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#OutNow Digital Collection in #iCS Migration and Digital Media brings together 18 articles examining how digital media shape migration, borders, intimacy, and inequality, and how migration shapes technologies. Edited by Bartlett, Leurs, and Mena Montes. tandfonline.com/journals/rics2…

#OutNow in #iCS Platform agency depends on more than technical skill. This article shows how familiarity with platform norms and visibility dynamics plays a central role in how users navigate algorithmic social media environments. doi.org/10.1080/136911…

#OutNow in #iCS Disinformation and cybersecurity increasingly overlap in public debate, but how are they connected in research? This scoping review maps definitions, theories, and evolving approaches across 64 studies in the Social Sciences. doi.org/10.1080/136911…

#OutNow in #iCS What happens when public internet infrastructure moves to AWS? Using the Dutch domain registry SIDN, Cath develops the concept of “cloud drift” to examine how hyperscale cloud adoption reshapes internet governance. doi.org/10.1080/136911…

#OutNow in #iCS Who feels familiar with AI, and who gets left behind? This article looks at how socioeconomic inequalities shape AI awareness in the United States through differences in use and familiarity. doi.org/10.1080/136911…

#OutNow in #iCS This article investigates socioeconomic gaps in AI awareness, showing how familiarity and everyday use shape who engages with AI technologies in practice. doi.org/10.1080/136911…

#OutNow in #iCS Analysing 38,000 Reddit comments, this study examines how sex work is discussed across digital communities, showing how stigma and support coexist in debates on regulation, victimisation, and everyday practice. doi.org/10.1080/136911…

#OutNow in #iCS Analysing over four million posts on X, this study traces how polarised communities persist across crises in German-language debates, from COVID-19 to Ukraine and Gaza. It shows how the same actor networks and narratives reappear. doi.org/10.1080/136911…

#OutNow in #iCS How do platforms shape corporate responses to climate policy? This study examines Chinese environmental microblogs, showing how signalling and public visibility influence firms’ green transformation. doi.org/10.1080/136911…

#OutNow in #iCS Focusing on the Stack Exchange moderation strike, this study shows how volunteer moderators mobilised platform features and users to contest AI content policies and renegotiate their role. doi.org/10.1080/136911…

#OutNow in #iCS Looking across elections in DR Congo, Kenya, Senegal, and South Africa, this article traces how civil society coalitions form and operate to sustain information integrity in complex media environments. doi.org/10.1080/136911…

#OutNow in #iCS Drawing on ethnographic research, this study traces how Douyin’s crowdsourced adjudication system turns community moderators into a form of regulatory labour, or 'Regulabour.' doi.org/10.1080/136911…

#OutNow in #iCS Looking at Spotify Wrapped as an 'Algorithmic Event,' this article explores how Brazilian users engage with datafied listening histories, turning them into fleeting performances of taste and shared recognition. doi.org/10.1080/136911…

#OutNow in #iCS Can protest movements help mainstream radical ideas? Analysing Telegram data from Germany’s Querdenken protests, this study develops the concept of 'protest-facilitated mainstreaming' to trace how fringe narratives become more accessible. doi.org/10.1080/136911…

#OutNow in #iCS Who gets seen and heard in science communication on TikTok? Analysing 10,800 videos and 448,000 comments, this study shows how gender, race, and communication style interact to shape audience engagement. doi.org/10.1080/136911…

#OutNow in #iCS In Greece, party-funded media do not repeat the same message across formats. Analysing cartoons and YouTube clips, this article shows how different media carry different parts of a shared campaign strategy. doi.org/10.1080/136911…

#OutNow in #iCS Do online interactions follow the same patterns as trade? Using data from 25 million Age of Empires matches, this study shows how cultural proximity still shapes who interacts with whom online. doi.org/10.1080/136911…

#OutNow in #iCS Most research on platformed hate speech looks at text and a small set of platforms. Reviewing 145 studies, this article points to what remains underexamined, especially affordances and visual forms. doi.org/10.1080/136911…

#OutNow in #iCS How do platforms reshape the public meaning of terrorism? Walsh develops the concept of 'Platformed Amplification' to explain how attention competition, eyewitness content and algorithmic curation intensify coverage. doi.org/10.1080/136911…

#OutNow in #iCS Through thematic analysis of online support groups, this article foregrounds Palestinian women’s digital resistance to inheritance denial, linking property injustice to dignity, belonging, and citizenship. doi.org/10.1080/136911…

#OutNow in #iCS Focusing on Nathaly Dias, known as “Blogueira de Baixa Renda”, this article theorises favela aesthetics as a visual practice that contests Instagram’s dominant influencer norms and long-standing stigmas surrounding favelas. doi.org/10.1080/136911…