In recent years, entertainment theory has undergone a paradigmatic shift: The traditional
conceptualization of entertainment as an exclusively pleasurable affective state has been …

An increasing number of, especially younger, users use Facebook as their primary source
for news about political and societal issues. At the same time, research suggests that …

The article distinguishes between two types of risks: conventional and systemic risks.
Conventional risks can be contained in space and time, follow linear cause–effect …

Agenda-setting has mostly been investigated as the cognitive process set in motion by the
salience of political issues in the traditional news media. The question, though, remained …

Given that the current media condition provides numerous channels that create interaction
between news media brands and consumers, the concept of consumer brand engagement …

Based on assumptions from entertainment theory, an online-study (N= 419) was conducted
to investigate the differential relationships between enjoyment and appreciation of a video …

To do so, the authors rely on a two-process-model of entertainment experiences. A
telephone survey (N= 230) was conducted to analyze the antecedents and consequences of …

Deliberation theory posits that users' willingness to participate in online comment sections
should increase if the discussions are more evidence-based. However, extant empirical …

Through the connection of deliberative democracy and entertainment theory this article
proposes a normatively grounded basis for research on political (entertainment) media. With …

Recently, scholars have started to investigate how the valence of user comments presented
alongside online videos influences viewers' experiences of and responses to those videos …