Comparative Digital Political Communication: Comparisons Across Countries, Platforms, and Time
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 communication. This ...
Citizens’ Acceptance of Data-Driven Political Campaigning: A 25-Country Cross-National Vignette Study
- Rens Vliegenthart,
- Jade Vrielink,
- Katharine Dommett,
- Rachel Gibson,
- Esmeralda Bon,
- Xiaotong Chu,
- Claes de Vreese,
- Sophie Lecheler,
- Jörg Matthes,
- Sophie Minihold,
- Lukas Otto,
- Marlis Stubenvoll,
- Sanne Kruikemeier,
- Shelley Boulianne,
- Anders O. Larsson
This paper investigates how the acceptance of data-driven political campaigning depends on four different message characteristics. A vignette study was conducted in 25 countries with a total of 14,390 respondents who all evaluated multiple descriptions ...
Incivility in Comparison: How Context, Content, and Personal Characteristics Predict Exposure to Uncivil Content
Incivility, that is, the breaking of social norms of conversation, is evidently prevalent in online political communication. While a growing literature provides evidence on the prevalence of incivility in different online venues, it is still unclear ...
The Re-mediation of Legacy and New Media on Twitter: A Six-Language Comparison of the European Social Media Discourse on Migration
Scholarly literature has demonstrated that hybridity transforms both legacy and new media, but that this change is not even. We treat social media platforms as arenas of remediation, where users share and add their own context to information produced by ...
The Seed of Doubt: Examining the Role of Alternative Social and News Media for the Birth of a Conspiracy Theory
Consuming conspiracy theories erodes trust in democratic institutions, while conspiracy beliefs demotivate democratic participation, posing a potential threat to democracy. The proliferation of social media, especially the emergence of numerous ...
Platform Convergence or Divergence? Comparing Political Ad Content Across Digital and Social Media Platforms
- Travis N. Ridout,
- Markus Neumann,
- Jielu Yao,
- Laura Baum,
- Michael M. Franz,
- Pavel Oleinikov,
- Erika Franklin Fowler,
- Shelley Boulianne,
- Anders O. Larsson
When it comes to the study of the messaging of online political campaigns, theory suggests that platform divergence should be common, but much research finds considerable convergence across platforms. In this research, we examine variation across digital ...
Personal, Private, Emotional? How Political Parties Use Personalization Strategies on Facebook in the 2014 and 2019 EP Election Campaigns
In 2014, the EU introduced the lead candidate procedure to raise citizens’ awareness and interest in the European Parliament (EP) elections and, thereby, voter turnout. We study the use of personalization, centralized personalization (focusing on lead ...
Fixing Fieldnotes: Developing and Testing a Digital Tool for the Collection, Processing, and Analysis of Ethnographic Data
- Sofie L. Astrupgaard,
- August Lohse,
- Emilie M. Gregersen,
- Jonathan H. Salka,
- Kristoffer Albris,
- Morten A. Pedersen,
- Shelley Boulianne,
- Anders O. Larsson
Ethnographic fieldnotes can contain richer and more thorough descriptions of social phenomena compared to other data sources. Their open-ended and flexible character makes them especially useful in explorative research. However, fieldnotes are typically ...
Explicating Trust-building Factors Impacting the Use of e-government Services
This study investigates the users’ perception of trust-building factors influencing the use of e-government services and information, by integrating constructs identified in the technology acceptance model (TAM) with information systems (IS) success and ...
Preference for Smartphone-Based Internet Applications and Smartphone Addiction Among Young Adult Addicts: Gender Difference in Psychological Network
- Xin-Yi Wei,
- Han-Yu Liang,
- Ting Gao,
- Ling-Feng Gao,
- Guo-Hua Zhang,
- Xiao-Yuan Chu,
- Hong-Xia Wang,
- Jing-Yu Geng,
- Ke Liu,
- Jia Nie,
- Pan Zeng,
- Lei Ren,
- Chang Liu,
- Huai-Bin Jiang,
- Li Lei,
- Shelley Boulianne,
- Anders O. Larsson
Young adults are a high-risk population for developing smartphone addiction (SA), which bring about social issues. One theoretically and empirically supported proximal risk factor of SA is preference for smartphone-based internet applications (PSIA). ...
