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Record W4386807712 · doi:10.1515/omgc-2023-2006

Gen Z’s social media use and global communication

2023· article· en· W4386807712 on OpenAlex
Peiqin Chen, Louisa Ha

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no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueOnline Media and Global Communication · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAsian Culture and Media Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSocial mediaComputer scienceSociologyWorld Wide Web

Abstract

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Generation Z (Gen Z), also named digital natives, is the first to have been born after the mass-adoption of the Internet, especially the social media.Through all kinds of international digital platforms, Gen Z has more access to a vast number of diverse information than previous generations.Interconnected on world media platforms, Gen Z has become a generation doing Internet-based communication from a young age.Exposed to global communication platforms, especially global social media platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok etc., how Gen Z's perceptions and attitudes are shaped by online content from all over the world is important to study.However, either studies about Gen Z's online media use and their perceptions of another country or comparative studies across countries are scarce.Furthermore, studies focus on Gen Z's media use in a global context, especially news consumption, is of vital importance to the understanding of the world.Our journal, OMGC, made some efforts this year to fill this gap.We organized a preconference at the 2023 Annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) in Toronto, Canada.In his keynote speech of our preconference titled, "Zoomers, Millennials, Gen X and Boomers?The News Finds Me Perception as a Media Effect Equalizer and Implications on Global Communication," Homero Gil de Zuniga proposed a model of media use of young people.He argued that in a social media age, Generation Z, instead of searching for news, rely on "news finds me".In addition, two panels, "Media Use and Gen Z's World View" and "Children and News: Lessons Learnt and Future Directions" as well as 14 papers with topics such as the effects of social media use and international news on Gen Z's world view, politics and Gen Z's media use, artificial intelligence and Gen Z, digital activism and Gen Z, and cross-generational comparisons were presented at the preconference.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.469
Threshold uncertainty score0.971

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.070
GPT teacher head0.362
Teacher spread0.292 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it