Concerns over fake news have triggered a renewed interest in various forms of media
literacy. Prevailing expectations posit that literacy interventions help audiences to be …

• This chapter presents basic concepts for the book and the meaning of digital media in
social and communication science.• It starts with a description of the daily life of people in …

Jan van Dijk is an internationally renowned scholar in new media studies. He currently
teaches at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. The Deepening Divide is his third book …

So-called “influencers” increasingly use their popularity on social media to raise their voice
to promote political topics such as climate change, human rights, or party politics. As digital …

Social networking is a phenomenon of interest to many scholars. While most of the recent
research on social networking sites has focused on user characteristics, very few studies …

Using data from the 2000 National Annenberg Election Survey, this study looks at the
relationships between Internet access and online exposure to information about the …

Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive
the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Two of three Americans …

The internet is now a mainstay of contemporary political life, and captivates researchers from
across the social sciences. From debates about its impact on parties and election …

After experiencing steady development over the past three decades, agenda-setting
research appears to be in a period of flux. This paper discusses three current and critical …

The role played by the Internet in young people's political lives has received great research
attention. However, two gaps in the literature hinder the drawing of conclusions on how …