Jason B Phillips
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 223886 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jason B Phillips |
| PRENOMES | Jason B |
| SOBRENOME | Phillips |
| ASSINATURA | PHILLIPS J B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Waikato |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2984-4472 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Problematic Reasoning Under the Guise of Anti-Māori Talk
Drawing from a subset of Twitter/X quotes (or tweets) on the politically controversial Three Waters Reform, this study identified forms of anti-Māori discourse through a deductive analysis. A complementary analysis was conducted to unpack how problematic reasoning fueled racism against Māori. Our results revealed distinct and interconnected themes—“resources,” “culture,” “stirrer,” “privilege,” and “one people”—that portrayed Māori as undeserving…
Aotearoa on Twitter during Covid-19 lockdowns
Like the rest of the world, New Zealanders were subject to COVID-19 restrictions beginning in 2020. As is well known, the entire country entered a “short and sharp” lockdown when the pandemic emerged in March 2020, leading to the – temporary – elimination of the virus two months later. With elimination came the complete removal of restrictions, for some. Aucklanders were subject to several additional, prolonged regional lockdowns over the next 20…
Conspiracy or Public Service? Does Facebook’s Third-Party Fact-Checking Increase Conspiracy Beliefs Among Americans
Unlike past studies that examine whether fact-checking can counter conspiratorial belief, we reverse the lens to investigate if fact-checking itself prompts conspiracy belief. Our study occurs in the days immediately preceding the 2024 US election. Shortly thereafter, Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg abandoned Facebook’s third-party program altogether, arguing fact-checkers “have destroyed more trust than they have created.” We provide timely insight i…
Alert, but not alarmed
In 2024 experts highlight misinformation and disinformation “amid elections” as the top short‐term global risk. In addressing this pressing concern, electoral authorities are devising strategies to counter electoral disinformation while governments consider changes to public policy and legislation. Drawing on motivated reasoning theory, this study assesses the impact of disinformation and mitigation measures in Australia during the 2023 referendu…
Exploring psyop-based conspiracy theories on social media
Psychological operations, or ‘psyops’ are routinely cited by conspiracy theorists online. The term, derived from strategic military actions designed to psychologically manipulate the enemy into a desired outcome, now (also) represents a conspiracy of a small group of actors to nefariously manipulate the general public into – for example – major social, economic, or political change. While psyops have been briefly acknowledged by academic research…
Thoughts & prayers,” conspiracy theories, and laughing emojis
This article examines online responses to the 14 July 2024 assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Using large language model embeddings and machine learning algorithms, we analyze 26 thousand Facebook comments in near real-time reacting to “breaking news” stories from six national mainstream media outlets covering the assassination attempt. The themes we identify are consistent with historical studies on political assassination attempts and death…
I'm so worried about my whole family
While we know a great deal about the-typically negative-effects of conspiracy beliefs, surprisingly we know little about the interpersonal effects of such beliefs on relationships with non-believers. QAnon-specific research is now leading the way in this regard, with a handful of surveys and interviews beginning to chart how conspiracy beliefs influence relationships with friends, colleagues, and loved ones. This paper advances that progress via …
Likes vs. Loves (and Other Emoji Reactions)
In 2017, Facebook’s news feed algorithm began weighting emoji reactions (e.g., love and angry) as five times more valuable than the like button. Such a change is theoretically intriguing because existing research largely suggests that women tend to use emojis more than men on social media. Within the context of political campaigns, prior work has revealed a host of other “gender gaps,” from documenting men’s and women’s differing tolerance for ne…
Is He /ourguy/, a False Flag, or Something Else? Debating Breivik’s and Tarrant’s Terrorism on 4chan’s /pol/ Board
Academic literature widely assumes that extremist-housing online forums, like 4chan, uniformly celebrate acts of right-wing terrorism (e.g. via “sainthood memes”), such as those committed by Anders Breivik and Brenton Tarrant. Aside from a handful of exceptions, this body of research typically fails to acknowledge that ideologically likeminded individuals on 4chan also regularly debate the merits of both terrorists and their violent attacks. Our …
Issue agenda-setting in the voice to parliament referendum
This article explores issue agenda-setting in Australia’s 2023 Voiceto Parliament referendum, analysing the dynamics of Yes and Nocampaigns in a diverse media ecosystem. We identify influentialmessages across this complex media environment using softclustering of sentence embeddings from large language models(LLMs). Drawing on 3.3 million documents and over 10 millionVoice specific sentences from mainstream and social mediasources, we identify th…
Big data Barbie
How was Barbie discussed on social media after the film's release in July 2023? While a great deal of media and academic commentary offers presumptive answers, to our knowledge no study has sought to address such a question empirically. We examine all posts on Meta's Facebook and Instagram platforms that mentioned Barbie during the month of the movie's premiere. Using soft clustering of large language model embeddings, we offer an informed answer…
Gendered Extremism in the Pacific on 4chan
The association between 4chan and online extremist subcultures has seen increasing academic scrutiny—particularly following the 2019 Christchurch attack by a right-wing terrorist who frequented the anonymous forums. Gender-based extremism features as one (of many) critical subcultures that commands our academic attention, though few studies to date have sought to capture and assess the entire landscape of this phenomenon on 4chan’s most notorious…
Laughing at death
Is it inappropriate to "like" a Facebook post announcing death? That was the concern of Meta's leadership in 2016, when they implemented emoji reactions (e.g. sadness and love) to help users more appropriately respond to tragic events. The expectation was that these new reactions would promote compassion in the face of grief, but in the years since many observers now label the "haha" laughing emoji as a particularly menacing reaction used to trol…
Bodypositive surpasses 1 billion engagements
The body-positive movement (#bodypositive) champions body acceptance by celebrating a diverse - visual - array of body types and shapes online. Sparked out of collective resistance to unrealistic bodies on social media, the #bodypositive community has assembled a considerable following: having now surpassed one billion engagements on Instagram. To mark this milestone, we highlight the problem, the promise, and the peril of image-focused movements…
Does Third-Party Fact-Checking Increase Trust in News Stories? An Australian Case Study Using the “Sports Rorts” Affair
Given the centrality of news media to democracy, it is concerning that public trust in media has declined in many countries. A potential mechanism that may reverse this trend is independent fact-checking to adjudicate competing claims in news stories. We undertake a survey experiment on a sample of 1608 Australians to test the effects of fact-checking on media trust using a real-life case study known as the “sports rorts” affair. We construct dup…
Covering tangata whenua in Aotearoa
A large body of academic research documents harmful media coverage of indigenous populations across the globe. New Zealand is no exception. Aotearoa's indigenous people, Māori, share similar damaging experiences, leading one major NZ media company to publish an apology for their historically poor depiction of tangata whenua. This paper adds to that wealth of evidence using the automated methods of machine learning to examine coverage of Māori in …
Negative Political Communication on Social Media and the Gender Gap
Do men and women respond differently to negative political communication? Only a limited collection of studies into the effects of negative campaigns have investigated this research question, and the conflicting results produced from such studies have prevented the development of a widely accepted answer. As campaigns transition to new media environments, further problems arise, as any potential gender gap may be magnified on the new political co…
Recursion theory and the ‘death tax
Since the 2016 US federal election, political actors have weaponized online fake news as a means of gaining electoral advantage (Egelhofer and Lecheler 2019). To advance understandings of the actors and methods involved in perpetuating fake news, this article focuses on an Australian story that circulated on and offline through different discourses during the 2019 federal election. We use content analyses of 100,000 media articles and eight milli…
Leave the Attacking to Others
Modern campaigns in the Citizens United era are awash with negativity, much of which originates from independent political groups (e.g., Super PACs, 501c organizations, etc.). In contrast to the plethora of work showing candidate endorsed attacks to be ineffective, more recent experimental evidence suggests that candidates may benefit from these independently sourced attack ads. However, the findings derived from this experimental research on ind…
Party system fragmentation, social cleavages, and social media
Explorations of the predictive relationship between party system fragmentation and social cleavages beyond a single dimension remains an undeveloped area of research, one which rarely accounts for the changing technological landscape where parties now compete. This case study of New Zealand's 2017 election campaign on Facebook contributes to this area. It reveals an environment where parties compete within social cleavages for support, and users …
Race, Crime, and the Changing Fortunes of Urban Neighborhoods, 1999-2013
For over a century, scholars have traced higher levels of serious crime in minority compared to White neighborhoods to stark socioeconomic inequality. Yet, this research is largely cross-sectional and does not assess how ethnoracial differences in crime patterns evolve over time in response to shifting structural conditions. The new century witnessed substantial changes to the circumstances that undergird the ethnoracial divide in neighborhood cr…
Appeals to the Hispanic Demographic
By looking at the autoplay videos posted and shared on Hillary Clinton’s Facebook account during the 2015 Facebook. 2015. “The Value of Video for Brands.” Webpage Accessed 28 April 2017. https://www.facebook.com/business/news/value-of-video [Google Scholar]/2016 Clinton, H. 2016. “A Special Moment during a Meeting with the Union of Peasants. Yes You Can! Watch the Video. Facebook Status Update.” Retrieved 20 November 2016. https://www.facebook.co…
Appeals to the Hispanic demographic
By looking at the autoplay videos posted and shared on Hillary Clinton’s Facebook account during the 2015/2016 primary election season, this article offers much-needed insight into the communication aspect of campaign targeting. Using data analysis extracted from the leading social media platform, the article examines what groups of Hispanic Facebook users were attracted to Clinton’s targeted autoplay videos, what elements within these videos bes…
The Changing Presentation of Death in the Obituary, 1899–1999
Obituaries from the New York Times are examined at three points to illuminate changing conceptions of death. The findings are twofold. Changes in the obituary demonstrate how the locus of social control over death has shifted from nature and God, to medicine and most recently to the individual. Additionally, it is shown that descriptions of biophysical aspects of the dying process are marginalized over time and that there is more frequent use of …
Race, Crime, and the Changing Fortunes of Urban Neighborhoods, 1999-2013
For over a century, scholars have traced higher levels of serious crime in minority compared to White neighborhoods to stark socioeconomic inequality. Yet, this research is largely cross-sectional and does not assess how ethnoracial differences in crime patterns evolve over time in response to shifting structural conditions. The new century witnessed substantial changes to the circumstances that undergird the ethnoracial divide in neighborhood cr…
Big data Barbie
How was Barbie discussed on social media after the film's release in July 2023? While a great deal of media and academic commentary offers presumptive answers, to our knowledge no study has sought to address such a question empirically. We examine all posts on Meta's Facebook and Instagram platforms that mentioned Barbie during the month of the movie's premiere. Using soft clustering of large language model embeddings, we offer an informed answer…
Negative Political Communication on Social Media and the Gender Gap
Do men and women respond differently to negative political communication? Only a limited collection of studies into the effects of negative campaigns have investigated this research question, and the conflicting results produced from such studies have prevented the development of a widely accepted answer. As campaigns transition to new media environments, further problems arise, as any potential gender gap may be magnified on the new political co…
Recursion theory and the ‘death tax
Since the 2016 US federal election, political actors have weaponized online fake news as a means of gaining electoral advantage (Egelhofer and Lecheler 2019). To advance understandings of the actors and methods involved in perpetuating fake news, this article focuses on an Australian story that circulated on and offline through different discourses during the 2019 federal election. We use content analyses of 100,000 media articles and eight milli…
Issue agenda-setting in the voice to parliament referendum
This article explores issue agenda-setting in Australia’s 2023 Voiceto Parliament referendum, analysing the dynamics of Yes and Nocampaigns in a diverse media ecosystem. We identify influentialmessages across this complex media environment using softclustering of sentence embeddings from large language models(LLMs). Drawing on 3.3 million documents and over 10 millionVoice specific sentences from mainstream and social mediasources, we identify th…
Laughing at death
Is it inappropriate to "like" a Facebook post announcing death? That was the concern of Meta's leadership in 2016, when they implemented emoji reactions (e.g. sadness and love) to help users more appropriately respond to tragic events. The expectation was that these new reactions would promote compassion in the face of grief, but in the years since many observers now label the "haha" laughing emoji as a particularly menacing reaction used to trol…
I'm so worried about my whole family
While we know a great deal about the-typically negative-effects of conspiracy beliefs, surprisingly we know little about the interpersonal effects of such beliefs on relationships with non-believers. QAnon-specific research is now leading the way in this regard, with a handful of surveys and interviews beginning to chart how conspiracy beliefs influence relationships with friends, colleagues, and loved ones. This paper advances that progress via …
Appeals to the Hispanic Demographic
By looking at the autoplay videos posted and shared on Hillary Clinton’s Facebook account during the 2015 Facebook. 2015. “The Value of Video for Brands.” Webpage Accessed 28 April 2017. https://www.facebook.com/business/news/value-of-video [Google Scholar]/2016 Clinton, H. 2016. “A Special Moment during a Meeting with the Union of Peasants. Yes You Can! Watch the Video. Facebook Status Update.” Retrieved 20 November 2016. https://www.facebook.co…
Is He /ourguy/, a False Flag, or Something Else? Debating Breivik’s and Tarrant’s Terrorism on 4chan’s /pol/ Board
Academic literature widely assumes that extremist-housing online forums, like 4chan, uniformly celebrate acts of right-wing terrorism (e.g. via “sainthood memes”), such as those committed by Anders Breivik and Brenton Tarrant. Aside from a handful of exceptions, this body of research typically fails to acknowledge that ideologically likeminded individuals on 4chan also regularly debate the merits of both terrorists and their violent attacks. Our …
Gendered Extremism in the Pacific on 4chan
The association between 4chan and online extremist subcultures has seen increasing academic scrutiny—particularly following the 2019 Christchurch attack by a right-wing terrorist who frequented the anonymous forums. Gender-based extremism features as one (of many) critical subcultures that commands our academic attention, though few studies to date have sought to capture and assess the entire landscape of this phenomenon on 4chan’s most notorious…
Leave the Attacking to Others
Modern campaigns in the Citizens United era are awash with negativity, much of which originates from independent political groups (e.g., Super PACs, 501c organizations, etc.). In contrast to the plethora of work showing candidate endorsed attacks to be ineffective, more recent experimental evidence suggests that candidates may benefit from these independently sourced attack ads. However, the findings derived from this experimental research on ind…
The Changing Presentation of Death in the Obituary, 1899–1999
Obituaries from the New York Times are examined at three points to illuminate changing conceptions of death. The findings are twofold. Changes in the obituary demonstrate how the locus of social control over death has shifted from nature and God, to medicine and most recently to the individual. Additionally, it is shown that descriptions of biophysical aspects of the dying process are marginalized over time and that there is more frequent use of …
Appeals to the Hispanic Demographic
By looking at the autoplay videos posted and shared on Hillary Clinton’s Facebook account during the 2015 Facebook. 2015. “The Value of Video for Brands.” Webpage Accessed 28 April 2017. https://www.facebook.com/business/news/value-of-video [Google Scholar]/2016 Clinton, H. 2016. “A Special Moment during a Meeting with the Union of Peasants. Yes You Can! Watch the Video. Facebook Status Update.” Retrieved 20 November 2016. https://www.facebook.co…
Appeals to the Hispanic demographic
By looking at the autoplay videos posted and shared on Hillary Clinton’s Facebook account during the 2015/2016 primary election season, this article offers much-needed insight into the communication aspect of campaign targeting. Using data analysis extracted from the leading social media platform, the article examines what groups of Hispanic Facebook users were attracted to Clinton’s targeted autoplay videos, what elements within these videos bes…
Race, Crime, and the Changing Fortunes of Urban Neighborhoods, 1999-2013
For over a century, scholars have traced higher levels of serious crime in minority compared to White neighborhoods to stark socioeconomic inequality. Yet, this research is largely cross-sectional and does not assess how ethnoracial differences in crime patterns evolve over time in response to shifting structural conditions. The new century witnessed substantial changes to the circumstances that undergird the ethnoracial divide in neighborhood cr…
Leave the Attacking to Others
Modern campaigns in the Citizens United era are awash with negativity, much of which originates from independent political groups (e.g., Super PACs, 501c organizations, etc.). In contrast to the plethora of work showing candidate endorsed attacks to be ineffective, more recent experimental evidence suggests that candidates may benefit from these independently sourced attack ads. However, the findings derived from this experimental research on ind…
Party system fragmentation, social cleavages, and social media
Explorations of the predictive relationship between party system fragmentation and social cleavages beyond a single dimension remains an undeveloped area of research, one which rarely accounts for the changing technological landscape where parties now compete. This case study of New Zealand's 2017 election campaign on Facebook contributes to this area. It reveals an environment where parties compete within social cleavages for support, and users …
Negative Political Communication on Social Media and the Gender Gap
Do men and women respond differently to negative political communication? Only a limited collection of studies into the effects of negative campaigns have investigated this research question, and the conflicting results produced from such studies have prevented the development of a widely accepted answer. As campaigns transition to new media environments, further problems arise, as any potential gender gap may be magnified on the new political co…
Recursion theory and the ‘death tax
Since the 2016 US federal election, political actors have weaponized online fake news as a means of gaining electoral advantage (Egelhofer and Lecheler 2019). To advance understandings of the actors and methods involved in perpetuating fake news, this article focuses on an Australian story that circulated on and offline through different discourses during the 2019 federal election. We use content analyses of 100,000 media articles and eight milli…
Does Third-Party Fact-Checking Increase Trust in News Stories? An Australian Case Study Using the “Sports Rorts” Affair
Given the centrality of news media to democracy, it is concerning that public trust in media has declined in many countries. A potential mechanism that may reverse this trend is independent fact-checking to adjudicate competing claims in news stories. We undertake a survey experiment on a sample of 1608 Australians to test the effects of fact-checking on media trust using a real-life case study known as the “sports rorts” affair. We construct dup…
Covering tangata whenua in Aotearoa
A large body of academic research documents harmful media coverage of indigenous populations across the globe. New Zealand is no exception. Aotearoa's indigenous people, Māori, share similar damaging experiences, leading one major NZ media company to publish an apology for their historically poor depiction of tangata whenua. This paper adds to that wealth of evidence using the automated methods of machine learning to examine coverage of Māori in …
Laughing at death
Is it inappropriate to "like" a Facebook post announcing death? That was the concern of Meta's leadership in 2016, when they implemented emoji reactions (e.g. sadness and love) to help users more appropriately respond to tragic events. The expectation was that these new reactions would promote compassion in the face of grief, but in the years since many observers now label the "haha" laughing emoji as a particularly menacing reaction used to trol…
Bodypositive surpasses 1 billion engagements
The body-positive movement (#bodypositive) champions body acceptance by celebrating a diverse - visual - array of body types and shapes online. Sparked out of collective resistance to unrealistic bodies on social media, the #bodypositive community has assembled a considerable following: having now surpassed one billion engagements on Instagram. To mark this milestone, we highlight the problem, the promise, and the peril of image-focused movements…
Likes vs. Loves (and Other Emoji Reactions)
In 2017, Facebook’s news feed algorithm began weighting emoji reactions (e.g., love and angry) as five times more valuable than the like button. Such a change is theoretically intriguing because existing research largely suggests that women tend to use emojis more than men on social media. Within the context of political campaigns, prior work has revealed a host of other “gender gaps,” from documenting men’s and women’s differing tolerance for ne…
Is He /ourguy/, a False Flag, or Something Else? Debating Breivik’s and Tarrant’s Terrorism on 4chan’s /pol/ Board
Academic literature widely assumes that extremist-housing online forums, like 4chan, uniformly celebrate acts of right-wing terrorism (e.g. via “sainthood memes”), such as those committed by Anders Breivik and Brenton Tarrant. Aside from a handful of exceptions, this body of research typically fails to acknowledge that ideologically likeminded individuals on 4chan also regularly debate the merits of both terrorists and their violent attacks. Our …
Issue agenda-setting in the voice to parliament referendum
This article explores issue agenda-setting in Australia’s 2023 Voiceto Parliament referendum, analysing the dynamics of Yes and Nocampaigns in a diverse media ecosystem. We identify influentialmessages across this complex media environment using softclustering of sentence embeddings from large language models(LLMs). Drawing on 3.3 million documents and over 10 millionVoice specific sentences from mainstream and social mediasources, we identify th…
Big data Barbie
How was Barbie discussed on social media after the film's release in July 2023? While a great deal of media and academic commentary offers presumptive answers, to our knowledge no study has sought to address such a question empirically. We examine all posts on Meta's Facebook and Instagram platforms that mentioned Barbie during the month of the movie's premiere. Using soft clustering of large language model embeddings, we offer an informed answer…
Gendered Extremism in the Pacific on 4chan
The association between 4chan and online extremist subcultures has seen increasing academic scrutiny—particularly following the 2019 Christchurch attack by a right-wing terrorist who frequented the anonymous forums. Gender-based extremism features as one (of many) critical subcultures that commands our academic attention, though few studies to date have sought to capture and assess the entire landscape of this phenomenon on 4chan’s most notorious…
Alert, but not alarmed
In 2024 experts highlight misinformation and disinformation “amid elections” as the top short‐term global risk. In addressing this pressing concern, electoral authorities are devising strategies to counter electoral disinformation while governments consider changes to public policy and legislation. Drawing on motivated reasoning theory, this study assesses the impact of disinformation and mitigation measures in Australia during the 2023 referendu…
Exploring psyop-based conspiracy theories on social media
Psychological operations, or ‘psyops’ are routinely cited by conspiracy theorists online. The term, derived from strategic military actions designed to psychologically manipulate the enemy into a desired outcome, now (also) represents a conspiracy of a small group of actors to nefariously manipulate the general public into – for example – major social, economic, or political change. While psyops have been briefly acknowledged by academic research…
Thoughts & prayers,” conspiracy theories, and laughing emojis
This article examines online responses to the 14 July 2024 assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Using large language model embeddings and machine learning algorithms, we analyze 26 thousand Facebook comments in near real-time reacting to “breaking news” stories from six national mainstream media outlets covering the assassination attempt. The themes we identify are consistent with historical studies on political assassination attempts and death…
I'm so worried about my whole family
While we know a great deal about the-typically negative-effects of conspiracy beliefs, surprisingly we know little about the interpersonal effects of such beliefs on relationships with non-believers. QAnon-specific research is now leading the way in this regard, with a handful of surveys and interviews beginning to chart how conspiracy beliefs influence relationships with friends, colleagues, and loved ones. This paper advances that progress via …
Problematic Reasoning Under the Guise of Anti-Māori Talk
Drawing from a subset of Twitter/X quotes (or tweets) on the politically controversial Three Waters Reform, this study identified forms of anti-Māori discourse through a deductive analysis. A complementary analysis was conducted to unpack how problematic reasoning fueled racism against Māori. Our results revealed distinct and interconnected themes—“resources,” “culture,” “stirrer,” “privilege,” and “one people”—that portrayed Māori as undeserving…
Aotearoa on Twitter during Covid-19 lockdowns
Like the rest of the world, New Zealanders were subject to COVID-19 restrictions beginning in 2020. As is well known, the entire country entered a “short and sharp” lockdown when the pandemic emerged in March 2020, leading to the – temporary – elimination of the virus two months later. With elimination came the complete removal of restrictions, for some. Aucklanders were subject to several additional, prolonged regional lockdowns over the next 20…
Conspiracy or Public Service? Does Facebook’s Third-Party Fact-Checking Increase Conspiracy Beliefs Among Americans
Unlike past studies that examine whether fact-checking can counter conspiratorial belief, we reverse the lens to investigate if fact-checking itself prompts conspiracy belief. Our study occurs in the days immediately preceding the 2024 US election. Shortly thereafter, Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg abandoned Facebook’s third-party program altogether, arguing fact-checkers “have destroyed more trust than they have created.” We provide timely insight i…
Sociology (14 obras) · Political science (13 obras) · Social Media and Politics (13 obras) · Computer Science (11 obras) · Politics (11 obras) · Social media (11 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (8 obras) · Advertising (7 obras)