Volume 9 (2020), Edition 4

The term Media Populism is used to indicate a ‘involuntary complicity’ between news media and populist movements based on the convergence of commercial media logic and populist communication style. It grants populists and their messages a high...

In times of permanent connectedness, smartphones are used in almost any situation, even during face to face (f2f) communications. Observational studies have shown that smartphone users can either phub their interaction partners or integrate the...

An increasingly organized culture of hate is flourishing in today’s online spaces, posing a serious challenge for democratic societies. Our study seeks to unravel the workings of online hate on popular social media and assess the practices,...

We conducted two computer-mediated speed dating studies to evaluate personality perception based on language use in online dating and analyzed the data with Bayesian statistics. In each study, participants first reported mating-relevant personality...