Marko Škorić
Biographic Data
| ID | 142211 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marko Škorić |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marko |
| FAMILY NAME | Škorić |
| SIGNATURE | ŠKORIĆ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4019-2807 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Clicktivism vs. commitivism
The relationship between movement participation and subsequent vote intention is a central topic in political science. Empirical studies present an ambiguous pattern, with one showing a mobilization argument, while the others suggest movement will substitute formal voting and lead to disengagement. The rise of clicktivism has added further complexity to the debate. However, existing scholarship often treats movement repertoires from the modality …
Birds of a feather flock even closer together in the digital era
This study examines how state-facilitated digital ecosystem segregation—between China’s “walled garden” Internet and Hong Kong’s global digital sphere—shapes the integration trajectories of mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong. Based on interviews with 25 students who relocated between 1998 and 2024, we show that immersion in state-aligned platforms such as WeChat cultivates a self-sufficient digital enclave anchored in homophilous networks. Wh…
Spraying the walls, feeds and laws
This study examines alternative media (i.e., graffiti) use in contesting the public sphere in the context of the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests. Utilizing the observation method and a theoretical framework of (hybrid) mediation opportunity structure we demonstrate that the protesters have utilized graffiti and street art as the circuit for messages of political resistance in both the material and virtual world. Streets and walls were treated as an ex…
Digital Pathways to Inclusion
This study investigates how incidental exposure to political information on social media can lead to political tolerance toward minorities by facilitating exposure to pro-minority content on social media and perceived threat of minorities conditions this mechanism. Using survey data from a non-Western democracy, the study finds that exposure to incidental exposure to political information on social media can propel pro-minority content exposure o…
The Influence of Online Political Expression on Disagreement and Incivility
This study theorized that active political expression on social networking sites (SNS) facilitates political disagreement since it diversifies one’s communication network, which likely leads to political incivility. Additionally, individuals’ social identity might condition this indirect relationship. Relying on a two-wave panel survey in Hong Kong, this study found that political expression on SNS is significantly associated with political disag…
Disentangling the relation among trust, efficacy and privacy management
This study examines the effects of political/cultural beliefs and situational perceptions on public support for government surveillance amidst COVID-19, using a representative survey conducted in Hong Kong. Our results indicate that situational responses (i.e. privacy trust and self-efficacy) balance against each other in mediating the effects of political/cultural beliefs (i.e. political trust, political efficacy, democratic-individualism) and s…
Reducing the Use of Disposable Plastics through Public Engagement Campaigns
This study examines how different ways of presenting information about the ecological threats stemming from the use of disposable plastics may affect people's willingness to reduce their use. To test our hypotheses, we used a 2 × 3 × 2 between-subjects experimental design, utilizing a sample of 1001 Hong Kong residents. The independent variables tested included: (a) message frame (gain vs. loss), (b) modality (text vs. image vs. infographic), and…
Death of a child, birth of a guild
In this article, we examine how a loosely knit, mediated community in the massively multiplayer online game EverQuest II rapidly coalesced to carry out collective action in response to a request to help a terminally ill child. We examine the factors that motivated hundreds of people to donate their time, expertise, and in-game resources to people they had never met. These factors included specific affordances of the many technologies relied upon,…
Las implicaciones de ser asocial en las redes sociales
Los primeros estudios sobre redes sociales respaldaban visiones optimistas en relación con su impacto positivo en el desarrollo del capital social, y relacionaban su uso con la exposición a puntos de vista más diversos y a un mayor compromiso con la sociedad. Sin embargo, recientemente, los investigadores empezaron a analizar los comportamientos asociales que se pueden llevar a cabo en las redes sociales y a estudiar sus consecuencias sobre el de…
Selective Avoidance on Social Media
This study examines the phenomena of political unfriending and content removal on social media in three Western democracies—France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. We seek to understand the role of crosscutting discussion, confrontational discussion style, and ideological extremity in triggering unfriending and content removal on social media, while shedding light on cross-country differences. The findings show that selective avoidance…
Virgin Birth Controversy. Study in the Anthropology of Ignorance
Virgin birth controversy enjoys a privileged status in the history of anthropology and reflects the exceptional interest anthropology takes in "biological facts" of human procreation. In the widest sense, this controversy centers around procreative beliefs, or more precisely, the "discovery" of people who were considered to be ignorant of the facts of physiological paternity and the causal relationship between copulation and pregnancy (in humans)…
Rekonceptualizacija Freirevog Naslijeđa U Kontekstu Socijalnog Rada
Examining the roles of social media and alternative media in social movement participation
Habitat Selection and the Evolutionary Aesthetics of Landscape Preference
This paper analyses the processes of habitat selection and human landscape preferences from an evolutionary perspective, with the aim of demonstrating how humans aesthetically choose, assess and aspire to live in an environment in which our species and our ancestors evolved in during the pre-Neolithic period. We present the basics of evolutionary aesthetics, then analyse the process of habitat selection and the most influential evolutionary theor…
Publication and Citation Patterns in the Social Sciences and Humanities
From the perspective of non-Anglophone countries, accountability, liability, and capacity of scientific research is often related to the process of internationalization. The article explores the effects of this process on the example of publication and citation patterns of Serbian scholars. Results of the analysis are mostly in line with the common conceptions about the differences among scientific disciplines. Authors in social sciences and huma…
Small Talk Grooming
This article analyzes the biosocial origins of gossip by pointing to its significant social and evolutionary functions. Along with the problems of defining it, the article deals with gossip's bad reputation and analyzes sociocultural functions of gossip and small talk as mechanisms of social comparison, as well as means of transferring cultural norms, values, and rules. Furthermore, it offers a detailed analysis of gossip as an evolutionary pheno…
Goffman's predramaturgical publications and their intellectual context
Given the status of Erving Goffman in the social sciences, a lot has been written about him but his early and (especially) unpublished publications are not widely known, although they contain few original ideas that were never used in later part of his career and some that were elaborated in better known works. The paper discusses intellectual context, influences and phases of Goffman's sociology, especially predramaturgical phase – his unpublish…
Politics of memory, historical revisionism, and negationism in postsocialist Serbia
This paper explores the phenomenon of revisionism in historiography, while focusing in particular on illegitimate revisionism and negationism. It is indisputably true that historiography must be subject to constant revisions. Like all scientific theories, it needs to be characterized by a sort of ?conservative? openness towards new ideas; however, revisions and negations are often put forward without scientific grounding. They reject the well-est…
I Shield Myself From Thee
This study examines the phenomenon of politically motivated selective avoidance on Facebook in the context of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement protests in 2014. We conceptualize selective avoidance as individual choices that users make to shield themselves from undesirable dissonant views by removing unwanted information and breaking social ties that transmit such information. Given the political turmoil and high level of polarization during the p…
Social media and citizen engagement
This meta-analytic study reviews empirical research published from 2007 to 2013 with an aim of providing robust conclusions about the relationship between social media use and citizen engagement. It includes 22 studies that used self-reported measures of social media use and participation, with a total of 116 relationships/effects. The results suggest that social media use generally has a positive relationship with engagement and its three sub-ca…
Alfred Kroeber and the concept of the superorganic
Alfred Kroeber was a student of Franz Boas, and thus Boas’ influence is visible in some aspects of Kroeber’s relationship towards biology. However, in the theoretical sense, Kroeber’s biggest contribution is the re-formulation of Spencer’s concept of the superorganic which Kroeber used to analyze the notion of culture. The paper analyzes Kroeber’s version of the superorganic, the critique he received for it as well as the latter (supposed) change…
Social Media and Offline Political Participation
Numerous studies have examined the uses of social media for citizen engagement, concluding that they act as effective platforms for developing civic skills, promoting bridging social ties, engaging in political discussions, mobilizing the electorate, and organizing offline political activities (Macafee & De Simone, 2012; Skoric & Poor, 2013; Valenzuela, Park, & Kee, 2009; Vitak et al., 2011). Still, scholars have cautioned against concluding that…
Magic Social Numbers. On the Social Geometry of Human Groups
Anthropos , Seite 489 - 502
Facebook bullying
Stepping out of the Magic Circle
Massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMOs) are spaces of socialization and relationship formation and maintenance. This qualitative study seeks to understand how MMO players delineate the boundary between play and life when it comes to their game-originated romance. A typology of players was devised to understand players' constructions of boundaries, and players' strategies against perceived stigma when moving their relationship offli…
I Shield Myself From Thee
This study examines the phenomenon of politically motivated selective avoidance on Facebook in the context of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement protests in 2014. We conceptualize selective avoidance as individual choices that users make to shield themselves from undesirable dissonant views by removing unwanted information and breaking social ties that transmit such information. Given the political turmoil and high level of polarization during the p…
Internet Fantasy Violence
Research on violent video games suggests that play leads to aggressive behavior. A longitudinal study of an online violent video game with a control group tested for changes in aggressive cognitions and behaviors. The findings did not support the assertion that a violent game will cause substantial increases in real-world aggression. The findings are presented and discussed, along with their implications for research and policy. Keywords: Video G…
Bowling Online, Not Alone
Since gaining independence in 1965, the Singapore government has relentlessly pursued economic growth and prosperity, while at the same time exercising tight political controls, which has largely eroded traditional political participation among the citizens (George, 2003; Rodan, 1998). In the economic domain, Singapore’s performance has indeed been very impressive; the country was recently ranked as the second in the world regarding the Global Po…
Online Shaming in the Asian Context
Online shaming is a phenomenon where citizens engage in social policing by shaming transgressions via the Internet. It has been argued that the proliferation of new communication networks and digital recording devices could bring about a new paradigm for ensuring conformity to social norms through the self-regulation of society. Incorporating literature from criminology, law, psychology, sociology, and surveillance studies, this two-part explorat…
Social Media and Offline Political Participation
Numerous studies have examined the uses of social media for citizen engagement, concluding that they act as effective platforms for developing civic skills, promoting bridging social ties, engaging in political discussions, mobilizing the electorate, and organizing offline political activities (Macafee & De Simone, 2012; Skoric & Poor, 2013; Valenzuela, Park, & Kee, 2009; Vitak et al., 2011). Still, scholars have cautioned against concluding that…
The pseudo-events paradox
In 1961, Daniel Boorstin introduced the concept of ‘pseudo-events’, or false realities, which he said had been flooding the American press. Four decades later, testing his concept on the Philippine press, this study finds that his observation still holds true. This exploratory study, using content analysis of 2330 news articles and a survey of 100 journalists, also suggests the existence of the ‘pseudo-events paradox’. The study finds that while …
Death of a child, birth of a guild
In this article, we examine how a loosely knit, mediated community in the massively multiplayer online game EverQuest II rapidly coalesced to carry out collective action in response to a request to help a terminally ill child. We examine the factors that motivated hundreds of people to donate their time, expertise, and in-game resources to people they had never met. These factors included specific affordances of the many technologies relied upon,…
Selective Avoidance on Social Media
This study examines the phenomena of political unfriending and content removal on social media in three Western democracies—France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. We seek to understand the role of crosscutting discussion, confrontational discussion style, and ideological extremity in triggering unfriending and content removal on social media, while shedding light on cross-country differences. The findings show that selective avoidance…
Small Talk Grooming
This article analyzes the biosocial origins of gossip by pointing to its significant social and evolutionary functions. Along with the problems of defining it, the article deals with gossip's bad reputation and analyzes sociocultural functions of gossip and small talk as mechanisms of social comparison, as well as means of transferring cultural norms, values, and rules. Furthermore, it offers a detailed analysis of gossip as an evolutionary pheno…
Politics of memory, historical revisionism, and negationism in postsocialist Serbia
This paper explores the phenomenon of revisionism in historiography, while focusing in particular on illegitimate revisionism and negationism. It is indisputably true that historiography must be subject to constant revisions. Like all scientific theories, it needs to be characterized by a sort of ?conservative? openness towards new ideas; however, revisions and negations are often put forward without scientific grounding. They reject the well-est…
Magic Social Numbers. On the Social Geometry of Human Groups
Anthropos , Seite 489 - 502
Problematic Instant Messaging Use
This study is an empirical investigation of problematic instant messaging (IM) use among university students in Singapore. It adapts Caplan's (2005) theoretical framework of problematic Internet use (PIU) to the context of problematic IM use by linking pre-existing human dispositions to cognitive-behavioral symptoms and negative outcomes of improper IM use. Four new factors—oral communication apprehension, polychronicity, perceived inconvenience …
Internet Fantasy Violence
Research on violent video games suggests that play leads to aggressive behavior. A longitudinal study of an online violent video game with a control group tested for changes in aggressive cognitions and behaviors. The findings did not support the assertion that a violent game will cause substantial increases in real-world aggression. The findings are presented and discussed, along with their implications for research and policy. Keywords: Video G…
Problematic Instant Messaging Use
This study is an empirical investigation of problematic instant messaging (IM) use among university students in Singapore. It adapts Caplan's (2005) theoretical framework of problematic Internet use (PIU) to the context of problematic IM use by linking pre-existing human dispositions to cognitive-behavioral symptoms and negative outcomes of improper IM use. Four new factors—oral communication apprehension, polychronicity, perceived inconvenience …
Bowling Online, Not Alone
Since gaining independence in 1965, the Singapore government has relentlessly pursued economic growth and prosperity, while at the same time exercising tight political controls, which has largely eroded traditional political participation among the citizens (George, 2003; Rodan, 1998). In the economic domain, Singapore’s performance has indeed been very impressive; the country was recently ranked as the second in the world regarding the Global Po…
Online Shaming in the Asian Context
Online shaming is a phenomenon where citizens engage in social policing by shaming transgressions via the Internet. It has been argued that the proliferation of new communication networks and digital recording devices could bring about a new paradigm for ensuring conformity to social norms through the self-regulation of society. Incorporating literature from criminology, law, psychology, sociology, and surveillance studies, this two-part explorat…
The pseudo-events paradox
In 1961, Daniel Boorstin introduced the concept of ‘pseudo-events’, or false realities, which he said had been flooding the American press. Four decades later, testing his concept on the Philippine press, this study finds that his observation still holds true. This exploratory study, using content analysis of 2330 news articles and a survey of 100 journalists, also suggests the existence of the ‘pseudo-events paradox’. The study finds that while …
Facebook bullying
Stepping out of the Magic Circle
Massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMOs) are spaces of socialization and relationship formation and maintenance. This qualitative study seeks to understand how MMO players delineate the boundary between play and life when it comes to their game-originated romance. A typology of players was devised to understand players' constructions of boundaries, and players' strategies against perceived stigma when moving their relationship offli…
Social Media and Offline Political Participation
Numerous studies have examined the uses of social media for citizen engagement, concluding that they act as effective platforms for developing civic skills, promoting bridging social ties, engaging in political discussions, mobilizing the electorate, and organizing offline political activities (Macafee & De Simone, 2012; Skoric & Poor, 2013; Valenzuela, Park, & Kee, 2009; Vitak et al., 2011). Still, scholars have cautioned against concluding that…
Magic Social Numbers. On the Social Geometry of Human Groups
Anthropos , Seite 489 - 502
Social media and citizen engagement
This meta-analytic study reviews empirical research published from 2007 to 2013 with an aim of providing robust conclusions about the relationship between social media use and citizen engagement. It includes 22 studies that used self-reported measures of social media use and participation, with a total of 116 relationships/effects. The results suggest that social media use generally has a positive relationship with engagement and its three sub-ca…
Alfred Kroeber and the concept of the superorganic
Alfred Kroeber was a student of Franz Boas, and thus Boas’ influence is visible in some aspects of Kroeber’s relationship towards biology. However, in the theoretical sense, Kroeber’s biggest contribution is the re-formulation of Spencer’s concept of the superorganic which Kroeber used to analyze the notion of culture. The paper analyzes Kroeber’s version of the superorganic, the critique he received for it as well as the latter (supposed) change…
Goffman's predramaturgical publications and their intellectual context
Given the status of Erving Goffman in the social sciences, a lot has been written about him but his early and (especially) unpublished publications are not widely known, although they contain few original ideas that were never used in later part of his career and some that were elaborated in better known works. The paper discusses intellectual context, influences and phases of Goffman's sociology, especially predramaturgical phase – his unpublish…
Politics of memory, historical revisionism, and negationism in postsocialist Serbia
This paper explores the phenomenon of revisionism in historiography, while focusing in particular on illegitimate revisionism and negationism. It is indisputably true that historiography must be subject to constant revisions. Like all scientific theories, it needs to be characterized by a sort of ?conservative? openness towards new ideas; however, revisions and negations are often put forward without scientific grounding. They reject the well-est…
I Shield Myself From Thee
This study examines the phenomenon of politically motivated selective avoidance on Facebook in the context of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement protests in 2014. We conceptualize selective avoidance as individual choices that users make to shield themselves from undesirable dissonant views by removing unwanted information and breaking social ties that transmit such information. Given the political turmoil and high level of polarization during the p…
Publication and Citation Patterns in the Social Sciences and Humanities
From the perspective of non-Anglophone countries, accountability, liability, and capacity of scientific research is often related to the process of internationalization. The article explores the effects of this process on the example of publication and citation patterns of Serbian scholars. Results of the analysis are mostly in line with the common conceptions about the differences among scientific disciplines. Authors in social sciences and huma…
Small Talk Grooming
This article analyzes the biosocial origins of gossip by pointing to its significant social and evolutionary functions. Along with the problems of defining it, the article deals with gossip's bad reputation and analyzes sociocultural functions of gossip and small talk as mechanisms of social comparison, as well as means of transferring cultural norms, values, and rules. Furthermore, it offers a detailed analysis of gossip as an evolutionary pheno…
Rekonceptualizacija Freirevog Naslijeđa U Kontekstu Socijalnog Rada
Examining the roles of social media and alternative media in social movement participation
Habitat Selection and the Evolutionary Aesthetics of Landscape Preference
This paper analyses the processes of habitat selection and human landscape preferences from an evolutionary perspective, with the aim of demonstrating how humans aesthetically choose, assess and aspire to live in an environment in which our species and our ancestors evolved in during the pre-Neolithic period. We present the basics of evolutionary aesthetics, then analyse the process of habitat selection and the most influential evolutionary theor…
Selective Avoidance on Social Media
This study examines the phenomena of political unfriending and content removal on social media in three Western democracies—France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. We seek to understand the role of crosscutting discussion, confrontational discussion style, and ideological extremity in triggering unfriending and content removal on social media, while shedding light on cross-country differences. The findings show that selective avoidance…
Virgin Birth Controversy. Study in the Anthropology of Ignorance
Virgin birth controversy enjoys a privileged status in the history of anthropology and reflects the exceptional interest anthropology takes in "biological facts" of human procreation. In the widest sense, this controversy centers around procreative beliefs, or more precisely, the "discovery" of people who were considered to be ignorant of the facts of physiological paternity and the causal relationship between copulation and pregnancy (in humans)…
Reducing the Use of Disposable Plastics through Public Engagement Campaigns
This study examines how different ways of presenting information about the ecological threats stemming from the use of disposable plastics may affect people's willingness to reduce their use. To test our hypotheses, we used a 2 × 3 × 2 between-subjects experimental design, utilizing a sample of 1001 Hong Kong residents. The independent variables tested included: (a) message frame (gain vs. loss), (b) modality (text vs. image vs. infographic), and…
Death of a child, birth of a guild
In this article, we examine how a loosely knit, mediated community in the massively multiplayer online game EverQuest II rapidly coalesced to carry out collective action in response to a request to help a terminally ill child. We examine the factors that motivated hundreds of people to donate their time, expertise, and in-game resources to people they had never met. These factors included specific affordances of the many technologies relied upon,…
Las implicaciones de ser asocial en las redes sociales
Los primeros estudios sobre redes sociales respaldaban visiones optimistas en relación con su impacto positivo en el desarrollo del capital social, y relacionaban su uso con la exposición a puntos de vista más diversos y a un mayor compromiso con la sociedad. Sin embargo, recientemente, los investigadores empezaron a analizar los comportamientos asociales que se pueden llevar a cabo en las redes sociales y a estudiar sus consecuencias sobre el de…
Digital Pathways to Inclusion
This study investigates how incidental exposure to political information on social media can lead to political tolerance toward minorities by facilitating exposure to pro-minority content on social media and perceived threat of minorities conditions this mechanism. Using survey data from a non-Western democracy, the study finds that exposure to incidental exposure to political information on social media can propel pro-minority content exposure o…
Sociology (22 works) · Political science (16 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Politics (13 works) · Social Media and Politics (12 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works)