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The Construction of Distributed Trust on Bilibili Under the COVID-19 Pandemic
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp, 2859-2881
"This study explores the construction of distributed trust under today’s networked environment. Focusing on diaspora micro-influencers’ COVID-19-related videos on Bilibili, this study aims to explore: How platform-specific features of Bilibili enhance the construction of distributed trust; the d
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(Mis-)Connected: Web Series, Digital Culture, and Everyday Life in Lockdown
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), 2902-2918
"Web series are, in some ways, tailored for capturing everyday life in a pandemic. As shortform episodic content distributed via online platforms, the creators of Web series commonly work with tight budgets, recruiting crew and cast from their own networks, and making use of the home as an inexpensi
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COVID-19 and government trust: A spiral of silence analysis in South America
International Communication Gazette, volume 86, issue 7 (2024), pp. 565-580
"The COVID-19 pandemic has uncovered prejudices, systemic inequities and critical feelings about governmental institutions around the globe. Since the start of the pandemic, the 12 nations that make up South America have had more than 67 million cases and 1.3 million fatalities. Public trust in and
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Janus-Faced Portrayal: News Representation of Migrant Workers in Malaysian Newspapers Amid COVID-19
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 299-319
"The global pandemic has adversely affected migrant workers psychologically and economically, leading to a poor quality of life. How the Malaysian media portrays this group during uncertainty remains unexplored. Aside from Eurocentric-focused scholarship, this study uniquely examines the representat
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Connected Resilience: Gendered Experiences of Meaningful Connectivity through a Global Pandemic
Global Digital Inclusion Partnership (2024), 57 pp.
"Looking at patterns between those with meaningful connectivity — defined as having daily internet use with 4G-like speeds, owning a smartphone, and an unlimited access point at home, work, or a place of study — and those with just basic or no internet access at all, we saw key distinctions betw
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Digital Inclusion: International Policy and Research
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xix, 277 pp.
"With a special focus on the impact of the COVID-19, the collection is based on the 2021 Digital Inclusion, Policy and Research Conference, with chapters from both academia and civic organizations. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed citizens' relationship with digital technologies for the foreseeable
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Populists and the Pandemic: How Populists Around the World Responded to Covid-19
London; New York, NY: Routledge (2023), xx, 299 pp.
"Populists and the Pandemic examines the responses of populist political actors and parties in 22 countries around the globe to the Covid-19 pandemic, in terms of their attitudes, rhetoric, mobilization repertoires, and policy proposals. The responses of some populist leaders have received much publ
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Verschwörungsmentalität in Krisenzeiten
Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung (2023), 15 pp.
"Die Affinität zu Verschwörungsnarrativen lässt sich nur bedingt aufgrund von sozialstrukturellen und lebensweltlichen Kontextbedingungen vorhersagen. Auch die Coronapandemie hat diese Mentalitäten nicht hervorgebracht, sie waren, wie die Untersuchungen aus den früheren Jahren zeigen – bereit
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#IAMHUSSEINI: Television and mourning during the COVID-19 pandemic
Religion, volume 52, issue 2 (2022), pp. 284-305
"This article is a study of mourning among Shi’a Muslims during the COVID-19 pandemic through a call-in talk show called #IAMHUSSEINI. By analyzing the discourses of callers and presenters and locating them within a visual context of the television studio, this article shows how the viewership of
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Mediennutzung in der Corona-Pandemie
Media Perspektiven, issue 2 (2022), pp. 81-88
"Während der Corona-Pandemie und der damit verbundenen Einschränkungen des öffentlichen Lebens hat sich der Medienkonsum in allen Bereichen signifikant erhöht. Um auf dem Laufenden und mit anderen in Kontakt zu bleiben, aber auch um sich zu unterhalten und abzulenken, nutzten (und nutzen) die Me
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More than just collateral damage. Ramifications of the pandemic for freedom of the press
Publizistik, volume 67 (2022), pp. 31–50
"Confronted with a situation that was new to everyone, world leaders sought the best way to contain the pandemic caused by the coronavirus. The measures introduced, with lockdowns and curfews, affected fundamental rights such as freedom of movement and assembly, with implications for freedom of expr
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Medios nativos digitales en América Latina: Enfoques, retos y experiencias
Cuenca; Quito: Universidad Politécnica Salesiana; Abya-Yala (2022), 224 pp.
"El panorama de los medios de comunicación han cambiado: de las grandes empresas editoras de periódicos, generalmente propiedad de grupos familiares, a los medios nativos digitales financiados por los propios periodistas o por ONGs gracias a los aportes ciudadanos o iniciativas de recaudación de
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Technologien der Krise: Die Covid-19-Pandemie als Katalysator neuer Formen der Vernetzung
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2022), 199 pp.
"The pandemic made inequality, discrimination, exclusion and structural inequity more palpable, and rather than stagnating in indignation, it reactivated a sense of rebellion and contestation. The strength and sharpness with which we connect social justice, gender justice, environmental justice, eco
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COVID-19, Digital Substitutional and Intersectional Inequality: The Case of South Africa
Cape Town: Research ICT Africa (2022), 54 pp.
"This study analyses the impacts of COVID-19 and its associated public policy responses on digital and intersectional inequality in South Africa from a demand-side perspective. The overarching research question it seeks to address is: To what extent were people in South Africa able to mitigate the n
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Covid-19, Communication and Religion
Church, Communication and Culture, volume 7, issue 1 (2022), pp. 1-263
"The contributions of this special issue are grouped in three sections: context, theoretical framework and empirical research. The first articles set up two important dimensions of the context we are living in that have to be definitely improved if we want to take advantage of the positive sides of
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Church Communication in the New Normal: Perspectives from Asia and Beyond
Deep Insights
Bangkok: Asian Research Center for Religion and Social Communication (2022), xxvii, 343 pp.
"Despite the wide-ranging topics presented in this collection, this volume takes ‘communication’ as the keyword for the various research and reflections on the life and mission of the Catholic Church during the COVID-19 pandemic as well as post-crisis. The reader will readily recognize that what
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Covid-19 au prisme de la communication numérique au Maroc
Paris: L'Harmattan (2022), 289 pp.
" Cet ouvrage présente une réflexion intergénérationnelle sur la crise de la Covid-19 à travers le Maroc et son voisinage. Il étudie d'abord l'enseignement à distance pour les jeunes, ensuite le télétravail comme un modèle alternatif viable, enfin l'isolement des personnes âgées et ses r
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Traumatic Past in the Present: COVID-19 and Holocaust Memory in Israeli Media, Digital Media, and Social Media
Media, Culture & Society, volume 44, issue 3 (2022), pp. 464-478
"The COVID-19 pandemic began in 2019, spread to the rest of the world in 2020 and still holds nations in its grip in 2021. There is scant research on the way it has affected Holocaust awareness. Based on scholarly work on Holocaust awareness in Israel, the top-down memory of the Holocaust in the med
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