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        <pubDate>2026-05-24T17:55:46.368+00:00</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Media (in)visibility of violence in Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2020–2024): a statistical modeling approach]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-05-22T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Gabriela Brogim</author><author>Pedro Bruzzi</author><author>Jurema Correa da Motta</author><author>Ana Paula da Cunha</author><author>Francisco I. Bastos</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionThis study investigates how the visibility of different types of violent events in Manguinhos (Rio de Janeiro) evolved in online media between 2020 and 2024, and compares these patterns with community-reported data from Fogo Cruzado.MethodsTwo datasets were analyzed: online news articles collected via the Meltwater® platform (through Arquimedes Social®) and classified into four categories, police confrontation, homicide/death, drug trafficking, and generic violence, and verified incident records from Fogo Cruzado. Analyses included log–log transformations with power-law assessment to explore long-term patterns, Negative Binomial Regression (NB) to test temporal trends, and Interquartile Range (IQR) smoothing to detect anomalous peaks in coverage. Only the “police confrontation” category showed a statistically significant upward trend in media visibility, with an average growth of approximately 3.6% per month, consistent with power-law dynamics. The other categories exhibited no significant trends, indicating more stable or sporadic reporting. IQR analysis identified five peaks in coverage, likely linked to large-scale police operations or high-profile incidents.ResultsFindings suggest that police confrontation coverage follows a self-reinforcing cycle shaped by state interventions and exceptional events, while other violence types remain comparatively underreported. This visibility asymmetry underscores how journalistic narratives selectively amplify certain forms of violence, potentially shaping public perceptions, legitimizing specific security approaches, and obscuring structural drivers.ConclusionBy integrating quantitative modeling with anomaly detection, this study provides a replicable framework for monitoring media cycles, assessing visibility disparities, and informing debates on representation, accountability, and policy responses in contexts of chronic urban violence.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Indigenous visual cosmology as ritual communication system: a semiotic analysis of Senyawa’s Vajranala album artwork]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-05-22T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Ichsan Satrio Pambudi</author><author>Ekky Imanjaya</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Visual communication research has traditionally emphasised information transmission models, often neglecting the role of ritualised visual systems in sustaining shared cultural realities. This study examines Vajranala, the album artwork of the experimental group Senyawa, as an indigenous visual communication system that preserves and rearticulates cosmological knowledge within contemporary media contexts. Employing Barthes’s semiotic framework and Carey’s ritual model, this qualitative multimodal analysis investigates the album’s cover, inner sleeve, and label as components of an integrated visual system. Monumental forms, anthropocosmic figures, vertical axes, cyclical symbols, and spatial hierarchies are analysed at denotative, connotative, and mythic levels to elucidate how cosmological meaning is visually structured and stabilised. Contextual grounding for the semiotic analysis is provided through interviews with key creators and experts. The findings indicate that Vajranala can be read as a ritual communication system, wherein meaning emerges through patterned visual repetition rather than linear information transfer. Cosmological concepts of time, spatial order, and human-cosmos relations are maintained through symbolic participation rather than didactic explanation. Relational and ecological meanings arise implicitly as outcomes of indigenous visual cosmology. By conceptualising indigenous visual systems as communicative media logics, this study expands visual communication scholarship beyond representational models, demonstrating how non-verbal symbolic structures actively sustain cultural memory, identity, and value transmission in contemporary media. These findings highlight the importance of indigenous visual systems in shaping meaning in modern visual communication by framing the album artwork as a ritual system that sustains cosmological knowledge.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Overrepresented in society, underrepresented in the media: the illusion of gender equality in participant sourcing practices for socio-political discussions on Latvian public service media (2022–2025)]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-05-22T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Anda Rožukalne</author><author>Līga Ozoliņa</author><author>Sandra Sprudzāne</author>
        <description><![CDATA[This study investigates gender representation in Latvian public service media (PSM)—Latvian Radio (LR) and Latvian Television (LTV)—discussion programs, examining whether these formats provide equal opportunities for women and men to participate in shaping public discourse and deliberative communication. The research is based on a quantitative content analysis of five discussion programs across LTV, LR1, LR4, and LTV7 from 2022 to 2025, covering 515 broadcasts and 1,793 participants. The analysis focuses on participants' gender, professional status, topic relevance, and educational background. Findings reveal a persistent gender imbalance: men (68%) dominate high-level political and economic discussions, while women (32%) are more often invited as specialists in education, health, and social issues. Women rarely appear as decision-makers despite higher overall educational attainment. Russian-language programs demonstrate more inclusive sourcing practices. The results suggest that PSM sourcing routines reflect institutional traditions and structural inequalities, reinforcing gender hierarchies in public discourse rather than challenging them.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Podcast-based learning and organizational communication in the public sector: a mixed-methods analysis]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-05-21T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Sri Sediyaningsih</author><author>Iwan Tri Hariyanto</author><author>Irmayati Irmayati</author><author>Mohamad Adning</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Digital transformation has increased the demand for more adaptive and communicative approaches to capacity development in public-sector organizations. As traditional training models struggle to respond to these demands, podcasting has emerged as a flexible and narrative-driven medium with potential relevance for organizational learning. This study examines how podcast-based learning is perceived, adopted, and experienced by civil servants within a large public-sector organization in Indonesia, conceptualizing podcasting as a communicative practice embedded in bureaucratic processes. Using a mixed-methods descriptive case study design, the research combines survey data from 338 respondents with insights from 20 semi-structured interviews. The findings show that podcast-based learning is widely valued for its flexibility and accessibility, particularly in supporting policy understanding and continuous professional development. At the same time, adoption is shaped by organizational context, professional experience, and patterns of prior media use, rather than age alone. The results also highlight the role of narrative audio formats in facilitating reflective learning by linking policy content to everyday work experience. By emphasizing the communicative and institutional dimensions of podcast-based learning, this study contributes to communication studies and public administration by offering a more nuanced understanding of how creative media practices can support capacity development in the public sector.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Gendering neutrality: a cultural-communicative analysis of translating English imperatives into Arabic]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-05-20T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Niveen Mohammad Zayed</author><author>Yousef Sahari</author><author>Haneen Alrawashdeh</author><author>Ahmad S. Haider</author><author>Muneir Gwasmeh</author><author>Mohammed Majeed Al-Dulaimi</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionThe paper examines how gender is encoded in Arabic translations of English imperative clauses, which are grammatically gender-neutral in English. Paying attention to the instruction discourse, the research investigates whether the problem of gender assignment in translation is determined by grammatical necessity or by gender stereotypes in specific domains.MethodsThe sample consisted of 60 students (30 males and 30 females) who completed translation courses at the university level. The participants were instructed to translate 45 English imperative sentences from three categories: maintenance and technical activities and leadership/authority roles (masculine-stereotyped); foods, cleaning, childcare activities, and emotional/ relational work (feminine stereotyped); and educational or skill-based (mixed or neutral-stereotyped).Results and DiscussionThe results of the translation (2,700 translation tokens) were reviewed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The results show that masculine imperatives accounted for approximately 55 per cent of the total translations, serving as the default strategy, particularly in technical and neutral domains. Approximately 30% of the data pertained to feminine imperatives, which were closely linked to domestic and caregiving settings. The rest 15% of reformulation strategies were neutral, meaning they had selective efforts to avoid gender marking. As the results show, the gender of Arabic translations of English imperatives is not inherited from the source text. Still, it is developed in translation through the interplay of grammatical constraints, sociocultural stereotypes, and translators' agency.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The model of collective information processing (MCIP): systematicness and openness in group-level media processing]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-05-20T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Hypothesis and Theory</category>
        <author>Johanna Schindler</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Media information is often processed collectively—by partners, families, or peer groups—yet communication theory remains primarily focused on individuals. This article introduces the Model of Collective Information Processing (MCIP), which conceptualizes collective media processing as a group-level phenomenon. Drawing on individual information-processing theory and group research, the MCIP proposes two independent dimensions of group-level processing: systematicness (from automatic to systematic) and openness (from closed to open). The model was initially tested in a survey of 182 naturally occurring groups engaging with a media stimulus in an ecologically valid setting. Results support the distinctiveness and independence of both dimensions. Systematicness predicted persuasive attitude change and increased issue relevance at the group level; openness was associated with nondirectional attitude shifts and reduced polarization. These patterns held across issue domains (sustainability, diversity) and group types (couples, families, friends). The MCIP offers a conceptual framework for analyzing collective media processing and its effects.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Generative AI and migration narratives: algorithmic bias and discursive patterns in African migration to Spain]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-05-20T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Magdalena Trillo-Domínguez</author><author>María Dolores Olvera-Lobo</author><author>Juan Ignacio Martín-Neira</author>
        <description><![CDATA[The use of generative language models such as GPT-4o introduces new challenges for the critical analysis of migration narratives. This article examines how such models discursively construct narratives about African migration to Spain, based on a corpus of 200 automatically generated narratives derived from 50 systematically varied prompts. Drawing on tools from critical discourse studies, the methodology combines lexical analysis (Voyant Tools) with qualitative thematic coding (NVivo) to identify dominant narrative patterns. The results identify four recurring archetypes: the victim migrant, the resilient migrant, the NGO saviour, and the bureaucratic state. These narratives are structured around compassionate-paternalistic tones and utilitarian logics, framing migrant agency within normative expectations of integration, merit, and gratitude. Prompt formulation operates as a discursive activation mechanism that delimits the range of meanings and reinforces dominant narrative patterns while silencing hybrid or dissenting voices. The findings suggest that generative AI systems do not merely reflect existing social imaginaries, but actively reorder and amplify them through algorithmic discursive logics. The study highlights the need for ethical and methodological frameworks in AI-generated representations of migration and proposes strategies for enhancing linguistic, epistemic, and representational diversity. These findings contribute to a broader critical reflection on the relationship between discourse, artificial intelligence, and mediated narratives of migration.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The illusion of political attitudes: perceived (and not actual) cross-cutting attitudes are associated with pluralistic news consumption]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-05-20T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Nitzan Attias</author><author>Dana Chudy</author><author>Eran Halperin</author><author>Meital Balmas</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Most polarization research focuses on conservatives and liberals, overlooking individuals holding cross-cutting attitude (CCA; mixed conservative and liberal views). Using survey data from two polarized countries, we distinguish between objective (actual) and subjective (perceived) CCA and examine their relationship with political news consumption. According to the results, many participants misperceived their attitude structure, seeing it as cross-cutting although actually aligned (or vice-versa). Crucially, perceived, but not actual, CCA was linked to greater consumption of news identified with the ideological outgroup. This effect held beyond ideological moderation, used as a proxy for centrism. These findings provide evidence for the distinction between ideological elements, and bear implications for bridging political divides.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Compliment responses in Persian and Swedish: a cross-cultural analysis of strategy use and a functional extension of Holmes’s taxonomy]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-05-19T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Marzieh Sofia Dehghani</author><author>Zhuoming Huang</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Compliment responses (CRs) offer a productive lens for examining how politeness and face are shaped by cultural norms. This study investigates how Iranian Persian and Swedish speakers respond to compliments across four domains (appearance, character, ability, possession) using a discourse completion task. Responses were coded based on Holmes's taxonomy of compliment response strategies and analyzed using count regression models (Poisson and Negative Binomial). Both groups predominantly relied on acceptance strategies; however, cross-cultural differences were domain-specific. Iranian speakers were significantly more likely to reject compliments on ability and to evade compliments on appearance. At the micro level, variation centered on the use of Shift Credit, with Iranian speakers favoring other-oriented responses across multiple domains. These findings indicate that structurally similar responses do not carry equivalent pragmatic meanings across cultures, but instead reflect culturally embedded norms such as ta'arof and shekasteh-nafsi in Persian and Jantelagen and lagom in Swedish. Methodologically, the study applies count-based modeling to examine cross-cultural variation, while acknowledging limitations related to sample size and data sparsity. Overall, the findings highlight the importance of domain-specific and culturally grounded interpretations of compliment responses in intercultural communication.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Power negotiation through breaking walls: a media critique of “fourth-wall-breaking” in digital games]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-05-19T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Xin-Di Yang</author><author>Ling-Xi He</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionThis study examines fourth-wall-breaking in digital games not merely as a narrative device but as a mechanism of power negotiation among developers, game systems, and players.MethodsThrough a qualitative, media-critical approach and close readings of The Stanley Parable, OneShot, Doki Doki Literature Club!, and selected supplementary cases, the article distinguishes fourth-wall-breaking from metagaming, metalepsis, and metafiction and develops a tripartite framework of Wall, Interface, and Circle.ResultsThe analysis shows that fourth-wall-breaking destabilizes the player's phenomenological experience of agency, reveals the authority embedded in rules and interfaces, and transforms the interface into a contested space where procedural authorship may be negotiated.DiscussionThe article argues that such resistance remains limited because designed transgressions can be pre-structured by the systems they appear to challenge. Within a posthumanist condition, meaningful agency lies not in escaping algorithmic systems, but in critically recognizing and reconstructing the dialectic between systemic control and participatory rule-making.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Correction: Multimodal representation of violent death in mass media: a case study of Izium mass burial reporting in the news]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-05-18T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Correction</category>
        <author>Svitlana Shurma</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[Emoji use as a self-branding strategy in male and female Arab influencers’ Instagram bios: a corpus linguistic study]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-05-18T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Manal Alangari</author><author>Alyaa Olwi</author>
        <description><![CDATA[This study explores the use of emojis in Instagram bios as a self-branding strategy among male and female social media influencers. The study examined two corpora comprising 2,184 bios in total, equally split between male and female (1,092 each). The analysis classified the emojis most frequently used in the two gendered corpora according to their categories and functions using corpus-assisted tools. The results confirmed the use of emojis as a valid element in bios to serve multiple purposes. Female influencers emphasized their femininity in their choice of emojis under certain categories, such as Animal & Nature Cartoon-style illustration of a pink five-petal flower with a yellow center, a single green leaf, and a curved black stem outlined in bold lines., whereas male influencers emphasized power in their use of emojis under the category of People & Body Yellow cartoon-style hand icon with an extended index finger pointing downward, outlined in black, against a white background.. While most emoji sequences in the female corpus presented the combined function of Concept and Stance, the most prominent function of emoji sequences in the male corpus was Concept and Action. The study shows that emojis and emoji sequences play an important role as a self-branding strategy in influencers’ bios in a creative and interesting manner.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Integrating artificial intelligence across the marketing process framework: an empirical study in an emerging economy]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-05-18T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Ephrem Habtemichael Redda</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionArtificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the global business landscape by transforming how organisations approach marketing. Despite its growing adoption, research on AI in marketing remains limited in emerging economies like South Africa, where contextual challenges and opportunities are underexplored. This study explores the adoption and application of AI within a structured marketing process framework (Situational Analysis, Objectives, Strategy, Tactics, Action, and Control) in South Africa's e-commerce sector. It examines how digital marketing professionals integrate AI tools to enhance marketing effectiveness and organisational performance.MethodsA quantitative research approach was employed, utilising data from 415 digital marketing professionals.ResultsThe results indicate widespread AI adoption in the tactical and action-oriented stages of the marketing framework, particularly in content personalisation, digital advertising, and customer support. However, strategic and control-oriented applications like predictive analytics and voice search exhibit lower adoption rates due to technical constraints.DiscussionThe study outlines a theoretical contribution to marketing communication theory by demonstrating how AI enables precise sender-receiver matching and dynamic feedback loops. It concludes with implications for South African practitioners and policymakers, emphasising the need for robust data governance and infrastructure development.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Mediating justice through live courtroom broadcast: a phenomenological study of journalist lived experiences in Indonesian television]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-05-15T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Aan Widodo</author><author>Wa Ode Sitti Nurhaliza</author><author>Syahrul Hidayanto</author><author>Rr Dijan Widijowati</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Live courtroom broadcasts have extended the principle of open justice into the mediated public sphere in Indonesia. Journalists from TV One function as communicative intermediaries who translate complex legal proceedings into accessible narratives for wider audiences. This study employs a phenomenological approach to explore journalists’ lived experiences in covering high-profile trials. Data were obtained through in-depth interviews with six journalists and observation of live broadcast production. The data were analyzed using a descriptive phenomenological method based on Colaizzi's analytical procedure, allowing the identification of significant statements, formulation of meanings, and construction of thematic structures representing journalists’ lived experiences. Findings reveal tensions between the goals of legal education and the dramaturgical demands of live courtroom broadcasting. The study conceptualizes courtroom journalism as a form of mediating justice, where journalists translate legal processes into accessible public knowledge and shape public understanding of law in the Global South.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Cultural mediation in health communication: leadership and health literacy strategies among the Baduy community in Indonesia]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-05-15T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Siska Mardiana</author><author>Liza Diniarizky Putri</author><author>Abdul Malik</author><author> Annisarizki</author><author>Sheena Ramazanu</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionIndigenous populations continue to bear a disproportionate burden of preventable diseases, including maternal mortality, childhood stunting, and neglected tropical diseases such as snakebite envenoming. These persistent inequities undermine community resilience and pose broader challenges to global health security. Strengthening health literacy through culturally grounded leadership has been proposed as a key strategy to address these gaps.MethodsThis study employed a qualitative design conducted in April 2023 in Kanekes Village, Banten Province, Indonesia. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with seven purposively selected informants, including health workers, community leaders, a non-governmental organization (NGO) representative, and a Baduy mother. Thematic analysis was used to identify patterns in leadership and health communication practices.ResultsThe findings reveal that health communication within the Baduy community is shaped by normative leadership structures and hierarchical governance systems. Effective communication is facilitated through behavioral modeling, strong interpersonal trust, and adaptive traditionalism, where customary values are maintained while selectively accommodating external influences.DiscussionBased on these findings, the study proposes a four-level health communication model that integrates indigenous leadership characteristics with culturally sensitive messaging strategies. This model offers a context-specific framework to improve health literacy, reduce health disparities, and contribute to strengthening global health security, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Speaking through silence: relational communication among only daughters in post-divorce Indonesian families]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-05-15T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Hasna Afra Nafisa</author><author>Virienia Puspita</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Research on family communication has largely been shaped by Western cultural paradigms that emphasize open dialogue as a central indicator of family well-being. These assumptions may not fully capture communication practices in collectivist cultural contexts such as Indonesia, where maintaining relational harmony often takes precedence over direct expression. This study explores how only daughters in urban Indonesia interpret and navigate family communication following parental divorce. Using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), the research draws on in-depth interviews with five only daughters to examine their lived experiences and meaning-making processes. This analysis advances a core theoretical concept: protective relational silence, a deliberate communicative strategy used by daughters to manage emotional tension, prevent conflict escalation, and preserve personal and familial stability. This concept is situated within two other emergent themes: negotiating relational boundaries, which captures how daughters reinterpret parental roles through negotiations of responsibility, and daughter-mediated relational maintenance, which reveals how they assume intermediary roles to sustain family cohesion. The findings demonstrate that only daughters are not passive recipients of family conflict but active agents who strategically reshape family relationships. This study extends symbolic interactionism by conceptualizing silence not as communicative failure but as a culturally embedded, agentic, and symbolic act of relational care. It also proposes a process model illustrating how post-divorce conflict precipitates the use of these adaptive strategies. These findings challenge deficit-oriented perspectives and urge clinicians to develop mechanism-driven interventions that recognize and support the complex communicative labor performed by daughters in post-divorce families.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[ArtScience collaboration: innovation trajectories towards strong sustainability]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-05-15T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Valentina Apicerni</author><author>Francesca Nicolais</author><author>Francesca Cocco</author><author>Antonia Gravagnuolo</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionArtScience is an emerging knowledge domain at the intersection of art, science, and technology, and is increasingly recognized as a driver of sustainability-oriented innovation. By fostering transdisciplinary collaboration, it addresses socio-ecological challenges and supports transformative approaches to sustainable development. This paper advances the understanding of ArtScience by exploring how such collaborations contribute to innovation toward strong sustainability.MethodsBased on the scoping literature review, the study develops a theoretical framework to analyze how ArtScience collaborations unfold across different domains and contribute to rethinking innovation beyond linear pathways. It further provides evidence of ArtScience in practice through an in-depth case study of BIOlogic, a technological laboratory within Knowledge for Business (KforB), a private company engaged in diverse forms of ArtScience collaboration with artists, designers, and the cultural and creative sectors.ResultsArtScience collaborations can foster distinct yet interconnected innovation trajectories— cultural, responsible, social and transdisciplinary — depending on their configuration. Across these trajectories, ArtScience generates cognitive, tangible, and systemic outcomes that reshape how sustainability transitions are conceptualized and experimented in practice. The findings suggest that ArtScience can enable effective responses to the EU's green, social, and digital agendas, opening new pathways toward sustainability-oriented futures.DiscussionThree critical reflections emerge on the potential of ArtScience to foster innovation. First, the findings point to the need for further research on hybrid-oriented forms of entrepreneurship that can mediate and negotiate economic, social, and ecological value logics over time. Second, transdisciplinary innovation and multispecies collaboration should be recognized as processes that transform established models, beliefs, and behavioral norms. Third, the cultural and creative sectors can advance counter-models to unsustainable industrial practices, thereby repositioning culture as a catalyst for strong sustainability.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Regulating artificial intelligence in digital media: governance, ethics, ownership, and democratic resilience (2023–2026 review)]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-05-14T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Review</category>
        <author>Elsir Ali Saad Mohamed</author><author>Mohamed Mallek</author><author>Haitham Abdulrahman Alaawad</author><author>Ikhlas Mustafa Omer ELTinay</author><author>Saleh Abied Alrached</author><author>Mohanad Alamin</author>
        <description><![CDATA[This review synthesizes scholarship published between 2023 and 2026 examining the intersection of artificial intelligence regulation and digital media. Drawing on systematic reviews, policy analyses, and empirical studies, the article maps the evolving regulatory landscape addressing AI-driven disinformation, examines ethical challenges posed by generative AI in communication, analyzes ownership patterns and power concentration among technology firms, and considers implications for media representation and democratic resilience. The review identifies competing priorities between regulatory interventions, ethical frameworks, and market dynamics, highlighting the need for integrated approaches that address both technical and sociopolitical dimensions of AI governance. Key findings reveal divergent regulatory philosophies across jurisdictions, persistent challenges in balancing innovation with protection of democratic values, and emerging multistakeholder frameworks that may offer pathways toward more resilient information ecosystems.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Quality and reliability of YouTube videos on post-traumatic stress disorder: a cross-sectional content analysis]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-05-13T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Hao Zheng</author><author>Meng Yuan</author><author>Zilong Zhong</author><author>Mengmeng Yan</author><author>Yuan Gao</author><author>Linting Mou</author><author>Chao Song</author><author>Kui Yang</author><author>Jiajian Zhou</author><author>Jianting Liu</author><author>Shuxin Liu</author><author>Yijie Wang</author><author>Min Li</author><author>Jian Zhang</author><author>Hongwei Sun</author><author>Guohui Zhu</author><author>Lin Sun</author>
        <description><![CDATA[BackgroundWith increasing geopolitical instability and conflicts, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has become a significant global mental health burden. YouTube is a major source of health information, yet the quality, reliability, and cross-linguistic differences of PTSD-related content remain insufficiently explored. This study aimed to compare the quality and reliability of Chinese- and English-language PTSD videos and to identify factors associated with video quality.MethodsOn July 27, 2025, we systematically searched YouTube using the English terms “PTSD” and “post-traumatic stress disorder,” and the Chinese term “创伤后应激障碍” The top 100 Chinese-language and top 100 English-language videos were included (n = 200). The Global Quality Score (GQS) and DISCERN instrument were used to assess video quality and reliability. Spearman correlation analysis and ordinal logistic regression (OLR) were performed to examine factors associated with video quality and reliability.ResultsEnglish-language videos received significantly more likes, comments, and views and had longer durations on the platform than Chinese-language videos (all p < 0.01), whereas Chinese-language videos were significantly longer in duration (p < 0.001). Both groups showed median GQS and DISCERN scores of 3, indicating moderate quality and reliability overall. Chinese-language videos demonstrated higher reliability (DISCERN, p < 0.05). Videos produced by professionals and professional organizations/universities had significantly higher quality and reliability scores than those from patients or news channels (p < 0.05). Engagement metrics, including views, were not independently associated with video quality or reliability, while likes and comments showed only weak correlations with GQS. In contrast, video length was positively associated with both GQS and DISCERN scores and remained an independent predictor in OLR models.ConclusionPTSD-related videos on YouTube in both Chinese and English were of only moderate quality and reliability. English-language videos attracted higher engagement but demonstrated lower reliability, whereas Chinese-language videos were more reliable but longer and less interactive. Video length emerged as an independent determinant of both quality and reliability, whereas popularity indicators did not correspond to informational value. These findings highlight a disconnect between visibility and evidence-based quality and underscore the need for greater institutional participation and platform-level quality signaling to improve the dissemination of reliable PTSD-related information across languages.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Children’s podcasts as facilitators of vehicle-based family joint media engagement]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-05-12T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Amy Grack Nelson</author><author>Elena Tsakakis</author><author>Evelyn Christian Ronning</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionChildren’s podcasts are a growing medium for joint family engagement, but little is known about the beneficial impacts of listening together. This article describes a two-phase qualitative research study conducted to understand how the children’s science podcast, Brains On!, mediated joint media engagement in a setting where families tend to listen together, in their vehicles. The research examined three factors that played a role in families’ joint media engagement with the Brains On! podcast in a vehicle setting: 1) the family members in the vehicle, 2) the “in-medium” factors of the Brains On! podcast, and 3) the “in-automobile” factors related to the vehicle environment.MethodsIn Phase 1, 32 families participated in a vehicle-based listener experience study, while Phase 2 consisted of four case studies to gather more naturalistic listening behaviors. Both phases included analysis of family interviews and video recordings of families’ in-vehicle behaviors.ResultsBrains On! effectively engaged family members of all ages, prompting both adults and children to initiate sensemaking, connecting, and noticing interactions. The podcast’s content sparked conversation in all 32 families, transforming the vehicle into a productive learning space where families used travel time to engage with each other and learn new things together. The vehicle’s enclosed physical environment supported focused joint attention for listening, while features of the vehicle, such as the rearview mirror, supported family interactions with podcast content.DiscussionThis research fills essential gaps in knowledge about the value of children’s podcast media for family engagement and the important role that vehicles can play as family learning spaces.]]></description>
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