This introduction to the special issue “Beyond Fake News: The Politics of Disinformation”
contains four main sections. In the first, we discuss the major sociopolitical factors that have …

This is a critical study of the changing relationship between media and marketing
communications in the digital age. It examines the growth of content funded by brands …

Covert advertisements, or those that utilize the guise and delivery mechanisms of familiar
non-advertising formats, differ from other more direct forms of advertising in several ways …

The essential guide to decoding messages in a media-saturated world Media Literacy
teaches students how to navigate through the overwhelming flood of information found in …

This experiment with a representative sample of US adults (N= 800) examines the effects of
disclosure design characteristics in sponsored news on readers' ability to recognize such …

An online experiment among a nationally representative YouGov sample of unvaccinated
US adults (N= 540) leverages inoculation theory as a preliminary step in uniting the …

After decades of catering to niche audiences, podcasting is now recognized as a booming
industry with more than 100 million Americans tuning in every month. Moreover, marketers …

Building on the persuasion knowledge model, this study examines how audience
characteristics and native advertising recognition influence the covert persuasion process …

Although accusations of editorial slant are ubiquitous to the contemporary media
environment, recent advances in journalism such as news writing algorithms may hold the …

The advertising field has witnessed a dramatic transformation over the past decade. This
contribution to the IJA 40th anniversary special issue deals with (digital) branded content; …