A systematic review of worldwide causal and correlational evidence on digital media and democracy

P Lorenz-Spreen, L Oswald, S Lewandowsky… - Nature human …, 2023 - nature.com
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 …

Safeguarding the journalistic DNA: Attitudes towards the role of professional values in algorithmic news recommender designs

M Bastian, N Helberger, M Makhortykh - Digital Journalism, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In contrast to the extensive debate on the influence of algorithmic news recommenders
(ANRs) on individual news diets, the interaction between such systems and journalistic …

Understanding audience behavior with digital traces: past, present, and future

S Lee, TQ Peng - Digital Journalism, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In recent decades, significant transformations in audience characteristics and the media
environment have necessitated a reassessment of audience analysis. Communication …

TikTok as television

D Faltesek, E Graalum, B Breving… - Social Media+ …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
As much as users and advertisers have flocked to it, TikTok has been a success. To this
point, research on TikTok has been concerned with the nature of TikTok texts and the ways …

Divided by the algorithm? the (limited) effects of content-and sentiment-based news recommendation on affective, ideological, and perceived polarization

K Ludwig, A Grote, A Iana, M Alam… - Social Science …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent rises in political polarization across the globe are often ascribed to algorithmic
content filtering on social media, news platforms, or search engines. The widespread usage …

Can filter bubbles protect information freedom? Discussions of algorithmic news recommenders in Eastern Europe

M Makhortykh, M Wijermars - Digital Journalism, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The increasing use of recommender systems to provide personalized news delivery
influences media systems worldwide. Using different data sources to predict what content …

Is this a click towards diversity? Explaining when and why news users make diverse choices

F Loecherbach, K Welbers, J Moeller… - Proceedings of the 13th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Modelling the different factors that lead people to choose news articles is one of the key
challenges for understanding the diversity of news diets–as a news diet is the result of a …

Anticipating attention: On the predictability of news headline tests

N Hagar, N Diakopoulos, B DeWilde - Digital Journalism, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Headlines play an important role in both news audiences' attention decisions online and in
news organizations' efforts to attract that attention. A large body of research focuses on …

A data‐driven approach to improve online consumer subscriptions by combining data visualization and machine learning methods

E Fernandes, S Moro, P Cortez - International Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Effective online consumer research helps companies on defining a successful strategy to
increase user loyalty and shape brand engagement. Digital innovation introduced a …

No trade-offs between news and entertainment: Evidence from online engagement data

S Huang, T Yang - New Media & Society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In today's high-choice media environment, some scholars are concerned that people
selectively consume media content based on personal interests and avoid others, which …