Curated Sociality on the Chinese Messaging App WeChat
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View ArticleEthical Challenges in Studying Sensitive Online Communities
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View ArticleChallenges in Capturing Highly Ephemeral Content
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View ArticleNegotiating Privacy in Posting from Mediatised Events (and Researching Them)
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View ArticleDeveloping a Research Protocol for Instagram Stories
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View ArticleCompeting Narratives of Networked Citizenship in Russia
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View ArticleSome Provocations to Social Media Researchers after the Cambridge Analytica...
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View ArticleUse of Facebook by German Political Journalists
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View ArticleTwitter Usage Patterns by Finnish News Outlets and Journalists
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View ArticleTweeting Strategies by Spanish TV Football Shows
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View ArticleThe Impact of Platform Affordances on Journalistic Role Performance
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View ArticleNews Consumption Practices of Students in Athens, Istanbul, and London
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View ArticleDiverging Engagement Patterns with Hard and Soft News in Spain
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View ArticleIt's Not the Technology, Stupid: How the 'Echo Chamber' and 'Filter Bubble'...
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Debunking the ‘Filter Bubble’ and ‘Echo Chamber’ Myths
Social MediaEcho Chambers and Filter BubblesFacebookTrISMA (ARC LIEF)TwitterARC Future FellowshipPublicationsIAMCR 2019The next session at IAMCR 2019 begins with my own paper, which presents an...
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