Cyberbullying on social networking sites is an emerging societal issue that has drawn
significant scholarly attention. The purpose of this study is to consolidate the existing …

Research revolving social media and democracy has exploded. For almost two decades,
scholarship has offered new theories, revisited some old ones, and provided empirical …

The key assumption of spiral of silence theory is that opinion climate perceptions affect
political opinion expression. We meta-analyzed the strength of this relationship and clarified …

Since Edward Snowden exposed the National Security Agency's use of controversial online
surveillance programs in 2013, there has been widespread speculation about the potentially …

This updated fourth edition presents a wide-scale, interdisciplinary guide to social media
communication. Examining platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Twitter …

Artificial intelligence (AI) is creating a revolution in business and society at large, as well as
challenges for organizations. AI‐powered social bots can sense, think and act on social …

The objective of this paper is to revisit the metaphor of the Panopticon, borrowed by Michel
Foucault from Jeremy Bentham to describe the development of disciplinary institutions in …

Media permeate our lives and are so omnipresent that we take them for granted and
overlook their impact. Mobile communication devices, the internet, and social networking …

Toward the end of their academic careers, most students are required to demonstrate their
ability to integrate theory and research methodology in their field of study by completing a …

New media technologies make it necessary for scholars to reassess mass communication
theories developed among legacy media. One such theory is the spiral of silence theory …