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How effective are national tobacco prevention and cessation campaigns in reaching…

The study concludes that while national tobacco prevention and cessation campaigns are effectively reaching youth at high risk for tobacco…

Social Media Tobacco Youth

April 8, 2026

Technologies of participation: a history of the symbolic framework for networked…

In Reno v. ACLU, 521 U.S. 844 (1997), the Supreme Court encountered the internet and defined it as a speech system…

Internet History Platform Governance

February 28, 2026

Systematic review of eye-tracking experiments evaluating tobacco health warning labels

This systematic review examines eye-tracking experiments evaluating the effects of tobacco health warning labels (HWLs) on visual attention. We focus…

Eye Tracking Health Warning Labels

December 30, 2025

Content Confusion: News Media, Native Advertising, and Policy in an Era…

We often blame social media for the rampant problem of disinformation, but mainstream news media is also at fault. Not…

Misinformation

November 18, 2025

Climate action and native advertising: How fossil fuel companies present environmental…

Confronting severe economic challenges in the twenty-first century, many news media are forging new relationships with advertisers, including the focus…

Climate Misinformation

November 14, 2025

The Digital Spin: Political Agenda Setting on Alternative Social Media Platforms

This study examines how agenda setting operates in today’s hybrid media ecosystem by investigating how mainstream political events during the…

Political Communication Social Media

November 13, 2025

Public Support for Warning Label Policies on Social Media Among U.S.…

Introduction: Health warning labels are used across several regulatory spaces to warn consumers about potentially harmful products. The study aimed…

Health Communication Social Media

October 1, 2025

Populist Hustlers Versus Establishment Dynasties: The Contentious Visual Framing Dual of…

We draw on three data sets to offer a comprehensive view on visual representation of presidential candidates and the impact…

Framing Social Media

September 23, 2025

Topic modeling of video and image data: a visual semantic unsupervised…

Understanding visual narratives is essential for analyzing media representation. This paper introduces VisTopics, a computational framework for analyzing large-scale visual…

AI

August 21, 2025

Media Matters: A Mixed-Method Look into the Research on Misinformation and…

We use a large-scale mixed-method analysis to examine changes in misinformation research over three decades, with a particular attention to…

Misinformation Social Media

August 12, 2025

A Multi-Labeled Dataset for Indonesian Discourse: Examining Toxicity, Polarization, and Demographics…

Online discourse is increasingly trapped in a vicious cycle where polarizing language fuels toxicity and vice versa. Identity, one of…

LLMs polarization toxicity

July 20, 2025

Some assembly required: Unpacking the content and spread of Wayfair conspiracy…

Wayfair, an American furniture and home goods retailer, garnered sudden attention across social media in 2020, particularly Twitter and Reddit,…

Social Media Youth

May 29, 2025

Pictures from the primaries: Black presidential hopefuls and representation differences across…

This study explored bimodal news coverage of Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, the two leading Black candidates during the Democratic…

Agenda Setting Political Communication

May 9, 2025

Empathy With Muslim Victims of Discrimination: Can Personalization and Emotionalization in…

Hate crimes against Muslims in the United States have been on the rise since 2016 (FBI, 2022), discouraging this group’s…

Empathy

March 6, 2025

Mitigating Information Insecurity: An African Perspective on Satisfaction With Democracy

While Africans are committed to democracy, governments across the continent have failed to deliver on the democratic aspirations of the…

Misinformation