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. |