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SUMMARY OF ARTICLES&LECTURES
New Media Challenges ‘22
WEEK 1 - LECTURES 1,2,3 3
LECTURE 1: Introduction, utopian and dystopian views on media infiltration (Martin
Tanis) 3
LECTURE 2: Introduction to Online Privacy (Martin Tanis)
Introduction to Privacy Online - Walther J.B.
Self-disclosure in social media - Bazarova, N. N., & Choi, Y. H 6
LECTURE 3: Personalization, Privacy and Surveillance (Martin Tanis)
The role of privacy fatigue in online privacy behavior. Computers in Human Behavior -
Choi, H., Park, J., & Jung, Y. (2021)
An in-depth analysis of privacy attitudes and privacy behaviors - Dienlin, T., & Trepte, S.
(2015) 14
WEEK 2 - LECTURES 4,5 23
LECTURE 4: Trolling, flaming, griefing & harassment: Online safety issues for you and
people you know (Wai Yen Tang)
Trolling as a Collective Form of Harassment - Ortiz, S. M. (2020)
Examining abuse in online media - Sambaraju, R., & McVittie, C. (2020) 23
LECTURE 5: Scientists and journalists being targeted: Online safety issues for
professional communicators (Wai Yen Tang)
Internet-facilitated Harassment and its Impact on Researchers - Doerfler, P., Forte, A.,
De Cristofaro, E., Stringhini, G., Blackburn, J., & McCoy, D. (2021). 28
WEEK 3 - LECTURES 6,7,8 31
LECTURE 6: Connecting the dots: The real data revolution of turning big data into
knowledge (André Krouwel)
Can Democracy Survive the Internet Journal of Democracy - Persily, N. (2017)
Brexit Means Brexit - Risso, L. (2018) 31
LECTURE 7: A Network Economy: Online Business Models in the Age of Information
(Philipp Masur)
The like economy Social buttons and the data-intensive web. New media & society -
Gerlitz, C., & Helmond, A. (2013)
Is the Internet driving competition or market monopolization. International Economics and
Economic Policy - Haucap, J., & Heimeshoff, U. (2014) 42
LECTURE 8: eProfiling and ePersuasion (Philipp Masur)
Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior -
Kosinski, M., Stillwell, D., & Graepel, T. (2013)
Information systems research - Wright, R. T., Jensen, M. L., Thatcher, J. B., Dinger, M., &
Marett, K. (2014)
Personalizing persuasive technologies Explicit and implicit personalization using
persuasion profiles - Kaptein, M., Markopoulos, P., De Ruyter, B., & Aarts, E. (2015) 48
WEEK 4 - LECTURES 9,10 57
LECTURE 9: Social contagion on social media: How behaviors may spread across
online networks (Philipp Masur)
Social norms A review. Review of Communication Research - Chung, A., & Rimal, R. N.
(2016)
Behavioral Contagion on Social Media Effects of Social Norms, Design Interventions,
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and Critical Media Literacy on Self-Disclosure - Masur, P. K., DiFranzo, D. J., &
Bazarova, N. N. (2021). 57
LECTURE 10: Media literacy and digital citizenship (Philipp Masur)
Developing social media literacy How children learn to interpret risky opportunities on
social network sites. Communications - Livingstone, S. (2014)
Introducing the Social Media Literacy (SMILE) model with the case of the positivity bias
on social media. Journal of Children and Media - Schreurs, L. & Vandenbosch, L. (2020)
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WEEK 5 - LECTURES 11,12,13 69
LECTURE 11: Always on: Multitasking and performance (Martin Tanis)
Causes, effects, and practicalities of everyday multitasking. Developmental Review -
Carrier, L. M., Rosen, L. D., Cheever, N. A., & Lim, A. F. (2015)
Efficient, helpful, or distracting A literature review of media multitasking in relation to
academic performance. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher
Education - May, K. E., & Elder, A. D. (2018). 69
LECTURE 12: Information processing and credibility in the age of the internet (Martin
Tanis)
Strategic political communication in election campaigns. Political communication -
Strömbäck, J., & Kiousis, S. (2014).
The Paranoid Style of American Elections Explaining Perceptions of Electoral Integrity in
an Age of Populism. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties - Norris, Pippa, Holly
Ann Garnett, and Max Gromping.
The Cognitive and Emotional Sources of Trump Support The Case of Low-Information
Voters, New Political Science - Richard C. Fording & Sanford F. Schram (2017). 75
LECTURE 13: New media and political campaigning (André Krouwel)
Psychological Approaches to Credibility Assessment Online. The Handbook of the
Psychology of Communication Technology - Metzger, M. J., & Flanagin, A. J. (2015).
Credibility and trust of information in online environments The use of cognitive heuristics.
Journal of Pragmatics - Metzger, M. J., & Flanagin, A. J. (2013). 80
WEEK 6 - LECTURES 14,15 88
LECTURE 14: Selective attention, motivated reasoning, and attitude formation (health
context) (Martin Tanis)
The curious case of cyberchondria A longitudinal study on the reciprocal relationship
between health anxiety and online health information seeking. Journal - Te Poel, F.,
Baumgartner, S. E., Hartmann, T., & Tanis, M. (2016) 88
LECTURE 15: The internet as the domain of extremism and lies: Junk news, political
extremism and polarisation (André Krouwel)
Polarization, partisanship and junk news consumption over social media in the US -
Narayanan, V., Barash, V., Kelly, J., Kollanyi, B., Neudert, L. M., & Howard, P. N. (2018).
Political extremism predicts belief in conspiracy theories. Social Psychological and
Personality Science - Van Prooijen, J. W., Krouwel, A. P., & Pollet, T. V. (2015).
Populist Gullibility_ Conspiracy Theories, News Credibility, Bullshit Receptivity, and
Paranormal Belief 92
WEEK 7 - LECTURES 16,17 96
LECTURE 16: Beyond bias: hostile media effect when consuming news (Martin Tanis)
Examining the hostile media effect as an intergroup phenomenon The role of ingroup
identification and status. Journal of Communication - Hartmann, T., & Tanis, M. (2013).
We are the people and you are fake news A social identity approach to populist citizens’
false consensus and hostile media perceptions. Communication Research - Schulz, A.,
Wirth, W., & Müller, P. (2020). 96
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LECTURE 17: Correcting misinformation, striving for the (im)possible (Martin Tanis)
Misinformation and its correction continued influence and successful debiasing.
Psychological science in the public interest - Lewandowsky, S., Ecker, U. K., Seifert, C.
M., Schwarz, N., & Cook, J. (2012). 99
WEEK 1 - LECTURES 1,2,3
LECTURE 1: Introduction, utopian and dystopian views on media infiltration (Martin
Tanis)
This lecture:
- Is our relationship with media technology a positive or a negative one?
- How has the media landscape changed over the last decades?
How society is changed using these new forms of communication and how we can deal with
those changes. In this course we will:
-Define, describe and discuss important new challenges in the media, the public and the
individual.
-Take a theory- and evidence-based approach to address these issues
-Focus on normative and ethical aspects of new developments and technological
possibilities
Changes in the media landscape
What are the changes that we have seen happening the last decade?
- How we entertain ourselves (before, old fashioned broadcast tv vs now; video’s
on-demand, the gaming industry etc)
- How we inform ourselves (before; tv, newspapers all written by journalists with a
professional background vs now; social media with all kinds of people with their own
opinion.)
- How we interact
- How we consume
This table shows us how the news
consumption has changed over time
On the test, you may get similar graphs of
which you should be able to describe the
pattern over the years and amongst different
ages etc.
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You do not have to know specific numbers.
The difference in media use/consumption amongst different age groups. Boomers rely most
on broadcast tv (old) VS gen z who rely most on online videos for information/ media
consumption. You can see a shift happening from the older generations to the younger ones.
Trends in media and media use
- What is the role of journalists?
- What (or who) can we trust?
- How does this affect our society?
- What will be the relation between ‘humans and computers’ (artificial intelligence)?
A lot of things happened over time, one of the biggest is that there is a big shift from
traditional communication sources to social media. Some of the trends include:
- From push to pull: consumers choosing from a large offering of media content (such as
youtube, Netflix, all things on-demand) + from printed newspapers from one one editorial
board consisting of a set of fixed journalists to Blendle where you as a consumer can blend
your own set of topics/articles based on personal interest.
- Dissolving media boundaries: browsing the internet on phone, listening to radio on a laptop.
- Increasing interactivity (online multiplayer games, chat functions on webpages)
- Content creations by ‘consumers’; social media (writing reviews, blogs, vlogs, Instagram,
Facebook) → everything on social media revolves around the idea that anyone can create
content on the internet, which is very different from the ‘old days’ where only journalists were
able to.
These are all trends that empower us as individuals to place content online and share this
with a larger audience.
Utopian / Dystopian perspectives
UTOPIA: a community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities
for its citizens.
DYSTOPIA: a community or society that is undesirable or frightening
Functions of Utopian worldview:
-Optimism about the future
-Strong belief in technological
developments
-Cultural change toward individuation and
individual empowerment
It is often noticed that people are either very
positive (utopian) about the future or very
