Run a Google search for “black girls”—what will you find?“Big Booty” and other sexually
explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But, if you type in “white girls,” the …

Gatekeeping theories have been a popular heuristic for describing information control for
years, but none have attained a full theoretical status in the context of networks. This article …

Online health information comes from a variety of online sources. Based on a typology of
online sources, this research examines the direct and combined influences of original …

Since its initial introduction, the paradigm of agenda-setting has become more refined and
complex. In addition to the introduction of intervening factors the agenda-setting paradigm is …

A Systematic Literature Review of Twitter Research from a Socio-Political Revolution
Perspective Page 1 A Systematic Literature Review of Twitter Research from a Socio-Political …

Beneficial to scholars and students in the fields of media and communication, politics and
technology, this book outlines the significant role of search engines in general and Google …

Introduction. The notions of information gatekeeping, encountering, imposed queries, and
proxy information seeking have risen to the forefront of recent information behaviour …

In this article, the authors analyze the popular search queries used in Google and Yahoo!
over a 24-month period, January 2004–December 2005. They develop and employ a new …

A lawyer found out that his name was tainted in various online platforms, where it was stated
that he is" a crook." These defamatory expressions were published in the comments sections …

Understanding the complex process of information spread in online social networks (OSNs)
enables the efficient maximization/minimization of the spread of useful/harmful information …