Innovations in communication technology have changed the way news is produced and
consumed. Various digital platforms, ranging from news websites to social media sites to …

As online and mobile information technologies continue to become more commonplace,
Americans are increasingly turning to these sources for news. Online news sites often allow …

TikTok—the world's most downloaded app since 2020, has become a place for more than
silly dancing and lip-syncing. TikTok users are increasingly turning to TikTok for news …

This article takes up the popular argument that much online discussion is toxic and hence
harmful to democracy, and argues that the pervasiveness of incivility is not incompatible with …

Using large Twitter datasets collected during the 2012 US presidential election, we
examined how partisanship shapes patterns of sharing and commenting on candidate fact …

Trust has long been considered an important factor that influences people's relationship with
news. However, the increase in the volume of information available online, together with the …

Amid calls from scientific leaders for their colleagues to become more effective public
communicators, this study examines the objectives that scientists' report drive their public …

Incivility in public discourse has become a pressing concern of citizens and scholars alike,
but most research has focused narrowly on incivility in elite discourse. The present study …

As interest in political incivility has grown, scholarly conceptualizations of incivility have
diverged, often centering on politeness theory or deliberative theory, but rarely on both. The …

With the advances in interpersonal communication of the “Web 2.0” era, questions about the
importance of civility are perhaps more important than ever. Mass digital interaction between …