Kayo Mimizuka
Biographic Data
| ID | 4897188 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kayo Mimizuka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kayo |
| FAMILY NAME | Mimizuka |
| SIGNATURE | MIMIZUKA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0966-5386 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“I Don’t Even Watch News (Voluntarily) on WeChat” – Socially-Compelled Exposure to Misinformation Among U.S. Diaspora Communities
Online news sharing and political talk occur increasingly within encrypted messaging apps (EMAs), but these spaces are understudied, especially in the U.S. Relying on a total of 61 semi-structured interviews, this article examines how EMAs are used among three diaspora communities in Texas—Chinese Americans, Indian Americans, and Mexican Americans. It also explores participants exposure to news and misinformation over these apps. We show that, wh…
Price, proficiency, or permission: Assessing platform data access for election research
On the fly: How Japanese social media “watchers” improvise to counter problematic information
Recent studies have explored how the purveyors of problematic information can mobilize online crowds by tapping into positive feelings like amusement, belonging, and optimism. Unfortunately, it is not clear how such participation and emotions can also help communities reduce the spread of problematic information. We address this gap by examining how a group of Japanese social media “watchers” monitored and countered YamatoQ, a pro-QAnon Japanese …
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On the fly: How Japanese social media “watchers” improvise to counter problematic information
Recent studies have explored how the purveyors of problematic information can mobilize online crowds by tapping into positive feelings like amusement, belonging, and optimism. Unfortunately, it is not clear how such participation and emotions can also help communities reduce the spread of problematic information. We address this gap by examining how a group of Japanese social media “watchers” monitored and countered YamatoQ, a pro-QAnon Japanese …
“I Don’t Even Watch News (Voluntarily) on WeChat” – Socially-Compelled Exposure to Misinformation Among U.S. Diaspora Communities
Online news sharing and political talk occur increasingly within encrypted messaging apps (EMAs), but these spaces are understudied, especially in the U.S. Relying on a total of 61 semi-structured interviews, this article examines how EMAs are used among three diaspora communities in Texas—Chinese Americans, Indian Americans, and Mexican Americans. It also explores participants exposure to news and misinformation over these apps. We show that, wh…
Price, proficiency, or permission: Assessing platform data access for election research
Social Media and Politics (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Access control (1 works) · Access to information (1 works) · Amusement (1 works) · Citizen journalism (1 works) · Data access (1 works)