Research revolving social media and democracy has exploded. For almost two decades,
scholarship has offered new theories, revisited some old ones, and provided empirical …

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

Echo chambers and filter bubbles are potent metaphors that encapsulate widespread public
fear that the use of social media may limit the information that users encounter or consume …

Implications The COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by a so-called “infodemic”—a
global spread of misinformation that poses a serious problem for public health. Infodemics …

Does the internet facilitate selective exposure to politically congenial content? To answer
this question, I introduce and validate large‐N behavioral data on Americans' online media …

Purpose Social networks have been developed as a great point for its users to communicate
with their interested friends and share their opinions, photos, and videos reflecting their …

Polarization is a key area of interest for media and communication scholars. We develop a
way of measuring how polarized news audience behaviour is at the national level. Then, we …

In this study, we investigate dysfunctional information sharing on WhatsApp and Facebook,
focusing on two explanatory variables—frequency of political talk and cross-cutting …

The rise of social media, and specifically Facebook, as a dominant force in the flow of news
in the United States has led to concern that people incur greater isolation from diverse …

The third edition of The Dynamics of Political Communication continues its comprehensive
coverage of communication and politics, focusing on problematic issues that bear on the …