ABSTRACT A critical human need is attending to the information in one's environment.
Recent studies, however, suggest news consumption is decreasing. Many report they …

During crises, journalists rely on emotional appeals to alert the public. This includes fear
appeals, ie, journalistic depictions of threats and measures against them. Focusing on the …

Recent reviews describe academic scholarship on environmental communication as a
subdiscipline of communication studies focused on mass media. However, these reviews …

Western countries' relations with China are characterised by a dichotomy of partnership and
conflict, of rapprochement and demarcation. To date, research lacks longitudinal studies that …

The communication restrictions in Indian administered Kashmir has come to an end on 5
February 2021, the ban on high-speed internet was going on since 5 August 2019 when …

This study aims to investigate the causes of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among the
Chinese population. The LDA model and content analysis were used to analyze the content …

The phenomenon of economic uncertainty has attracted considerable attention in recent
years. New indicators have been introduced aiming at measuring uncertainty and its …

Artificial intelligence (AI) bias has received increasing attention in media and public
discourse, as AI technologies are becoming more ubiquitous in daily life (Zhai et al., 2020; …

Are refugee women invisible in the media? Extant media portrayals often make use of
stereotypical representations, in that women are represented as vulnerable and passive …

The emergence of authoritarian attitudes within contemporary democracy puzzles
researchers. Under what circumstances do people develop authoritarian attitudes …