This article presents findings from a national-scale research project that worked with disadvantaged communities across Australia to examine digital inclusion in low-income families and the role of...

The datafication of research has immensely expanded the possibilities for creating more metadata regarding research practice and performance. This has supported the growth of research information p...

Generational differences in responses to disinformation have attracted considerable attention, yet are rarely comprehensively theorised and are often examined with the help of surveys or behavioura...

Advances in artificial intelligence have generated renewed interest in using computational systems to facilitate democratic deliberation at scale. While recent efforts, exemplified by the ‘Habermas...

This study examines how true versus false messages shape trust in cancer-vaccine information on social media, alongside skepticism and worry, and tests the moderating roles of source credibility an...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as the most prominent technological disruption in work and social life in recent years. But to what extent do men and women believe AI is biased and inclusi...

This paper investigates how two groups of activists – ‘professional’ (civil society members) and ‘independent’ activists (using primarily social media for activism) – construct the political power ...

This article analyses the interaction between broader political, economic and cultural changes and the local experiences of citizens using the Amazon Ring doorbell. The concept ‘luxury surveillance...

Disability-related new media practices have increasingly attracted scholarly attention. However, existing research often frames user agency in these practices through a binary lens of either ‘empow...

This study investigates how digital competencies and environmental awareness interact to shape eco-friendly digital practices, contributing to the field of digital sustainability. Drawing on a repr...

Despite growing concerns about the role of political elites in producing and amplifying conspiracy theories, little is known about which politicians engage in this behavior, how prevalent it is acr...

Drawing on 238 speeches delivered by European Commission (EC) presidents, vice-presidents, and commissioners (2016–mid-2024), this paper examines how the EC narrates ‘disinformation’. Using topic m...

This study critically examines the role of various misinformation perceptions in fostering cynicism, challenging the conventional exposure-effect model that posits direct causality between misinfor...

The digital revolution has reshaped activism over the last thirty years and yet we know little about how social movement groups weigh the benefits and risks of new digital technologies. With an inc...

Given growing concerns about TikTok/Douyin’s algorithmic distribution of harmful content, public debates have emerged worldwide about its regulation. Past research on public opinion of platform reg...

The climate crisis is simultaneously a crisis of the imagination, signaling a cultural failure to comprehend and contest unfolding ecological destruction. Conventional media representations of clim...

There are growing concerns about AI-generated image-based sexual abuse (AI-IBSA), also known as nonconsensual sexualized ′deepfakes.′ Empirical research on AI-IBSA, however, remains very limited. T...

Social scientists find that many young adults get their news and political information from algorithmically curated platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. Despite this important insight,...

While previous studies have examined online homogenous information experiences as theorized by various concepts (e.g., echo chambers and filter bubbles), we know less about how the general public m...

Over the past decades, social media has reshaped how individuals, especially younger generations, communicate, express identity, and engage with the world around them. In this context, our research...

Platform governance is increasingly shaped by regulatory mandates that embed cybersecurity principles into the design and operation of digital services. This study examines how the European Union’s...

The widespread adoption of Generative Artificial Intelligence Technology (GenAI) is prompting researchers to re-evaluate the relationship between technology and human creativity. While the pervadin...

The U.S. government’s January 2025 TikTok ban drove many American users to the Chinese social media RedNote, energizing the ‘TikTok Refugee’ trend. Unlike traditional, affordance-driven online migr...

Privacy is a critical concern in the AI era, yet its impact remains underexplored in public service delivery. This study develops a moderated mediation model, where privacy utility mediates the rel...

This study examines public perceptions of the risks associated with Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), focusing on its potential ‘epistemic power’ – i.e., its capacity to redefine knowledg...

Generative AI is reshaping how friendships are maintained, yet the implications of this technology for such social bonds in online contexts remain unclear. We conducted two 2 × 2 factorial between-...

This paper examines how content moderation operates as de facto labour management on digital platforms. Through a case study of webcam platforms, where the service provided and monetized constitute...

This paper examines false flag operations in cyberspace and their implications for attribution. While these operations are key to understanding cyber conflict, they are mostly understudied outside ...

Online dating has become a routine infrastructure of intimate life, yet its implications for social sorting remain contested. This study examines whether online dating is associated with gendered a...

Published in Information, Communication & Society (Vol. 29, No. 11, 2026)

With the growing digitization of communication, older adults are increasingly integrating social media and messenger apps into their daily information practices. This article presents a preregister...

Social media environments are increasingly exploited by manipulative actors through coordinated social media manipulation (CSMM) campaigns: the intentional and deceptive orchestration of social med...

This study investigates the emergence of social media experts as new entrepreneurial actors within platformized cultural production in Turkey, who monetize platform-specific knowledge through consu...

Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter (now ‘X’) raised concerns about its governance and functioning. Using this as a case study, we propose a framework to analyze the interplay of social identities, ...

For the past 30 years, the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP, or robots.txt) has functioned underneath the surface of the web as the most efficient and widely used mechanism stopping web crawlers inde...

Hostility is an important obstacle to constructive online political discourse. Combating online political hostility often involves mobilizing the behavior of bystanders. Bystanders can react active...

We apply framing theory to investigate how the news media framed the issue of abortion after the 2022 Dobbs decision. We conducted a rigorous content analysis of 1607 local news stories in states w...

This article discusses frictions related to a datacentre enterprise in a municipality in northern Sweden. These frictions were related to the eco-modernist underpinnings of the enterprise and at th...

Longitudinal research has documented an increase in news avoidance frequency in many countries. Following this line of research, a number of studies have examined the patterns and drivers of news a...

Understanding the mechanisms behind emerging adults’ (18-30) misinformation sharing motivations is essential in combating misinformation, yet such understanding remains limited on a global scale. T...

For a long time, social media recommender systems have been developed in the wild. Recommender systems promote, hide and distribute content and while doing this, shape online experiences and public...

Social correction is considered an effective strategy to combat health misinformation. While existing research has shown that perceived influence of health misinformation can stimulate individuals’...

This study investigates how tradition-laden religious institutions negotiate the legitimation of digital media by exploring the intersection of digital media and religious practice in Benedictine m...

Social media platforms have become central arenas for political communication, yet research has primarily focused on organic content rather than paid advertising. This study examines how Swedish po...