Chat apps and cascade logic: A multi-platform perspective on India, Mexico, and the United States

J Gursky, MJ Riedl, K Joseff… - Social Media+ …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Chat apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal are increasingly popular platforms for
communication. Their sometimes-closed nature and encryption affordances present …

Designing authoritarian deliberation: how social media platforms influence political talk in China

D Stockmann, T Luo, M Shen - Democratization, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Discussion is often celebrated as a critical element of public opinion and political
participation. Recently, scholars have suggested that the design and features of specific …

Manipulative tactics are the norm in political emails: Evidence from 300K emails from the 2020 US election cycle

A Mathur, A Wang, C Schwemmer… - Big Data & …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
We collect and analyze a corpus of more than 300,000 political emails sent during the 2020
US election cycle. These emails were sent by over 3000 political campaigns and …

The changing physical and social environment of newsgathering: A case study of foreign correspondents using chat apps during unrest

V Belair-Gagnon, C Agur, N Frisch - Social Media+ Society, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Mobile chat apps have shaped multiple forms of communication in everyday life, including
education, family, business, and health communication. In journalism, chat apps have taken …

Capturing clicks: How the Chinese government uses clickbait to compete for visibility

Y Lu, J Pan - Political Communication, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The proliferation of social media and digital technologies has made it necessary for
governments to expand their focus beyond propaganda content in order to disseminate …

Researching with Twitter timeline data: A demonstration via “everyday” socio-political talk around welfare provision

P Brooker, J Barnett, J Vines, S Lawson… - Big Data & …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Increasingly, social media platforms are understood by researchers to be valuable sites of
politically-relevant discussions. However, analyses of social media data are typically …

Sourcing and automation of political news and information over social media in the United States, 2016-2018

S Bradshaw, PN Howard, B Kollanyi… - Political …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Social media is an important source of news and information in the United States. But during
the 2016 US presidential election, social media platforms emerged as a breeding ground for …

Introduction: Ten years of WhatsApp: The role of chat apps in the formation and mobilization of online publics

E Baulch, A Matamoros-Fernández, A Johns - First Monday, 2020 - eprints.qut.edu.au
This special issue, curated by Emma Baulch, Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández, and Amelia
Johns, marks the end of the first decade of WhatsApp's existence and offers a collection of …

(Tar) getting you: The use of online political targeted messages on Facebook

S Kruikemeier, S Vermeer, N Metoui… - Big Data & …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examines how mainstream political actors and other organizations use political
targeted messages. For this purpose, a data set from ProPublica is used. The study …

Examining political mobilization of online communities through e-petitioning behavior in We the People

CL Dumas, D LaManna, TM Harrison… - Big Data & …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
This study aims to reveal patterns of e-petition co-signing behavior that are indicative of the
political mobilization of online “communities”. We discuss the case of We the People, a US …