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  • Algorithmic precarity in cultural work

    • Authors: Brooke Erin Duffy (2020)

  • While work in the media and cultural industries has long been considered precarious, the processes and logics of platformization have injected new sources of instability into the creative labor economy...
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  • The social presence of online education: how MOOC platforms in China cope with collective trauma during COVID-19

    • Authors: Peng Duan (2021)

  • In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, offline programmes of universities in China had to be rescheduled, classes were moved online based on the government’s requirements. The paper investigated how an online learning environment – especially massive open online course (MOOC) platforms – introduced a sense of social presence in students’ lives to help them better deal with trauma and changed circumstances. To this end, the author conducted a questionnaire-based survey of 5,000 students and 620 teachers at Communication University of China from May 2020 to June 2020 and analysed the respondents’ attitudes towards online community learning during the outbreak and the associated trauma period. The survey reveals that the mimicked social networking environment ensures that students perceiv...
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  • Do Chinese brands culturally adapt their overseas websites: evidence from top Chinese brands’ Sino-US websites?

    • Authors: Xing-Song Shi; Wen-Juan Xu (2020)

  • This study aims to investigate whether Chinese brands have culturally adapted their overseas websites to fit in target cultures by testing their websites developed for the US market. The cultural values depicted on 31 Chinese brands’ domestic websites, their overseas Sino-US websites and 31 US brands’ domestic websites were evaluated and compared based on a complementary cultural typology drawn from Geert Hofstede’s (1980) and Shalom Schwartz’s (1992) theories. The results showed that Chinese brands generally had not satisfactorily adapted their Sino-US websites to American culture, as adequate adaptation had only been detected on the dimension of Uncertainty Avoidance. But through more specific examination, the study confirmed that 14 of the 31 Chinese brands had significantly customiz...
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  • The multifaceted impact of social media on risk, behavior, and negative emotions during the COVID-19 outbreak in South Korea

    • Authors: Doo-Hun Choi (2021)

  • This study examined how social media use is associated with risk perception and social distancing as preventive behavior, which in turn can elicit negative emotions. The study is based on data collected from a nationwide online panel survey conducted during the COVID-19 outbreak in South Korea. Results show that social media use directly and indirectly impacts people’s negative emotions through risk perception and social distancing. The analysis also shows that risk perception and social distancing directly influence negative emotions, which plays a mediating role in the relationship between social media use and negative emotions. The findings of the study provide important implications for effective risk and health communication and health policy during an infectious disease outbreak....