A systematic review of worldwide causal and correlational evidence on digital media and democracy

P Lorenz-Spreen, L Oswald, S Lewandowsky… - Nature human …, 2023 - nature.com
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 …

The validity of sentiment analysis: Comparing manual annotation, crowd-coding, dictionary approaches, and machine learning algorithms

W Van Atteveldt, MACG Van der Velden… - Communication …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Sentiment is central to many studies of communication science, from negativity and
polarization in political communication to analyzing product reviews and social media …

[图书][B] We need to talk: how cross-party dialogue reduces affective polarization

MS Levendusky, DA Stecula - 2021 - cambridge.org
Americans today are affectively polarized: they dislike and distrust those from the opposing
political party more than they did in the past, with damaging consequences for their …

Adapting security warnings to counter online disinformation

B Kaiser, J Wei, E Lucherini, K Lee, JN Matias… - 30th USENIX Security …, 2021 - usenix.org
Disinformation is proliferating on the internet, and platforms are responding by attaching
warnings to content. There is little evidence, however, that these warnings help users …

Digital literacy and online political behavior

AM Guess, K Munger - Political science research and methods, 2023 - cambridge.org
Digital literacy is receiving increased scholarly attention as a potential explanatory factor in
the spread of misinformation and other online pathologies. As a concept, however, it …

Cracking open the news feed: Exploring what us Facebook users see and share with large-scale platform data

A Guess, K Aslett, J Tucker, R Bonneau… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2021 - journalqd.org
In this study, we analyze for the first time newly available engagement data covering millions
of web links shared on Facebook to describe how and by which categories of US users …

[HTML][HTML] Self-imposed filter bubbles: Selective attention and exposure in online search

AG Ekström, DC Niehorster, EJ Olsson - Computers in Human Behavior …, 2022 - Elsevier
It is commonly assumed that algorithmic curation of search results creates filter bubbles,
where users' beliefs are continually reinforced and opposing views are suppressed …

Problematic advertising and its disparate exposure on facebook

M Ali, A Goetzen, A Mislove, EM Redmiles… - 32nd USENIX Security …, 2023 - usenix.org
Targeted advertising remains an important part of the free web browsing experience, where
advertisers' targeting and personalization algorithms together find the most relevant …

Did clickbait crack the code on virality?

P Mukherjee, S Dutta, A De Bruyn - Journal of the Academy of Marketing …, 2022 - Springer
Although clickbait is a ubiquitous tactic in digital media, we challenge the popular belief that
clickbait systematically leads to enhanced sharing of online content on social media. Using …

Does clickbait actually attract more clicks? Three clickbait studies you must read

M D. Molina, SS Sundar, MMU Rony… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Studies show that users do not reliably click more often on headlines classified as clickbait
by automated classifiers. Is this because the linguistic criteria (eg, use of lists or questions) …