One of today's most controversial and consequential issues is whether the global uptake of
digital media is causally related to a decline in democracy. We conducted a systematic …

In digital news environments, incidental news exposure (INE) refers to coming across news
when online for other reasons. In this systematic scoping review, conducted to summarize …

In the last two decades, communication research dedicated substantial attention to the
effects of incidental exposure (IE) to political information. In this meta-analysis, we analyzed …

Study purpose This study explores the usage of generative AI tools by journalists in sub-
Saharan Africa, with a focus on issues of misinformation, plagiarism, stereotypes, and the …

Does the news media exacerbate or reduce misinformation problems? Although some news
media deliberately try to counter misinformation, it has been suggested that they might also …

According to lifestyle politics theory, social media platforms introduce new ways for people to
engage in civic life. Based on the communication mediation model, prior scholarship laid out …

Personalized news recommendations shape social media users' information environment.
However, whether news recommendation algorithms asymmetrically influence users' news …

Most scholars focus on the prevalence and democratic effects of (partisan) news exposure.
This focus misses large parts of online activities of a majority of politically disinterested …

Today, the internet and particularly social media offer lots of opportunities to encounter
political information incidentally. Motivated by conflicting findings regarding the effects of …

Despite evidence that social media are transforming American political life, fundamental
questions remain about their influence on political inequality among the next generation of …