Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) exist today as a component of broader, ever-evolving financial environment in which questions value, ownership, and intention are characterized by their ambiguity. This article considers Dapper Labs “NBA Top Shot,” blockchain-backed website inviting NBA fans to join “a new era fandom” wherein they may acquire NFTs highlights opening “packs,” functionally similar trading cards. reflect the pressures market forces, well increased cultural economic emphasis on...

In the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong, a former British territory in southern China returned to People’s Republic as semi-autonomous enclave 1997, media capture has distinct characteristics. On one hand, Kong offers case an uncensored sector and open market economy similar those Western industrialized democracies. Yet Kong’s comparatively small size, close proximity, broad economic exposure authoritarian markets politics neighboring Mainland China, which practices strict...

This article probes the catalytic features of social media in civic participation and mass civil disobedience Hong Kong’s 2014 protests, conceptualizes digital activism terms mobilization, organization, persuasion. It makes use in-depth interviews, English, Mandarin, Cantonese, with 40 leading users during protests. These included, first foremost, student activists, as well opposition figures journalists who reported on The finds that velocity scale have strengthened protesters’ ability to...

Toxic behavior is commonplace in online games and has negative consequences for players. Although previous studies have illustrated common types features of in-game toxic behavior, it remains unclear what psychological mechanisms can explain why emerges evolves gaming environments. To fill this research gap, guided by Online Disinhibition Effect theory, study applies a qualitative interview approach to understand when, how, people engage games. Specifically, interviewing players the game...

In recent years, a growing literature in journalism studies has discussed the increasing importance of social media European and American news production. Adding to this body work, we explore how Indian foreign correspondents reporting from India used during coverage Delhi gang rape; journalists represented public sphere their usage; and, what representation says about future India’s sphere. Throughout our analysis, Manuel Castells’ discussion ‘space flows’ informs examination journalists’...

Abstract This article explores the institutional logics of intrapreneurial units, or groups within organizations that are designated to foster organizational innovation. Drawing on interviews with news intrapreneurs developing chatbots in media organizations, this study shows innovation can be stymied because conflicting logics. News adopt a logic experimentation, audience orientation, and efficiency-seeking, but approach clashes journalistic prioritizing workflows, formats, associated...

Mobile chat apps have shaped multiple forms of communication in everyday life, including education, family, business, and health communication. In journalism, taken on a heightened significance reporting political unrest, particularly terms audience/reporter distinctions, sourcing information, community formation. phones are now essential components reporters’ communication, during unrest. East Asia, the latest trends point toward private networking apps, such as WeChat WhatsApp, most...

Since 2011, mobile chat apps have gained significant popularity worldwide and the leading surpassed social networking sites in user numbers. These become hosts for everyday communication among a wide variety of users and, thanks to functionalities certain apps, taken on new significance reporting. Especially Hong Kong (a high-income, high-tech society which smartphones are widespread use) mainland China (an emerging market with more than 1 billion phone users), journalists turned these...

This article examines non-fungible token (NFT) applications and their users through a qualitative textual analysis of NFT-based video game Axie Infinity’s Discord server. It considers NFT applications’ dual purposes as entertainment media financial instruments posits that the interests capital inform users’ engagement. In an environment defined by distrust uncertainty, predominantly Filipino digital laborers’ (“Scholars”) experiences interactions with game’s ownership class (“Managers”)...

This article examines Indian telecom policy from independence to the present. Dividing this period into three phases – 1947 1984, 1984 1991 and present explores role of state in India’s dramatic transformation a telecommunications laggard one world’s largest markets mobile communication. It draws on wide range government documents, institutional surveys (domestic international) telephony, memoirs analyses by officials, interviews with executives. makes two arguments. First, it emphasizes...

In the past decade India has become financing hub for cricket, a broadcaster in its own right, and an agenda-setter management of all forms game. What some commentators have called ‘Indianization’ cricket extends beyond business: it is social, political, cultural phenomenon. For five seasons, Indian Premier League (IPL) offered glimpse this phenomenon, prompting enthusiasm from young fans those who stand to profit new league, resistance traditionalists. This paper discusses material symbolic...

Focusing on recent political unrest in Hong Kong, this article examines how mobile chat applications (e.g., WhatsApp, WeChat, LINE, Facebook Messenger and others) have permeated journalism. In apps served as tools for foreign correspondents to follow stories, identify sources, verify facts; they also helped reporting teams manage large flows of multimedia information real-time. To understand the institutional, technological, cultural factors at play, draws 34 interviews author conducted with...

In this paper, we seek to understand the contemporary power of presidential "bully pulpit"—the persuasive nation's highest elected office—in a context shifting patterns mediation. We do so by examining major social media communication platform (Twitter) for evidence changes in public opinion before and after President Obama's high-profile statements on net neutrality November 2014. This study includes novel comprehensive data effects announcement opinion. With playing growing role both...

In the United States words “telephone surveillance” bring to mind contemporary security concerns about smart phone tracking, NSA warrantless wiretapping scandal, and telecommunications provisions of Patriot Act. Yet telephone surveillance is as old telephony itself, dating back nearly simultaneous commercialization phonograph. This article examines by American law enforcement agencies from inception service passage Federal Wiretap Law in 1968, focusing on challenges an advancing,...

This article explores unintended effects of recent growth in India’s mobile phone network. Using a case study the Indian Premier League (IPL) – popular cricket league that has encouraged usage among fans this argues large and inclusive networks have enabled significant new gambling corruption. The spatial possibilities led to organizational forms corruption, with small-scale local activity increasingly supplanted by organized syndicates located Mumbai Dubai. Based on interviews users...

Scholars have recognized emotion as an increasingly important element in the reception and retransmission of online information. In United States, because existing differences ideology, among both audiences producers news stories, political issues are prone to spark considerable emotional responses online. While much research has explored during election campaigns, this study focuses on role social media posts related day-to-day governance between periods. Specifically, takes 2018–2019...

Scholars are well-aware that the smartphone is much more than just a mobile telephone. A plethora of applications have been developed to run on smartphones, covering about every aspect human life. What distinctive fact these apps smartphones (as opposed other kinds devices) makes them (the travel with user) and locative know location user). As result, take full advantage characteristics ability bring users together in real space time. The key success such “netware” their generation retention...

While previous studies showed that persuasive games can have positive effects on attitudes and behavioral intentions, little is known about the underlying processes cause these effects. This study investigates immersion involvement in order to provide a better understanding of games. We conducted an experiment with 152 college students which participants either played game or watched playback game. Our results affective ludic mediated relationship between interactivity (gameplay vs....