Consumers often respond negatively to news information owing to a lack of information in
notification messages. This pilot study compares consumer satisfaction and click-through …

The rise of misinformation often circulated in various social media platforms has not only
raised concerns among the policymakers and civil society groups, but also among citizens …

Rising prominence of social media coupled with a myriad of recent developments in the built-
in features has allowed users to instantly share news both within and across their social …

Web 2.0 has opened the gates to journalism for online audiences which increasingly
participate in the production, dissemination and response processes of news. Comment …

The rapid diffusion of social media is ushering in a new era of crisis communication. To
enhance our understanding of the social-mediated dialogue between organizations and …

Digital hyperconnectivity is a defining fact of our time. The Silicon Valley dream of universal
connection–the dream of connecting everyone and everything to everyone and everything …

Rating features on social media platforms affect visibility algorithms and act as symbolic
markers of evaluation. This paper addresses the social effects of content ratings through a …

During the past 20 years, the Arab media environment has evolved dramatically. As recently
as the early 1990s, Arab publics were forced to depend on state-provided information and …

This article examines crowdsourcing as a knowledge-search method and an open
journalistic practice in digital journalism. The study draws on data from four cases in which …

This study examines the causal effects of social media use on political knowledge as well as
the underlying mechanisms through which such an effect occurs. The findings suggest that …