Interest groups on social media: Four forms of networked advocacy

Her research interest cover: Media Sociology, Political Communication, Political socialization, Political interest, Trust in news, Local democracy and local media,

It investigates the effect of online social media on individual candidate campaigning through a study of parliamentary candidates’use of social media in the 2009 Norwegian

In particular, social media arguably reduce the impact of resource inequalities on civic and political engagement, since social media offer new and open types of information

As calls rise there for street demonstrations denouncing Egypt’s ceding of two ↗Red Sea Islands to Saudi Arabia, and against the backdrop of continued media interest in the

One possible implication of the social media divide or networked publics gap is that the older journalists in our study reported relying on elite sources on Twitter (e.g., Gans

Based on interviews with 32 young journalists and content analysis of social media users’ online conversations, we contribute new knowledge on how journalists and social media

Note that there appears to be a positive correlation at the individual level between social media use and binge drinking [52], and social media has been characterised as a new arena

Group A – use of media platforms – concerns uses at least five days a week of 17 forms of basic media types (e.g., television, newspaper, social media, video games) in digital..