One of today's most controversial and consequential issues is whether the global uptake of
digital media is causally related to a decline in democracy. We conducted a systematic …

Research revolving social media and democracy has exploded. For almost two decades,
scholarship has offered new theories, revisited some old ones, and provided empirical …

Amid growing concerns about misinformation on social media, scholars, educators, and
commentators see news literacy as a means to improve critical media consumption. We use …

The mechanisms by which users of platforms such as Facebook and Twitter spread
misinformation are not well understood. In this study, we argue that the effects of …

The rise of social media, and specifically Facebook, as a dominant force in the flow of news
in the United States has led to concern that people incur greater isolation from diverse …

This study sought to examine the potential role of news avoidance in belief in COVID-19
misinformation. Using two-wave panel survey data in Singapore, we found that information …

Does exposure to news affect what people know about politics? This old question attracted
new scholarly interest as the political information environment is changing rapidly. In …

This study investigates how the use of Twitter and Facebook affects citizens' knowledge
acquisition, and whether this effect is conditional upon people's political interest. Using a …

On social network sites (SNS), people are increasingly confronted with news content—even
if they have not actively been looking for it. Although it is widely recognized that SNS have …

Research indicates that using social network sites as a source for news increases perceived
knowledge even if, objectively, people fail to acquire knowledge. This might result from the …