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James Meese
Researcher at RMIT University
Publications - 44
Citations - 749
James Meese is an academic researcher from RMIT University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social media & Digital media. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 39 publications receiving 498 citations. Previous affiliations of James Meese include Swinburne University of Technology & University of Melbourne.
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#Funeral and Instagram: death, social media, and platform vernacular
TL;DR: For instance, the authors found that the majority of images uploaded with the hashtag #funeral often communicated a person's emotional circumstances and affective context, and allowed them to reposition their funeral experience amongst wider networks of acquaintances, friends, and family.
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Facebook, news media and platform dependency: The institutional impacts of news distribution on social platforms:
James Meese,Edward Hurcombe +1 more
TL;DR: It is found that news media organisations have recently started to diversify their distribution strategies and the business models associated with them in response to Facebook’s algorithm changes, suggesting that greater attention needs to be paid to the complex relationships that news organisations have with platforms.
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Posthumous personhood and the affordances of digital media
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify and outline some of the more prominent ways that digital media can extend one's personhood following death, and consider three examples: when the digital persona of the dece...
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COVID-19, 5G conspiracies and infrastructural futures
TL;DR: In this article, the emergence of conspiracy theories linking COVID-19 with 5G with a focus on Australia, the United States and United Kingdom is examined, focusing on the United Kingdom.
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Selfies at Funerals: Mourning and Presencing on Social Media Platforms
TL;DR: In this article, Meese et al. present Selfies at Funerals: Mourning and Presencing on Social Media Platforms, a study of selfie-taking at funerals.