compared to Fox News due to presumed ties with the far right, and for promoting conspiracy theories and partisan propaganda. Using data from the ReCitCom proj...
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This research revisits the communication mediation model to understand when citizens support AI policies. Using data from a national online survey (N = 1252), our research delineates the mechanism ...
{"title":"When citizens support AI policies: the moderating roles of AI efficacy on AI news, discussion, and literacy","authors":"Fanjue Liu, Heidi Makady, Seungahn Nah, Jasmine McNealy","doi":"10.1080/19331681.2023.2294363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2023.2294363","url":null,"abstract":"This research revisits the communication mediation model to understand when citizens support AI policies. Using data from a national online survey (N = 1252), our research delineates the mechanism ...","PeriodicalId":47047,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Technology & Politics","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139062912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2023.2293868
Michael Haman, Milan Školník
This note discusses the impact of changes made to Twitter after Elon Musk’s acquisition of the company, specifically focusing on the verification of politicians’ accounts. With Twitter serving as a...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2023.2257012
Karolina Koc-Michalska, Darren Lilleker, Christian Baden, Damian Guzek, Marton Bene, Larissa Doroshenko, Miloš Gregor, Marko Scoric
CEE countries faced significant political, economic, social, and technological transformations over the last four decades. Democratic processes, after relative stabilization, tremble again around p...
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