Information use

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” …

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 …

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 …

(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 …

Verarbeitung politischer Informationen

Das Kapitel gibt einen Überblick über Theorien und Modelle zur Verarbeitung politischer Informationen. Zunächst werden wesentliche …

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 …

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 …

Negativity wins at last: How presentation order and valence of user comments affect perceptions of journalistic quality

A number of studies show that user comments on news websites can affect news-related judgments and perceptions. However, with news …

Online and (the feeling of being) informed: Online news usage patterns and their relation to subjective and objective political knowledge

As online news today is an important source of political information and available in vast quantities, understanding its use and its …

How young adults use and perceive news in modern information environments—and how we can investigate it.