The popularization and normalization of conspiracy theories over the last decade are accompanied by concerns over conspiracy theories as irrational beliefs, on the one hand; and their advocates as radical and extremist believers on the other hand. Building on studies emphasizing that such accounts are one-sided at best, and pars pro toto stigmatiza...
This paper explores the ways ESOL writing instructors implement and assess participatory writing practices in the classroom using digital technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participatory writing practices are largely sociocultural in nature and thereby resist the notion of standardized and individualized practices to focus on co-creating a ...
This thesis explores the understudied phenomenon of anti-fandom culture in the digital age, focusing on how anti-fan communities targeting media figures manifest on social media platforms. By analysing online interactions and community dynamics, the research uncovers dimensions of negativity and toxicity, emphasising the toxic practices displayed b...
The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically accelerated the digitalisation of education around the world in a short period of time, which presented a unique opportunity for language teachers and policy makers to reconsider assumptions about language learning in higher education. Against this background, this study examines how digital pedagogy can enhance t...
Kickstarter je platforma za množično financiranje, katere namen je financiranje projektov preko donacij v zameno za nagrado. Trenutno kar 40% vseh projektov na platformi spada v kategorijo namiznih iger. Na platformi niso več prisotna le start-up podjetja in kreativni posamezniki, ki želijo realizirati svojo idejo, temveč jo uporabljajo tudi velike...
Published in Semiotica
In this paper, we try to build a semiotics of stereotypes through the key idea of enunciation. We investigate stereotypes of Persons with Disabilities in the context of social media networks (e.g., Facebook, Instagram) by adopting a semiotic perspective. The mainstream idea about stereotypes is that they are necessarily something negative, that mus...
Published in Online Media and Global Communication
Purpose The purpose of this research is to examine how “mother fans” impact on the existing patterns of parasocial relationships between fans and idols and to gain deeper insights into the motivations underlying the purchase of idol dolls. Additionally, by including the experiences and perspectives of male idol fans, the research seeks to broaden t...
Published in Omega
Disney's notably traumatic character deaths have been the focus of several academic studies that identify the potential harm of witnessing animated deaths during childhood; however, these studies have almost exclusively examined death images within film without looking to images that exist external to the media texts themselves. This paper addresse...
Published in Frontiers in Sociology
This study presents the preliminary findings of the first round of implementation of a case study included in the Horizon 2020 project SMOOTH. The project's main objective is to introduce and study the emergent paradigm of the educational commons as an alternative system of values and actions for promoting intercultural and intergenerational dialog...
The work of training machine vision systems is diffused into the participatory cultures of social media. As we use social media platforms to express ourselves we assemble databases and train algorithms; and these algorithms in turn shape our everyday cultural practices. In this article, we describe a machine vision system that we built to undertake...
