The social media platform TikTok is increasingly becoming an important space for sharing
and finding news and information, especially for younger people. Most scholarly research …

News credibility as an essential democratic value has been at the forefront of scholarly
endeavors over the last several decades. Despite prolific research in this area, scholarship …

By focusing on journalistic YouTubers, this interview study investigates journalism on social
media and how new digital actors on the periphery of journalism complement or compete …

This study addresses the nature of citizen journalism in Palestine, with the chief aim of
identifying its role in promoting professionalism, ethics, and objectivity, and empowering …

This study advances communication infrastructure theory by testing the effects of an
integrated community storytelling network (ICSN) and social media as a newly emerging …

Understanding Citizen Journalism as Civic Participation re-conceptualizes citizen journalism
in the context of Habermas's theory of the public sphere and communicative action, to …

This research revisits the communication mediation model to understand when citizens
support AI policies. Using data from a national online survey (N= 1252), our research …

Grounded in Communication Infrastructure Theory (CIT), this study tests the moderating
roles of expressive digital media use through the Internet, social, and mobile media between …

Despite a growing body of scholarship on Communication Infrastructure Theory (CIT), the
applicability of CIT as an ecological approach in rural and suburban areas remains largely …

Local news organizations play a crucial role in informing rural or suburban communities
about current events and politics. With the growing concentration of populations in large …