Jing Zeng
Biographic Data
| ID | 3979283 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jing Zeng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jing |
| FAMILY NAME | Zeng |
| SIGNATURE | ZENG J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5970-7172 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 72 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 180 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 72 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Demystifying big data in China: Infrastructure, labour and social change
To date, much of the discussion of big data in China remains caught between fears of authoritarian threats and dreams of developmental alternatives. Such mythifications reduce China's techno-development to a monolithic, state-led master plan, and conceal the labour, frictions and relations of power these data infrastructures depend on. Drawing on infrastructure studies, this Special Theme approaches data infrastructures as relational, contingent …
Increased 30‐s Arm Curl Frequency Can Reduce the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Older Adults: A Cohort Study From Wuhan, Central China
Cost-effectiveness analysis based on two models of sacituzumab tirumotecan versus platinum-based chemotherapy as second-line treatment in EGFR-mutant non-small-cell lung cancer
Background: For patients with advanced EGFR-mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who progress after first-line therapy, effective subsequent options are urgently needed. From the perspective of China's healthcare system, this study evaluated the cost-effectiveness of sacituzumab tirumotecan (sac-TMT) versus conventional platinum-based chemotherapy, using both a partitioned survival model (PSM) and a Markov model. Methods: Clinical efficacy a…
Refining the Interaction Between Social Norms and Uncertainty About Risk Perceptions in Health and Environmental Behaviors– A Cross-Cultural Replication and Extension
Social norms play a crucial role in shaping risk-mitigating behaviors, prompting extensive research to advance theory, and inform practices. However, until recently, limited attention has been given to how individuals’ (meta)cognitive appraisals of risks may interact with social norms to affect risk-mitigating behaviors. Expanding previous work, this study employs a cross-sectional survey (N = 1,249) to (1) further differentiates risk perceptions…
Broadband infrastructure development and illicit cigarette trade
Governance of discriminatory content in conversational AIs: A cross-platform and cross-cultural analysis
As the widespread adoption of conversational artificial intelligence (AI) systems has raised concerns about social bias, especially towards vulnerable groups, this study explores how these systems respond to and regulate discriminatory content. Through a cross-lingual, cross-platform comparative analysis, this study systematically examines six leading conversational AI systems: ChatGPT, Gemini, Llama, Ernie Bot, ChatGLM, and Tongyi. Using a mixed…
Studying the discursive order of artificial intelligence: Cross-national media coverage in China, Germany, and the US (2012–2024)
As a transformative force, artificial intelligence (AI) has become central to national interests, international prestige, and geopolitical strategy, sparking a global competition for leadership as countries vie for economic and political influence. This competition also unfolds discursively, as nations and sectors seek to shape the public debate about the economic, political, and societal implications of AI. Despite this, scholarship remains larg…
Personalized Persuasion Through Conversational AI: Can DeepSeek Change Perceptions of Genetically Modified Foods in China
Conversational AI has become an influential intermediary in public communication. Emerging research on conversational AI highlights its potential to correct misconceptions and influence attitudes across domains. This study investigates the persuasive effects of personalized conversational AI, focusing on genetically modified foods in China. Employing a between-subjects factorial design, 813 participants engaged in dialogues with a DeepSeek-based …
HPV vaccination willingness and its determinants among male university students post-approval of male-specific HPV vaccines in China: A large-scale cross-sectional study
Given limited prior studies on Chinese male university students’ human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination willingness and SARS-CoV-2 vaccination shaping their relevant understanding/awareness, we conducted a large-scale cross-sectional study to explore their HPV-related willingness post male-approved HPV vaccines and key determinants of vaccination decisions. The cross-sectional study used convenience sampling to conduct a questionnaire online surv…
Longitudinal Associations Between Family Socioeconomic Status and Adolescent Depressive Symptom Trajectories in China: A Chain Multiple Mediation Model
Although family socioeconomic status (SES) has been widely associated with adolescent depressive symptoms, less is known about how multidimensional SES shapes depressive symptom trajectories through family and individual mechanisms. Guided by the Family Stress Model, this study examined the associations between family SES and adolescents’ depressive symptom trajectories and tested the mediating roles of maternal mental health, parenting practices…
We Follow the Disinformation: Conceptualizing and Analyzing Fact-Checking Cultures Across Countries
Democratic societies inherently depend on an informed citizenry. By shaping citizens’ voting behavior, fostering political cynicism, and reducing trust in institutions, misinformation can pose significant challenges to individuals and societies. Against this backdrop, fact-checking initiatives aimed at verifying the accuracy of publicly disseminated (mis)information have flourished worldwide. However, existing research is disproportionately orien…
Epidemiological characteristics of human psittacosis in Guangdong Province, China, 2019–2024
Background Psittacosis is a non-statutory infectious disease and receives relatively low attention in China. Since 2019, the incidence of psittacosis in Guangdong Province has been continuously increasing. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the epidemiological characteristics, providing a basis for optimizing psittacosis prevention and control. Methods This study included psittacosis cases reported in Guangdong Province from 2019 to 2024. D…
Ai Industry Expectations and Underperforming Imaginaries
The panel takes up AoIR’s theme of how industry pre-mediates the future of internet technology and its effects and inquiries into alternatives. Utilising ideas from the study of sociotechnical imaginaries, it aims to locate, map, and critically examine AI imaginaries together with counter-imaginaries that engage with and intervene in those of the AI industry. First, it maps the discursive landscape of Big Tech ‘AI talk’ as a means to study ‘new m…
Latent profile analysis of depressive symptoms in older patients with chronic diseases and their relationship with social support study
Older people constitute a significant group of chronic disease patients. Chronic diseases place a significant financial burden on patients and cause both material and psychological stress. This stress tends to induce frequent depressive moods, which negatively affect the patient's physical and mental health. Although there is a large number of studies that have explored depressive problems, chronic illness, and social support among older people, …
Huaganjian decoction ameliorates metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease through liver-gut crosstalk
Parental migration patterns and children depression in China's ethnic minority rural areas: A latent profile analysis
Negotiating digital visibility in Asia: Rethinking conceptual frameworks through (g)local communities and practices
This special issue explores the complex dynamics of digital visibility negotiation in Asian contexts. Emerging scholarship on this topic reveals how users strategically negotiate their visibility online. However, we still need to broaden the scope of our knowledge, especially outside Western contexts, in order to advance our theoretical understanding of such negotiations. Asian societies and communities, with their distinctive platform political …
Negotiating issue visibility in the diaspora: A study of political discussion within Jianzhong Quan on X , 2014-2023
Despite the growing significance of the Chinese digital diaspora, large-scale empirical research on its communication patterns on digital platforms remains scarce. This study presents the first large-scale empirical analysis of Jianzhong Quan (简中圈), a key Chinese digital diasporic community on X (formerly Twitter). By examining its temporal and thematic patterns as well as group composition, this research provides valuable insights into how diasp…
Sociotechnical imaginaries and public communication: Analytical framework and empirical illustration using the case of artificial intelligence
The concept of sociotechnical imaginaries (SIs) has been widely used and proven fruitful to understand diverging trajectories of technologies. While scholars have acknowledged the multi-layered materialisation of SIs and highlighted the importance of the communicative layer therein, this aspect has remained under-conceptualised. Therefore, we propose an analytical framework to better understand Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Public Communication (…
Using a Leroux-prior-based conditional autoregression-based strategy to map the short-term association between temperature and bacillary dysentery and its attributable burden in China
Background: In China, bacillary dysentery (BD) is the third most frequently reported infectious disease, with the greatest annual incidence rate of 38.03 cases per 10,000 person-years. It is well acknowledged that temperature is associated with BD and the previous studies of temperature-BD association in different provinces of China present a considerable heterogeneity, which may lead to an inaccurate estimation for a region-specific association …
HPV genotypes in invasive cervical cancer: Prevalence, risk attribution, and optimized vaccine strategies in western China
Background: Understanding the HPV genotype distribution in invasive cervical cancer (ICC) is essential for vaccine optimization. This study presents a comprehensive analysis of HPV genotypes in ICC tissues from patients in western China, with the aim of informing regional vaccine policy and prevention strategies. Methods: DNA was extracted from 1,908 paraffin-embedded ICC samples, and 23 HPV genotypes were detected via PCR and reverse dot hybridi…
Social transition, socioeconomic status and self-rated health in China: Evidence from a national cross-sectional survey (CGSS)
Background: Social transition is one of the multi-level mechanisms that influence health disparities. However, it has received less attention as one of the non-traditional social determinants of health. A few studies have examined China's social transition and its impact on health inequality in self-rated health (SRH). Therefore, this study explores the impact of China's market-oriented reforms-social transition and socioeconomic status (SES)-on …
Efficient and Verifiable Range Query Scheme for Encrypted Geographical Information in Untrusted Cloud Environments
With the rapid development of geo-positioning technologies, location-based services have become increasingly widespread. In the field of location-based services, range queries on geographical data have emerged as an important research topic, attracting significant attention from academia and industry. In many applications, data owners choose to outsource their geographical data and range query tasks to cloud servers to alleviate the burden of loc…
Mental health effects of government transfer payments in urban China—An empirical study based on CFPS panel data
BACKGROUND: Government transfer payments play a crucial role in redistributing wealth and alleviating relative poverty. However, the mental health effects of government transfers remain to be explored. This study aims to explore the internal mechanisms of the mental health effects of government transfer payments by examining individuals' subjective evaluations and attitudes. METHODS: Based on panel data from the 2016 and 2018 China Family Panel S…
Gynura divaricata (L.) DC. promotes diabetic wound healing by activating Nrf2 signaling in diabetic rats
The co-evolution of two Chinese mobile short video apps: Parallel platformization of Douyin and TikTok
TikTok is the international twin of China’s mobile short video app, Douyin, and one of the fastest growing short video platforms in the world. Owned by Chinese tech giant, ByteDance, TikTok and Douyin share many similarities in terms of appearance, functionality, and platform affordances; however, they exist in radically different markets and are governed by radically different forces. Unlike other popular mobile media platforms in China and inte…
Showing They Care (Or Don't): Affective Publics and Ambivalent Climate Activism on TikTok
The microvideo platform TikTok has emerged as a popular hub for self-expression and social activism, particularly for youth, but use of the platform's affective affordances to spread awareness of important issues has not been adequately studied. Through an exploratory multimodal discourse analysis of a sample of popular climate change-hashtagged TikTok videos, we examine how affordances of visibility, editability, and association facilitate the f…
Conspiracy theories in online environments: An interdisciplinary literature review and agenda for future research
Research on conspiracy theories in digital media has grown considerably in recent years. As a result, the field of research has become more multidisciplinary and diverse. To bridge disciplinary boundaries, identify foci of analysis and research gaps, this study provides an interdisciplinary systematic literature review (2007–2020), analyzing current research on conspiracy theorizing online, both quantitatively and qualitatively. Findings show tha…
MeToo as Connective Action: A Study of the Anti-Sexual Violence and Anti-Sexual Harassment Campaign on Chinese Social Media in 2018
In January, 2018, the global anti-sexual violence and anti-sexual harassment movement – popularly known as #MeToo – had its Chinese nascence. This study drew upon the theory of connective actions to investigate how digital technologies shift the way in which feminist activism takes place. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses were employed to systematically analyse over 36,000 online articles related to the campaign. The study identified 48 …
Feeling Asian Together: Coping With #Covidracism on Subtle Asian Traits
Since the onset of COVID-19, incidents of racism and xenophobia have been occurring globally, especially toward people of East Asian appearance and descent. In response, this article investigates how an online Asian community has utilized social media to engage in cathartic expressions, mutual care, and discursive activism amid the rise of anti-Asian racism and xenophobia during COVID-19. Specifically, we focus on the 1.7-million-strong Facebook …
Reproducible Extraction of Cross-lingual Topics (rectr)
With global media content databases and online content being available, analyzing topical structures in different languages simultaneously has become an urgent computational task. Some previous studies have analyzed topics in a multilingual corpus by translating all items into a single language using a machine translation service, such as Google Translate. We argue that this method is not reproducible in the long run and proposes a new method – R…
We Follow the Disinformation: Conceptualizing and Analyzing Fact-Checking Cultures Across Countries
Democratic societies inherently depend on an informed citizenry. By shaping citizens’ voting behavior, fostering political cynicism, and reducing trust in institutions, misinformation can pose significant challenges to individuals and societies. Against this backdrop, fact-checking initiatives aimed at verifying the accuracy of publicly disseminated (mis)information have flourished worldwide. However, existing research is disproportionately orien…
Defining and Measuring Scientific Misinformation
We define scientific misinformation as publicly available information that is misleading or deceptive relative to the best available scientific evidence and that runs contrary to statements by actors or institutions who adhere to scientific principles. Scientific misinformation violates the supposition that claims should be based on scientific evidence and relevant expertise. As such, misinformation is observable and measurable, but research on s…
Understanding climate-related visual storytelling on TikTok: A cross-national multimodal analysis
This cross-cultural study investigates the prevalence and impact of climate-related campaigns on TikTok, with a specific focus on climate-related visual storytelling in Indonesia, Japan, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Computational methods are employed in the study to analyse a dataset of 7,564 videos, providing insights into prominent visual characteristics and regional variations. The findings un…
From 'Nasa Lies' to 'Reptilian Eyes: Mapping Communication About 10 Conspiracy Theories, Their Communities, and Main Propagators on Twitter
In recent years, conspiracy theories have pervaded mainstream discourse. Social media, in particular, reinforce their visibility and propagation. However, most prior studies on the dissemination of conspiracy theories in digital environments have focused on individual cases or conspiracy theories as a generic phenomenon. Our research addresses this gap by comparing the 10 most prominent conspiracy theories on Twitter, the communities supporting t…
Envisioning a More Inclusive Future for Digital Journalism: A Diversity Audit of Journalism Studies (2013–2021)
Recent years have seen an increasing amount of self-reflective discussion among media and communication scholars, about the hegemonic structures and inclusive participation within the field. In the scholarly community of journalism studies, similar reflections have emerged in recent years. Digital Journalism has also been actively pursuing a diverse and equitable scholarship in its journal. As part of the 10th anniversary issue of Digital Journal…
Negotiating issue visibility in the diaspora: A study of political discussion within Jianzhong Quan on X , 2014-2023
Despite the growing significance of the Chinese digital diaspora, large-scale empirical research on its communication patterns on digital platforms remains scarce. This study presents the first large-scale empirical analysis of Jianzhong Quan (简中圈), a key Chinese digital diasporic community on X (formerly Twitter). By examining its temporal and thematic patterns as well as group composition, this research provides valuable insights into how diasp…
Diasporic citizen journalism: Exploring the discussion on the 2022 blank paper protests in the Chinese twitter community
Departing from the conventional nation-state framework, this paper explores citizen journalism from a translocal and transnational perspective. Focusing on Chinese diasporic communities on Twitter, the study presents an explorative inquiry into the phenomenon of diasporic citizen journalism . Through an empirical case study of the 2022 Blank Paper Protests (BPP) in China, the research reveals the pivotal role the Chinese Twitter-sphere played as …
Residents’ behavioural intentions to resist the nuclear power plants in the vicinity: An application of the protective action decision model
Nuclear power is growing rapidly in China. The ultimate goal of developing nuclear power is to mitigate the energy crisis, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and ensure sustainable economic development. However, the ‘not-in-my-backyard’ (NIMBY) attitude may influence the implementation of nuclear power projects. This study explores the determinants of behavioural intentions to resist nuclear power plants (NPPs) based on the protective action decisi…
Adolescent addictive internet use and drug abuse in Wuhan, China
Background: Drug use (DU) and addictive internet use (AIU) are two increasing risk behaviors among youth in China. However, little information is available on the relationship between addictive internet use and DU. Therefore, we investigate the role of AIU on DU behavior and its impact on the variables such as pro-drug attitude (PDA), anti-drug attitude (ADA), social norm of drugs and intentions on DU
Thyroid volume, goiter prevalence, and selenium levels in an iodine-sufficient area: A cross-sectional study
In our study population, serum selenium was neither associated with thyroid volume nor with goiter in an iodine-sufficient area. More studies should be conducted by following non-goitrous persons over time and monitoring their selenium status
Heat or Cold: Which One Exerts Greater Deleterious Effects on Health in a Basin Climate City? Impact of Ambient Temperature on Mortality in Chengdu, China
Background : Although studies from many countries have estimated the impact of ambient temperature on mortality, few have compared the relative impacts of heat and cold on health, especially in basin climate cities. We aimed to quantify the impact of ambient temperature on mortality, and to compare the contributions of heat and cold in a large basin climate city, i.e., Chengdu (Sichuan Province, China); Methods : We estimated the temperature-mort…
The Association of Hypertriglyceridemic Waist Phenotype with Chronic Kidney Disease and Its Sex Difference: A Cross-Sectional Study in an Urban Chinese Elderly Population
Background : The primary objective of this study was to explore the association of hypertriglyceridemic waist (HTGW) phenotype with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and its sex difference in an urban Chinese elderly population. Methods : In a cross-sectional study, a total of 2102 participants aged 60-95 years were recruited and classified into four phenotypes: normal waist-normal triglyceride (NWNT), normal waist-elevated triglycerides (NWET), eleva…
Awareness, treatment and control of type 2 diabetes among Chinese elderly and its changing trend for past decade
The prevalence and awareness of diabetes stayed high for the past decade. The treatment increased 18.3% while the control rate decreased among community elderly for the past 10 years. It's urgent to carry out effective measures to raise awareness, treatment, and control rate of diabetes in order to avoid growing disease burden in China
Residents’ behavioural intentions to resist the nuclear power plants in the vicinity: An application of the protective action decision model
Nuclear power is growing rapidly in China. The ultimate goal of developing nuclear power is to mitigate the energy crisis, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and ensure sustainable economic development. However, the ‘not-in-my-backyard’ (NIMBY) attitude may influence the implementation of nuclear power projects. This study explores the determinants of behavioural intentions to resist nuclear power plants (NPPs) based on the protective action decisi…
Is citizen journalism better than professional journalism for fact-checking rumours in China? How Weibo users verified information following the 2015 Tianjin blasts
This article investigates how citizens contribute to rumour verification on social media in China, drawing on a case study of Weibo communication about the 2015 Tianjin blasts. Three aspects of citizen engagement in verifying rumours via Weibo are examined: (1) how they directly debunked rumours related to the blasts, (2) how they verified official rumour messages and (3) how they used Weibo’s community verification function to collectively ident…
Stabilities of soil organic carbon and carbon cycling genes are higher in natural secondary forests than in artificial plantations in southern China
Our understanding of how reforestation affects microbial carbon cycling genes remains limited, restricting our ability to evaluate reforestation methods. We hypothesized that natural reforestation produces soil organic carbon (SOC) with significantly more complex chemical composition and more diverse carbon cycling genes than artificial restoration. The SOC fractions and carbon cycling (primarily fixation and degradation) genes present in natural…
Using Machine Learning to Learn Machines: A Cross-Cultural Study of Users’ Responses to Machine-Generated Artworks
Drawing from prior literature on machine-generated news, this study examines machine-generated artworks in a cross-cultural context. It combines machine learning approaches with online experiments and investigates how different genres of artworks and different authorship cues influence participants’ open-ended responses to machine-generated works. Results suggest that while genres and cultures affected participants’ discussion topics and word use…
The co-evolution of two Chinese mobile short video apps: Parallel platformization of Douyin and TikTok
TikTok is the international twin of China’s mobile short video app, Douyin, and one of the fastest growing short video platforms in the world. Owned by Chinese tech giant, ByteDance, TikTok and Douyin share many similarities in terms of appearance, functionality, and platform affordances; however, they exist in radically different markets and are governed by radically different forces. Unlike other popular mobile media platforms in China and inte…
Reproducible Extraction of Cross-lingual Topics (rectr)
With global media content databases and online content being available, analyzing topical structures in different languages simultaneously has become an urgent computational task. Some previous studies have analyzed topics in a multilingual corpus by translating all items into a single language using a machine translation service, such as Google Translate. We argue that this method is not reproducible in the long run and proposes a new method – R…
MeToo as Connective Action: A Study of the Anti-Sexual Violence and Anti-Sexual Harassment Campaign on Chinese Social Media in 2018
In January, 2018, the global anti-sexual violence and anti-sexual harassment movement – popularly known as #MeToo – had its Chinese nascence. This study drew upon the theory of connective actions to investigate how digital technologies shift the way in which feminist activism takes place. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses were employed to systematically analyse over 36,000 online articles related to the campaign. The study identified 48 …
Feeling Asian Together: Coping With #Covidracism on Subtle Asian Traits
Since the onset of COVID-19, incidents of racism and xenophobia have been occurring globally, especially toward people of East Asian appearance and descent. In response, this article investigates how an online Asian community has utilized social media to engage in cathartic expressions, mutual care, and discursive activism amid the rise of anti-Asian racism and xenophobia during COVID-19. Specifically, we focus on the 1.7-million-strong Facebook …
Conceptualizing “Dark Platforms”. Covid-19-Related Conspiracy Theories on 8kun and Gab
This study investigates how COVID-19-related content, especially conspiracy theories, is communicated on “dark platforms” — digital platforms that are less regulated and moderated, hence can be used for hosting content and content creators that may not be tolerated by their more mainstream counterparts. The objective of this study is two-fold: First, it introduces the concept of dark platforms, which differ from their mainstream counterparts in t…
Platform Specificities: The Platform Books Panel
Social media platforms shape our lives on micro, meso and macro levels. They have transformed our everyday practices as individuals, or social practices as small and large groups, and have multiple, entangled impacts on rituals of democracy and cultural (re)production, organization of labor and industry. This panel brings together five papers, each by authors of recently published or forthcoming platform books. Together, the papers offer an analy…
PositiveEnergy Douyin: Constructing “playful patriotism” in a Chinese short-video application
In Chinese political discourse, “positive energy” (zheng nengliang) is a popular expression that has embodied mainstream political ideology in China since 2012. This term has also become prominent on Douyin, a prominent Chinese short-video platform. By June 2018, over 500 Chinese governmental accounts on Douyin had promoted positive energy in videos, and the content was viewed over 1.6 billion times. Douyin even created a separate trending sectio…
‘#OkBoomer, time to meet the Zoomers’: Studying the memefication of intergenerational politics on TikTok
TikTok, a short video platform featuring content between 15 and 60 seconds long, has become a popular and rapidly growing social media application around the world. As a platform catering for light entertainment, TikTok champions virality and encourages memetic remixes. Meme videos, mostly featuring lip-syncs, dance routines, and skits, have become one of the defining features of the platform. These seemingly trivial videos have been utilised by …
Prevalence of mental health problems and associated factors among front-line public health workers during the Covid-19 pandemic in China: An effort–reward imbalance model-informed study
This study confirmed the harmful effects of effort and over-commitment on mental health among public health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Such effects could be alleviated through an appropriate reward system, especially the development and job acceptance dimensions of such a system. These findings highlight the importance of establishing an emergency reward system, comprising reasonable work-allocation mechanism, bonuses and hono…
Working conditions and health status of 6,317 front line public health workers across five provinces in China during the Covid-19 epidemic: A cross-sectional study
Chinese public health workers made immense efforts and personal sacrifices to control the COVID-19 epidemic and faced the risk of mental health problems. Efforts are needed to improve the working conditions and health status of public health workers and thus maintain their morale and effectiveness during the fight against COVID-19
Association between dietary patterns and cognitive ability in Chinese children aged 10–15 years: Evidence from the 2010 China Family Panel Studies
The findings of this study demonstrated that 'High protein' pattern was positively associated with cognitive ability in Chinese children, while 'High fat' pattern exhibited a negative association
Subtle Asian Traits and Covid-19
This paper studies how members of Subtle Asian Traits (SAT), a massive Facebook group of over 1.8 million members, congregate and commiserate online over their growth pains and experiences as (diasporic) East Asians. Founded in September 2018 by a group of Asian-Australian teenagers ‘as a joke’, SAT members share ‘Asian positive’ stories, resources, and memes through an average of 1,200 new posts daily. Alongside global milestone events, such as …
From 'Nasa Lies' to 'Reptilian Eyes: Mapping Communication About 10 Conspiracy Theories, Their Communities, and Main Propagators on Twitter
In recent years, conspiracy theories have pervaded mainstream discourse. Social media, in particular, reinforce their visibility and propagation. However, most prior studies on the dissemination of conspiracy theories in digital environments have focused on individual cases or conspiracy theories as a generic phenomenon. Our research addresses this gap by comparing the 10 most prominent conspiracy theories on Twitter, the communities supporting t…
Showing They Care (Or Don't): Affective Publics and Ambivalent Climate Activism on TikTok
The microvideo platform TikTok has emerged as a popular hub for self-expression and social activism, particularly for youth, but use of the platform's affective affordances to spread awareness of important issues has not been adequately studied. Through an exploratory multimodal discourse analysis of a sample of popular climate change-hashtagged TikTok videos, we examine how affordances of visibility, editability, and association facilitate the f…
From content moderation to visibility moderation: A case study of platform governance on TikTok
TikTok, a short‐video app featuring video content typically between 15 and 60 s long, has become immensely popular around the world in the last few years. However, the worldwide popularity of TikTok requires the platform to constantly negotiate with the rules, norms and regulatory frameworks of the regions where it operates. Failure to do so has had significant consequences. For example, for content‐related reasons, the platform has been (tempora…
Conspiracy theories in digital environments: Moving the research field forward
In the past few years, the discussion of conspiracy theories has embroiled researchers, politicians and the public alike. During the COVID-19 pandemic in particular, the term ‘conspiracy theory’ became a buzzword in the news media, public communication and everyday discussions. The pandemic also demonstrated that conspiratorial narratives disseminated online are not benign, obscure and eventually harmless ideas, but can mislead policy making, hin…
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