A Burnett, D Knighton, C Wilson - Social Media+ Society, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The spiral of silence theory suggests that those who hold a contrary opinion to the majority tend to remain silent; however, social media may be flipping this upside down. The majority …
J Matthes, J Knoll… - Communication Research, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
The key assumption of spiral of silence theory is that opinion climate perceptions affect political opinion expression. We meta-analyzed the strength of this relationship and clarified …
Conflict in online discussions of science has the potential to polarize individuals' perceptions of science, yet science communication scholarship has paid little attention to systematic …
H Bonfadelli, TN Friemel - 2017 - books.google.com
Alles in einem Band: grundlegende Konzepte, theoretische Ansätze und empirische Befunde der Medienwirkungsforschung. Die Autoren berücksichtigen dabei die …
Toward the end of their academic careers, most students are required to demonstrate their ability to integrate theory and research methodology in their field of study by completing a …
Dissemination is now acknowledged as an important component of the research process, in particular for European Union (EU) funded research projects. This article builds on the …
A Gibson - Social Media+ Society, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
How do moderation policies affect online discussion? This article analyzes nearly a quarter of a million anonymous comments over a 14-month period from two online Reddit forums …
Although there is a broad consensus among scientists and journalists about the existence of anthropogenic climate change as a global problem, some segments of the population …
G Neubaum, NC Krämer - Communication Research, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This work proposes the expectation of sanctions as a promising construct to advance spiral of silence research in face-to-face and computer-mediated contexts. We argue that …