The contemporary media environment is often characterized as awash in uncivil and divisive
messages. Central to this characterization, are social media, where partisans may engage in …

ABSTRACT Former President Donald Trump is well-known for dominating the attention-
driven hybrid media system through his controversial tweets, which spurred social media …

The theory of recognition has much to offer the field of political communication as it struggles
to comprehend communicative dysfunctions, political polarization and governing crises …

The 2020 election and its aftermath present an opportunity to understand how audiences'
changing news consumption patterns within an expanded, digitized, and polarized media …

A growing body of research suggests that the contemporary media environment enables
motivated reasoning, which intensifies affective polarization. This is especially the case in …

Two incidents of disputed reporting rocked the US news media in January 2019, one on the
Trump-Russia investigation and the other on a confrontation involving a group of Covington …

This paper integrates cultivation theory and moral panics to create hypotheses about the
effects of cable network news consumption (CNN. Fox News, MSNBC) on three measures of …

In entering the emerging literature on partisan rightwing news, this study introduces the
concept of “sham journalism” to characterize activity that appropriates the trappings of …

This chapter theorizes the similarities and differences between populism and nationalism
through the case of Fox News, conservative America's main news source. The first sections …

Podcasts routinely engender loyal communities of fans and listeners based on emotional
choices and perceptions; those decisions reflect parasocial phenomena, or perceived …