Volume 72 (2024), Edition 2

Recent transformations in the public sphere challenge the development of theory and research in communication studies. This article focuses on the practice of contradicting, the modes of which have evolved and diversified in networked publics, often...

Today’s news audiences negotiate a diverse and multifaceted array of media messages characterized by ever more bewildering heterogeneity and hybridity. These messages are relayed by a cohort of new epistemic authorities such as social media...

To accentuate which platform characteristics particularly foster radicalization and extremist dynamics, this contribution investigates the affordances of social media as delineated in contemporary literature, conducting a platform comparison...