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This conceptual review identifies the contributions of the Sociology of Sport Journal to the subfield of feminist sport media studies. Since the first issue of Sociology of Sport Journal, over 60 articles addressed primarily the media representations research area of feminist sport media studies, using a range of theoretical frameworks that mirrored theoretical shifts in the field. An empirical analysis of geographies of knowledge production indicates that the scholarship in Sociology of Sport Journal in this subfield is primarily based in the United States and focuses on Western contexts. The article concludes with a reflection on the importance of special issues and interdisciplinary collaborations in feminist sport media studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hyperbolic metamaterials (HMMs) are artificial subwavelength-structured media that exhibit excellent hyperbolic properties. The Casimir force for HMMs can be predicted by effective medium theory (EMT), which simplifies the calculations considerably. However, the conditions of EMT in the Casimir force between HMMs have not been investigated. In this work, we compare the exact results of the Casimir force calculated by the transfer matrix method (TMM) with those from EMT. The numerical results suggest that EMT can accurately calculate the Casimir force only when the gap distance is 100 times larger than the period of a unit cell. When the gap distance and period of unit cell values are comparable, EMT is not suitable for TMM, and the main error occurs in the hyperbolic band. Furthermore, the effect of the filling ratio on the applicable conditions of EMT is also studied. This work demonstrates the conditions of EMT in calculating the Casimir force between HMMs and provides help for the development of micro- and nanoelectromechanical systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Building on the foundational study conducted by Abeza et al., this work extends the investigation by critically reviewing social media research in sport studies published from June 2014 to June 2023. Methodologically, the review involved an examination of 153 original research articles from five prominent journals in sport communication and sport management, namely the International Journal of Sport Communication, Communication & Sport, Journal of Sport Management, Sport Management Review, and European Sport Management Quarterly. The study identified the research streams, platforms, theories, and research methods that have garnered attention in the social media research community. The findings reveal several key insights that contribute to the ongoing dialogue in the field, stimulating further exploration and advancing knowledge at the intersection of social media and sport. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective Methods Results Conclusion Users of social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter can view and share their daily life events through text, photographs, or videos. These platforms receive many sarcastic posts daily because there were fewer limits on what could be posted. The presence of multiple languages and media types in a single post makes it harder to identify sarcastic messages on the current platform than on posts written solely in English.This study provides both the theory and solutions about sarcastic post detection on social platforms. Hindi–English code‐mixed data were used to train and test the automated models for sarcasm detection. The models in this study were constructed using traditional machine learning, deep neural networks, LSTM (long short‐term memory), CNN (convolutional neural network), and the combinations of BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) with LSTM.The experimental results confirm that in the Hindi–English code‐mixed data set, the CNN, LSTM, and BERT‐LSTM ensemble perform best for sarcasm detection. The proposed model achieved an accuracy of 96.29 percent and outperformed by 2.29 percent compared to the existing models.The performance of the proposed system strengthens the code‐mixed sarcastic post detection on social platforms. The model will help filter not only English but also Hindi‐English code‐mixed sarcastic posts on social platforms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The conductivity for half-filled disordered Hubbard model in different interaction regimes is studied using a typical medium dynamical mean-field theory. The Kubo formula with the geometrically averaged Green function is used to calculate the optical and dc conductivity of the system. The dependence of the conductivities in the model on the random potential and temperature in the weak and intermediate interaction regimes is investigated numerically. It is shown that in the weak interaction regime at a fixed temperature the optical conductivity at low frequencies as well as the dc conductivity get decreased as disorder strength increases. Whereas in the intermediate interaction regime, the results show a reentrant effect of the insulating phases. Our dc conductivity of a non-interacting disordered system is consistent with those known in the literature and our other results are in agreement with the phase diagram obtained by using typical medium theory with different impurity solvers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current study synthesizes 34 effect sizes from 18 articles involving 9,271 participants to investigate how media multitasking influences enjoyment under different circumstances. The moderating effects of task combination, sample demographics, and methodological artifacts are examined. Study results indicate that task relevance boosts the positive relationship between media multitasking and enjoyment, with sample mean age and gender ratio being controlled. Sample demographics also moderate the relationship between media multitasking and enjoyment, with community samples and men reporting higher levels of enjoyment than student samples and women. Lab studies yield lower enjoyment than their non-lab counterparts; single-item measures of enjoyment generate more positive results than multi-item measures. Moreover, when studies using non-media tasks are excluded, surveys, older generations, and studies with social media interaction as the secondary task report higher multi-screening enjoyment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractThis article examines the role of media platforms in the jihadist propaganda ecosystem. It presents a case study of the Muntasir Media platform which achieved extensive media impact in Spain during the period 2018–19. A descriptive analysis is provided of the emergence, evolution and demise of the platform, which can be viewed as an archetypal illustration of the effect sought by Islamic State propaganda in extolling the work of media jihadists. The article argues that platforms have not only been essential for maintaining the visibility of the jihadist narrative but have also offered an attractive form of surrogate activism for radicalised individuals cut off from formal organisations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The emergence of 24/7 cable news channels within the US revolutionized news consumption, offering viewers accessibility beyond fixed broadcast schedules. While the phenomenon began with CNN, competitors quickly emerged, targeting different political ideologies and mirroring the heightened polarization that has altered American society. Cable news channels must market themselves effectively to their audiences through distinctive product differentiation strategies. Understanding these approaches provides insights into information dissemination, political communication, and audience engagement dynamics. This paper aims to conduct a formal media analysis of current self-promotional advertisements across the big three cable news networks within the US to derive insights into contemporary differentiation strategies crucial for monitoring the industry's technological transition. As the rest of the world has begun to wrestle with increased polarization, this analysis will be relevant to anticipating how non-US news sources use ideology and values to position themselves within highly competitive markets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyzes misinformation claims sent to fact-checking organizations on WhatsApp during the 2022 Brazilian general election and compares them with content from Twitter and Kwai (a popular video-sharing application similar to TikTok). Given the democratic importance of accurate information during elections, multiple fact-checking organizations collaborated to collect and respond to misinformation via WhatsApp tiplines and power a fact-checking feature within a chatbot operated by Brazil's election authority, the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (TSE). We partnered with TSE and three fact-checking organizations and collected social media data to study how misinformation claims propagate across platforms. We observed little overlap between the users of different fact-checking tiplines and a high correlation between the number of users and the amount of unique content, suggesting that WhatsApp tiplines are far from reaching a saturation point. Similarly, we also found little overlap in content across platforms, indicating the need for further research with cross-platform approaches to identify misinformation dynamics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How does the combination of democratization and violence shape the public sphere? This should entail an enlargement of the public sphere and an increase in public deliberation. Since framing is a powerful tool in determining the scope and contents of public debate, what role does framing play in democratizing public spheres? Taking the state of Veracruz (Mexico) as a case study, we explore to what extent do print media allow for an enlargement of the public sphere in terms of both admissible participants and issues. We argue that framing practices contribute to a paradoxical situation in which deliberation takes place, but whose democratic character is severely compromised by the systematic exclusion of certain actors and the subordinate framing of certain issues in the media. The result is a hybrid public sphere in which ostensibly democratic media help normalize violence, authoritarian practices and traditional domination patterns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mixed methods research plays an important role in understanding and supporting the implementation of inclusive education policies and practices around the world. The aim of this scoping review was to assess the rigour of 66 mixed methods research texts in inclusive education by applying Harrison, Reilly, and Creswell's (2020) Rigorous Mixed Methods Framework and the PRISMA-ScR guidelines. Overall, studies showed medium levels of rigour, although there was significant variability, with theses and dissertations reflecting higher rigour than peer reviewed articles. Results suggest that scholars can deepen their application of mixed methods by thoughtfully integrating qualitative and quantitative approaches to gain insights into the complex and contextualized processes that characterize inclusive education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Because the overwhelming majority of births in the United States (U.S.) occur in hospitals and other medical settings rather than at home, the only births many U.S. women see before giving birth themselves are those shown in media, such as films and television series. Using thematic analysis of 111 media pieces consisting of fictional films and television show episodes that feature childbirth and were released in the U.S. from 1988 to 2023, we investigate what these depictions communicate about women during childbirth and whether these portrayals have changed over time. Overall, we find that the depictions in these movies and television show episodes rely on institutionalized medicine, emotionally intense labor and deliveries, objectification of women, and gendered behaviors during childbirth. These depictions have changed little over the time period we examined and convey the strong preservation of the gender structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the concept of 'failure' in relation to digital media, their development and appropriation in social contexts. In the first part, the article provides an overview of the category of failure for understanding digital media, addressing some of the most relevant contributions from several fields of study, including Science & Technology Studies (STS), History of Communication, Media Archaeology, and Post-Digital Art Aesthetics. In the second part, this sketched theoretical landscape is developed through the presentation of four 'eclectic' theses on failure in digital media, with the aim of inviting media scholars to reconsider some of the most recurrent assumptions about the development of digital media through a perspective focused on the notion of failure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: Social media has become an inescapable part of our lives. However, recent research suggests that excessive use of social media may lead to fatigue and users' disengagement. This study aims to examine which brand-related factors contribute to social media fatigue (SMF) and its subsequent role on driving lurking behaviors, particularly among young consumers. Design/methodology/approach: Based on survey data from 282 young users of social media, a holistic model of brand-related drivers and outcomes of SMF was tested, emphasizing the contribution of brands' social media presence to users' disengagement. Findings: Research shows that branded content overload and irrelevance, as well as branded ads intrusiveness significantly impact SMF, which in turn plays a mediating role between brand-related drivers and lurking behaviors. The authors further conclude that the impact of SMF on lurking is stronger for users who follow a larger set of brands. Originality/value: The study contributes to social media research by addressing its "dark side" and empirically validating the role of brands' social media presence in developing young users' fatigue and disengagement. The study further adds to the scant literature on SMF, which was mostly developed outside the branding field. Research also provides valuable insights to brands on how to improve their social media performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rise of platforms since the Millennium has drastically reshaped human activities worldwide and transformed our physical world into what is known as platform societies, wherein social and economic interactions are profoundly mediated and defined by the digital infrastructure of platforms. The immense integration of platforms into daily human life prompts inquiry into their capacity to foster social good. This Special Issue presents a compilation of articles that scrutinize the intricate relationship between platforms and their potential to promote social good in the contexts of mainland China and Hong Kong. In both settings, platforms are subject to negotiation and co-creation among technological, commercial, and political logics, although the nuances differ. While social good can embody a wide range of public interests and common goods, this Special Issue specifically explores social good within the domains of promoting good health and well-being, advocating responsible production and consumption, fostering societal equality, advancing decent work and economic growth, and supporting justice and effective institutions. The collection illustrates that platforms may contribute to social good at both macro and micro levels. Platforms have the capacity to provide infrastructure for social and economic activities in the digital realm, driving transformations in business and social relations. Platforms can also offer individuals and collectives access to resources, empowering them to safeguard public interests. Understanding the role of platforms in upholding social good requires consideration of multifaceted forces and interests rooted in the market, state, and civil society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The year 2022 was a turbulent one for the audiovisual industry worldwide. In Hungary, two global streaming platforms, HBO Max and Disney+, launched their services, joining Netflix and some less popular streamers already on the scene. The content offered by these global streaming platforms has a lot in common compared to legacy television’s supply in large markets. However, few studies have focused on small markets or “digital peripheries” where the inevitable global reach of new technologies and service providers mixes with more complicated local market realities. Our study aims to extend this body of knowledge to another small, “odd market,” namely Hungary. It investigates how professionals perceive the television market in the wake of the advent of streaming in their current practice and from a strategic perspective on a small and specific national market such as Hungary. Using in-depth interviews (n = 9) with managers across organizations in the Hungarian audiovisual industry complemented by an analysis of publicly available secondary sources, our findings reveal three main clash areas in the market: established market presence, power within the supply chain, and content offering adding a potential framework for competitive analysis to studies of small media markets and the dynamics between legacy and streaming players. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Communication scientists have published pornography research in the communication discipline’s central journals for decades. Health communication scholars have become particularly interested in pornography in recent years, given increasing evidence of its likely impact on critical sexual health outcomes. An important resource for scholarship on pornography use is the General Social Survey (GSS). The first major article on pornography use and potential effects using the GSS was published only a decade ago and in a sexological journal, however. The present study provides a replication of this original article within the context of a GSS methodological experiment designed to provide pornography scholars with the first opportunity in 50 years to test a potential new pornography use measure. Results are interpreted in terms of their implications for the GSS, the pornography literature in general, and multiple theories of media use, processes, and effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tapping into mediatisation as a critical lens to examine how cultural synergy, particularly Korean Wave’s influence, manifests and impacts of everyday cultural practice in Malaysia. Despite a delayed start compared to neighbours, the Korean Wave ignited by the drama “Winter Sonata” in 2002, maintains a remarkable popularity in Malaysia. This study delves deeper than the surface of the Korean Wave, or Hallyu, exploring the intricate interplay between Korean stars, social media, and the phenomenon’s power. This work aims to understand how these elements actively shape and maintain its influence. While there has been a proliferation of research on the Korean Wave, it focuses on K-Pop music and K-Drama. Thus, this research project is designated to highlight elements other than K-Pop and K-Drama in the Korean Wave phenomenon by focusing on non-K-Pop cultural products. By observing open social media accounts and content, as well as events related to South Korean products, this study will use qualitative methods, netnography and participant observation for data collection. The findings are discussed in four key themes: Exploring Platforms and Fan Communities and Their Impact on Everyday Practices; International Brands Using Korean Stars for Product Promotion in Malaysia; the Potential of Selected Qualitative Methods for Understanding Social Phenomena; and the Limitations of These Methods in Research. The study highlights the need to choose relevant theories and research methods to improve the quality and depth of findings, especially when exploring complex subjects such as fandom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Taking three questions as essential, interculturality, the globalization of malaise and the extension of the perception produced by the media, this article intends to observe how the use of digital media has produced an effect of malaise on human beings. hypermodern, just as they seem to globalize, instead of riches, only other evils. In addition, to reflect on how the development of intercultural relations can emerge as actions that, if they do not solve these problems, at least indicate ways forward. This research will be exploratory and, methodologically, will use the concepts of media theory to understand the use of the media. It will also relate these concepts to the ideas of cultural studies on interculturality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We derive effective models for a heterogeneous second-gradient elastic material taking into account chiral scale-size effects. Our classification of the effective equations depends on the hierarchy of four characteristic lengths: The size of the heterogeneities ℓ, the intrinsic lengths of the constituents ℓ SG and ℓ chiral , and the overall characteristic length of the domain L. Depending on the different scale interactions between ℓ SG , ℓ chiral , ℓ, and L we obtain either an effective Cauchy continuum or an effective second-gradient continuum. The working technique combines scaling arguments with the periodic homogenization asymptotic procedure. Both the passage to the homogenization limit and the unveiling of the correctors' structure rely on a suitable use of the periodic unfolding operator. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this work, the effects of interaction between elastic and plasma-thermal waves are studied in the framework of the hyperbolic two-temperature theory. The basic equations are formed during the photo-excitation processes in the context of the photothermal theory. A laser pulse illuminates the outer surface of a semiconductor medium whose thermal conductivity is variable. Three different models of the generalized photo-thermoelasticity theory are applied to a 2D deformation problem. The integral transforms technique are used to solve the problem by applying the double transforms Fourier and Laplace. The inversion of Fourier and Laplace transforms is obtained according to Honig and Hirdes technique. The thermal, mechanical and recombination plasma loads are utilized at the medium-free surface to attain the complete solutions of the main physical fields. A comparison between the three different models of thermoelasticity is performed; in addition, the influence of some physical parameters are studied. Si material has been utilized as an example to ensure the validity of the attained solution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay forwards an intensive model of mediation contrasted with the extensive model implicit in much of media theory, which conceives of communication media as an extension of human faculties. An intensive model, instead, conceives of mediation as a phenomenological process of splitting or folding affective capacities. An extensive model results in a dualistic, essentialist theory of communication media and unresolvable normative debates about the connecting or disconnecting consequences of media. An intensive model avoids these limitations by diagramming various modes of mediation and illustrating how their consequences stem from alterations to intensive properties, thereby helping constitute subjects and media objects alike rather than presuming a media bridge between pre-existing subjects and objects. The essay employs a number of examples to illustrate the extensive model, including telephone conversations, cinema, animation, and social media. The essay concludes with the division of families over QAnon conspiracies to illustrate the analytic gain from an intensive model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractThis article proposes that Japanese science fiction emerged as an escape from the limits of the realistic representation of the world proposed by Naturalism. It reads three science fiction short stories published in the magazines Tanken sekai (World of Exploration) and Bōken sekai (World of Adventure) between 1907 and 1910 to discuss early science fiction in which authors utilised technoscientific discourse. Engaging in a set of textual practices centred on developments of modern science and technology, these authors developed one of science fiction’s distinctive features: anti-mimeticism, a literary mode focused on the depiction of anything that cannot happen in real life. This article focuses on the modalities by which these stories—Tenkūkaikatsu Dōjin’s ‘Gessekai shinkon ryokō’ (Lunar Honeymoon), Ishii Kendō’s ‘Gessekai dokuryoku tanken’ (Self-made Exploration to the Moon), and Hakui Michihito’s ‘Yukai to benri wo kiwametaru ōgon jidai no tokai seikatsu’ (The Extremely Amusing and Comfortable Golden Age of Urban Life)1—employ a rationalistic view of the phenomenal realm to generate fictional worlds that relinquish the dominance of a mimetic representation of reality. An analysis of early Japanese science fiction from the late Meiji period reveals two elements that eschewed the realistic literature such as Naturalism: objective narration and an anti-mimetic base for the fictional world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The corrosion behavior of Q345qNH steel and Q420qNH steel in simulated industrial atmospheric environment medium was studied by periodic immersion+infrared aging corrosion experiment. The results show that the corrosion type of both samples is uneven comprehensive corrosion, and the rust layer formed in the later stage of corrosion is relatively dense. But average corrosion rate of Q345qNH steel is always lower than that of Q420qNH steel, and the ratio of Iα‐FeOOH/Iγ‐FeOOH in rust layer is always higher. Compared with Q420qNH steel, Q345qNH steel has fewer surface pits but deeper local pits. The self‐corrosion potential of Q345qNH steel increases obviously, the resistance of the rust layer is larger, and protection to the matrix is stronger. This is because the formation of a large number of corrosion microcells induced by fine lamellar sorbite tissue that uneven distributed in Q420qNH steel, which increases the corrosion rate and makes corrosion uneven, while the larger pearlitic group in Q345qNH steel increases the local corrosion rate. However, the higher chromium/carbon ratio in Q345qNH steel promotes the conversion of lepidocrocite to goethite and inhibits the cathode reaction in the infrared drying stage, improving the density and stability of the rust layer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is commonly assumed that data volume and network energy consumption are directly proportional, a notion perpetuated by numerous studies and media coverage. This paper challenges this assumption, offering a comprehensive examination of network operations to explain why the relationship between energy consumption and data volume is nonlinear. The power model approach is explored as an alternative methodology for calculating network energy consumption providing a more reliable representation of network energy use. The power model demonstrates that simple energy intensity calculations, expressed as kilowatt hours per gigabyte of data, are insufficient for accurately estimating real‐world network energy consumption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a theoretical exploration of the nuanced connections between the notion of affect and representations of sexuality in postfeminist television series. Drawing on gender studies, media studies and affect theory, it addresses the manifestation of postfeminist ideals in popular media and how it shapes the audience's understanding of gender and sexuality, acknowledging the complex negotiation of sexual identities, and emphasising the role of affective experiences in viewer engagement and interpretation of sexual scripts. Contributing to the ongoing dialogue on feminism, media, and affect theory, the study theoretically examines the affective dimensions of postfeminist learning to enhance comprehension of emotional responses to depictions of sex on contemporary television, using the series Fleabag as an illustrative example. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article draws on feminist cultural studies, media and cultural theory, and engages with feminist law and criminology, to argue for a newly invigorated conceptualisation of consent in feminist theory. Rather than advance a particular feminist theory of consent, the article argues for a feminist cultural media theory of commonsense consent that is both sensory and representational. This theory acknowledges that there is no concept of consent reserved for sexual encounters. Rather, a more universal, commonsense theory, shaped as much by twentieth-century media as eighteenth-century political philosophy, informs how consent shows up to social experience. The article offers a revision of feminist discussions about consent in law, political philosophy and cultural studies, proposing that accounts such as Laura Kipnis' Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus can be read as descriptions of consent's affective structure. Feminist accounts have underestimated the implications of the involvement of media, from early cinema through to contemporary social media, in co-locating consent with deception. This article shows how the media concept of consent-deception plays a role in suspicion and betrayal, both of which act as consent's structures of feeling. To further probe an enquiry into how personalised media are transforming commonsense consent, the article discusses the TV programme The Tinder Swindler. Various production techniques encourage a view of social media as a complete encapsulation of the social life and affectivity of consent-deception, suggesting a number of implications for a feminist cultural media theory of commonsense consent. In particular, the programme asks us to problematise the evidentiary status of informational social media linked to the changing perceptibility of consent-deception. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Under dataveillance as the "new normal," datafied societies render privacy seemingly impossible. Communication and media privacy scholars foster relational and contextual perspectives to explore how agents and infrastructures could nevertheless maintain a certain degree of self-determined control over the flow of data. Situational privacy accesses this debate from an alternative practice-based perspective. Putting emphasis on the ongoing transformation of privacy, this contribution leverages recent empirical and theoretical thoughts of practice-based privacy research as well as conceptual work on the notion of the situation in social theory. Shifting the focus onto privacy breakdown, mundane criticism, and pragmatic measures of "good enough privacy," it anchors privacy in everyday routines and situations. Situational privacy offers a communication and media perspective on privacy as a critical concept in transformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Embodiment has been incorporated in communication studies researching the experiencing self, motivated cognitive information processing, and embodied medium theory. This article highlights another factor—past bodily experiences—as important for understanding the impact of embodiment on communication processes. Expanding schema to a construct spanning multiple levels of the neural hierarchy, we propose embodied schema as a minimal framework to capture the idea that all mental structures are grounded in the body. Based on the function of embodied schemas, we describe an Embodied Schema Information Processing Theory (ESIPT) that includes an embodied dual-process theory, which offers a more coherent account of the automatic cue- or heuristic-based processing mode, and a model that describes the influence of the environment and bodily state on high-level cognitive processing. This article systematically explores the role of past bodily experiences and provides a general account of embodied information processing that can inform a wide range of communication studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While conspiracy theories have traditionally received attention from the Turkish public and political elite, recently, however, they have proliferated when explaining complex situations. This paper examines conspiracy theories in Turkey and the role of entertainment media, specifically the popular period drama, Payitaht: Abdülhamid, in mainstreaming conspiracy theories. Payitaht: Abdülhamid, as an ideological state apparatus, repurposes anti-Semitism as salient conspiracy theories by creating scapegoats and existential others. This paper argues that the state uses entertainment media to disseminate conspiracy theories and, in effect, endorses anti-Semitism. As a result, anti-Semitism has transformed from a marginal movement to a mainstream movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study aimed to investigate the impact of social media usage and study habits on the academic performance of students at MSU-Balo-i Community High School during the Academic Year 2023-2024. A descriptive-correlational survey methodology was utilized to explore the connections between social media engagement, study habits, and academic achievement among Grade 7, 10, 11, and 12 students, with a focus on Facebook users, totaling three hundred (300) participants. The study delved into various dimensions of social media usage, including performance index, entertainment index, health influence, isolation index, social networking connections, and time consumption. On the other hand, study habits were assessed across eight sub-scales: time management, physical well-being, reading proficiency, note-taking skills, learning motivation, memory retention, exam preparation, and overall health awareness. The findings revealed that students generally held a positive self-assessment of their study habits across multiple dimensions. Moreover, the academic performance of the students was notably commendable, with a majority demonstrating excellence. However, divergent viewpoints emerged regarding the impact of social media, with many students expressing concerns about its potential negative effects on academic performance. While the study did not find a mediating role for study habits in the relationship between social media use and academic performance, the results underscore the importance of addressing students' perceptions and behaviors concerning social media to optimize their academic outcomes. Future interventions could focus on promoting balanced social media usage while enhancing effective study habits to support students in achieving their academic goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Films and texts differ in terms of their possible logical structures and freedom of presentation on an output medium. While texts can be structured at any depth, the capabilities for structuring films are generally limited. In the presentation of textual documents, the sentence order is usually preserved, whereas video documents often allow rearrangements that lead to new alternations of shots. The fundamental difference between textual and video structures is taken as a starting point. Then, based on a detailed analysis of two different layouts of the film The Sunbeam by D. W. Griffith, a formal criterion for distinguishing between internal, discursively motivated and external, diegetically motivated alternations is developed. The results enable a new approach to alternation in film analysis and production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work presents a novel approach to investigating the slip effect in nanofiber filter media. Electrospun nanofiber media with high efficiency and low pressure drop were produced at different concentrations and durations. The surface and cross-sectional morphology of nanofiber media were studied using FE-SEM. Fiber orientation and diameter distributions were also examined. The 3D virtual nanofiber media was modeled using this information along with the experimentally measured porosity and thickness of the media. The effect of the slip phenomenon in nanofiber media was studied numerically, and the results were compared to experimental data. Excellent agreements were found between the measured and simulation results. Additionally, filtration simulations considering aerosols injected with airflow through the nanofibrous filter media were conducted by considering the slip effect, and the effect of filter structure on filtration performance (removal efficiency and pressure drop) was investigated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay will explore some of the ambiguous interactions between imaginary spaces and material reality as articulated by Barbie, considering the implications for its understanding of womanhood. First outlining a series of oppositions between fantasy and reality, Barbie and “real women” in the film, I will then highlight the ways in which this binary framework is ultimately undermined. With reference to both media theory and trans theories of embodiment, I will argue that the film resists oppositions between imagination and reality in ways that are generative and progressive, yet which simultaneously serve to enhance the film’s marketability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Western liberal media theories often neglect to recognize “news translation” as one of the journalistic practices. This paper problematizes this dominant understanding of journalistic practice and expands the Bourdieusian media sociology project beyond western media systems by applying it to Indian agency journalism. A case study of the United News of India Urdu (UNIU) serves as the basis for this examination, drawing on an ethnography of news production practices, and supplemented with in-depth interviews conducted with Muslim journalists from 2018 to 2020 across four major Indian cities. Through this investigation, the paper asserts that “news translation” is indeed a vital but contested component of media work within the sphere of Indian-language journalism. The paper uses “media work” as a key concept to demonstrate that UNIU’s journalists are anchored in the field of journalism, as is evidenced by their institutional-cum-organizational location and their application of the elements of journalistic practice to their work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The changing narratives and portrayal of Taliban in the US media has been a subject of much deliberation among the media connoisseurs ranging from their heroic portrayal during the Afghan-Soviet war to desperados in the post 9/11 world landscape. For this particular reason, the present study is an effort to locate how the proxy actor (Pakistan) has been linked to the Taliban by the US media in the post 9/11 world. This research takes Time magazine as a case study and articles related to Pakistan are selected encompassing the decade following 9/11. The corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis has been applied using Graph Coll and Wordsmith. The analysis has been done on three levels: (i) the time-specific pattern of the node linked with the Pakistani context, (ii) the most significant and strong collocates of the node, and (iii) the semantic categorization of the collocates. The analysis reveals that Pakistan has been linked with Taliban groups throughout the decade in some years more frequently than others. The second level of analysis reveals that the Taliban groups are statistically significantly and strongly connected with Pakistan. The third level of analysis reveals many aspects such as ambiguity pertaining to Taliban and associated groups, their ties with Pakistan, and Pakistan playing a dodging game with Taliban groups as well as the US government. Such media portrayal of Pakistan as being a white sepulture reveals a political world where binaries (Us vs. Them) in the case of Pakistan do not exist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Acetabular erosion is an important complication in hemiarthroplasty and may lead to total hip arthroplasty as a conversion. The results of total hip arthroplasty as a conversion remain unclear. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to compare the outcome of total hip arthroplasty as a conversion with primary total hip arthroplasty. Materials and methods: PRISMA guidelines were used and Pubmed, Embase and the Cochrane libraries were searched. Both, studies comparing the outcome of total hip arthroplasty as a conversion with the outcome of primary total hip arthroplasty and the outcome of cohort studies limited to total hip arthroplasty as a conversion, were included. Risk of bias was assessed using the Methodological Index for Non Randomized Studies checklist. Meta-analysis was performed concerning pooled annual revision, dislocation and infection rates. Results: A total of 27 studies were available for analysis; four comparative studies and 23 cohort studies. Comparative studies were defined as high quality and cohort studies as medium quality. Analysis revealed a significantly higher overall revision risk (Hazard Ratio 1.72, 95% confidence interval 1.39 to 2.14) after total hip arthroplasty as a conversion compared to primary total hip arthroplasty. The annual revision rate of total hip arthroplasty as a conversion was 1.63% (95% confidence interval 1.14 to 2.33) in the comparative studies and 1.40% (95% confidence interval 1.17 to 1.66) in the cohort studies. A pooled infection rate of 4.34% (95% confidence interval 2.66 to 7.01) and dislocation rate of 4.79% (95% confidence interval 3.02 to 7.53), was found. Conclusions: Literature concerning the results of total hip arthroplasty as a conversion is limited. The risk of revision after conversion of hemiarthroplasty is higher compared to primary total hip arthroplasty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article introduces an original theoretical model for understanding how the linguistic framing of political protest messages influences how blame spreads in social media. Our model of blame retweetability posits that the way in which the basis and focus of blame are linguistically construed affects people's perception of the strength of criticism in the message and its likelihood to be reposted. Two online experiments provide empirical support for the model. We find that attacks on a person's character are perceived as more critical than blaming focused on the negative outcomes of their actions, and that negative judgements of social sanction have a greater impact than those of social esteem. The study also uncovers a "retweetability paradox"—in contrast to earlier studies, we find that blame messages that are perceived as more critical are not more likely to be reposted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article interrogates the medial politics of 2010 Nobel Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo through a re-situation of Marc Abélès's concept of "survival politics." It understands Liu's energetic self-representation in multiple media as an attempt to produce a usable Derridean signature, connections between texts and contexts that allow for cohesion inside endangered communities, as well as methods by which to contest dominant narratives. By reading Liu's graduate thesis, "Aesthetics and Human Freedom," alongside Derrida's essay "Signature Event Context," this article theorizes that minoritarian discourses that face erasure often choose vigorous transmedial production, self-sacrificially constraining their own freedoms in order to work toward the improbable appearance of signed texts. The article finishes by raising the possibility that the politics of authenticity and hypervisibility in contemporary African American intellectual culture are also interpretable through the lens of self-sacrificial hypermediation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jet substructure observables hold the keys to identifying the inner working of the quark–gluon plasma through its imprints in jet modification patterns. Because of the multi-scale nature of jet evolution, the strategy has focused on developing jet reclustering-based and jet shape-based observables to specifically probe different stages of jet evolution, which provide multi-dimensional quantification of jet particle distribution phase spaces. The developments of jet substructure in the past few years allowed us to explore the correlations among jet observables. The richer information beyond single-observable modifications could give provides a crucial step beyond the energy loss paradigm. This review surveys the theory and phenomenology of modern jet substructure observables, which help constraining the energy scales of medium interactions and identifying heavy flavor quarks within jets. Also, the peculiar soft activities point to more refined studies of medium responses to jets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although today media and communication studies across Latin America are closely linked to critical sociology, this was not always the case. In this article, we explore how the interaction between social communication (which includes communication and media studies) and critical sociology, in the Latin American context, evolved over time. In so doing, we examine how, and in which directions, media theory has developed and how it relates profoundly with critical sociology. This piece is an attempt to summarize this process and look at current contributions that propose more inclusive and participatory media. The key argument that it took a long time for Latin America's media studies to link itself with critical sociology but once that happened, it produced a distinctive school of thought that is counter-hegemonic and directs itself towards the contestation of power and oppression by linking itself with the popular. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article asks what it means to habituate a queer orientation in a world permeated by digital connectivity. In doing so, it takes media phenomenology away from the mundane towards the momentous, drawing on queer phenomenology, and existential media studies. Using life-narrative interviews with sexual minorities in Russia, the article sheds light on the "work of queer habituation" in a straight world, and the contemporary significance of digital media technologies within this process. Digital media's ability to multiply space is defined a key feature which offers sites to "stay with" the disorienting experience of queer dispositions. Through longer periods of discrete "queer digital dwelling," individuals who have been associating their queer desires with ontological threats are able to find space for existence and existential security. By locating others in close proximity, some are also allowed to appropriate local territory in ways that make it more livable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While most galaxies live in group environments where they undergo an accelerated evolution, the characteristics of their circumgalactic medium (CGM) remain uncertain. We present an analysis of the CGM of two galaxy groups in different stages of interaction: (G1) a close pair of galaxies (z  = 0.043) separated by 87 kpc that do not show signs of interactions and (G2) four merging galaxies (z  = 0.098) separated by 10 kpc. We present spatially resolved Keck/Keck Cosmic Web Imager galaxy observations and Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/COS quasar spectra (G1 at 48 kpc and G2 at 100 kpc away) to quantify both the resolved galaxy and CGM properties in these two different group environments. G1 contains two typical star-forming galaxies with no evidence of strong outflows. G2 contains two star-forming, one post-starburst and one quiescent galaxy. Both groups have a range of CGM-detected metal lines (H  i , C  ii , Si  ii , Si  iii , N  v , and O  vi). Despite G2 being twice as far from the quasar, G2 has |$\log (N({{{\rm H}{\small I}}})/{\rm cm}^{-2})=17.33$|⁠ , compared to |$\log (N({{{\rm H}{\small I}}})/{\rm cm}^{-2})=16.43$| for G1. We find that the CGM of the merging galaxies (G2) is more kinematically complex, is in a higher ionization state, spans a wider range of metallicities and column densities, has smaller cloud sizes, and is inconsistent with the simple superposition model that seems to match well with G1. We conclude that the complexity of the CGM in merging galaxies surpasses that of not strongly interacting galaxies, suggesting that mergers play a significant role in shaping the intricate structure of the CGM. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Migration deterrence campaigns are part of a set of border externalisation strategies that extend one nation's border into other territories. Building on the literature of border externalisation, migration deterrence, and feminist media studies, we address these campaigns as critical performative strategies that enact neoliberal ideologies and depoliticise migration. We analyse three cases – two from the US and one from Europe – in which nations target would-be migrants with multimedia messaging to persuade them to stay home and become productive citizens in their countries of origin. We argue that these campaigns reify neoliberal notions of the moral, responsible citizen, and the criminal or bound-to-falter migrant. In particular, deterrence media embrace the paradoxical notion that migrants are responsible for making the right choice yet possess no agency. As our discussion demonstrates, strategies that discourage people from moving enact neoliberal ideologies that treat migration as a purely individual decision, decontextualised from issues of structural inequality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The edited collection "Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice" brings together scholars from various disciplines to explore the significance of accent in the global cultural economy. The book reframes existing scholarship on accent from linguistic, racial, and sound studies perspectives and examines how accent intersects with migration policy, employment, culture, digital technologies, and politics. The chapters in the collection offer diverse approaches, including conceptual analyses and case studies, to illustrate the complexities of accent and its role in power dynamics and negotiations. The book is interdisciplinary and will be valuable to fields such as cultural studies, literary studies, voice studies, linguistics, politics, law, education, and sociology. It is published in an open access format, making it accessible to a wide range of readers. [Extracted from the article]

An expansive view of the domestic media ecology from the 1920s to 1940s can partly explain the boom of Japanese interest in Madante Buttertly, a racist, exoticist. Orientalist cultural product of Western imaginary, but a closer look at one particular medium is more telling. The consumer mania for the famous opera was contingent on the circumstances of the Japanese record industry, which shaped how the content of the Madame Butterfty myth transformed. Thi·ough consideration of cultural products derived from the Madame Butterfly story. this article proposes a new approach to studying media that combines micro and macro scales of inquiry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mediatization and digitalization are trends that are increasingly affecting religious communities and their communicative practices. While many aspects of these developments have been described theoretically and empirically, little is known about the dynamic interplay between digital media use, an individual's religious meaning system, and the relationships within a religious community. Building on the theory of the mediatization of religion, the functionalist perspective of religion, media selection, and co-orientation research, we propose a dynamic model of digital media use in religious communities. Hereby, the religious functions of meaning-making and social connection are considered important drivers for how individuals engage with others. Additionally, theories on media selection help our understanding of the acceptance and domestication of new technologies, as well as selective exposure to specific content. In combination, the model links the individuals with the social context of their religious communities and vice versa. Furthermore, the theoretical model helps to combine and systematize empirical research from different disciplines that are relevant to understanding today's digital religious media use. We therefore conclude with a discussion of the benefits of the model for future theoretical developments and empirical research in the field of digital religion and beyond. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explores the diversity of topics in political campaign communication on social media during the 2022 Australian federal election. While political campaigns on social media are often associated with both persuasive and mobilising appeals, this research focuses on understanding the differences in persuasive content by comparing organic (non-targeted) and paid (targeted) political communication. Analysing the Australian context, which follows a Westminster system, with compulsory voting, we utilise data from the federal election 2022 to investigate how political actors employ persuasive communication strategies. Through topic modelling, we examine whether distinct themes vary in content and prevalence between organic and paid social media content disseminated by political parties and candidates. Our analysis revealed that the differences in topic diversity between paid and organic content do not seem to be substantial, despite popular concerns about higher personalisation due to advertising targeting which could lead to information fragmentation of the electorate. Both types of content predominantly focus on core political topics, aligning with party ideologies and include overall campaign information (e.g., on election procedures). However, government critique emerges as a distinct topic in both organic and paid content signalling the usage of negative campaigning to weaken opposing parties. In conclusion, this study suggests that the strategic manipulation of the electorate through social media during the Australian federal election in 2022 was limited. Nonetheless, the prevalence of negative appeals towards the government and opposing parties raises questions about the potential impact on citizens' trust in democracy and institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]