McQuail's media and mass communication theory

D McQuail - 2020 - torrossa.com
Early in 2009, Denis and I had coffee outside a little café in Padua, Italy. We were attending
a symposium organized by the European Journal of Communication on the consequences …

Online news user journeys: the role of social media, news websites, and topics

S Vermeer, D Trilling, S Kruikemeier… - Digital …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The complexity and diversity of today's media landscape provides many challenges for
scholars studying online news consumption. Yet it is unclear how news consumers navigate …

Exploring the effects of algorithm-driven news sources on political behavior and polarization

JT Feezell, JK Wagner, M Conroy - Computers in human behavior, 2021 - Elsevier
Do algorithm-driven news sources have different effects on political behavior when
compared to non-algorithmic news sources? Media companies compete for our scarce time …

Closing the barn door? Fact-checkers as retroactive gatekeepers of the COVID-19 “infodemic”

JB Singer - Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Based on a study of US-tagged items in a global database of fact-checked statements about
the novel coronavirus throughout the first year of the pandemic, this article explores the …

Gatekeepers of toxicity: Reconceptualizing Twitter's abuse and hate speech policies

D Konikoff - Policy & Internet, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Twitter has become the platform of choice for journalists, politicians, and citizens because of
the ways that it encourages expression, participation, and debate. In recent years, however …

Reinforcing attitudes in a gatewatching news era: Individual-level antecedents to sharing fact-checks on social media

MA Amazeen, CJ Vargo, T Hopp - Communication Monographs, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Despite the prevalence of fact-checking, little is known about who posts fact-checks online.
Based upon a content analysis of Facebook and Twitter digital trace data and a linked online …

Journalists as gatekeepers

TP Vos - The handbook of journalism studies, 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter addresses related concepts of gatewatching and gatebouncing. It argues that
notions of gatekeeping still capture relevant journalistic processes. The chapter examines …

Sources on social media: Information context collapse and volume of content as predictors of source blindness

G Pearson - New Media & Society, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Although social media has become a primary news platform, the effects of social media
features on users' information processing remains under-explored. This study explores how …

Tracing the sources: A comparative content analysis of Belgian health news

J Stroobant, R De Dobbelaer… - Journalism …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This article explores health journalists' sourcing patterns in the Dutch-speaking part of
Belgium across a range of different media including newspapers, magazines, radio …

The importance of trending topics in the gatekeeping of social media news engagement: A natural experiment on Weibo

T Yang, Y Peng - Communication Research, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Digital gatekeepers have greatly shaped the gatekeeping process of news consumption and
news engagement, but how digital gatekeepers work is understudied. This study focuses on …