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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…
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Facebook groups hold civic potential as fora for connective democracy. Exploring this claim, we offer a contribution to ongoing debates concerning the democratic value of digital communication. Through a mixed-methods […]
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This study presents a framework of discourse truth for analyzing how truth is constructed in news discourse. Using the UAM CorpusTool, this framework is applied to a corpus of 160 […]
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This study examines attitudes toward online voting in Russia and Estonia, the only countries with online nationwide elections. While both countries share a common post-Soviet legacy, their divergen…
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This study examines the impact of following congruent online political discussions on political participation. The results of a three-wave panel survey with two embedded experiments indicate that following congruent online […]
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Bluesky has recently emerged as a lively competitor to Twitter/X for a platform for public discourse and news sharing. Most of the research on Bluesky so far has focused on […]
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This Crosscurrent notes the rising phenomenon of online platform migration and technology non-use, fueled by the emergence of new social media platforms and increasing societal polarization. As platforms such as […]
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The architecture of public discourse has been profoundly reshaped by social media platforms, which mediate interactions at an unprecedented scale and complexity. This study analyzes user behavior across six platforms […]
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After Twitter’s ownership change and policy shifts, many users reconsidered their go-to social media outlets and platforms like Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads became attractive alternatives in the battle for users. […]
