Authors

Title

Journal

Methodology

Result and Advantages

Brandt, J., Buckingham, K., Buntain, C., (...), Pool, J. -R., Ferrari, N.

Identifying social media user demographics and topic diversity with computational social science: a case study of a major international policy forum

(2020) Journal of Computational Social Science

3(1), pp. 167-188

Case study

Compared to the previous GLF in Bonn, Germany, holding the GLF in Nairobi, Kenya, raised the voices of African leaders. Substantial racial, ethnic, and gender disparities in topic-level participation among different age groups.

Savolainen, L., Trilling, D., Liotsiou, D.

Delighting and Detesting Engagement: Emotional Politics of Junk News

(2020) Social Media and Society 6(4)

Quantitatively analyzing their engagement metrics, and a qualitative comment analysis

To demonstrate how the interaction between audiences, platform architecture, and political junk news produces a bivalent emotional dynamic that consistently separates postings into highly “liked” and very “angry,” they suggest the notions of delighting and detesting engagement.

Zhou, J.

An empirical study of college students’ audience groups in government microblogs

(2019) News Knowledge

Questionnaires and In-depth interviews

The college students have high expectations of political participation and affirm the social role of political participation, but the willingness to actively participate in political expression is not strong.

Li, Y.

Analysis of Attitudes and Preferences of Audience Participation in New Media of Government Affairs in the Context of Epidemic Prevention—An Example of “Nanning Release” Government Affairs TikTok Account

(2022) New Media Research

Hybrid Research, Grounded theory

Audience rational participation is slightly more than emotional expression; audience participation attitude is significantly positively biased; audience participation attitude is influenced by both media context and group context.