Charlotte Reinhardt’s “Searching for Structure: The Gender Dimension in HCI” looks at what a stronger consideration of gender can mean for the design and study of human-computer interaction. Bringing together feminist perspectives in HCI, the paper highlights approaches that take the situated and embodied nature of interaction more seriously.
How should the digital infrastructure of democratic participation be organized? In “Infrastructures of Digital Democracy: Three Models: Private, Public, and Common,” Fabrizio Li Vigni compares different ways of providing and governing such infrastructure, based on experiences from a range of countries. He considers what these different arrangements mean for who controls digital participation and how it can be organized.
In “Historical Time Machines Revisited: Narrative Persuasion in Virtual Reality,” Lea Frentzel-Beyme, Hannah Decker and Nicole Krämer investigate what immersive VR can do when it is used to communicate historical experiences. Their study of the Anne Frank House VR application examines how immersion influences users’ emotional engagement and their understanding of the historical narrative.
Katrin Kreutz and Michaela Kramer take a closer look at the often debated connection between young people’s media use and their performance at school in “The Controversial Relationship Between Adolescents’ Media Use and School Performance: A Call for a Repertoire-Oriented Perspective.” Rather than treating media use as a single, uniform activity, they argue for considering the different ways adolescents use media and the contexts in which these practices take place.
With “The Authenticity Challenge,” Claes Holger de Vreese and Nicolas Mattis turn to the consequences of generative AI for journalism. They explore how news organizations can maintain credibility when AI becomes part of the production process and discuss the importance of transparency and ways of establishing where content comes from and how it was produced.
Finally, Christoph Neuberger’s “AI-Enhanced Journalism: How to Strengthen Its Role as an Epistemic and Evaluative Intermediary in Democracy” considers how journalism might make use of AI while retaining its role in democratic public communication. The contribution discusses both the limits of AI as a source of reliable knowledge and the possibilities for using AI to support journalists and public deliberation.
An issue overview can be found here. All contributions are freely available in open access.
