Despite early promise, scholarship has shown little empirical evidence of learning from the news on social media. At the same time, scholars have documented the problem of information 'snacking' and information quality on ...

Mobile instant messaging services (MIMs) are important gateways to news exposure and political conversations. Nevertheless, we still know little about the specific uses and consequences of using messaging apps on other ...

The study analyses whether, in the context of Chile’s concentrated media ownership, the press shows trends towards a uniform journalistic framing in news about the actions of the government, political parties or civil ...

This paper builds on recent work on “third spaces” to analyze political talk in comments on news about nonpublic affairs. It draws on content and discourse analyses of comments on news published by a leading Costa Rican ...

This study focuses on three contemporary alternative users’ attitudes to news previously detetected in the literature: ‘News finds me’, ‘The information is out there’ and ‘I don’t know what to be-lieve. It analyzes the ...

Comparative political communication scholars repeatedly debated political parallelism as a tool to conceptualize the relation of media systems to political cleavages. Despite the fact that populism/anti-populism divides ...