Automated journalism, the autonomous production of journalistic content through computer
algorithms, is increasingly prominent in newsrooms. This enables the production of …

Innovation in the areas of social media, mobile devices, and wireless connectivity fosters
new reflections on communication research, specifically in the area of self-presentation. In …

As the Internet provides massive amounts of heterogeneous information, people may
perceive this medium as challenging. The difficulty to evaluate and select relevant …

Despite concerns about misinformation across social media platforms, little attention has
been paid to how to correct misinformation on visual platforms like Instagram. This study …

ABSTRACT Research Question: The current study examined the role of signalling and
source credibility on athlete-related social media content. We examined the effect of three …

Although credibility has been a key concept in communication research for decades, there
still is no consensus on its conceptualization and measurement. Indeed, scholars have …

This study investigated the effects of message and social cues on selective exposure to
political information in a social media environment. Based on the heuristic-systematic model …

On social network sites (SNS), people are increasingly confronted with news content—even
if they have not actively been looking for it. Although it is widely recognized that SNS have …

With most Internet users now getting news from social media, there is growing concern
about how to verify the content that appears on these platforms. Two experiments tested the …

Many urgent problems that societies currently face—from climate change to a global
pandemic—require citizens to engage with scientific information as members of democratic …