When communication meets computation: Opportunities, challenges, and pitfalls in computational communication science

W Van Atteveldt, TQ Peng - Communication Methods and …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The recent increase in digitally available data, tools, and processing power is fostering the
use of computational methods to the study of communication. This special issue discusses …

Resilience to online censorship

ME Roberts - Annual Review of Political Science, 2020 - annualreviews.org
To what extent are Internet users resilient to online censorship? When does censorship
influence consumption of information and when does it create backlash? Drawing on a …

Evaluating the fake news problem at the scale of the information ecosystem

J Allen, B Howland, M Mobius, D Rothschild… - Science advances, 2020 - science.org
“Fake news,” broadly defined as false or misleading information masquerading as legitimate
news, is frequently asserted to be pervasive online with serious consequences for …

Exposure to opposing views on social media can increase political polarization

CA Bail, LP Argyle, TW Brown… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
There is mounting concern that social media sites contribute to political polarization by
creating “echo chambers” that insulate people from opposing views about current events …

Who leads? Who follows? Measuring issue attention and agenda setting by legislators and the mass public using social media data

P Barberá, A Casas, J Nagler, PJ Egan… - American Political …, 2019 - cambridge.org
Are legislators responsive to the priorities of the public? Research demonstrates a strong
correspondence between the issues about which the public cares and the issues addressed …

Dancing to the partisan beat: A first analysis of political communication on TikTok

JC Medina Serrano, O Papakyriakopoulos… - Proceedings of the 12th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
TikTok is a video-sharing social networking service, whose popularity is increasing rapidly. It
was the world's second-most downloaded app in 2019. Although the platform is known for …

Social media and political agenda setting

F Gilardi, T Gessler, M Kubli, S Müller - Political communication, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
What is the role of social media in political agenda setting? Digital platforms have reduced
the gatekeeping power of traditional media and, potentially, they have increased the …

The consequences of online partisan media

AM Guess, P Barberá, S Munzert… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
What role do ideologically extreme media play in the polarization of society? Here we report
results from a randomized longitudinal field experiment embedded in a nationally …

[图书][B] Electoral shocks: The volatile voter in a turbulent world

E Fieldhouse, J Green, G Evans, J Mellon, C Prosser… - 2021 - library.oapen.org
This book offers a novel perspective on British elections, focusing on the importance of
increasing electoral volatility in British elections, and the role of electoral shocks in the …

Why do some terrorist attacks receive more media attention than others?

EM Kearns, AE Betus, AF Lemieux - Justice Quarterly, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Terrorist attacks often dominate news coverage as reporters seek to provide the public with
information. Yet, not all incidents receive equal attention. Why do some terrorist attacks …