There have been growing concerns regarding the potential impact of social media on
democracy and public debate. While some theorists have claimed that ICTs and social …

This article investigates the logics that underpin music curation, and particularly the work of
music curators, working at digital music streaming platforms. Based on ethnographic …

Many assume that in a digital environment with a wide range of ideologically tinged news
outlets, partisan selective exposure to like-minded speech is pervasive and a primary cause …

Social media users incidentally get exposed to news when their networks provide content
that they would otherwise not seek out purposefully. We developed a scale of incidental …

Applied Mass Communication Theory: A Guide for Media Practitioners, Second Edition
bridges a review of theory to the contemporary work of media professionals. The text …

A survey of 3,441 US social media users showed that a high portion believes in conspiracy
theories, and their beliefs vary widely along the party lines and socio-demographic factors …

Social media have become the main gateway to information for young people, helping to
determine and shape the young's visions of the present, which is also conditioned by news …

This study investigated the factors that affect the relationship between cross-cutting
exposure and political participation. It was found that cross-cutting exposure to politically …

Computational propaganda—the use of political bots and trolls for orchestrated interventions
in online political discourse—is not the only means through which nefarious actors assert …

There is reason to believe that an increasing proportion of the news consumers receive is
not from news producers directly but is recirculated through social network sites and email …