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Communication and the Public is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Social Media and Politics, Media Studies and Communication, China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance.
| Publisher | SAGE |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Harvard) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Communication and the Public, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Social Media and Politics Media Studies and Communication China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance Misinformation and Its Impacts Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics |
| Papers published last year | ≈24 |
| ISSN | 2057-0473 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 2.65 |
| h-index | 28 |
| i10-index | 86 |
| Total citations | 3,418 |
| Open access | Yes |
| Top institutions publishing here | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Journal website | us.sagepub.com |
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The term “cancel culture” has significant implications for defining discourses of digital and social media activism. In this essay, I briefly interrogate the evolution of digital accountability praxis as performed by Black Twitter, a meta-network of culturally linked communities online. I trace the practice of the social media callout from its roots in Black vernacular…
Conspiracy theories flourish in the wide-open media of the digital age, spurring concerns about the role of misinformation in influencing public opinion and election outcomes. This study examines whether news media literacy predicts the likelihood of endorsing conspiracy theories and also considers the impact of literacy on partisanship. A survey of 397 adults found that…
Some scholars have argued that the rise of digital media and a “high-choice media environment” have facilitated selective exposure and led to opinion polarization among the public. Others, in contrast, argued that digital media facilitate incidental exposure to news, connections with weak ties, and the building of heterogeneous networks. This article contends that the polarizing…
A sizable body of empirical evidence indicates political conversation—both face-to-face and online—drives participatory engagement. Digital, social, and mobile media provide new avenues and tools for political talk, with affordances that may be particularly conducive to expression effects—that is, the impact of message production on the sender. This essay contends that an emphasis on deliberative democracy…
While work in the media and cultural industries has long been considered precarious, the processes and logics of platformization have injected new sources of instability into the creative labor economy. Among the sources of such insecurity are platforms’ algorithms, which structure the production, circulation, and consumption of cultural content in capricious, enigmatic, even biased ways.…
