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Shaping Public Discourse in the Digital Era
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Eunju Ko & Chiara Murgia
The consumer socialization process: How social media affects youth luxury consumption
by Juha Park & Jaehoon Chu
Consumption of digital virtual fashion goods in metaverse
Sung Hun (Kevin) Bae, Kyung Hoon Kim & Erin Cho
by Nataliya Bredikhina, Thilo Kunkel, Heather Kennedy & Francesca Fumagalli
Exploring the nexus of digital technology and organizational change in non-profit sport organizations
by Ashley Thompson ,Michael L. Naraine & Milena M. Parent
Investigating consumer preferences and perceptions of brands across men’s and women’s sport: a brand architecture approach
by Jason P. Doyle, Yiran Su, Sarah Jane Kelly, Kevin Filo & Thilo Kunkel
by Yining Liu & Xiaojing Li
Linking incidental corrective information exposure to health misinformation correction intention: testing an extended cognitive mediation model
by Chen Luo, Xiaoya Yang, Han Zheng, Yifei He & Yimeng Xu
Impact of multi-platform social media news use on civic participation: the mediating role of news engagement and the moderated mediation effect of news trust
by Weiqing Kong, Se Jung Kim & Yongkuk Chung
by Aneta Podkalicka
What is news? Exploring differences in how younger and older cohorts use news in today’s media environment
by Kirsty J. Anderson
Media exposure and prevention behaviours in the emerging phase of a disease outbreak: a comparative study of two countries with different media systems
by Hue Duong & Akansha Sirohi
by Lars Brand & Tim Ströbel
Nation Branding, Country Image, and the Scope of Sport-Tech Diplomacy: Lessons from the Case of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
by Yoav Dubinsky
Fan Engagement Management: Fan Response to Brand Image Attributes of Professional Athletes on Instagram
by Abed Mahmoudian, Sardar Mohammadi & Wenche Wang
by Puji Santoso
A cross-platform comparison of China’s confrontational diplomatic communication
by Muyang Li
Analysing political engagement in a multimedia, multi-elections environment: predictive factors in an unpredictable political reality
by Yaron Ariel, Vered Elishar & Dana Weimann-Saks
by Piper Liping Liu
Measuring Chinese online populist discourse: an automated semantic text analysis method
by Yuzhou Tao, Zhiqin Zhan, Han Zhou, Jingshi Kang & Shaojing Sun
Objective socioeconomic status, subjective social status and the digital usage divide: insights from a longitudinal analysis
by Wei Ren
by Connie Li, Shirley Y. Y. Cheng & Gerard P. Prendergast
An Examination of Digital Accessibility Within Social Media Platforms
by Mary Anne Raymond, Hillary Smith, Les Carlson & Aditya Gupta
How Is Influencer Follower Size Related to Brand Responses?
by Eva A. van Reijmersdal, Tatiana Domingues Aguiar & Guda van Noort
by Rahayu et al.
Japanese mainstream media and the challenge of gendered disinformation
by Charlène Clonts
Meta’s misguided path: global consequences of abandoning third-party fact-checking
by Ritu Arya & Rubal Kanozia
by Ariadna Aleksandrova & Marina D. Khabib
Understanding the digital economy in China: Characteristics, challenges, and prospects
by Terence Tai Leung Chong, Sizhu Wang & Ce Zhang
The political economy of the digital age: A literature review on the interaction between citizens, enterprises, and the state
by Huihua Nie & Ning Yang
Meet the Author: Jason Doyle
In this exclusive interview with one of the contributors of this collection, we gained deeper insights into Dr Doyle’s research on the psychology of consumer perceptions. As author of Sports Management Review, he shares his thoughts on the future of fan engagement in the digital era, experience publishing with Taylor & Francis, and valuable advice for early-career researchers in sport management.
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