It is a remarkable time to be a scholar of public opinion and political communication. Not only has the political media environment been fundamentally transformed in the past 20 years, but the rate of ongoing transformation shows no sign of slowing. Digital platforms like Facebook (and its subsidiaries such as Instagram and WhatsApp) are increasingly powerful curators of news and political content. Algorithms designed by platform companies enable high levels of personalization and fragmentation of media audiences; platform-initiated changes to algorithms and newsfeed features can open, or close, the floodgates of visitors to news media websites; the social actions of digital media...

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政治传播与舆论

现在是成为公共舆论和政治传播学者的非凡时期。在过去的 20 年里，不仅政治媒体环境发生了根本性的转变，而且持续转变的速度也没有放缓的迹象。Facebook（及其子公司，如 Instagram 和 WhatsApp）等数字平台正在成为越来越强大的新闻和政治内容的策展人。平台公司设计的算法实现了媒体受众的高度个性化和碎片化；平台发起的对算法和新闻源功能的更改可以打开或关闭新闻媒体网站访问者的闸门；数字媒体的社会行为...