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

During the last decennia media environments and political communication systems have
changed fundamentally. These changes have major ramifications for the political information …

With social media at the forefront of today's media context, citizens may perceive they don't
need to actively seek news because they will be exposed to news and remain well-informed …

Recent scholarship suggests that overreliance on social networks for news and public affairs
is associated with the belief that one no longer needs to actively seek information. Instead …

This study takes as a starting point the importance and dependence of the media to obtain
information about the pandemic. The dependency theory of the media system was …

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 …

In contemporary high-choice media environments, people increasingly mix and combine
their use of various news media into personal news repertoires. Despite this, there is still …

Slowly approaching the second quarter of the 21st century, research on social media and its
effects over democracy has quickly permeated across various fields in social sciences …

In direct democracies, voters are faced with considerable information demands. Although
search engines are an important gateway to political information, it is still unclear what role …

Today, people are increasingly exposed to news on various channels without actively
seeking it. However, less is known about the link between the so-called incidental news …