As social media become popular news platforms, journalists and news organizations have
been keen to capitalize on their potential to build and maintain audiences. However, little is …

Voters tend to perceive female and male politicians differently, viewing women in politics
through the prism of existing gender stereotypes. Although social media have become one …

Online comments have become an essential component of online media consumption. A
meta-analysis was conducted to understand how online comment valence affects message …

With the arrival of television, voters began to care not only about political candidates'
stances on issues, but also about character, as demonstrated by Kennedy's and Nixon's …

This research explores how users form attitudes when they are presented with online videos
and moral comments from their fellow audience. Based on the Heuristic-Systematic Model …

This study examined how comments about Kazakhstan's 2019 and 2022 presidential
elections posted on Tengrinews, one of the most commonly used news websites in …

While the ways heads of states are visually portrayed in their official photos may differ
depending on their cultures, particularly whether they have an individualistic culture or a …

Social media offer a global village in which user-generated comments from different groups
and many languages appear. Extending the notion of prototypes in social identification …

Humans strive for balance between their motivations for accurate judgments and their
cognitive effort. Although heuristic cues provide cognitive shortcuts, heuristic-based …

The digital media environment has transformed the ways information about “collective
preference” is communicated. Using 2 survey experiments, this study examines how …