The COVID-19 pandemic has forced teachers and parents to quickly adapt to a new
educational context: distance learning. Teachers developed online academic material while …

Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, many countries worldwide have been
undergoing major social, cultural, and economic developments. In the process, these …

During the last decennia media environments and political communication systems have
changed fundamentally. These changes have major ramifications for the political information …

With social media at the forefront of today's media context, citizens may perceive they don't
need to actively seek news because they will be exposed to news and remain well-informed …

The diffusion of the Internet is reaching a level between 80% and 90% in Western societies.
Yet, while the digital divide is closing for young cohorts, it is still an issue when comparing …

In a representative survey of the Dutch population we found that people with low levels of
education and disabled people are using the Internet for more hours a day in their spare …

Social media are a broad collection of digital platforms that have radically changed the way
people interact and communicate. However, we argue that social media are not simply a …

In this investigation, a multifaceted model of Internet appropriation that encompasses four
types of access—motivational, material, skills, and usage—is tested with a representative …

This study uses survey data from the Pew Internet and American Life Project to advance
digital divide research by exploring how smartphone dependence—in which one's only …

The growing usage of social media by a wider audience of citizens sharply increases the
possibility of investigating the web as a device to explore and track political preferences. In …