An article on TechCrunch.com recently highlighted some new “spontaneous social apps” which are providing new ways for people to interact remotely during social isolation. Research has shown that people resist the dissolution of existing relations. In light of the stay-at-home order issued by governments to combat COVID-19, people are turning to online tools to help […]
Authors: Fengyan Wang, Yimeng Sun, Wanchun Liu It has been a month since President Brown announced the move to a remote campus in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This week, we invited the Director of COM Career Services Patrick Nelson (P.N.) and the Lab and Research Manager of the Communication Research Center (CRC) Susie Blair […]
The relationship between social media usage, and populism & polarization in politics is a complex issue which needs to be studied and understood. Undoubtedly, social media make influence on people’s political decisions through media filter bubbles, and even fake news. In Chadwick’s Chapter 10, Chadwick shared two stories or problems happened during the 2016 U.S. […]
How to understand hybrid media relates to two major elements, hybridity and media logic. By hybridity, the complex interdependent relationship of different forces, especially old and new, is addressed as the world is always in a transition from old to new with them forcing back with each other. Hybridity is a methodology of […]
Some would argue that technology is neutral and the real effect of it is decided by the people who are using it and by what means. However, internet, seems to be born with some democratic features. It is the print technology of our age, allowing millions of people to have access to unlimited news […]
The development of the internet and SNSs (social networking sites) has greatly changed how the public discuss and participate political affairs. Before the invention of SNSs, people received political information through the mass communication channels, where politicians influenced the public and spread their political ideologies at the same time. It was a nonreciprocal way of […]
How Emerging Media Penetrated All Aspects of Our Life Since the emergence of smartphones and various sorts of applications that cover almost every corner of our lives, the traditional way of lifestyle has completely been altered into a more modernized style with the help of new and advance technologies. Almost every activity we have before […]
Everything has been changed hugely by mobile and social media, so do the politic sphere. The newer media system consisting of mobile phones（e.g. anytime anywhere access to information and messaging）and social media (e.g. online linkages through networks of individuals and groups) is interacted with the older media systems complicatedly both within and across the field, […]
Social media has become a popular source of political information for internet users. At the same time, fake news creators view the platform as conducive because of its low-cost model and ease of access. Many scholars like Hunt Allcott and Matthew Gentzkow also argued that people on social networking sites prefer to read and share […]
As we know, the development of ICT such as social networking has reduced the cost and time of production and transmission of information, which also includes political information. More and more citizens gather political information and engage in political discussions through social media. With more options, individuals may choose to consume only content that accords […]