'RPC-Lex: A dictionary to measure German rightwing populist conspiracy discourse online' from Cornelius Puschmann Hevin Karakurt Carolin Amlinger @GessNicola Oliver Nachtwey introduces a German-language computational dictionary to study right-wing conspiracy narratives journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

“Authority-led conspiracy theories in China during the COVID-19 pandemic” from Calvin Y. Cheng Wanjiang Jacob Zhang Qiyue ZHANG examines the Chinese government’s role in spreading and amplifying conspiracy theories on Weibo journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

“Deep State Phobia: Narrative Convergence in Coronavirus Conspiracism on Instagram” from Marc Tuters and Tom Willaert combines big data analysis and qualitative interpretive techniques to study conspiratorial responses to the pandemic on Instagram journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

New & awesome from @RachelPlotnick1 in Convergence Journal: "You Must Touch It," on the tension between touchscreen smudges as 'visible tactility' & the aesthetics of technological cleanliness. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

October issue out now! It covers 2 broad thematics 1. Sound - audio technologies, voice apps, music gatekeeping & podcasting 2. Continuities and discontinuities of the post digital - including labour, ageing & the application of new creative technologies journals.sagepub.com/toc/CON/current

"This machine will not communicate": The Decentralization of Authority in Radiohead’s Music and Digital Media’ by @ElizabethJelly & David Rodriguez explores how Radiohead's approach to digital media empowers fans to act as cultural intermediaries journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

✨👩‍💻'Cynical technical practice: From AI to APIs' 👨‍💻⚡️by Sam Hind & @taz_seitz in Convergence Journal (OA🔓) doi.org/10.1177/135485… #cynTP #critTP

New article by Ila Ahlawat: ‘Ageing on the Internet: Feminist Perspectives on Sexist Practices’. The article is a radical feminist intervention on gendered ageing and technological materialism, while also commenting upon hate cultures on social media. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

"Reconsidering Cartesian dualism and selfhood in Love, Death & Robots” from Jaya Sarkar discusses how the blurring of the human/animal boundaries portrayed in the series supports a transgressive politics. #posthuman #lovedeathandrobots journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

With the recent broadcast of the BBC Three programme on Deepfake pornography, why not check out the special issue of Convergence Journal on "The Digital Face and Deepfakes on Screen" edited by @lisambode, Dominic Lees and Dan Golding! #deepfakes #digital journals.sagepub.com/toc/cona/27/4

We also published about WITO earlier this year in Convergence Journal. Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

‘From media events to my events': Chinese Mediated Festivals in the Digital Era‘ from Xian FENG and Isabel Fangyi LU explores the perception and practices of mediated festivals in contemporary China. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

The significance of Facebook-radio convergence for audience engagement and programme prominence, though regular training on digital content production and dissemination is key to the sustainability of Facebook-radio convergence in Nigeria. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…