Highlights•Research covers a wide range of theoretical perspectives dating back decades.•
Methodological approaches often include experiments.•Causality is a crucial consideration …

Media permeate our lives and are so omnipresent that we take them for granted and
overlook their impact. Mobile communication devices, the internet, and social networking …

The pervasive use of multiple technological tools to engage with media and political content
(ie, TV sets, laptops, tablets, smartphones, etc.) has deeply altered the way citizens around …

Second screening has become a prevalent media consumption behavior. Nevertheless, the
political implications of second screening are not fully understood. Using data from a two …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the process by which social media news
use leads individuals to engage in attempted political persuasion, examining the mediating …

The influence of partisan identification infiltrates all aspects of a democracy. This study
employs an innovative design to explore the presidential debate-viewing experience among …

Second screening politics is an emerging communication practice for engaging with public
affairs content. Scholars are increasingly interested in exploring pro-democratic effects of …

Contemporary audiences have abundant access to news anywhere, anytime and through a
wide range of media. Due to the short length of news items, they do not require prolonged …

We investigate the relationship between political dual screening—that is, watching political
contents on television while reading and commenting on them on social media—and …

The current study underscores different practices of political behavior and communication in
virtual environments among youth. The primary objectives of this exploratory study were to …