In little over a decade, essential concepts in research on communication have become
zombie concepts (Beck & Willms, 2004) and are no longer effective for understanding the …

Journalists and digital news audiences value virtual conversations about the news, but only
if they embody civil discussion. Drawing on a content analysis of 1379 stories and 333,605 …

The complexity and diversity of today's media landscape provides many challenges for
scholars studying online news consumption. Yet it is unclear how news consumers navigate …

Although there is a broad consensus among scientists and journalists about the existence of
anthropogenic climate change as a global problem, some segments of the population …

Climate change has rarely been out of the public spotlight in the first decade of this century.
The high‐profile international meetings and controversies such as 'climategate'have …

Since the global economic crisis of 2007–2008,'capitalism'has been the topic of widespread
general discussion in both mainstream and social media. In this book, Christian W. Chun …

This chapter discusses the ambivalent nature of user comments. It provides an overview of
current research on user comments in digital journalism and directions for future research …

The digital transformation of journalism enables new modes of interactivity with the news.
While user comments are nearly ubiquitous across news Web sites, there is little …

Journalism has gradually become" normalized into social media", and most journalists use
social media platforms to publish their work (Bruns, 2018). YouTube is an influential social …

Social media pose serious challenges for uses-and-gratifications research, such as the
entangled use of contemporary media services. This paper proposes a measurement …