Concerns about the resilience of democracy are accompanied by calls for schools to strengthen their citizenship education. This article describes the findings from the Dutch participation in an international comparative study in 2022 on the citizenship competences of young people in the second grade …

Previous research largely supports the notion that mediated contact and engagement with minority characters can improve viewers’ real-life minority attitudes. However, it is unclear to what extent different forms of media engagement such as parasocial friendship and wishful identification are linked …

Introduction: This study examined the effects of educational programs focused on content knowledge, motor experience, and visual experience on the perceptual skills of pre-service physical education (PE) teachers. Based on an ecological approach, perceptual skill in PE teachers refers to their ability …

There is a lack in researching chatbots in terms of organizational boundaries and on stakeholder perspective regarding the feelings of end users toward the interactions for corporate communications (Syvänen and Valentini in J. Commun. Manag. 24:339–362, 2020). Mainly, chatbots are being used to assist …

Humanlike virtual influencers (HVIs) mimic human influencers (HIs), but how do consumers perceive them, and how does this affect persuasion knowledge? This experiment examines how consumers differentiate HVIs from HIs based on two mental states – intentions and emotions– and how differences in mind perception …

Background: Deceptive movements occur when an actor seeks to fake, hide or delay kinematic information about their true movement outcomes. The purpose of deceptive movements is to impair the perception of opponents (the ‘observer’) to gain an advantage over them. We argue though that a lack of conceptual …

In this study, we argue that organizers of live music have increasingly been confronted with uncertainty and risk in the pre-pandemic era and that the pandemic has clearly put them under further pressure. At the same time, live music venues and festivals have proven to be largely resilient to the extreme …

Analysis of practical advice in regard of developing a data literacy course for students in higher education and for early-career professionals in interviews with 56 experts in data analysis, offered an unexpected shared story among the experts around the perception, affect and power of data. By attending …

Inspired by the MediaNumeric project, this issue of VIEW will take a closer look at the challenges journalists and multimedia makers face in a datafied world and how they might be trained to deal with them. The central question being how datafication for professionals is a multi-faceted challenge given …

This study examines to understand community perceptions towards FGM in Garowe District, Somalia. FGM is deeply rooted in Somali culture, and it is viewed as a necessary rite of passage to maintain girls' purity, modesty, and marriageability. Despite increasing awareness of the serious health risks, such …