Death is an inevitable part of life and highly relevant to information management: its
approach often requires preparation, and its occurrence often demands a response. Many …

The live character of suddenly breaking global media events along with the massive volume
of digital traces they produce pose considerable challenges for research in the current …

This study contributes to the international debate on the hashtag's nature and characteristics
and attempts to define it as a relational social form affected by morphogenetic–morphostatic …

As well as democratizing access to information and strengthening active audiences, the
internet also fosters the manipulation of news and the propagation of false and violent …

This paper focuses on the murders of the Afzaal-Salman family in London, Ontario (Canada)
in June, 2021. Immediately after the murders were reported, several hashtags on different …

Societal discussions flow on social media platforms that are studied by researchers in
multiple ways and through various kinds of data sets that are extracted from them. In the …

The aim of this Special Issue is to provide a platform for discussing the state of the art in the
field of digital death and its future avenues. Initiated by the CHANCE-funded research …

This article explores how the present-day disruptive hybrid media events shape the
conditions for the politics of recognition in political communication. The article sets off with …

The updating of media event theory for the digital age has been underway for some time,
and several researchers have pointed out that the complexity of the hybrid media …

Abstract This Special Section on Encounters Between Violence and Media examines how
these encounters are circulated, negotiated or contested, or altogether rejected. Violence …