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This Handbook provides the first comprehensive examination of the influence industry and how it operates worldwide across different domains. The rapid evolution of emerging technologies and data-driven persuasive practices has […]
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In May 2020, the music streaming service Spotify acquired exclusive rights to The Joe Rogan Experience, one of the world’s most popular podcasts. While the music streamer had started its […]
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On the afternoon of 9 August 2014, 18-year-old Michael ‘Mike’ Brown was shot and killed by Officer Darren Wilson in the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri. Brown’s body lay […]
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Social media platforms frequently prioritize efficiency to maximize ad revenue and user engagement, often sacrificing deliberation, trust, and reflective, purposeful cognitive engagement in the process. This manuscript examines the potential […]
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Bias accusations have eroded trust in journalism to impartially check facts. Traditionally journalists have avoided responding to such accusations, resulting in an imbalanced flow of arguments about the news media. […]
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The 2020 election and its aftermath present an opportunity to understand how audiences’ changing news consumption patterns within an expanded, digitized, and polarized media environment shape electoral judgments. This paper […]
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The theoretical framework of media use strategies analyzes media use as a strategic practice, focusing on styles of acting, spatiotemporal arrangements, user attitudes, the focus of attention during reception, and […]
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The hashtag campaign around #TWforWHO and #TaiwanCanHelp aimed to bring international attention to Taiwan’s exclusion from the global COVID-19 pandemic response. We use this campaign as a case study to […]
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Around the world, TikTok has provided visibility to small-scale local businesses with popular origins, integrating local vernaculars and traditional family life into a popular social media economy. In this article, […]
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This study examines the antecedents of reporting harmful comments on the platform from a user’s perspective, focusing on perceived media effects. Although some research has examined the “report” or “flag” […]
