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Measuring online political activity: introducing the digital society project dataset
Valeriya Mechkova, Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Seim & Steven. L Wilson
Published online: 04 Jun 2024
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How negativity and policy content drive the spread of political messages
Jeffrey A. Fine, D. Hudson Smith, Cierra Oliveira, Nicholas Deas, Spencer Shellnutt, Riley Stotzky & Rachel Clyburn
Published online: 26 May 2024
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Campaign ads and the differences between soliciting donations and mobilizing volunteers
Grant Ferguson, James G. Gimpel, Mark Owens & Daron R. Shaw
Published online: 20 May 2024
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Published online: 29 Apr 2024
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Trolling and insulting others on social media in Spain: the role of social media news use, culture of impunity, and social media envy
Manuel Goyanes, Isabel Inguanzo & Homero Gil de Zúñiga
Published online: 28 Apr 2024
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Personality, networks, and heterogeneous discussion on Facebook
Shelley Boulianne & Thomas Galipeau
Published online: 10 Apr 2024
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Protest and repression in China’s digital surveillance state
Viola Rothschild
Published online: 30 Mar 2024
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Trump, Twitter, and Truth Social: how Trump used both mainstream and alt-tech social media to drive news media attention
Yini Zhang, Josephine Lukito, Jiyoun Suk & Ryan McGrady
Published online: 13 Mar 2024
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How young people get from voice to influence for change: exploring the relations between tactical choices and civic efficacy
Chaebong Nam & David C. Kidd
Published online: 13 Mar 2024
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Predicting political attitudes from web tracking data: a machine learning approach
Nora Kirkizh, Roberto Ulloa, Sebastian Stier & Jürgen Pfeffer
Published online: 25 Feb 2024
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Gender roles, perspectives, and issue attention in the Italian political twitterverse. An analysis of politicians’ network and top-down communication
Silvia Decadri & Fedra Negri
Published online: 20 Feb 2024
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The role of sources of fake political news in corrective intentions on Facebook: investigating a moderated mediating model of perceived news fakeness and candidate preference in the 2022 Korean presidential election
Mihee Kim
Published online: 19 Feb 2024
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Social media news use and polarized partisan perceptions: mediating roles of like-minded and cross-cutting discussion
Xia Zheng, Yanqin Lu, Jae Kook Lee & Jihyang Choi
Published online: 19 Feb 2024
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How to measure political polarization in text-as-data? A scoping review of computational social science approaches
Catarina Pereira, Raquel da Silva & Catarina Rosa
Published online: 13 Feb 2024
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Published online: 02 Feb 2024
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French Fox News? Audience-level metrics for the comparative study of news audience hyperpartisanship
Julien Labarre
Published online: 16 Jan 2024
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When citizens support AI policies: the moderating roles of AI efficacy on AI news, discussion, and literacy
Fanjue Liu, Heidi Makady, Seungahn Nah & Jasmine McNealy
Published online: 25 Dec 2023
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The unverified era: politicians’ Twitter verification post-Musk acquisition
Michael Haman & Milan Školník
Published online: 20 Dec 2023
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The discursive logics of online populism: social media as a “pressure valve” of public debate in China
Kun He, Scott A Eldridge II & Marcel Broersma
Published online: 05 Dec 2023
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Belief bias and censorship of religious extremism on digital media in 15 EU states: exploring individual and country-level moderators, a cross-country multilevel analysis
Muhammad Masood & Viktor Tuzov
Published online: 24 Nov 2023
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Public opinion effects of digital state repression: How internet outages shape government evaluation in Africa
Rebecca Strauch
Published online: 21 Nov 2023
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Incentives to cultivate a diaspora vote and rhetorical involvement in foreign elections: Lessons from Colombian politicians’ involvement in the 2020 US presidential election
Taishi Muraoka
Published online: 09 Nov 2023
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Perils of political engagement? Examining the relationship between online political participation and perceived electoral integrity during 2020 US election
Saifuddin Ahmed, Yifei Wang & Melissa Tully
Published online: 31 Oct 2023
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Smart government: practical uses of artificial intelligence in local government (improving financial management with AI)
Chris Chiancone, TX, 2023, 126 pp., $39.99 (Hardcover), ISBN: 979-8392655519
Joseph Amazuwa Chirwa
Published online: 23 Oct 2023
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Trusting tech firms’ big data for political microtargeting? A qualitative analysis of parties’ communication managers risk and trust perceptions
Natascha Löffler
Published online: 02 Oct 2023
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White supremacists anonymous: how digital media emotionally energize far-right movements
Anton Törnberg & Petter Törnberg
Published online: 02 Oct 2023
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Official yet questionable: examining misinformation in U.S. state legislators’ tweets
Yuehong Cassandra Tai, Roan Buma & Bruce A. Desmarais
Published online: 21 Sep 2023
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Aimed emotions in American presidential politics
Andrew Trexler
Published online: 17 Aug 2023
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Don’t talk to strangers? The role of network composition, WhatsApp groups, and partisanship in explaining beliefs in misinformation about COVID-19 in Brazil
Patrícia Rossini & Antonis Kalogeropoulos
Published online: 11 Jul 2023
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Categorizing political campaign messages on social media using supervised machine learning
Jennifer Stromer-Galley & Patricia Rossini
Published online: 09 Jul 2023
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When politics is personal: Curating safe spaces through disconnection on instant messaging platforms
Qinfeng Zhu & Marko M. Skoric
Published online: 04 Jul 2023
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Generic or Specific Search Terms: What Do Citizens Type in the Google Search Bar to Obtain Political Information?
Guillaume Zumofen
Published online: 27 Jun 2023
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The effect of traffic light veracity labels on perceptions of political advertising source and message credibility on social media
Tom Dobber, Sanne Kruikemeier, Fabio Votta, Natali Helberger & Ellen P. Goodman
Published online: 22 Jun 2023
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Social media in black lives matter movement: amplifying or reducing gaps in protest participation?
Sangwon Lee & Saifuddin Ahmed
Published online: 10 Jun 2023
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Donetsk don’t tell – ‘hybrid war’ in Ukraine and the limits of social media influence operations
Lennart Maschmeyer, Alexei Abrahams, Peter Pomerantsev & Volodymyr Yermolenko
Published online: 14 May 2023
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Civic and political volunteering: the mobilizing role of websites and social media in four countries
Shelley Boulianne & Kari Steen-Johnsen
Published online: 12 May 2023
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Diverse exposure and deliberative practices revisited: proposing three motivations for disagreement processing
Dam Hee Kim
Published online: 11 May 2023
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America’s decoupling from China narrative: development, determinants, and policy implications
Kerry Liu
Published online: 08 May 2023
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Online mobilisation strategies: Increasing political participation in semi-authoritarian regimes
Elizaveta Kopacheva
Published online: 20 Apr 2023
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Tuning in to the personal: late-night comedy, message engagement, and the gun control debate
Amy B. Becker
Published online: 31 Mar 2023
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Political information search in “noisy” online environments: Insights from an experiment examining older and younger adults’ searches on smartphones and laptops
Ryan C. Moore, Jason C. Coronel, Olivia M. Bullock, Samuel Lerner & Michael P. Sheehan
Published online: 30 Mar 2023
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News snacking and political learning: changing opportunity structures of digital platform news use and political knowledge
Jakob Ohme & Cornelia Mothes
Published online: 28 Mar 2023
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Online political networks as fertile ground for extremism: the roles of group cohesion and perceived group threat
Joshua Cloudy, Melissa R. Gotlieb & Bryan McLaughlin
Published online: 23 Mar 2023
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