Selecting, avoiding, disconnecting: a focus group study of people’s strategies for dealing with information abundance in the contexts of news, entertainment, and personal communicationwww.tandfonline.com Information abundance has become a defining characteristic of digital media environments. Today, people have to deal with a vast amount of news, entertainment and personal communication. This study...
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Selecting, avoiding, disconnecting: a focus group study of people’s strategies for dealing with information abundance in the contexts of news, entertainment, and personal communicationwww.tandfonline.com Information abundance has become a defining characteristic of digital media environments. Today, people have to deal with a vast amount of news, entertainment and personal communication. This study...
The Illiberal Public Spherewww.springerprofessional.de This open access book provides the first systematic analysis of the role of the media in the rise of illiberalism, based on an original theoretical framework and extensive empirical research in Eastern Europe – a region that serves as a key battleground in the global advance of illiberalism. Liberal democracies across the world are facing a range of challenges, from the growing influence of illiberal leaders and parties to deepening polarization and declining trust in political elites and mainstream media. Although these developments attracted significant scholarly attention, the factors that contribute to the spreading of illiberalism remain poorly understood, and the communication perspective on illiberalism is particularly underdeveloped. Štětka and Mihelj address this gap by introducing the concept of the illiberal public sphere, identifying the key stages in its development, and explaining what makes illiberalism distinct from related phenomena such as populism. Their analysis reveals how and why the changing communication environment facilitates selective exposure to ideologically and politically homogeneous sources, fosters changes in normative assumptions that guide media trust, increases vulnerability to disinformation, and goes hand in hand with growing hostility to immigration and LGBTQ+ rights. The findings challenge widespread assumptions about digital platforms as key channels of illiberalism and suggest that their role shifts as the illiberal sphere progresses. The arguments presented in this book have important implications for future research on challenges to liberal democracy, as well as for journalists, media regulators and other professionals committed to rebuilding media trust and containing the forces of polarization.
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Contextualizing Representations of Violence in #Blacklivesmatter Coverage with Inductive Computational Content Analysiswww.tandfonline.com News coverage of social movements traditionally adheres to the protest paradigm, which focuses on violent and confrontational tactics instigated by activists. Recent work has called for a reevaluat...
The Press and Democratic Backsliding: How Journalism Has Failed the Public and How It Can Revive Democracyrowman.com This edited volume argues that journalists and other political communicators have allowed antidemocratic movements in the United States and elsewhere to metastasize within the body politic. It not...
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Representations of motherhood in the media: a systematic literature reviewwww.tandfonline.com We undertook a systematic review to understand (i) how motherhood is represented across different media, (ii) how the modalities of media domains influence the motherhood representations that they ...
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After Deception: How Falling for a Deepfake Affects the Way We See, Hear, and Experience Media - Teresa Weikmann, Hannah Greber, Alina Nikolaou, 2024journals.sagepub.com With the emergence of artificial intelligence, deepfakes have rendered it possible to manipulate anyone’s and anything’s audio-visual representation, adding fue...
Social Media Use and Political Engagement in Polarized Times. Examining the Contextual Roles of Issue and Affective Polarization in Developed Democracieswww.tandfonline.com Studies addressing the normative questions of whether social media use positively or negatively affects citizens’ levels of democratic engagement and satisfaction with democracy have produced mixed...
Digital policies, rules and practice on political organisations and their digital ecosystemwww.frontiersin.org As the number of Internet and social media users increases, political organisations such as CSOs, trade unions, NGOs, political parties, and governmental actors are moving and interacting more and mor...