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An Ecological Approach to Privacy: “Doing” Online Privacy at Midlife
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2014-10-02)Though a complex behavior, online privacy regulation has been considered by social media researchers to be a function of making information available or in the enactment of privacy controls, resulting in a perceived ... -
Examining Chinese Gift-giving Behavior from the Politeness Theory Perspective
(Taylor & Francis, 2011)This study examines how power, social distance, and ranking of imposition specified in Brown and Levinson's politeness theory influence positive and negative politeness strategies used in Chinese gift-giving. We utilize a ... -
The form of Online News In The Mainstream U.S. Press, 2001-2010
(Taylor & Francis, 2012-10)Extending a long-term study of three print newspapers from 1894 to 1994, the third in a series of studies shows electronic editions adapting to the online environment. The newspapers did not reinvent themselves online in ... -
From “Perpetual Contact” to Contextualized Mobility: Mobile Phones for Social Relations in Chinese Society
(Taylor & Francis, 2012-08)This study charts culturally-shaped mobile communication in Chinese society. It finds that Chinese mobile users maintain an open network of contacts comprising not only private relations but work relations and peripheral ... -
Google and the Culture of Search
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A Network Analytic Approach to Audience Behavior and Market Structure: The Case of China and the United States
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2014)This study adopts a network analytic approach to understand media audiences in relation to media markets, bridging the literature on audience behavior and media economics. Using audience data in the Chinese and U.S. markets, ... -
News Consumption Across Multiple Media Platforms: A Repertoire Approach
(Taylor & Francis, 2011)The recent trend of media convergence poses serious challenges to existing theoretical frameworks, such as uses and gratifications and the agenda setting theory, for media choice and effects. This study adopts a repertoire ... -
Newspapers Experiment Online: Story Content after a Decade on the Web
(SAGE Publications, 2013-01)Mainstream US newspapers since the 1890s moved away from event-centered news of local persons and places and toward interpretative news of more distant issues, a trend called the new long journalism that continued when the ... -
Online Journalism in Social Transformations - A Community Structure Approach
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-02)This framing and discourse analysis documents the news coverage of a fire in Shanghai by the Chinese press, represented by a party-organ newspaper and three metro dailies. The findings illustrate the way commercial metro ... -
Participations: Dialogues on the Participatory Promise of Contemporary Culture and Politics
(University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, 2014)None -
Participations: Dialogues on the Participatory Promise of Contemporary Culture and Politics
(University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, 2014-12)None -
People, things, memory and human-machine communication
(Intellect, 2014)As contemporary media of communication increasingly rely on computer mediation there is a concomitantly increasing amount of algorithmic intervention utilizing expressions between users and between users and machines to ... -
"Privacy" in Semantic Networks on Chinese Social Media: The Case of Sina Weibo
(Wiley, 2013-12)Unprecedented social and technological developments call into question the meanings and boundaries of privacy in contemporary China. This study examines the discourse of privacy on Sina Weibo, the country's largest social ... -
Scholarly Publishing and the Internet: A NM&S Themed Section
(SAGE Publications, 2013-01)As co-editors of this themed section of New Media & Society, we introduce the four articles comprising the section and briefly address facets of the changes transpiring in scholarly publishing and, more generally, scholarly ... -
Subduing Attitude Polarization? How Partisan News May Not Affect Attitude Polarization for Online Publics
(Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, 2018-05-02)Researchers have sought to understand the effects of likeminded versus contrary news exposure on attitude polarization, which can be a threat to democracy. Yet, the online news environment offers opportunities for exposure ... -
Talking to the Broadcasters on Twitter: Networked Gatekeeping in Twitter Conversations with Journalists
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2014-03)Drawn upon the theory of networked gatekeeping, this study describes how citizens engage Twitter conversations with journalists and illustrates the power dynamic between traditional gatekeepers (journalists) and the gated ... -
The unbearable lightness of information and the impossible gravitas of knowledge: Big Data and the makings of a digital orality
(SAGE Publications, 2015)This essay is written in response and extension to the thoughts offered by danah boyd and Kate Crawford on whether Big Data change how we define knowledge. I suggest that they do not, but they do reinforce and reproduce ... -
We Haven't Talked in 30 Years! Relationship Reconnection and Internet Use at Midlife
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-04)The phenomenon of reconnection of dormant ties using internet communication technologies has been identified as having salience for the use of social media forms by midlife and older adults. Dormant ties, as distinguished ... -
Why We Share: A Uses and Gratifications Approach to Privacy Regulation in Social Media Use
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-01-02)The contradiction between the stated preferences of social media users toward privacy and actual privacy behaviors has suggested a willingness to trade privacy regulation for social goals. This study employs data from a ...