Below are readings that are mostly from the open journal First Monday arranged according to the three themes for this week:
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Allendorfer, W. H., and S. C. Herring. “ISIS Vs. the U.S. Government: A War of Online Video Propaganda.” First Monday, Vol. 20, no. 12, Dec. 2015.
Al-Rawi, A., and A. Rahman. “Manufacturing Rage: The Russian Internet Research Agency’s Political Astroturfing on Social Media.” First Monday, Vol. 25, no. 9, Aug. 2020.
Avieson, B. “Breaking News on Wikipedia: Collaborating, Collating, and Competing." First Monday, Vol. 24, no. 5, Apr. 2019.
Bay, M. “Weaponizing the Haters: The Last Jedi And the Strategic Politicization of Pop Culture through Social Media Manipulation.” First Monday, Vol. 23, no. 11, Nov. 2018.
Burkell, J., and C. Gosse. “Nothing New Here: Emphasizing the Social and Cultural Context of Deepfakes.” First Monday, Vol. 24, no. 12, Dec. 2019.
Carlson, C. R., and H. Witt. “Online Harassment of U.S. Women Journalists and Its Impact on Press Freedom.” First Monday, Vol. 25, no. 11, Oct. 2020.
Ferrara, E., H. Chang, E. Chen, G. Muric, and J. Patel. “Characterizing Social Media Manipulation in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election.” First Monday, Vol. 25, no. 11, Oct. 2020.
Ferrara, E. “What Types of COVID-19 Conspiracies Are Populated by Twitter Bots?” First Monday, Vol. 25, no. 6, May 2020.
Hannah, M. “QAnon and the Information Dark Age.” First Monday, Vol. 26, no. 2, Jan. 2021.
Hara, N., and E. Frieh. “How Knowledge Contributors Are Legitimizing Their Posts on Controversial Scientific Topics: A Case of the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) Vaccine.” First Monday, Vol. 24, no. 11, Nov. 2019.
Head, A. J., E. DeFrain, B. Fister, and M. MacMillan. “Across the Great Divide: How Today’s College Students Engage With News.” First Monday, Vol. 24, no. 8, Aug. 2019.
Le, V. “The Deepfakes to Come: A Turing Cop’s Nightmare.” Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, vol. 17, no. 2-3, Dec. 2020.
Luceri, L., A. Deb, S. Giordano, and E. Ferrara. “Evolution of Bot and Human Behavior During Elections.” First Monday, Vol. 24, no. 9, Aug. 2019.
Lysenko, V., and C. Brooks. “Russian Information Troops, Disinformation, and Democracy.” First Monday, Vol. 23, no. 5, Apr. 2018.
Munn, L. “Alt-Right Pipeline: Individual Journeys to Extremism Online.” First Monday, Vol. 24, no. 6, June 2019.
Paolillo, J. C. “The Flat Earth Phenomenon on YouTube.” First Monday, Vol. 23, no. 12, Dec. 2018.
Sanfilippo, M. R., and Y. Lev-Aretz. “Topic Polarization and Push Notifications.” First Monday, Vol. 24, no. 9, Aug. 2019.
Shukla, S. “Infodemic Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic.” First Monday, Vol. 25, no. 12, Nov. 2020.
Woolley, S. C. “Automating Power: Social Bot Interference in Global Politics.” First Monday, Vol. 21, no. 4, Mar. 2016.
Albrechtslund, A.-M. B., and A. Albrechtslund. “Social Media As Leisure Culture.” First Monday, Vol. 19, no. 4, Mar. 2014.
Carlson, C. R., and H. Rousselle. “Report and Repeat: Investigating Facebook’s Hate Speech Removal Process.” First Monday, Vol. 25, no. 2, Jan. 2020.
Chapman, D., K. Miller-Stevens, J. C. Morris, and B. O’Hallarn. “A New Model to Explore Non-Profit Social Media Use for Advocacy and Civic Engagement.” First Monday, Vol. 20, no. 10, Oct. 2015.
Cirucci, A. M. “Redefining Privacy and Anonymity Through Social Networking Affordances.” First Monday, Vol. 20, no. 7, June 2015.
Engelmann, S., J. Grossklags, and L. Herzog. “Should Users Participate in Governing Social Media? Philosophical and Technical Considerations of Democratic Social Media.” First Monday, Vol. 25, no. 12, Nov. 2020.
Eranti, V., and M. Lonkila. “The Social Significance of the Facebook Like Button.” First Monday, Vol. 20, no. 6, May 2015.
Fornaciari, F. “Pricey Privacy: Framing the Economy of Information in the Digital Age.” First Monday, Vol. 19, no. 12, Dec. 2014.
Jardine, E. “Online Content Moderation and the Dark Web: Policy Responses to Radicalizing Hate Speech and Malicious Content on the Darknet.” First Monday, Vol. 24, no. 12, Dec. 2019.
Kalsnes, B., A. O. Larsson, and G. S. Enli. “The Social Media Logic of Political Interaction: Exploring Citizens’ and Politicians’ Relationship on Facebook and Twitter.” First Monday, Vol. 22, no. 2, Jan. 2017.
Kofoed, J., and M. C. Larsen. “A Snap of Intimacy: Photo-Sharing Practices Among Young People on Social Media.” First Monday, Vol. 21, no. 11, Oct. 2016.
Lapenta, G. H., and R. F. Jørgensen. “Youth, Privacy and Online Media: Framing the Right to Privacy in Public Policy-Making.” First Monday, Vol. 20, no. 3, Feb. 2015.
Leiter, Bryan. “Cleaning Cyber-Cesspools: Google and Free Speech.” Levmore, Saul, and Martha Craven Nussbaum. The Offensive Internet: Speech, Privacy, and Reputation. Harvard University Press, 2010. Pages 155-172.
March, L. “Rebel Reviewers: Social Media Review Pages as Sites of Confederate Memorial Discourses.” First Monday, Vol. 25, no. 12, Nov. 2020
Nansen, B., D. O’Donnell, M. Arnold, T. Kohn, and M. Gibbs. “‘Death by Twitter: Understanding False Death Announcements on Social Media and the Performance of Platform Cultural Capital.” First Monday, Vol. 24, no. 12, Dec. 2019.
Park, G. “Eating (alone) With Facebook: Digital Natives’ Transition to College.” First Monday, Vol. 23, no. 11, Nov. 2018.
Raun, T. “"Talking About His Dead Child, Again! Emotional Self-Management in Relation to Online Mourning.” First Monday, Vol. 22, no. 11, Oct. 2017.
Seelig, M. I. “Social Activism: Engaging Millennials in Social Causes.” First Monday, Vol. 23, no. 2, Feb. 2018.
Seo, H., R.-W. Harn, H. Ebrahim, and J. Aldana. “International Students’ Social Media Use and Social Adjustment.” First Monday, Vol. 21, no. 11, Oct. 2016.
Shade, L. R., and T. Shepherd. “Viewing Youth and Mobile Privacy Through a Digital Policy Literacy Framework.” First Monday, Vol. 18, no. 12, Dec. 2013.
Stanger, N., N. Alnaghaimshi, and E. Pearson. “How Do Saudi Youth Engage With Social Media?” First Monday, Vol. 22, no. 5, May 2017.
Švelch, J., and V. Štětka. “The Coup That Flopped: Facebook as a Platform for Emotional Protest.” First Monday, Vol. 21, no. 1, Jan. 2016.
Bostwick, E. N., D. Liao, and S. K. Lee. “Could I Be Pregnant? A Study of Online Adolescent Pregnancy Forums for Social Support.” First Monday, Vol. 24, no. 9, Aug. 2019.
Brewster, K., and B. Ruberg. “SURVIVORS: Archiving the History of Bulletin Board Systems and the AIDS Crisis.” First Monday, Vol. 25, no. 10, Sept. 2020.
Forman, A. E., R. Kern, and G. Gil-Egui. “Death and Mourning as Sources of Community Participation in Online Social Networks: R.I.P. Pages in Facebook.” First Monday, Aug. 2012.
Galuszka, P., and V. Bystrov. “The Rise of Fanvestors: A Study of a Crowdfunding Community.” First Monday, Vol. 19, no. 5, Apr. 2014.
Golbeck, J., S. Ash, and N. Cabrera. “Hashtags as Online Communities With Social Support: A Study of Anti-Sexism-in-Science Hashtag Movements.” First Monday, Vol. 22, no. 9, Sept. 2017.
Golbeck, J. “The More People I Meet, the More I Like My Dog: A Study of Pet-Oriented Social Networks on the Web.” First Monday, Vol. 16, no. 2, Jan. 2011.
Kavanaugh, A. L., and Z. Song. “Engaging a Community Through Social Media-Based Topics and Interactions.” First Monday, Vol. 23, no. 4, Apr. 2018.
Kavanaugh, A. L., and Z. Song. “Engaging a Community Through Social Media-Based Topics and Interactions.” First Monday, Vol. 23, no. 4, Apr. 2018.
Massanari, A. L. “DIY Design: How Crowdsourcing Sites Are Challenging Traditional Graphic Design Practice.” First Monday, Vol. 17, no. 10, Sept. 2012.
Moilanen, J., and T. Vadén. “3D Printing Community and Emerging Practices of Peer Production.” First Monday, Vol. 18, no. 8, July 2013.
Velkova, J. “Open Cultural Production and the Online Gift Economy: The Case of Blender.” First Monday, Vol. 21, no. 10, Sept. 2016.
Warmelink, Harald, and Marko Siitonen. “A Decade of Research into Player Communities in Online Games.” Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds, vol. 5, no. 3, Sept. 2013, pp. 271–293.
Whyte, C. “Of Commissars, Cults and Conspiratorial Communities: The Role of Countercultural Spaces in ‘Democracy Hacking’ Campaigns.” First Monday, Vol. 25, no. 4, Mar. 2020.