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The number of people that intentionally avoid the news is growing. This could have several personal and societal implications. Previous research exposed various motives to avoid news, which lead to […]
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Intentional news avoidance is a common behavior that can be influenced by individual, content, and contextual factors. However, prior studies have primarily focused on general news avoidance and neglected selective […]
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News avoidance is associated with misperceptions and lower political knowledge and participation. Synthetizing the research results in differentiating between intentional news avoidance, a consciou…
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Cultural targeting and tailoring are different, yet they remain intertwined in the literature inhibiting theory development and limiting the possibility of determining their effects. This preregist…
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In this paper, we take seriously evidence of growing politics fatigue on social media among Americans and consider how this fatigue might ultimately foster participatory inequalities on these platforms. We […]
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Conflict and disagreement are integral to healthy democracies, but the extreme polarization observed on many social media platforms poses a serious risk to the core functions of public communication. This […]
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Biases in favour of culturally prevalent social ingroups are ubiquitous, but random assignment to arbitrary experimentally created social groups is also sufficient to create ingroup biases (i.e., the minimal group […]
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Democrats and Republicans have increasingly sorted into homogeneous physical and online spaces and increasingly avoid contact with each other. Yet interventions that attempt to reduce partisan anim…
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In the age of the “video-first internet”—as internet commentator Ryan Broderick (2023) aptly phrased it—TikTok has rapidly established itself as a central fixture for debate on the state of the […]
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News influencers – individuals with large followings who regularly post about n…
