Natalie Jomini Stroud’s research while affiliated with University of Texas at Austin and other places

... As these platforms have become integrated into our daily lives, transforming into essential tools for information diffusion 3,4 and personal communication 5 , they have merged entertainment-driven business models with complex social dynamics 6 , raising significant concerns about their potential impact on social dynamics 7-11 . Offering unprecedented opportunities for content to achieve rapid and widespread attention 12,13 , social media have become crucial environments for the spread of information and misinformation worldwide 14,15 , especially during sensitive periods such as global elections 16,17 . ...

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Evaluating the effect of viral posts on social media engagement

... There have been repeated calls to adopt personfirst language and neutral imagery in the reporting of substance use related topics in the media, as some phrases and framings can lead to an increase in stigma (Botticelli & Koh, 2016;McGinty, Stone, et al., 2019;Tsai, et al., 2019). One recent small experimental study with participants from stigmatised groups (including people characterised as being in recovery from a substance use disorder) found that the use of person-first language in news articles increased the perception that one's group was humanised in the news article, and increased trust in news (Murray, Varma, & Stroud, 2024). Media guidelines and other resources have been published internationally to support these objectives (e.g. ...

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'Zombie drugs': Dehumanising news frames and public stigma towards people who use drugs

... Now this is problematic for us as well" (MBS informant). (Stroud & Duyn, 2023). In fact, page views for cyber media are crucial because they are the primary factor advertisers consider when deciding which media and news outlets to advertise in. ...

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Climate change and environment issues in cyber media construction in Indonesia

... Outros textos analisados salientam que indivíduos incapazes de lidar com uma perspetiva política oposta à sua utilizam as notícias para confirmar e reforçar suas crenças e atitudes existentes, ao mesmo tempo que bloqueiam informação nova ou desafiante. Nesse sentido, a resistência como prática ideologicamente motivada leva tanto à exposição selectiva partidária como ao evitamento: a escolha de evitar informações opostas, procurando propositadamente apenas meios de comunicação de apoio (Stroud & Collier, 2018). Como isso confirma a autoidentidade ideológica, também funciona como uma maneira de conectar indivíduos que pensam da mesma forma (Dvir-Gvirsman, 2014). ...

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Resistência aos media e desconexão digital na literatura ocidental

... Finally, ecologically valid experimental methods, such as those working directly with tech companies, can help identify the effects of turning 'on' and 'off' different features. For example, Meta recently partnered with researchers to conduct a largescale intervention testing how algorithmically curated vs. chronological feeds on Instagram and Facebook changed voting behavior (Guess et al., 2023). Research identifying temporal and causal effects, particularly long-term effects across childhood and adolescence, is critical for the development of effective prevention and intervention strategies. ...

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Annual Research Review: Adolescent social media use is not a monolith: toward the study of specific social media components and individual differences

... Compared to previous studies that may focus on targets such as feelings towards parties or figureheads (Aslett et al. 2022;Casas, Menchen-Trevino, and Wojcieszak 2023;Guess et al. 2023), we refrained from attempts to change very general attitudes that might be more stable (Peffley and Hurwitz 1985) and queried attitudes towards policies, and, secondly, even more low-level targets as policy-specific issues. We find targeting attitudes towards policies to be a promising avenue. ...

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Self-directed online information search can affect policy attitudes: a randomized encouragement design with digital behavioral data

... Virtually all the literature in this area aggregates partisan consumption to the level of the domain, or source, rather than examining the partisan audiences of individual stories (Eady et al. 2019;Guess 2021;Peterson, Goel, and Iyengar 2021;Robertson et al. 2018). Bakshy, Messing, and Adamic (2015) and González-Bailón et al. (2023) are notable exceptions, discussed below. Source-level aggregation implicitly assumes that every story from a given source is drawn from a consistent distribution of partisan appeal that attracts a stable ratio of Democratic to Republican users. ...

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Curation Bubbles

... In this paper, we simulate a networked system, where thousands of agents, solely driven by LLMs, freely establish social relationships, communicate, and form opinions on political issues. We discover that these free-form social interactions among LLM agents result in the emergence of opinion polarization, a phenomenon widely observed in human society [28,[33][34][35][36][37][38]. Meanwhile, LLM agents spontaneously organize their own social network of human-like properties: agents with homophilic opinions tend to cluster, while those with opposing opinions tend to avoid interactions /citelaiposition. ...

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Emergence of human-like polarization among large language model agents

... A different study in the uS focused on meso news-spaces managed by a news organization (Murray, riedl, and Stroud 2023). the center for Media Engagement at the university of texas at Austin partnered with Vox Media to study how a large Facebook group (with over 20,000 members at the time) compared with small chat groups on Facebook Messenger (with more than 10 members in a group chat). ...

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Meso News-Spaces and Beyond: News-Related Communication Occurring Between the Public and Private Domains

... our research echoes the view of academics and public relations practitioners that social media is underutilised for dialogue (Kent, 2023;Kent & taylor, 2021;masullo et al., 2022). arts organisations miss opportunities to listen and meet the needs of their audience, potentially jeopardising their survival (Bikovska & liew, 2022;lane & Kent, 2018). ...

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An exploration of the impression management and dialogical potential of arts organisations