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View article: Meta-analyses entry in Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication
Meta-analyses entry in Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication Open
A meta-analysis is a statistical summary of the current state of research on a particular topic. Meta-analysis is an important technique to summarize the consensus within scientific scholarship on a topic. This entry summarizes the approac…
View article: Feminist Identity and Online Activism in Four Countries From 2019 to 2023
Feminist Identity and Online Activism in Four Countries From 2019 to 2023 Open
The COVID-19 pandemic heightened burdens on caregivers, but also the visibility of caregiving inequalities. These grievances may activate a feminist identity which in turn leads to greater civic and political participation. During a pandem…
View article: It’s Fine If Others Do It Too: Privacy Concerns, Social Influence, and Political Expression on Facebook in Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States
It’s Fine If Others Do It Too: Privacy Concerns, Social Influence, and Political Expression on Facebook in Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States Open
Political expression is a focal point for understanding how digital media have transformed political engagement. Privacy concerns tend to impede online political expression, but this relationship is still poorly understood. Based on the th…
View article: Social media platforms for politics: A comparison of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, Snapchat, and WhatsApp
Social media platforms for politics: A comparison of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, Snapchat, and WhatsApp Open
Citizens have increasingly diversified their use of social media platforms, raising questions about which platforms are adopted and for what purposes. We use survey data from four countries (Canada, France, the United States, and the Unite…
View article: Digital Inclusion Through Algorithmic Knowledge: Curated Flows of Civic and Political Information on Instagram
Digital Inclusion Through Algorithmic Knowledge: Curated Flows of Civic and Political Information on Instagram Open
Social media platforms are a critical source of civic and political information. We examine the use of Instagram to acquire news as well as civic and political information using nationally representative survey data gathered in 2019 in the…
View article: Comparative Digital Political Communication: Comparisons Across Countries, Platforms, and Time
Comparative Digital Political Communication: Comparisons Across Countries, Platforms, and Time Open
Comparative communication research needs to catch up to other disciplines. In this special issue and the associated International Communication Association preconference, we focus on comparative work related to digital political communicat…
View article: Who reports witnessing and performing corrections on social media in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and France?
Who reports witnessing and performing corrections on social media in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and France? Open
Observed corrections of misinformation on social media can encourage more accurate beliefs, but for these benefits to occur, corrections must happen. By exploring people’s perceptions of witnessing and performing corrections on social medi…
View article: Facebook Campaigning in the 2019 and 2021 Canadian Federal Elections
Facebook Campaigning in the 2019 and 2021 Canadian Federal Elections Open
Canada’s federal elections in 2019 and 2021 produced a similar outcome—a minority Liberal government. These back-to-back elections provide an ideal context to understand trends in digital campaigning strategies and assess how the pandemic …
View article: Perceptions and Concerns About Misinformation on Facebook in Canada, France, the US, and the UK
Perceptions and Concerns About Misinformation on Facebook in Canada, France, the US, and the UK Open
Across the globe, people are concerned about misinformation despite evidence suggesting actual exposure is limited and specific to subgroups. We examine the extent to which concerns about misinformation on Facebook are related to perceived…
View article: Dataset used for the article Ethnocentrism, Inter-Ethnic Contact and Social Media Platforms: Evidence from Three Western Democracies
Dataset used for the article Ethnocentrism, Inter-Ethnic Contact and Social Media Platforms: Evidence from Three Western Democracies Open
This is the dataset, used for the paper Ethnocentrism, Inter-Ethnic Contact and Social Media Platforms: Evidence from Three Western Democracies, submitted to the Information, Communication & Society for review. This work was supported by a…
View article: Powerless in the digital age? A systematic review and meta-analysis of political efficacy and digital media use
Powerless in the digital age? A systematic review and meta-analysis of political efficacy and digital media use Open
Many citizens feel powerless in the current globalized political context, despite the potential of digital media to increase their perceptions of being informed about politics and expand their opportunities to interact with elected officia…
View article: Civic and political volunteering: the mobilizing role of websites and social media in four countries
Civic and political volunteering: the mobilizing role of websites and social media in four countries Open
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View article: Facebook and the Global Dimension of Protest
Facebook and the Global Dimension of Protest Open
Survey data in four countries collected in 2019
View article: Civic and political volunteering
Civic and political volunteering Open
Cross-national survey data attached to Civic and Political Volunteering paper published in Journal of Information Technology & Politics
View article: Political Efficacy Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Political Efficacy Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Open
These are the data and replication files for a project about digital media use and political efficacy. There are two sets of materials: 1) systematic review; 2) meta-analysis.
View article: Misinformation and Trust
Misinformation and Trust Open
Data from pooled cross-national surveys conducted in 2019 and 2021
View article: Conspiracy Beliefs, Misinformation, Social Media Platforms, and Protest Participation
Conspiracy Beliefs, Misinformation, Social Media Platforms, and Protest Participation Open
Protest has long been associated with left-wing actors and left-wing causes. However, right-wing actors also engage in protest. Are right-wing actors mobilized by the same factors as those actors on the left? This article uses cross-nation…
View article: Complicating the Resilience Model: A Four-Country Study About Misinformation
Complicating the Resilience Model: A Four-Country Study About Misinformation Open
The resilience model to disinformation (Humprecht et al., 2020, 2021) suggests that countries will differ in exposure and reactions to disinformation due to their distinct media, economic, and political environments. In this model, higher …
View article: Platform affordances and political participation: how social media reshape political engagement
Platform affordances and political participation: how social media reshape political engagement Open
Political participation opportunities have been expanding for years, most recently through digital tools. Social media platforms have become well integrated into civic and political participation. Using a cross-national sample from the Uni…
View article: How Political Efficacy Relates to Online and Offline Political Participation: A Multilevel Meta-analysis
How Political Efficacy Relates to Online and Offline Political Participation: A Multilevel Meta-analysis Open
The rapid rise of digital media use for political participation has coincided with an increase in concerns about citizens' sense of their capacity to impact political processes. These dual trends raise the important question of how people'…
View article: Climate denial in Canada and the United States
Climate denial in Canada and the United States Open
One type of climate change denial is the belief that climate change is naturally occurring instead of human caused; this form of denial is known as attribution skepticism or soft denial. While considerable research has addressed outright c…
View article: How Climate Movement Actors and News Media Frame Climate Change and Strike: Evidence from Analyzing Twitter and News Media Discourse from 2018 to 2021
How Climate Movement Actors and News Media Frame Climate Change and Strike: Evidence from Analyzing Twitter and News Media Discourse from 2018 to 2021 Open
Twitter enables an online public sphere for social movement actors, news organizations, and others to frame climate change and the climate movement. In this paper, we analyze five million English tweets posted from 2018 to 2021 demonstrati…
View article: Digital media and political consumerism in the United States, United Kingdom, and France
Digital media and political consumerism in the United States, United Kingdom, and France Open
Digital media use can connect citizens across geographic boundaries into coordinated action by distributing political information, enabling the formation of groups, and facilitating political talk. These activities can lead to political co…
View article: Participatory Inequality Across Countries: Contacting Public Officials Online and Offline
Participatory Inequality Across Countries: Contacting Public Officials Online and Offline Open
The Internet offers low-cost ways to participate in political life, which reduces the motivation required to participate and thus potentially reduces inequalities in participation. I examine online and offline contacting of elected officia…
View article: Standby Ties that Mobilize: Social Media Platforms and Civic Engagement
Standby Ties that Mobilize: Social Media Platforms and Civic Engagement Open
Nonprofit organizations and groups depend on donations and volunteers for their survival. Digital media can help by offering a platform for making online donations and facilitating online volunteering, but also by identifying and connectin…
View article: The Social, Civic, and Political Uses of Instagram in Four Countries
The Social, Civic, and Political Uses of Instagram in Four Countries Open
Instagram has more than 1 billion monthly users. Yet, little is known about how citizens engage with this platform. In this paper, we use representative survey data to examine social, civic, and political uses of Instagram by citizens in f…
View article: Climate Change in Canada and the United States
Climate Change in Canada and the United States Open
The data set combines survey data collected in 2019 in Canada and 2017 in the United States.
View article: Misinformation Resilience
Misinformation Resilience Open
Data and replication files related to a study about resilience to misinformation in Canada, the United States, France and the United Kingdom. Data collection in February 2021.