Donald Trump, the Arab Spring, Brexit: digital media have provided political actors and
citizens with new tools to engage in politics. These tools are now routinely used by activists …

Online platforms, from Facebook to Twitter, and from Coursera to Uber, have become deeply
involved in a wide range of public activities, including journalism, civic engagement …

Political information sharing in social media offers citizens opportunities to engage with
news and express their political views, but how do different patterns of online political …

Given the advanced state of digital technology and social media, one would think that the
Democratic and Republican Parties would be reasonably well-matched in terms of their …

The key assumption of spiral of silence theory is that opinion climate perceptions affect
political opinion expression. We meta-analyzed the strength of this relationship and clarified …

The spiral of silence theory suggests that those who hold a contrary opinion to the majority
tend to remain silent; however, social media may be flipping this upside down. The majority …

Building on prior studies suggesting that social media can facilitate offline political
participation, this study seeks to clarify the mechanism behind this link. Social media may …

The objective of this paper is to revisit the metaphor of the Panopticon, borrowed by Michel
Foucault from Jeremy Bentham to describe the development of disciplinary institutions in …

Using survey evidence from the Netherlands, we explore the factors that influence news
readers' attitudes toward news personalization. We show that the value of personalization …

Using two-wave panel data from Hong Kong, this study examines the spiral of silence
process on social media. It extends the theoretical framework by including both supporting …