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“I Don’t Even Watch News (Voluntarily) on WeChat” – Socially-Compelled Exposure to Misinformation Among U.S. Diaspora Communities Online news sharing and political talk occur increasingly within encrypted messaging apps (EMAs), but these spaces are understudied, especially in the U.S. Relying on a total of 61 semi-structured ...

Based on 61 in-depth interviews, this article examines how members of three diaspora communities in the U.S. encounter and respond to political news and misinformation on encrypted spaces of WhatsApp and WeChat. Happy to share a free copy if you're interested, feel free to DM me :) shorturl.at/hriRD

02.07.2025 17:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

*New publication from Digital Journalism* Thrilled to have worked on this piece with @ingakris.bsky.social, Samuel C. Woolley, and Katlyn Glover: “'I Don’t Even Watch News (Voluntarily) on WeChat” – Socially-Compelled Exposure to Misinformation Among U.S. Diaspora Communities'" shorturl.at/hriRD

02.07.2025 17:35 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

The age of mass data access is gone with the sunset of major social media APIs. DSA-mandated data access programs sparked optimism, but do they provide adequate data access? We conducted a survey (180) + interview (19) study & the preprint is available on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.09877

31.05.2025 16:47 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

On the fly: How Japanese social media “watchers” improvise to counter problematic information - Kayo Mimizuka, André K Rodarte, Ahmer Arif, 2024 Recent studies have explored how the purveyors of problematic information can mobilize online crowds by tapping into positive feelings like amusement, belonging...

[New pub from New Media & Society] Excited to share my recent paper here as I just joined this platform! "On the Fly: How Japanese Social Media 'Watchers' Improvise to Counter Misinformation," co-authored w/ Ahmer Arif & @andre-k-rodarte.bsky.social
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31.05.2025 16:29 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

So thrilled to have worked on this important piece with @yang3kc.bsky.social @m-dot-brown.bsky.social and Kayo Mimizuka. Data access for independent researchers is at such a critical juncture

19.05.2025 14:46 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

[New WP] With the closure of major social media APIs and the new data access mandates under DSA, we enter what we call the "post-post-API" era. But have researchers obtained the data they need? Our recent survey (180) + interview (19) study suggests a stark reality.

🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2505.09877

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