As the Internet grows more sophisticated, it is creating new threats to democracy. Social
media companies such as Facebook can sort us ever more efficiently into groups of the like …

This article introduces the Twitter Parliamentarian Database (TPD), a multi-source and
manually validated database of parliamentarians on Twitter. The TPD includes …

The shocking election of President Trump spawned myriad analyses and post-mortems, but
they consistently underestimate the crucial role of the Tea Party on the GOP and Republican …

Is Edward Snowden a hero or traitor? In what ways do frames on social media and legacy
news differ in covering the incident of Edward Snowden? Utilizing the approach of semantic …

Extreme weather events like the heat wave of 2018 reinforce public attention for climate
change. Social media platforms facilitate, define and amplify debate about this topic. They …

The conventional understanding of how elected officials affect the policy agenda is based on
the argument that they use symbols and rhetoric to propagate a policy problem, primarily …

The rise of SNS facilitated politicians with new opportunities to communicate directly with
voters. Especially during election campaigns. Twitter provides female politicians with a …

Social media play an increasingly important role in political communication. Various studies
investigated how individuals adopt social media for political discussion, to share their views …

Background Although past research has focused on COVID-19–related frames in the news
media, such research may not accurately capture and represent the perspectives of people …

The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis that has been testing every society and exposing
the critical role of local politics in crisis response. In the United States, there has been a …