Wu, T.-Y., Oeldorf-Hirsch, & Aktin, D. (2020). A click is worth a thousand words: Probing the predictors of utilizing click speech for online opinion expression. International Journal of Communication, 14, 2687–2706. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/11471/3090
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I’ve been awarded a Fulbright!
I’ll be conducting research on social media literacy in the Digital Citizenship in Network Technologies (DICINT) lab at Universität Duisburg-Essen in Germany in Fall 2020.
News-labeling experiments to appear in Mass Communication and Society
Oeldorf-Hirsch, A., Schmierbach, M., Appelman, A., & Boyle, M. (Accepted for publication). The ineffectiveness of fact-checking labels on news memes and articles. Mass Communication and Society.
Two new research studies accepted to ICA 2020 in Australia
Oeldorf-Hirsch, A., & Chen, Y. (2020, May). Who cares about screen time? Predicting the use of mobile phone tracking features. Paper to be presented at the 70th annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Gold Coast, Australia.
Pittman, M., Oeldorf-Hirsch, A., & Brannan, A. (2020, May). Under the (social media) influence: Context of green advertising appeals mediates effects on purchase intent and attitude change. Paper to be presented at the 70th annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Gold Coast, Australia.
Facebook question-asking paper accepted to GROUP 2020
Oeldorf-Hirsch, A., & Gergle, D. (2020). ‘Who knows what’: Audience targeting for question asking on Facebook. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (GROUP), Volume 4, Article 11. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 20 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3375191
Study on the effects of layered news sources on Facebook now published
Oeldorf-Hirsch, A. & DeVoss, C. (2019). Who posted that story? Processing layered sources in Facebook news posts. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly¸ Online first. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699019857673
New research on social media news labels accepted to #aejmc19
Oeldorf-Hirsch, A., Schmierbach, M., Appelman, A., & Boyle, M. (2019, August). Credibility effects of fact-checking labels on social media news posts. Paper to be presented at the 103rd annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication (AEJMC), Toronto, CA.
New policy study to be presented at #SMSociety ’19
Oeldorf-Hirsch, A. & Obar, A. (2019). Overwhelming, important, irrelevant: Terms of service and privacy policy reading among older adults. To be presented at and included in Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Social Media & Society (SMSociety ’19), Toronto, Canada.
New Publication: How Twitter was used in Hurricane Joaquin
Rainear, A., Lachlan, K., Oeldorf-Hirsch, A., & DeVoss, C. (2018). Examining Twitter content of state emergency management during Hurricane Joaquin. Communication Research Reports, 0, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2018.1503945
Free full-text access available: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZgbK5HHN633G9VrRthpb/full
New publication in special issue of Social Media + Society
Obar, J. A., & Oeldorf-Hirsch, A. (2018). The clickwrap: A political economic mechanism for manufacturing consent on social media. Social Media + Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305118784770