Participation Divide

Eszter Hargittai and Gina Walejko, “The Participation Divide: Content creation and sharing in the digital age“, Information, Communication & Society, 2008, 11:2, pp. 239-256, DOI: 10.1080/13691180801946150 Abstract: This paper looks at the prevalence of creative activity and sharing in an age when the barriers to disseminating material have been considerably lowered compared with earlier times. The authors use unique data to … Continued

Youth digital participation

Ioana Literat, Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Melissa Brough & Alicia Blum-Ross, “Analyzing youth digital participation: Aims, actors, contexts and intensities“, The Information Society, 2018, 34, 4, pp. 261-273, DOI: 10.1080/01972243.2018.1463333 Abstract: Participation is often used as a blanket term that is uncritically celebrated; this is particularly true in the case of youth digital participation. In this article, … Continued

Affect and emotion

Jessica Myrick, “Emotion regulation, procrastination, and watching cat videos online: Who watches Internet cats, why, and to what effect?”, Computers in Human Behavior, 2015, vol. 52, pp.168-176. Abstract: Anecdotes abound about the frequent use of the Internet to view cat-related media. Yet, research has yet to seriously address this popular culture phenomenon rooted largely in social … Continued

Profiles and pseudonymity

Emily van der Nagel, “From usernames to profiles: the development of pseudonymity in Internet communication”, Internet Histories, 2017, 1:4, pp. 312-331, DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2017.1389548 Abstract: This article traces the development of Internet communication by examining online names and pseudonyms. I argue that choosing a username, as the first interaction a person has with a platform, sets the tone for how communication … Continued

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