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 …

The purpose of this paper is to explore the implications of the situative perspective in
understanding technology acceptance. Briefly, this is the position that holds technology …

Recent approaches from social psychology lend support to conspiracy beliefs as a
motivated form of social cognition, structured around and consistent with a higher‐order …

Online engagement is prevalent in society but can be stressful because many debates are
controversial. Further, online engagement has become a global phenomenon, and …

Abstract Information and communication technologies (ict) are major forces sha** our
current age. ict affects many areas of human existence and influences the both human …

This paper investigates how social media affects general voting patterns. Unlike previous
studies investigating whether citizens' use of social media affects political participation, this …

Feelings of dissatisfaction with the political status quo are believed to mobilize citizens into
non-institutional political action, such as protest. Still, little is known about whether and how …

Coproduction has been widely advocated for, but there are theoretical and empirical
disagreements as to whether trust in government can encourage coproduction. This study …

This study examined the third-person perception (TPP) in terms of the influence of fake news
through the lens of the Gamson hypothesis–the combination of political trust and political …

Objectives Catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) has considerable effects on household
living standards, but little is known regarding the relationships between CHE and people's …