Media reportage often act as interpretations of accountability policies thereby making the
news media a part of the policy enactment process. Within such a process, their role is that …

Swedish newspapers have hosted Web pages since the mid-1990s, and are often pointed to
as some of the most popular online locations in the Swedish-speaking online sphere. These …

This study draws on the concept of network gatekeeping to examine the ways in which
organizations have adapted the processes of gatekeeping to respond to the collaborative …

This article explores the role of trust in professional and alternative media as (a) antecedents
of citizen news production, and (b) moderators of the effect of citizen news production on …

The social media platform TikTok is increasingly becoming an important space for sharing
and finding news and information, especially for younger people. Most scholarly research …

This paper uses the case of Hurricane Sandy and reddit's topical community
(subreddit)/r/sandy to examine the production and curation of news content around events …

Gatekeeping Theory from Social Fields to Social Networks Page 1 Gatekeeping Theory from
Social Fields to Social Networks David Deluliis deiuliisd@duq.edu Gatekeeping theory refers …

Swearing, the use of taboo languages tagged with a high level of emotional arousal, has
become commonplace in contemporary political culture. The current study attempts to …

Using the health risks of nuclear plant accident as a context of enquiry, this study focuses on
how peoples' reactions to a piece of online news are affected by social media engagement …

The 2009 protests in Iran and the 2011 Arab uprisings took place in complex and fast
evolving media ecologies. The BBC's Persian and Arabic language services, which reach …