Blogs, alongside being an increasingly visible part of the contemporary public sphere, are
spaces of communication that offer insights into the motivations and practices of political …

Citizen journalism has become a prominent term referring to a variety of newsgathering and
reporting practices conducted via a range of new digital technologies. The scholarly …

The COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant social distancing measures offer a compelling
context through which to understand the changing relationship between journalism and …

Using a 2× 3 mixed between-within subjects experiment (N= 102), we tested how the
presence of online comments affects self-other differences and perceptions of media bias …

Emerging media afford netizens the opportunity to participate in critical civic discourse by
collaboratively constructing and sharing previously inaccessible information across multiple …

The emergence of citizen journalism has prompted the journalism field and scholars to
readdress what constitutes journalism and who is a journalist. Citizen journalists have …

The Internet has created innumerable possibilities for the construction of memorials devoted
to tragic or catastrophic events and the exercise of collective memory. Two recent American …

Although the theory of agenda-setting is a pillar of political communication research,
understanding the dynamics of public attention remains an important challenge as the …

Manovich (2001) describes the changes that result from translating an established cultural
product into a new technology as 'transcoding'. This study investigates the form that the …

In recent years, a new wave of hyperlocal community news websites has developed in the
United Kingdom (UK), with many taking advantage of new opportunities provided by free …