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Partisan news recommendations. Studying the effect of politicians’ online news sharing on news credibility Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Willem Buyens
News is ever more accessible and consumed via social media, and on those platforms, its distribution is influenced by intermediaries. Because people are exposed to news via online influencers, it i...
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From tweets to tensions: exploring the roots of political polarization in Turkish constitutional referendum Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Kutlu Emre Yilmaz, Osman Abul, Syed Ali Hussain
This study examines between-group and within-group polarization in online social networks touncover latent factors and ideological changes over time. The study used 2017 Turkish constitutional refe...
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Does digital campaigning matter, and if so, how? Testing a broadcast versus network effects model of candidates Twitter use Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Rachel Gibson, Rosalynd Southern, Cristian Vaccari, Peter Smyth, Jahandar Musayev
Studies of online campaigning have consistently demonstrated a positive impact on electoral success, but it remains unclear how this occurs. Some find the content and style of post matter, while ot...
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Self-interest and preferences for the regulation of artificial intelligence Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Tobias Heinrich, Christopher Witko
Workers have often advocated for regulation to protect themselves from labor market threats. Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to transform many jobs in the coming years, especially those of...
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Critical social media and political engagement in authoritarian regimes: the role of state media fairness perceptions Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Amanzhol Bekmagambetov
This study investigates how exposure to critical social media content influences political engagement in authoritarian regimes, focusing on Kazakhstan. Addressing a gap in existing research, this p...
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Measuring online political activity: introducing the digital society project dataset Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Valeriya Mechkova, Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Seim, Steven. L Wilson
Political engagement is deeply enmeshed with online activity. However, there has been a lack of publicly available cross-country datasets enabling researchers and policymakers to understand how pol...
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Social media and political contention - challenges and opportunities for comparative research Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Matthias Hoffmann, Jun Liu, Christina Neumayer, Hans-Joerg Trenz
In this special issue, the authors theoretically, methodologically, and empirically address challenges and opportunities associated with comparative social media analysis in political contention. A...
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How negativity and policy content drive the spread of political messages Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-26 Jeffrey A. Fine, D. Hudson Smith, Cierra Oliveira, Nicholas Deas, Spencer Shellnutt, Riley Stotzky, Rachel Clyburn
Research demonstrates that negative messages spread more online, both at the elite and mass levels. We know comparatively less about the role that policy content plays, and whether that might be re...
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Campaign ads and the differences between soliciting donations and mobilizing volunteers Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Grant Ferguson, James G. Gimpel, Mark Owens, Daron R. Shaw
Research on political participation has long emphasized differences between Americans who donate money to political campaigns and Americans who perform other kinds of political activity. It’s uncle...
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Correction Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-29
Published in Journal of Information Technology & Politics (Ahead of Print, 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 Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-28 Manuel Goyanes, Isabel Inguanzo, Homero Gil de Zúñiga
Prior research has delved into the diverse effects that social media news consumption has over broader social media interaction patterns. From social ties curation, to ties filtering, blocking, and...
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Personality, networks, and heterogeneous discussion on Facebook Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Shelley Boulianne, Thomas Galipeau
We use survey data collected in 2021 in four countries (Canada, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States) to examine the role of extraversion and open-mindedness in predicting discussion o...
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Trump, Twitter, and Truth Social: how Trump used both mainstream and alt-tech social media to drive news media attention Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Yini Zhang, Josephine Lukito, Jiyoun Suk, Ryan McGrady
Former President Donald Trump is well-known for dominating the attention-driven hybrid media system through his controversial tweets, which spurred social media user engagement and news media atten...
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How young people get from voice to influence for change: exploring the relations between tactical choices and civic efficacy Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Chaebong Nam, David C. Kidd
Young people take advantage of new technologies to make their voices heard on important social issues. However, it is unclear whether they see expression as an end-point or starting-point for civic...
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Predicting political attitudes from web tracking data: a machine learning approach Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-25 Nora Kirkizh, Roberto Ulloa, Sebastian Stier, Jürgen Pfeffer
Anecdotal evidence suggests that the surge of populism and subsequent political polarization might make voters’ political preferences more detectable from digital trace data. This potential scenari...
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Social media news use and polarized partisan perceptions: mediating roles of like-minded and cross-cutting discussion Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Xia Zheng, Yanqin Lu, Jae Kook Lee, Jihyang Choi
Drawing on the revised communication mediation model and the relative hostile media framework, this study examines the roles of political discussions in the relationship between social media news u...
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Gender roles, perspectives, and issue attention in the Italian political twitterverse. An analysis of politicians’ network and top-down communication Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Silvia Decadri, Fedra Negri
We investigate gender disparities in politics through an exploration of the Italian political Twitterverse. Using network analysis and structural topic models on a novel dataset of Italian politici...
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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 Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Mihee Kim
This study investigated how people’s perceptions of the fakeness of Facebook posts and their intentions to take corrective actions are affected by the sources of those posts and their preferences f...
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How to measure political polarization in text-as-data? A scoping review of computational social science approaches Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Catarina Pereira, Raquel da Silva, Catarina Rosa
The rise of political polarization within western societies has been portrayed by events such as the United States Capitol riot or the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union. In this context...
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Correction Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-02
Published in Journal of Information Technology & Politics (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Political conflict on Instagram during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe: challenges of a cross-country comparison of visual content Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Ofra Klein, Hans-Joerg Trenz, Nadine Hesse
Research on political conflict often overlooks the role of visual-based platforms like Instagram in expressing political discontent, focusing primarily on textual content from newspapers and social...
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French Fox News? Audience-level metrics for the comparative study of news audience hyperpartisanship Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Julien Labarre
French news channel CNEWS is regularly compared to Fox News due to presumed ties with the far right, and for promoting conspiracy theories and partisan propaganda. Using data from the ReCitCom proj...
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When citizens support AI policies: the moderating roles of AI efficacy on AI news, discussion, and literacy Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-25 Fanjue Liu, Heidi Makady, Seungahn Nah, Jasmine McNealy
This research revisits the communication mediation model to understand when citizens support AI policies. Using data from a national online survey (N = 1252), our research delineates the mechanism ...
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The unverified era: politicians’ Twitter verification post-Musk acquisition Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Michael Haman, Milan Školník
This note discusses the impact of changes made to Twitter after Elon Musk’s acquisition of the company, specifically focusing on the verification of politicians’ accounts. With Twitter serving as a...
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Digital media, democracy and civil society in Central and Eastern Europe Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Karolina Koc-Michalska, Darren Lilleker, Christian Baden, Damian Guzek, Marton Bene, Larissa Doroshenko, Miloš Gregor, Marko Scoric
CEE countries faced significant political, economic, social, and technological transformations over the last four decades. Democratic processes, after relative stabilization, tremble again around p...
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Public opinion effects of digital state repression: How internet outages shape government evaluation in Africa Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Rebecca Strauch
1Internet shutdowns have become a popular instrument for repressive regimes to silence dissent in a digitized world. While authorities seek to suppress opponents by imposing Internet outages, we kn...
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One conflict, two public spheres, three national debates: comparing the value conflict over judicial independence in Europe across print and social media Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-12 Stefan Wallaschek, Kavyanjali Kaushik, Monika Eigmüller
Conflicts over the independence of judiciary as one of the European Union’s core democratic values is one indicator of democratic backsliding among its member states. Based on the Europeanization f...
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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 Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Taishi Muraoka
What explains politicians’ involvement in foreign elections? Understanding this behavior is important not only because it has received little scholarly attention but also because it could undermine...
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Perils of political engagement? Examining the relationship between online political participation and perceived electoral integrity during 2020 US election Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Saifuddin Ahmed, Yifei Wang, Melissa Tully
The 2020 US election witnessed a surge of false claims on social media platforms asserting electoral fraud. Consequently, we ask the question, would greater online political engagement reduce perce...
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Smart government: practical uses of artificial intelligence in local government (improving financial management with AI) Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Joseph Amazuwa Chirwa
Published in Journal of Information Technology & Politics (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The political contention of LGBTQ+ communities in the digital age - state of the art, limitations, and opportunities for comparative research Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Verena K. Brändle, Olga Eisele, Aytalina Kulichkina
This paper develops an analytical framework for comparative research on political contention in the digital age and, building upon it, provides a literature review of social media research related ...
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White supremacists anonymous: how digital media emotionally energize far-right movements Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Anton Törnberg, Petter Törnberg
Digital media platforms have been implicated in the recent rise of far-right extremism. This study proposes that these platforms afford emotional processes that lie at the core of far-right movemen...
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Trusting tech firms’ big data for political microtargeting? A qualitative analysis of parties’ communication managers risk and trust perceptions Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Natascha Löffler
Parties use political microtargeting (PMT) to address voter subsegments individually. Due to limited resources and legal restrictions, parties often rely on Meta’s platforms and advertising ecosyst...
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Resisting right-wing populism in power: a comparative analysis of the Facebook activities of social movements in Italy and the UK Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Nicolò Pennucci
This paper aims to present a comparative study of the civil society reaction to right-wing populism in power through social media, by looking at cases in Italy and the United Kingdom. The research ...
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Official yet questionable: examining misinformation in U.S. state legislators’ tweets Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Yuehong Cassandra Tai, Roan Buma, Bruce A. Desmarais
We study the roles of elected officials in the dissemination of misinformation on Twitter. This is a particularly salient online population since elected officials serve as primary sources of infor...
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Together we stand? The evolution of online interactions by Southern European LGBTQIA* organizations Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Aurora Perego, Katia Pilati
European LGBTQIA* organizations have often been perceived as isolated from other organizations. While investigations have suggested that social media platforms foster inter-organizational ties, the...
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Challenges of and approaches to data collection across platforms and time: Conspiracy-related digital traces as examples of political contention Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Annett Heft, Kilian Buehling, Xixuan Zhang, Dominik Schindler, Miriam Milzner
Taking the example of conspiracy-related communication online as one form of contentious politics, this study examines the data collection challenges for multidimensional comparative research acros...
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Movement parties’ interactions on social media: positioning and trajectories in the polity arena Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-23 Matthias Hoffmann, Christina Neumayer
This research explores interactions between traditional parties and movement parties on social media. The longitudinal analysis (2010–2021) is based on data from eighteen parties’ official social m...
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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 Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Patrícia Rossini, Antonis Kalogeropoulos
ABSTRACT The spread of disinformation has been a topic of heightened concern, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, as the response to a public health crisis relies on the ability for public officials to inform citizens. Using a representative two-wave panel of internet users in Brazil, we examine the relationship between pathways to information, WhatsApp use, and the persistence of misinformed
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Generic or Specific Search Terms: What Do Citizens Type in the Google Search Bar to Obtain Political Information? Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Guillaume Zumofen
ABSTRACT Facing a policy issue, citizens use search engines such as Google to seek political information. Although some scholars have expressed concern that higher user control, and high choice might induce selectivity, existing literature has neglected the role of search terms in the echo chamber debate. This study applied two cross-section surveys during two referendum votes to expose respondents
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The audience logic in election news reporting on Facebook: what drives audience engagement in transitional democracies of Albania and Kosovo? Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Lindita Camaj, Erlis Çela, Gjylie Rexha
This study provides insights on how journalists in the Western Balkans conceptualize and practice audience engagement during electoral campaigns. Taking a holistic approach, we first explore audien...
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The effect of traffic light veracity labels on perceptions of political advertising source and message credibility on social media Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Tom Dobber, Sanne Kruikemeier, Fabio Votta, Natali Helberger, Ellen P. Goodman
ABSTRACT The use of warning labels on political advertisements is one way to help citizens better evaluate the source and veracity of messaging, and combat the harms of misinformation on social media. Reliance on labeling is part of a larger policy push for greater transparency on social media platforms with respect to the source and quality of information. In this study, we test the effectiveness
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Interactive Election Campaigns on Social Media? Flow of Political Information Among Journalists and Politicians as an Element of the Communication Strategy of Political Actors Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Kinga Adamczewska
This study examined politicians’ communication strategies with journalists in Poland within the context of the flow of information on social media (Facebook and Twitter). The main questions posed i...
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Social media in black lives matter movement: amplifying or reducing gaps in protest participation? Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-10 Sangwon Lee, Saifuddin Ahmed
ABSTRACT This study explores the role of social media in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) Movement by examining how social media news use impacts BLM protest action. Theoretically, we go beyond the frequently discussed relationship between social media and protest participation and examine how grievances, political efficacy, and racial identity conditionally impact the influence of social media on protest
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Soros’s soldiers, slackers, and pioneers with no expertise? Discursive exclusion of environmental youth activists from the digital public sphere in Hungary and Czechia Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Lenka Vochocová, Jana Rosenfeldová, Anna Vancsó, Annamária Neag
Our paper fills the gap in research on online public representations of politically active youth by focusing on the discursive representations of Fridays for Future, a youth-led climate movement, i...
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Donetsk don’t tell – ‘hybrid war’ in Ukraine and the limits of social media influence operations Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-05-14 Lennart Maschmeyer, Alexei Abrahams, Peter Pomerantsev, Volodymyr Yermolenko
ABSTRACT Many fear that social media enable more potent influence operations than traditional mass media. This belief is widely shared yet rarely tested. We challenge this emerging wisdom by comparing social media and television as vectors for influence operations targeting Ukraine. This article develops a theoretical framework based on media structure, showing how and why decentralized and centralized
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Civic and political volunteering: the mobilizing role of websites and social media in four countries Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Shelley Boulianne, Kari Steen-Johnsen
ABSTRACT This study examines the role of digital media in civic and political engagement, specifically the respective roles of websites vs. social media in relation to volunteering. The study uses four-country (United States, United Kingdom, France, and Canada) survey data collected in 2019 and 2021 (n = 12,359). For both types of volunteering, we find that organizations’ websites are more strongly
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Diverse exposure and deliberative practices revisited: proposing three motivations for disagreement processing Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Dam Hee Kim
ABSTRACT Individuals are normatively expected to consume diverse viewpoints to become good citizens capable of deliberation although empirical evidence does not necessarily support this norm. To explain this inconsistency, this study proposes three motivations for disagreement processing – defensive dismissal, defensive deliberation, and balanced deliberation – by drawing from theory of motivated reasoning
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Online mobilisation strategies: Increasing political participation in semi-authoritarian regimes Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Elizaveta Kopacheva
ABSTRACT Although the importance of weaker and no ties for political-information diffusion was established, previous research did not focus on their primary role in mobilization into low-cost political activities. This study examines online mobilization strategies that increase e-petition signing in semi-authoritarian regimes. The research question is approached by assessing mobilization carried out
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One way or another? Discussion disagreement and attitudinal homogeneity on social networking sites as pathways to polarization in Czechia Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Alena Macková, Martina Novotná, Lucie Čejková, Lenka Hrbková
This study focuses on social networking sites and their role in partisan-based affective polarization and political antagonism. We examine the relationship by testing variables that indicate select...
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Tuning in to the personal: late-night comedy, message engagement, and the gun control debate Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Amy B. Becker
ABSTRACT The research (N = 265) considers the effect of exposure to personalized political comedy on the gun control debate on message discounting, perceived informativeness, and message elaboration. Results show that viewers are less likely to engage in message discounting, more likely to engage in message elaboration, and more likely to rate personalized political comedy as informative when compared
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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 Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Ryan C. Moore, Jason C. Coronel, Olivia M. Bullock, Samuel Lerner, Michael P. Sheehan
ABSTRACT An important problem voters face is that they frequently encounter unfamiliar candidates and policies during elections. The Internet provides a solution to this problem by allowing voters to access vast amounts of information using communication technologies like laptops and smartphones. However, the online environment is “noisy,” containing information both relevant and irrelevant to any
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News snacking and political learning: changing opportunity structures of digital platform news use and political knowledge Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Jakob Ohme, Cornelia Mothes
ABSTRACT The increasing prevalence of news snacking – that is, the brief, intermittent attendance to news in mainly digital and mobile media contexts – has been discussed as a problematic behavior potentially leading to a less informed public. Empirical research, however, that investigates the relationship between news snacking and political knowledge is sparse. Against the background of changed opportunity
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Online political networks as fertile ground for extremism: the roles of group cohesion and perceived group threat Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Joshua Cloudy, Melissa R. Gotlieb, Bryan McLaughlin
ABSTRACT This research note draws from the social identity model of deindividuation effects (SIDE), uncertainty-identity theory, and intergroup threat theory to investigate the conditions under which members of online political networks are likely to endorse extremism. Using a national survey of 717 U.S. adults who self-identify as members of an online group comprising politically like-minded others
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Manufacturing conflict or advocating peace? A study of social bots agenda building in the Twitter discussion of the Russia-Ukraine war Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Bei Zhao, Wujiong Ren, Yicheng Zhu, Hongzhong Zhang
After the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war, social media become the major contested field for both sides. Social bots are widely involved in the Russia-Ukraine war discussion as communication act...
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Detectable differences or functional equivalents? Assessing the reliability and validity of two measures of online network diversity Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-12 Matthew Barnidge, Michael A. Xenos, Cynthia Peacock
Political communication researchers commonly use one of two strategies to measure online network diversity: a “subjective” approach tapping participants’ impressions of the diversity in their netwo...
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Out of sight, out of mind: The impact of lockdown measures on sentiment towards refugees Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Amir Abdul Reda, Semuhi Sinanoglu, Amine Aboussalah
How did COVID-19 related movement restrictions impact sentiment toward refugees? Existing theories offer conflicting answers. On the one hand, contact theories suggest that movement restrictions mi...
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A tale of heroes and villains: Russia’s strategic narratives on Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-26 Pablo Moral
This research studies how Russian authorities disseminated strategic narratives on Twitter from January 1st, 2020, to March 11th, 2021, this last date coinciding with the first anniversary of the C...
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Can information literacy increase political accountability? Linking information evaluation with obstinate partisanship via social media political homophily Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Alberto Ardèvol-Abreu, Carmen Costa-Sánchez, Patricia Delponti
Scholars have recently sought to explain why some voters remain loyal to “their” parties or candidates “no matter what they do” – an attitude that has been labeled as obstinate partisanship (OP) an...
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Social media influencers talk about politics: Investigating the role of source factors and PSR in Gen-Z followers’ perceived information quality, receptivity and sharing intention Journal of Information Technology & Politics (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Zicheng Cheng, Jin Chen, Rachel X. Peng, Heather Shoenberger
Afforded by the unprecedented interactivity of social media, social media influencers (SMI) can build strong and trusting relationships with their followers. Such connections carry great potential ...