This article examines if the emergence of more partisan media has contributed to political
polarization and led Americans to support more partisan policies and candidates. Congress …

Research on trust in media is on the rise. However, communication scholars have
addressed related concepts (eg media credibility) for decades, and these concepts have …

Numerous studies find associations between social media use and beliefs in conspiracy
theories and misinformation. While such findings are often interpreted as evidence that …

Incivility in public discussions has received increasing attention from academic and popular
commentators in recent years. In an effort to better understand the nature and determinants …

Much of the literature on polarization and selective exposure presumes that the internet
exacerbates the fragmentation of the media and the citizenry. Yet this ignores how the …

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

Providing an in-depth analysis of public opinion, including its origins in political
socialization, its role in the electoral process, and the impact of the media, American Public …

Linking back to, the present approach conceptualizes and empirically examines viewers'
parasocial interaction experience with a TV performer. Causes and outcomes of parasocial …

The viral spread of misinformation poses a threat to societies around the world. Recently,
researchers have started to study how motivated reasoning about news content influences …

We live in an age of media saturation, where with a few clicks of the remote—or mouse—we
can tune in to programming where the facts fit our ideological predispositions. But what are …