Does a crisis change news habits? A comparative study of the effects of COVID-19 on news media use in 17 European countries

P Van Aelst, F Toth, L Castro, V Štětka, C Vreese… - Digital …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Exogenous shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic unleashes multiple fundamental questions
about society beyond public health. Based on the classical concept of 'need for …

Internet-based micro-identities as a driver of societal disintegration

M Kossowska, P Kłodkowski… - Humanities and Social …, 2023 - nature.com
The article discusses the role of digital media use in societal transformations, with a specific
focus on the emergence of micro-identities. It also explores the extent to which such …

[PDF][PDF] From low-choice to high-choice media environments: Implications for knowledge resistance

J Strömbäck, H Boomgaarden, E Broda… - … resistance in high …, 2022 - library.oapen.org
January 6, 2021 was supposed to be a celebration of the peaceful transition of power in the
US. Instead, it turned out to be a day that will be inscribed in the history books. Incited by a …

“Give me a break!” Prevalence and predictors of intentional news avoidance during the COVID-19 pandemic

S Schäfer, L Aaldering, S Lecheler - Mass Communication and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Intentional news avoidance describes an intermittent news use practice in which people
deliberately turn away from the news. Previous findings point out that the level of intentional …

Alternative counter-news use and fake news recall during the COVID-19 crisis

L Frischlich, L Kuhfeldt, T Schatto-Eckrodt… - Digital …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic was accompanied by a massive flood of “fake
news”, conspiracy theories, and distorted information more generally. Alternative news …

Nudging towards news diversity: A theoretical framework for facilitating diverse news consumption through recommender design

N Mattis, P Masur, J Möller… - New Media & …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Growing concern about the democratic impact of automatically curated news platforms urges
us to reconsider how such platforms should be designed. We propose a theoretical …

[PDF][PDF] Comparing political communication: A 2020 update

F Esser, B Pfetsch - Comparative politics, 2020 - researchgate.net
Comparing Political Communication: A 2020 Update Page 1 1 Comparing Political
Communication: A 2020 Update Frank Esser (University of Zurich) and Barbara Pfetsch (Freie …

Contesting the mainstream: Towards an audience-centered agenda of alternative news research

L Frischlich, SA Eldridge, TU Figenschou… - Digital …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In order to better understand alternative news media, we need to focus more centrally on the
audiences that regularly consume them. This special issue, entitled “Contesting the …

The campaign disinformation divide: believing and sharing news in the 2019 UK General election

C Vaccari, A Chadwick, J Kaiser - Political Communication, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
We explain why citizens believed and shared false political information during the 2019 UK
general election campaign. In two surveys of samples mirroring the adult population …

Googling referendum campaigns: analyzing online search patterns regarding swiss direct-democratic votes

S Blassnig, E Mitova, N Pfiffner, MV Reiss - Media and Communication, 2023 - ssoar.info
In direct democracies, voters are faced with considerable information demands. Although
search engines are an important gateway to political information, it is still unclear what role …