Information use

Social media information environments and their implications for the uses and effects of news: The PINGS framework
Social media have become a central source for news and current affairs information. This article focuses on the overarching attributes …
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Using messaging apps in audience research: An approach to study everyday information and news use practices
Messaging apps such as WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger are an essential part of people’s communication practices, but have thus far …
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What does "being informed" mean? Assessing social media users’ self-concepts of informedness
In recent years, much research has—more or less candidly—asked whether the use of social media platforms is “making us dumber” …
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How social media users perceive different forms of online hate speech: A qualitative multi-method study
Although many social media users have reported encountering hate speech, differences in the perception between different users remain …
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Instagram and political campaigning in the 2017 German federal election. A quantitative content analysis of German top politicians’ and parliamentary parties’ posts
This article compares the communication strategies of party and candidate accounts on Instagram during the 2017 German federal …
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Worth to share? How content characteristics and article competitiveness influence news sharing on social network sites
We investigated how sharing performance on Facebook and Twitter is influenced both by news articles’ content characteristics and the …
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(Why) does comment presentation order matter for the effects of user comments? Assessing the role of the availability heuristic and the bandwagon heuristic
Research has shown that user comments influence peoples’ perceptions, with recent evidence suggesting that comment presentation order …
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Verarbeitung politischer Informationen
Das Kapitel gibt einen Überblick über Theorien und Modelle zur Verarbeitung politischer Informationen. Zunächst werden wesentliche …
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Nebenbei, mobil und ohne Ziel? Eine Mehrmethodenstudie zu Nachrichtennutzung und -verständnis von jungen Erwachsenen
Particularly among young adults, the use and consumption of news and information has changed in the past years. The reliance on …
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The Matthew Effect in social media news use: Assessing inequalities in news exposure and news engagement on social network sites (SNS)
Social network sites such as Facebook and Twitter have become a key part of online users? news diets. On social network sites, even …
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