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Mass Communication and Society Volume 24, 2021 - Issue 6: Special Section: Endlessly Connected? Agentic Perspectives on Mobile Media (Non-)Use
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From Context Collapse to “Safe Spaces”: Selective Avoidance through Tie Dissolution on Social Media

Qinfeng Zhua Department of Media Studies and Journalism, University of Groningen, Groningen, The NetherlandsCorrespondence[email protected]
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Marko M. Skoricb Department of Media and Communication, City University of Hong Kong, Hong KongORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6578-9872View further author information
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Pages 892-917 | Published online: 09 Mar 2021

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Qinfeng Zhu & Marko M. Skoric. (2023) When politics is personal: Curating safe spaces through disconnection on instant messaging platforms. Journal of Information Technology & Politics 0:0, pages 1-15.
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Qinfeng Zhu, Marc Esteve-Del-Valle & Julia K Meyer. (2022) Safe spaces? Grounding political talk in WhatsApp groups. New Media & Society, pages 146144482211360.
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Min-Hsin Su, Jiyoun Suk & Hernando Rojas. (2022) Social Media Expression, Political Extremity, and Reduced Network Interaction: An Imagined Audience Approach. Social Media + Society 8:1, pages 205630512110690.
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