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In the domain of PVE as well as reintegration, the most interesting studies are arguably based on material collected first-hand from the individuals involved in the phenomenon of political violence or terrorism. As more individuals from the 2013-2016 wave of foreign terrorist fighters are exiting the criminal justice system, young individuals with no memory of that period are sympathizing with ISIS and others again are joining right-wing groups with violent agendas. Understanding the motives behind such engagement will always lead a portion of the scholars to pursue interview-based studies. This paper describes the research protocol used for a study which dealt with politico-ideological mobilization and violence in relation to causes and conflicts in the Arab World. More than one hundred interviews were conducted in Lebanon, Switzerland and Canada with individuals involved in politico-ideological mobilization or violence of different ideological orientations. Besides interviews, complementary material in the form of ethnographic fieldnotes and voice recordings via instant messaging were collected. The data was compiled into a MAXQDA database and coded according to the principles of Grounded Theory, using open, selective, axial and theoretical coding. The paper further discusses epistemological and ethical considerations.

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The fictitious self-portrayal in social media is often seen as a form of self-deception, with internet users consciously creating an artificial pseudo-identity in online life that temporarily suppresses their real identity in offline life. However, various studies have shown that such construction of an alternative, sometimes very different identity does not only entail risks, but potentials too, and can even contribute to reflective self-discovery. Scientific interest has focused so far on social networks such as Facebook or MySpace, where self-presentation has been a central concern right from the start. Nevertheless, it seems instructive to also focus on forums, because the various configurations of this form of communication produce different types of self-portrayal: while in discussion forums the exchange of subjective opinions can lead to an expansion of the writer's ego, giving way to altered identities which only exist in online life, help forums tend to highlight a specific partial aspect of the real identity, precisely the aspect which is associated with the problem to be solved. People seeking advice have really no interest in appearing better or other than they are, so their concern is to try and be so objective as possible in their self-presentations. In medical forums patients very often identify with their illness, which they describe in a detailed manner. The paper shall discuss the cases of two self-help forums, showing that the selective self-presentation through symptomatic self-awareness, i.e., the careful description of the symptoms felt, is primarily a search for the true self by means of language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the belief in conspiracy narratives within the population strongly influenced the implementation of containment measures and medical recommendations. Conspiracy narratives involve the belief that a group perceived as powerful would pursue secret plans to harm society, which distinguishes them from misinformation or disinformation. This paper presents findings from the research literature on the causes of conspiracy beliefs, their effects on individual health behaviors, and ways to counteract their spread.In situations where people have less capacity and motivation for deeper information processing, they form their opinions more heuristically, which increases vulnerability to cognitive biases. People become particularly susceptible to receiving misinformation or disinformation, which are frequently linked to the emotionalization of facts and simplistic responses. Belief in conspiracy narratives may become more easily established, with additional issues of personal identity and various psychological motives playing a role, among others. A general distrust of people who are perceived as "powerful," such as representatives from science, medicine, and politics, can arise. Digital networks additionally contribute to the spread of conspiracy narratives.There are several ways that healthcare institutions can reduce the emergence and spread of misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy narratives through their risk and crisis communications. The Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication Model (CERC) provides important approaches in this regard., (© 2022. Springer-Verlag GmbH Deutschland, ein Teil von Springer Nature.)

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Background: Information on sexual and reproductive health is increasingly disseminated via social media and reaches a large audience., Research Aim: Against this background, the aim of this paper is to systematically summarize the international state of research on sexual health information on social media for the first time with a scoping review. Seven research questions were explored, relating to the amount (F1), methods (F2: content analysis, F3: quality analysis), and results (F4: providers, F5: target groups, F6: topics, F7: quality of information) of previous studies., Materials and Methods: The study follows the PRISMA framework for scoping reviews as well as the Open Science approach. It is preregistered, and all materials (codebook with reliability coefficients) and data (list of identified studies and coding of studies) are available on the Open Science Foundation server., Results: A total of 69 studies with 72 data sets were identified, with more than half of the publications referring to YouTube (F1). Qualitative and quantitative methods of content analysis are used equally (F2) and quality analyses are rare (F3). Health laypersons dominate as the information providers (F4). The target groups are mostly unspecified (F5). The health information on social media examined in the previous studies covers a broad range of topics (F6). Where quality assessments were made, they tended to be negative (F7)., Discussion: More research is needed to better understand sexual and reproductive health information on social media and to promote its quality and constructive use., (© 2021. The Author(s).)

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Background: Alcohol has an almost ubiquitous presence, both offline and online., Research Aim: This paper therefore aims to describe the status quo of alcohol prevention on leading social media platforms in German-speaking countries., Material and Methods: To this end, the international state of research on alcohol communication in social media is first summarized by means of a narrative review. Social media analysis is then conducted to evaluate which German-language alcohol channels reach large numbers on platforms such as Facebook and Instagram. Next, content analysis is used to examine N = 470 posts and N = 3015 user comments from the alcohol prevention social media channel with the largest reach. Finally, an online survey of N = 1150 youth (aged 16-20) explores their alcohol-related social media use., Results: According to the state of research, communications glorifying alcohol consumption are frequently seen on social media. On leading social media platforms, the German-language alcohol channels with the widest reach are devoted to marketing and humor; prevention is significantly less prevalent. To date, the social media channel with the highest reach for alcohol prevention is the Facebook page of the BZgA youth campaign "Alcohol? Kenn dein Limit," which achieves the highest interaction rates through videos and user polls. Here, young social media users both express criticism of alcohol consumption (11% of comments) and continue to favor it (21%). Around half of the surveyed young people have already participated in alcohol-related online communication., Discussion: Alcohol prevention faces the task of countering the glorification of alcohol that dominates social media with sensitizing messages.

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Development of an evaluation system for online self-help groups by using the example of German-speaking cancer forums This paper pursues the question how the quality of forums can be evaluated. Therefor a grading system was designed and 23 German-speaking cancer forums were evaluated by content and formal criteria Objectives: This paper pursues the question how the quality of forums can be evaluated. Therefor a grading system was designed and 23 German-speaking cancer forums were evaluated by content and formal criteria Methods: Using a keyword-based internet search, 23 forums were identified. Data was gathered about: number of themes, posts and members, structure, key subjects and type of financing. Furthermore, an evaluation system was developed, with which the forums where assessed. Results: The forums were divided in forums with (n = 10) and without (n = 9) focus on a type of cancer. Four are health portals with forum-function. The quality of online cancer forums is heterogeneous, the evaluation resulted an average quality index of 2.7 for the total cancer forums Conclusion: A good information editing, moderation, data protection and transparency are important quality criteria. The evaluation of forums may help the patients, to autonomously value the quality of the presented information.

This paper presents elements of a theory of "authentification". The focus is on socio-semiotical practices of identification and access control as part of social struggles for the distribution of limited resources. Within this conceptual framework, the fuzzy concept of "authenticity" can be dissolved and the habitual, temporal, modal and media constituents of the negotiation of authentication and authorisation can be brought to the fore. The theoretical considerations are illustrated with examples from the field of security industry (bouncers), cryptography and social media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to explore the use of, experiences with, and risks of internet among children in Kosovo. This country has never been involved in the European project called Kids Online. Through a survey based on the Kids Online questionnaire, 437 children aged 11-16 were surveyed in 34 schools across the country. The results show that over 90% of children of this age stay online from one to six hours; YouTube and Instagram are the most preferred platforms; over 90% of them own smartphones. Conversely, many parents have admitted to being less knowledgeable about technology than their children. Parental mediation and schooling remain important, and the paper recommends the introduction of Media Literacy as a separate subject in pre-university education in Kosovo.

This article discusses a relatively new construction, called „expressive subordinate-clause construction” (ENK), which is highly frequent in social media and consists of a DP anchor and an attributive clause like „The moment when you realize it's a Monday tomorrow”. Besides sketching some of the particular syntactic properties of this expression, this paper examines the relation of the ENK to the conversational practice of narration (in the everyday sense). The ENK expresses some specific emotion, as triggered by the situation expressed by the subordinate clause, and thereby is tied to the experiences of the speaker to which the hearer is supposed to relate. The ENK hence instantiates the property of experiencialty (one of the crucial aspects of narrations) in a rather direct way. This will be connected to the observation that the ENK is expressive: it expresses its content in a non-truth-conditional way. As this gives an immediate impression of the speaker's emotions, a close connection between expressivity and experiencialty can be drawn. Together with other features of narration, like genericity or tellability, the ENK thereby collects many of the important characteristics of narration in a very short form, which is why call it a minimal narration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to examine the meeting points between phraseology and humor research, focusing on the role and the functions of fixed phrases in humor discourse. The examples to illustrate certain aspects of usage of fixed phrases for joke purposes are taken mainly from social media such as Facebook and Twitter and include jokes in English, German, Lithuanian, Russian, and Polish. In the course of the investigation, a distinction ought to be made between set phrases (idioms in the narrower sense of the term, proverbs, catch phrases etc.) and fixed phrases in general. Set phrases (phrasemes) have an "added value" regarding their meaning - be it a figurative element, be it ready-made reasoning or behavioral models in short form in the case of adages. In humor discourse idioms - and proverbs - are used mainly for wordplay, in which both the literal and the idiomatic meaning are activated. The wordplay can happen also in verse form. Adages can be transformed or twisted resulting in new parodistic or funny sayings. Fixed phrases outside of the phraseology can be separated into two groups: phrases typical for a particular discourse type and joke frame related phrases. The former, as means to evoke a certain frame, are used in parodistic jokes (e.g., the phrase ladies if he evokes the dating tips frame). The latter constitute a distinct class of fixed phrases which can be found only in the humor discourse: these phrases act as joke formulae und provide a basis for bigger or smaller joke categories. Certain phrases in this group, such as checks notes or nothing like deserve a mention as irony markers with a distinctive evaluative character. The shared feature of all these idiomatic and non-idiomatic phrases is that they are well-known, re-occur in the language and, in that respect, can considered belonging to the sphere of interests of phraseology. Regarding the main functions of fixed phrases in the humor discourse, they can contribute to the social play, provide the cues to switch to a nonserious humor mindset or express evaluation - from mild mockery to aggressive ridicule. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the course of digitization, the social role and value of writing is changing. This article discusses how literacy practices are differentiated along the two modes of text-oriented writing and interaction-oriented writing (Storrer 2018) and why and how this process can be observed in particular in the everyday life of adolescents. Finally, in order to argue that adolescents make use of different registers of writing, which are grounded in metacommunicative awareness, depending on the communicative context the paper provides insight into the results of a recently published study on adolescents' digital texting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the analysis of the effects and perception of infoemia both on social networks and in the sphere of civic journalism during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Comparative analysis of the perception of the COVID-19 virus pandemic in developed democratic societies and its repercussions (to the audience above all) and comparison with the informational values of comments on the most visited online portals in Bosnia and Herzegovina are the essence of this work. In pursuing these goals, the work is divided into two parts. The first part of the paper analyzes the existential dissemination of information about the first and second wave of COVID-19 pandemics in the world with a focus on social networks and citizen writing – an audience about pandemics that has undoubtedly taken all the notes of infodemium where it is difficult to determine the information value of comments or writing prosumer. Web 2.0 as the dominant dissemination tool of all types of media content and the general approach and freedom of commenting have influenced the experience and – consecutive – perception of the available information. The informative cacophony affected the audience (which is also a generator of “informative” content) in several ways mentioned in the first part of the paper. The second part of the work deals exclusively with the analysis of the content of comments on several of the most visited informational portals of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Most comments have been found to lack usable information value and contribute to media cacophony, and from the point of view of the value of news usually do not provide useful information or at best provide information whose credibility (although they may seem plausible and/or argumentative) cannot be easily verified. The conclusion of the paper is that the information value of comments from visitors to bh information portals is not particularly high in the slightest regard from the content level with rare examples of (semi)quality information of usable content.

Visual elements play an important role within the multimodal nature of social media (Pearce et al., 2020). A growing body of research has focused on the analysis of still and moving images from different social media platforms from various perspectives of communication and media studies (Hautea, Parks, Takahashi, & Zeng, 2021; Li & Xie, 2020; Veum & Undrum, 2018). Although the aforementioned studies describe visual data collection, their principal focus does not rely on this collection, but on data analysis. Little attention has been paid to the challenges of collecting visual datasets (Highfield & Leaver, 2016). In this paper, I propose a methodological overview of several strategies for collecting large corpora of visual data from image-based social media platforms. Provided with exemplary publications, I review five strategies for collecting visual corpora: hashtag-based, account-based, metadata-based, random sampling, and mixed approach. Lastly, I present a case study with my own mixed approach to the collection of visual data from Instagram. Considering the usage, advantages and limitations of each strategy, the article will contribute to the developing science of social media research. I believe that a literature analysis of visual data collection strategies and a provided case study can help researchers optimize visual data collection from image-based social media.

Social media, and social networking, have changed the business landscape, both for companies that have adopted them and for those that have not. By definition, social media represent platforms where members share content with a wide audience, with the focus on the content, while social networking sites are more centered on conversations and groups having the same interests. Facebook, which pulls the line dividing the two types of interactions, has 600,000 regular users worldwide and welcomes companies, organizations, and brands to use its platform to connect with their audience. Almost all social networks have incorporated a measure of social media, allowing users to become curators of the interesting content they find, sharing links, images, and short personal stories. Businesses which have learned to create content and engage in conversations are already ‘in the stream' – and more and more, internet users expect they will be able to interact with their favorite brands. Companies that have embraced this have a definite advantage over those which have not. The aim of this paper is to investigate the role and economic impact of social media on businesses. It aims to investigate the benefits available from the use of the internet and social media sites for businesses. Social media have a positive impact on businesses and offer an opportunity for their audience to find them on social media. It helps to reach to their targeted audience, stay engaged with them and respond to their questions instantly. It is a great way to evaluate their competition by monitoring their social media pages. The paper focuses on the multiple positive impacts on business in terms of brand recognition, customer engagement, revenue, and customer service. It emphasizes the importance of social media in the growth of businesses, being also a great tool to evaluate their competitors and how they are using social media for their growth. By using social media, business are taking every opportunity to increase awareness of trade and development opportunities in a way that drives changes in behavior and inspires action. Doing so connects a certain industry with business opportunities abroad and leads to sustainable development in partner countries.

We are Conchita, not Russia -- or the Austrian version of homonationalism. This paper analyses the discursive intersection of homosexuality, Russia, and Austria's commitment to European values in the contemporary Austrian media. It focuses on discourses about the so-called "anti-homosexual propaganda law" and homophobic violence in Russia in online and print media (Kurier, Kronen Zeitung, Die Presse, Der Standard, etc.). Moreover, it analyzes reports in LGBT media (Pride, Lambda Nachrichten, XTRA) and the solidarity campaign To Russia with Love Austria. The article focuses on media publications between the introduction of the "anti-homosexual propaganda law" in June 2013 and the victory of Conchita Wurst at the Eurovision Song Contest in May 2014, since this was the period where most news examples were published on the matter. It discusses how Russian homophobic violence and the victims of such violence are discursively produced in the Austrian media as being in opposition to Austria, which in turn, appears as a progressive, homo-tolerant nation and as a genuine part of the European value system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Chiara ZuanniThis paper aims to examine the values of born-digital heritage. It focuses on the impact on museum and heritage practices of digital data as consti-tuting heritage objects. Digital technologies are now deeply entangled with human communication and social relations. If heritage is socially con-structed in the interactions between humans and objects and places, how do the algorithms that shape human experiences of it affect the production of heritage values? The characteristics of each online platform, from web-sites to social networking sites, influence the way heritage is construct-ed, discussed, and valued in online interactions. This paper will therefore first unpack the construction of heritage knowledge in the digital sphere, by analysing – with the support of posthumanist approaches – the entan-glement of human and technological processes that shape the production of contemporary heritage. Secondly, the paper will explore how big data and algorithms challenge boundaries in the heritage field, such as those between representation and simulation. The paper will question the role of these non-human actors in shaping contemporary heritage production and values. Finally, the paper will discuss how born-digital heritage is ar-chived, analysed, preserved, retrieved and represented in digital collecting projects. The paper will argue that these interactions have consequences both on the production of new social values in relation to heritage arte-facts and on the construction of new 21st century heritage. By exploring the application of posthumanism to digital heritage, this paper will consider emerging borders within cultural and digital heritage, and how heritage values and practices are affected by these developments.