Much has been said in 2015–2016 and beyond about the so-called Refugee Crisis—that is,
yet another pan-European “crisis” caused by the sudden massive asylumseeker flow from …

Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media
platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their …

Donald Trump, the Arab Spring, Brexit: digital media have provided political actors and
citizens with new tools to engage in politics. These tools are now routinely used by activists …

What do Beppe Grillo, Silvio Berlusconi, Emmanuel Macron (and also Donald Trump) have
in common? They are prime examples of the personalization of politics and the decline of …

More than 300 studies have been published on the relationship between digital media and
engagement in civic and political life. With such a vast body of research, it is difficult to see …

New communication technologies have reshaped media and politics. But who are the new
power players? The Hybrid Media System is a sweeping new theory of how political …

This study inductively develops a new conceptual framework for analyzing strategic
campaign communications across different social media platforms through an analysis of …

We assess whether and how accidental exposure to political information on social media
contributes to citizens' online political participation in comparative perspective. Based on …

Much time has been spent over the past decade debating whether social media contribute to
democracy. Drawing on an original study of internet users across nine Western …

Dual screening—the complex bundle of practices that involve integrating, and switching
across and between, live broadcast media and social media—is now routine for many …