Online social media are changing the face of politics in the United States. Beginning with a
strong theoretical foundation grounded in political, communications and psychology …

When digital technologies become a part of everyday life in most parts of society, it changes
the way we work, organize, communicate, and make relations. It also changes the …

Until the Internet arrived, content creation and distribution was always an expensive, difficult
process. With the Internet it is dramatically easier, faster, and cheaper. Some argue that this …

During the last decade, much of political behaviour research has come to be concerned with
the impact of the Internet, and more recently social networking sites such as Facebook, on …

Much scholarship has examined how accessing news and other civic and politically oriented
online activities can influence offline civic and political behaviors. Much less is known about …

Social media websites are rapidly changing the way that Americans live and communicate
with one another. Social media sites encourage individuals to constantly share information …

Generalized social trust has been argued to have positive effects for both individuals and
society, but despite solid theoretical arguments in favour of different contextual effects, the …

In Public Opinion: Democratic Ideals, Democratic Practice, Fourth Edition, Clawson and
Oxley link the enduring normative questions of democratic theory to existing empirical …

Social capital theory as it was developed in the 1990s assumed that face-to-face interaction
is a crucial requirement for the development of generalized trust and other pro-social …

Acknowledging that both ICT and mass media had played an influential role after the Great
East Japan Earthquake, this study explores if they can also contribute to longer term post …