In little over a decade, essential concepts in research on communication have become
zombie concepts (Beck & Willms, 2004) and are no longer effective for understanding the …

Amid growing concerns about misinformation on social media, scholars, educators, and
commentators see news literacy as a means to improve critical media consumption. We use …

Using large Twitter datasets collected during the 2012 US presidential election, we
examined how partisanship shapes patterns of sharing and commenting on candidate fact …

This study aims to investigate the relationships between citizens' populist attitudes,
perceptions of public opinion, and perceptions of mainstream news media. Relying on social …

Opinion leaders can be influential in persuading their peers about news and politics, yet
their potential influence has been questioned in the social media era. This study tests a …

The use of social media for sharing political information and the status of news as an
essential raw material for good citizenship are both generating increasing public concern …

Linking back to, the present approach conceptualizes and empirically examines viewers'
parasocial interaction experience with a TV performer. Causes and outcomes of parasocial …

Partisan incivility is prevalent in news comments, but we have limited insight into how
journalists and news users engage with it. Gatekeeping, cognitive bias, and social identity …

Some 30 years ago, Vallone, Ross, and Lepper (1985) conducted a pioneering study of the
hostile media effect in which they demonstrated that partisans perceive media coverage as …

Recently, substantial attention has been paid to the spread of highly partisan and often
factually incorrect information (ie, so-called “fake news”) on social media. In this study, we …