Social network sites are becoming essential to how people experience news. The social
media feed is made up of a mixture of private and public postings, and news is intertwined …

Using two-wave panel data from Hong Kong, this study examines the spiral of silence
process on social media. It extends the theoretical framework by including both supporting …

Research has shown that as individuals—particularly teenagers—navigate social media,
they value authenticity, typically understood as congruence between their online and offline …

This study explores how emerging media platforms (ie, social media and messaging apps)
contribute to affective political polarization. We rely on cross-national data (USA and Japan) …

This study investigates factors predicting political information sharing on social media in the
election context. Specifically, the current study examines how users' six motivations for …

Some people live in social media “news deserts,” while others are embedded in online
networks that are rich in news content. These news deserts represent a new form of digital …

Abstract Information privacy and disclosure have been prominent issues revolving around
social media. We adopted communication privacy management theory, the persuasion …

Sharing mass media content through social network sites has become a prevalent practice
that provides individuals with social utility and cultural capital. This behavior is examined …

Media agencies have become one of the key actors in the contemporary media industry: by
channelling marketing budgets to some media and some platforms and not to others, media …

During the last decades populism has become a mainstream ideology in Western
democracies (Mudde, 2004; 2016). At the same time, the popularisation of digital platforms …