The story of social media: evolving news coverage of social media in American politics, 2006–2021

DS Lane, H Overbye-Thompson… - Journal of Computer …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
This article examines how American news media have framed social media as political
technologies over time. To do so, we analyzed 16 years of political news stories focusing on …

Your social ties, your personal public sphere, your responsibility: How users construe a sense of personal responsibility for intervention against uncivil comments on …

E Gagrčin - new media & society, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
User intervention against incivility is a significant element of democratic norm enforcement
on social media, and feeling personally responsible for acting is a vital prerequisite for …

“Intervening Is a Good Thing but...”: The Role of Social Norms in Users' Justifications of (Non-) Intervention Against Incivility

E Gagrčin, M Milzner - Social Media+ Society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
User intervention against incivility as social enforcement of democratic norms on social
media platforms is considered an act of “good citizenship” by citizens and scholars alike …

The role of novel citizenship norms in signing and sharing online petitions

M Vaughan, A Vromen, P Porten-Cheé… - Political …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Ideas about what makes a 'good citizen'continue to evolve alongside the digitalisation of
political participation. We examine these interrelated trends through an in-depth analysis of …

Operationalizing distribution as a key concept for public sphere theory. A call for ethnographic sensibility of different social worlds

H Moe - Communication Theory, 2023 - academic.oup.com
This article takes issue with public sphere theories' lack of focus on the consequences of
social inequality. Citizens divide the work of following politics between them, and we need a …

Defining the Moments of Transition: When Do Chat Groups Become Meso News-Spaces? Commentary on “Meso News-Spaces and Beyond: News-Related …

O Pasitselska - Digital Journalism, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Messaging apps increasingly shape the domain of political and news-related
communication. Leaning on theoretical and methodological advancements in the special …

'Who, if not me?' How political self-categorizations shape the meaning of political self-expression on social media as a citizenship norm

E Gagrčin - Information, Communication & Society, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
With political self-expression emerging as a prominent practice of political participation on
social media platforms, scholars have hypothesized that this practice may have evolved into …

The Power of Social Media: Stigmatizing Content Affects Perceptions of Mental Health Care

SK Competiello, GY Bizer… - Social Media+ …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
A great discrepancy exists between the number of people who experience mental health
concerns and the number of people who seek help for those problems. Negative attitudes …

What means civic education in a digitalized world?

JB Schmitt, J Baake, S Kero - Frontiers in Psychology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The hope of reaching diverse and large target groups has motivated civic education
practitioners to offer their content on social media. The question has therefore long ceased …

Between individual and collective social effort: Vocabularies of informed citizenship in different information environments

E Gagrčin, P Porten-Cheé - International …, 2023 - madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de
Information disorder and digital media affordances challenge informed citizenship as an
ideal and in practice. While scholars have attempted to adapt the normative ideal to …