For over a century, psychology has focused on uncovering mental processes of a single
individual. However, humans rarely navigate the world in isolation. The most important …

Social media platforms promise to enable rich and vibrant conversations online; however,
their potential is often hindered by antisocial behaviors. In this paper, we study the …

Increasingly taking place in online spaces, modern political conversations are typically
perceived to be unproductively affirming---siloed in so called" echo chambers" of exclusively …

For policymakers across the world, the importance of budget transparency is self-evident.
However, most scholars mainly focus on the economic performance of budget transparency …

Social networking sites (SNSs) allow individuals to establish and maintain a variety of
relationships as well as share different aspects of their identity by expressing their views on …

Online conversation has been facilitating human society, which has encouraged people not
only to share news, products, or daily events, but also to develop ideas. A popular type of …

Studies of gendered phenomena online have highlighted important disparities, such as who
is likely to be elevated as an expert or face gender-based harassment. This research …

The share of social media attention to political candidates was shown to be a good predictor
of election outcomes in several studies. This attention to individual candidates fluctuates due …

The aim of this chapter is to suggest ways to better capture the diversity of constellations and
the dynamics of interactions in the public sphere, triggered by the digital transformation. The …

Aim An abundance of information and rumors pertaining to COVID-19 vaccines has
disseminated extensively especially through Twitter. The primary objective of this study is to …