Online trends and platforms come and go, and media professionals have historically shown
a keen interest in adopting novel modes of content distribution in order to capture the …

Featuring a longitudinal, structural study of European party and citizen activity on Instagram
between 2012 and 2018, this article outlines the overarching changes in the ways that …

This article compares the communication strategies of party and candidate accounts on
Instagram during the 2017 German federal election. Building upon previous research, we …

This article presents a longitudinal, structural study where party and citizen activity on
Facebook is studied over a 10-year period, outlining the growing importance of audio-visual …

Political elections see several actors rise to the fore in order to influence and inform voters.
Increasingly, such processes take place on social media like Facebook, where media outlets …

Politicians can use social media to prompt citizens to engage by means of calls to action—
statements, often in imperative form, that explicitly encourage audiences to take immediate …

This study details the influence of hyperpartisan media actors in comparison to regional and
national news media competitors by gauging audience engagement in relation to news on …

Social media platforms are increasingly becoming an important tool to mobilize populist right-
wing issues and movements. This study provides comparative insights into the activity and …

The increased use of social media has triggered a visual shift in digital political
communication. One central strategy is visual (self-) personalization and many studies have …

The paper at hand presents a comparative study on news use in relation to media content as
posted to Facebook by a series of established and hyperpartisan media outlets during the …