This introduction provides an overview of the fifteen papers accepted to the Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies minitrack of HICSS 2026, and charts how platforms, publics, and producers co-create contemporary communication.
The role of AI-driven technologies—including deepfakes and algorithmic amplification—in producing and circulating deceptive narratives designed to manipulate public perception is investigated and language, particularly through strategic mistranslation and narrative reframing, is weaponized to serve ideological interest...
Analytical questions for tracing who determines the "legibility" of culture, whose interpretations spread, and how platforms reinforce certain meanings while marginalising others are put forward.
Cheng-Rui Shi· Journal of Humanities and Cu...· 0 citations
The article argues for four planks of a workable response: platform accountability, mandatory labelling, source verification, and media literacy, and points to a research gap on enforcement, cross-border coordination, and the position of small language communities in detection systems.
M. S. Hanspal· Naveen International Journal...· 0 citations
Stories persuade audiences whose explicit beliefs diverge, and the question of why this happens motivates a long line of work on narrative transportation. This article asks how the transportation mechanism operates when a story withholds a verdict and leaves its central conflict open, and it does so through a structure...
Cristian Ricardo García Zelada· Universal Library of Arts an...· 0 citations
The research refines dual-process theories within digital information management by specifying a measurable, sequential association pattern for observable engagement under information density, and distinguishes Audience Conversion Efficacy as a critical moderator.
Jun Xu, Yuying Luo, Chengliang Wang et al.· Aslib Journal of Information...· 0 citations
Ethical implications are derived for the individual production of historical content with AI and for the role of distribution platforms, and the analytical limits of the case are discussed in order to open an empirical research agenda in this emerging field.
Cristian Londoño-Proaño· Frontiers in Communication· 0 citations
We use cookies to run the site and, with your consent, for analytics and to show ads.
See our Cookie Policy.
