This article examines if the emergence of more partisan media has contributed to political
polarization and led Americans to support more partisan policies and candidates. Congress …

Mediated messages flood our daily lives, through virtually endless choices of media
channels, genres, and content. However, selectivity determines what media messages we …

This article addresses questions of ideological polarization and the filter bubble in social
media. It develops a theoretical analysis of ideological polarization on social media by …

Why do Americans have such animosity for people who identify with the opposing political
party? Jaime E. Settle argues that in the context of increasing partisan polarization among …

Individuals are not merely passive vessels of whatever beliefs and opinions they have been
exposed to; rather, they are attracted to belief systems that resonate with their own …

We estimated ideological preferences of 3.8 million Twitter users and, using a data set of
nearly 150 million tweets concerning 12 political and nonpolitical issues, explored whether …

Exposure to news, opinion, and civic information increasingly occurs through social media.
How do these online networks influence exposure to perspectives that cut across ideological …

Social network sites are becoming essential to how people experience news. The social
media feed is made up of a mixture of private and public postings, and news is intertwined …

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 …

Some fear that personalised communication can lead to information cocoons or filter
bubbles. For instance, a personalised news website could give more prominence to …