Social media tools are integrated in most parts of our daily lives, as citizens, netizens,
researchers or emergency responders. Lessons learnt from disasters and emergencies that …

As is well known for decades, citizens are highly resilient during and after a disaster, they
save the day by hel** themselves and others. A relatively new phenomenon is the …

Background Informed by the differential susceptibility to media effects model (DSMM), the
current study aims to investigate associations of COVID‐19‐related social media use with …

This study investigates the degree of news avoidance during the first months of the Covid-19
pandemic in the Netherlands. Based on two panel surveys conducted in the period April …

Emotions matter in politics-enthusiastic supporters return politicians to office, angry citizens
march in the streets, a fearful public demands protection from the government. Anxious …

An immense amount of work has investigated how adverse situations affect anxiety using
chronic (ie, average) or episodic conceptualizations. However, less attention has been paid …

Disasters affect not only the welfare of individuals and family groups, but also the well-being
of communities, and can serve as a catalyst for innovative uses of information and …

In this article, we use the issue of immigration to explore the role of anxiety in responses to
political appeals. According to previous literature, anxiety motivates citizens to learn and pay …

This study investigated Internet communication and use in a crisis situation, Hurricane
Katrina, to explore the role of the Internet in supporting or diminishing geographically-based …

The rise of the Internet forces scholars to reevaluate the frequency and nature of political
information seeking in the contemporary period. The functionality of the Internet makes …