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Social Media Is a Threat for Democracy! A Political Perspective for Analysing and Diminishing Harm Open
Social media platforms, once hailed as potential champions of dialogue, have evolved into commodified spaces in which their business models incentivize hate speech, misinformation, polarization, and the political fragmentation of society, …
Toward Holistic Stakeholder Engagement: Integrating Participation, Inclusion, and Democracy Open
Research on the manifestations and hurdles of stakeholder engagement remains scant and fragmented. In this introduction to the Special Issue on stakeholder engagement, we conceptualize the concept through three related modes: participation…
How Digital Platforms Organize Immaturity: A Sociosymbolic Framework of Platform Power Open
The power of the digital platforms and the increasing scope of their control over individuals and institutions have begun to generate societal concern. However, the ways in which digital platforms exercise power and organize immaturity—def…
Fighting Fake News: Online Disinformation in Covid Times Open
The programme aims to facilitate global and interconnected learning about \nthe contexts, causes and factors leading to vaccine engagement. Through the \nprogramme, the Academy has awarded funding to seven research projects \nexploring vac…
Affects in Online Stakeholder Engagement: A Dissensus Perspective Open
A predominant assumption in studies of deliberative democracy is that stakeholder engagements will lead to rational consensus and to a common discourse on corporate social and environmental responsibilities. Challenging this assumption, we…
Energizing through Visuals: How Social Entrepreneurs Use Emotion-Symbolic Work for Social Change Open
We know little about how social entrepreneurs try to induce enactment of their cause, especially when this cause is difficult to embrace. Through a longitudinal study, we analyze how anti-plastic pollution social entrepreneurs use multimod…
Vicious and Virtuous Circles of Aspirational Talk: From Self-Persuasive to Agonistic CSR Rhetoric Open
Scholars are divided over the question of whether managerial aspirational talk that contradicts current business practices can contribute to corporate social responsibility (CSR). In this conceptual article, we explore the rhetorical dynam…