This article examines if the emergence of more partisan media has contributed to political
polarization and led Americans to support more partisan policies and candidates. Congress …

Mediated messages flood our daily lives, through virtually endless choices of media
channels, genres, and content. However, selectivity determines what media messages we …

Does the internet facilitate selective exposure to politically congenial content? To answer
this question, I introduce and validate large‐N behavioral data on Americans' online media …

In a high-choice media environment, there are fears that individuals will select media and
content that reinforce their existing beliefs and lead to segregation based on interest and/or …

The COVID-19 pandemic imposed new constraints on empirical research, and online data
collection by social scientists increased. Generalizing from experiments conducted during …

The coronavirus public health crisis is also a political-communication and health-
communication crisis. In this article, the authors describe the key communication-related …

Exposure to news, opinion, and civic information increasingly occurs through social media.
How do these online networks influence exposure to perspectives that cut across ideological …

Using large Twitter datasets collected during the 2012 US presidential election, we
examined how partisanship shapes patterns of sharing and commenting on candidate fact …

Emotions matter in politics-enthusiastic supporters return politicians to office, angry citizens
march in the streets, a fearful public demands protection from the government. Anxious …

Political behavior is the result of innumerable unnoticed forces and conscious deliberation is
often a rationalization of automatically triggered feelings and thoughts. Citizens are very …