A high proportion of non-users of news is considered a concern for a functioning democracy.
However, existing empirical assessments on the share of news avoiders rely exclusively on …

This paper offers a critical look at the promises and drawbacks of a popular, novel data
collection technique—online tracking—from the point of view of sample composition. Using …

Learners use digital media during learning for a variety of reasons. Sometimes media use
can be considered" on-task," eg, to perform research or to collaborate with peers. In other …

Purpose Digital trace data provide new opportunities to study how individuals act and
interact with others online. One advantage of this type of data is that it measures behavior in …

While individuals' trust in search engine results is well-supported, little is known about their
preferences when selecting news. We use web-tracked behavioral data across a 2-month …

In this article, we conduct a comparative analysis of web search behaviors in Switzerland
and Germany. For this aim, we rely on a combination of web tracking data and survey data …

Purpose This paper studies early stages of actor mobilization for institutional change within
Swedish esports. Design/methodology/approach The authors employ interpretative …

Zusammenfassung Computational Communication Science (CCS) beschreibt
Kommunikationswissenschaft, die sich digital veränderten Forschungsgegenständen …

Data donation is a novel approach to collecting digital trace data, where users are asked to
download their retrospective data from a platform and share them with the researchers. Little …

This article evaluates the quality of data collection in individual-level desktop information
tracking used in the social sciences and shows that the existing approaches face sampling …