A growing amount of content is published worldwide every day by millions of social media
users. Most of this content is public, permanent, and searchable. At the same time, the …

We study the effect on click-through rates of applying textual and stylistic features often
related to clickbait to headlines of newspaper articles which can be bought in a digital …

Social networking sites such as Facebook provide new ways of sharing news stories that
allow users to act as opinion leaders in their networks, encourage discussion, and …

This article explores implications of the transition to an environment in which users have
become secondary gatekeepers of the content published on media websites. This expanded …

The growing reliance on social media as news platforms may lead to more passive news
consumption but also offers greater potential for engaging in news. This study investigates …

This study provides a snapshot of the hierarchy-of-influences model in the new media
environment through examining the effects of audience web metrics on editors. Surveying …

Given the increasing uptake of the social network site Facebook, mass communication
researchers have begun focusing on what drives people to use the site and what kinds of …

With the introduction of machine-written news, the automation of journalism has entered a
newphase. Algorithms can now automatically generate news stories on the basis of …

This study identifies perceived mobility, security, connectedness, system and service quality,
usefulness, attitude, and flow experience as key motivational factors for using social …

In the wake of the withdrawal of commercial journalism from local communities at the
beginning of the 21st century, Hyperlocal Journalism critically explores the development of …