This book helps readers to understand communication and society in contemporary China
through systematic analysis of multimodal discourse at the national, institutional, and …

In highly commercialized media markets, newspapers must be present on social media
whose logic favours user engagement, shareworthiness, and virality. This might foster …

Introduction Online eye-tracking has been used in this study to assess the impacts of
different cultural backgrounds on information discernment. An online platform called …

The way journalists select the news and the criteria they apply for judging whether a topic or
event is newsworthy has been a constant area of focus in journalism studies since the …

The EU is diagnosed with a participation deficit, rooted in a lack of public communication.
While news media are the primary source of information about EU politics, social media …

Based on evidence from the 18 countries included in the 2021 Media for Democracy Monitor
(MDM), this chapter provides the first comparative analysis of whether and how the issue of …

In journalism studies, news is still closely tied to journalistic institutions. However, the rise of
digital platforms as gateways to news, catalyzing processes of dedifferentiation, challenges …

Facebook remains the most important platform where social media editors package and try
to 'sell'media outlets' online news articles to audiences. In one of the first studies of its kind …

This study explores the ways in which global press freedom watchdogs have discursively
constructed the issue of press freedom during the Covid-19 pandemic. Drawing on a …

Social media as a popular media is currently being used by political parties in maximizing
political campaign strategies. Since the 2014 and 2019 elections, the use of social media …