The third edition of The Dynamics of Political Communication continues its comprehensive
coverage of communication and politics, focusing on problematic issues that bear on the …

Using a combination of descriptive statistics, sentiment analysis and close readings of a
collection of 74,336 Swedish tweets, this article explores the platform usage patterns of …

Recent work demonstrates that hostile emotions can contribute to a strong polarization of
political discussion on social media. However, little is known regarding the extent to which …

This chapter reviews digital political communication over the past 25 years, analyses the
core characteristics of the fourth wave and examines the changes that communication has …

Does media diet diversity influence affective polarisation of the public? To test this
hypothesis we analyse data from Spain, which like other South European countries has a …

In digitalized media societies, many journalists encounter audience hostility in publicly
visible channels. Scholars theorized on the spiral process of the influence of audience …

Political participation has long been considered a cornerstone of democracy. While most
studies on political participation have been grounded on a normative approach, which …

In the everyday practice of online communication, we observe users deliberately reporting
abusive content or opposing hate speech through counterspeech, while at the same time …

Background In response to growing anti-vaccine activism on social media, the#
DoctorsSpeakUp event was designed to promote pro-vaccine advocacy. This study aimed to …

Abstract The Twitter hashtag# Gillette emerged in 2019 as a reaction to an advertisement
that called attention to unhealthy manifestations of masculinities among men. The …