The last two decades have witnessed major disruptions to the traditional media industry as a
result of technological breakthroughs. New opportunities and challenges continue to arise …

We live in a world in which Google's search algorithms determine how we access
information, Facebook's News Feed algorithms shape how we socialize, and Netflix …

This paper analyzes news use during the COVID-19 pandemic, asking how people balance
between conflicting needs for information and disconnection in an extraordinary situation …

This article draws on the framework of “folk theories” to analyze how people perceive
algorithms in the media. Taking algorithms as a prime case to investigate how people …

Over the last decade, a network of far-right alternative online media has emerged globally.
At the same time, legacy news media have suffered a decline in trust and revenues. In this …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 media culture and society Page 3 SAGE was founded in 1965 by Sara
Miller McCune to support the dissemination of usable knowledge by publishing innovative and …

The well-known “high-choice news avoidance thesis” and the alternative “network structure
perspective” stipulate somewhat conflicting expectations about news consumption in today's …

This study examines whether and how public media systems contribute to the health of
democracies in 33 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, North America, the Middle East, Latin …

The current debate about declining media trust is related not only to the disruptive changes
in the media but also to the general decline of trust in institutions and politicians. This article …

The newspaper industry is in a deepening revenue crisis and the advertising side of the
news business has virtually collapsed as a result of global competition with technology …