While a growing number of studies have examined political expression in the context of
social media, fundamental questions remain about the communicative processes under …

Political campaigning on social media is a core feature of contemporary democracy.
However, evidence of the effectiveness of this type of campaigning is thin. This study tests …

This study implements a computer-assisted content analysis to identify which social
grooming factors reduce social media users' incivility when commenting or posting about the …

This study explores the antecedents and consequences of unfriending in social media
settings. Employing an online panel survey (N= 990), this study investigates how exposure …

In the context of the United States, research shows a positive relationship between network
heterogeneity and political expression on social media at the individual level. This study …

The present study addresses the effect of the discourse of elites on Twitter on citizens'
affective polarisation through a quasi-experiment that was embedded in a survey panel …

The recent rise of political extremity and radicalization has presented unique challenges to
contemporary politics, governance, and social cohesion in many societies in the world. In …

Objectives Scholars are increasingly investigating the role of citizens' personality in
activating political behavior. We test whether extraversion is associated to collective political …

Many social media affordances can affect the quality of online discourse, but such an effect
remains understudied for the visibility of geolocation, which is available on most social …

The paper considers how social media ecologies are affecting partisan engagement around
political news and online attention economies by investigating the case of the 2018 Italian …