Summer 2023 editorial essay: digital cities, ChatGPT use in Africa, Nigerian online news coverage of the Russian–Ukraine war and use of emotional mobilization and disinformation in Hong Kong anti-extradition protests
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Louisa Ha
Apart from the themed section on the digital cities and remediation of global civilization as introduced by themed issue editor, Ji Pan, this summer issue also features two original articles on Africa. Gregory Gondwe’s article on African journalists’ use and perception of ChatGPT and artificial intelligence shows how the western domination in online information causes concerns for journalists. Osakue Omoera and Emeke Nwaoboli’s study of two popular Nigerian online news sites, Sahara Reporter and Premium Times, shows that these sites both framed the Russian–Ukraine War negatively as displacement of Nigerians living in the two countries and how the Nigerian government supported the West’s position despite its strong trade relationship and dependency on imports from Russia.
Our featured translated article outside the Anglosphere this time is an article from China. The translated article by Jingtai Tang, Qiuyi Chen and Mingliang Xu, “Emotional Community and Concerted Action: On the Emotional Mobilization Mechanism of Disinformation in the Anti-extradition Law Amendment Movement in Hong Kong,” originally published in Journalism and Communication, is a computational sentiment analysis and content analysis of the postings on Twitter. It explains the emotional mobilization mechanism in the disinformation campaigns on Twitter used by Hong Kong protestors during that time. This study has important implications for studying social unrests and public mobilization. The article also shows the increasing use of sophisticated big data analysis in communication research published in China.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Themed Section Editorial Essay
- Digital cities theme section editorial essay: approach digital cities from the communication perspective
- Summer Issue Editorial Essay
- Summer 2023 editorial essay: digital cities, ChatGPT use in Africa, Nigerian online news coverage of the Russian–Ukraine war and use of emotional mobilization and disinformation in Hong Kong anti-extradition protests
- Themed Section: Digital Cities and Re-Mediation of Global Civilization
- Beyond the smart city: a communications-led agenda for twentyfirst century cities
- Managing future cities: media and information and communication technologies in the context of change
- Data plantation: Northern Virginia and the territorialization of digital civilization in “the Internet Capital of the World”
- Original Articles
- CHATGPT and the Global South: how are journalists in sub-Saharan Africa engaging with generative AI?
- Sahara Reporters and Premium Times online coverage of the Russia–Ukraine war
- Featured Translated Research Outside the Anglosphere
- Emotional community and concerted action: on the emotional mobilization mechanism of disinformation in the Anti-extradition Law amendment movement in Hong Kong
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Themed Section Editorial Essay
- Digital cities theme section editorial essay: approach digital cities from the communication perspective
- Summer Issue Editorial Essay
- Summer 2023 editorial essay: digital cities, ChatGPT use in Africa, Nigerian online news coverage of the Russian–Ukraine war and use of emotional mobilization and disinformation in Hong Kong anti-extradition protests
- Themed Section: Digital Cities and Re-Mediation of Global Civilization
- Beyond the smart city: a communications-led agenda for twentyfirst century cities
- Managing future cities: media and information and communication technologies in the context of change
- Data plantation: Northern Virginia and the territorialization of digital civilization in “the Internet Capital of the World”
- Original Articles
- CHATGPT and the Global South: how are journalists in sub-Saharan Africa engaging with generative AI?
- Sahara Reporters and Premium Times online coverage of the Russia–Ukraine war
- Featured Translated Research Outside the Anglosphere
- Emotional community and concerted action: on the emotional mobilization mechanism of disinformation in the Anti-extradition Law amendment movement in Hong Kong
