Social media

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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Nachhaltigkeit als Gegenstand und Zielgröße der Rezeptions- und Wirkungsforschung
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Nachhaltigkeit als Gegenstand und Zielgröße der Rezeptions- und Wirkungsforschung. Aktuelle Studien und Befunde
Der Band bietet vielfältige Einblicke in die aktuelle kommunikationswissenschaftliche Rezeptions- und Wirkungsforschung rund um das …
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Patterns of incivility on U.S. congress members’ social media accounts: A comprehensive analysis of the influence of platform, post, and person characteristics
With social media now being ubiquitously used by citizens and political actors, concerns over the incivility of interactions on these …
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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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Assessing the extent and types of hate speech in fringe communities: A case study of alt-right communities on 8chan, 4chan, and Reddit
Recent right-wing extremist terrorists were active in online fringe communities connected to the alt-right movement. Although these are …
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