Volume 5 (2016), Edition 4

Convenience samples have been a substantial driver of empirical social research for decades. Undergraduate students are still the researchers’ favorite subjects, but the importance of respondents recruited on the Internet is on the rise. This...

The mobile phone appropriation (MPA) scale, originally developed in German, was translated into and adapted to English and initially validated through a confirmatory factory analysis (CFA) in this study. First, the theoretical background of the MPA...

First- and second-level digital divides are of great concern in health communication research and practice. It is feared that the increased importance of online health information might also increase informational inequalities between those who can...