From the early social movements like the Fall of Berlin Wall in 1989, to the WTO protest in Seattle during 2009, to the recent “#BlackLivesMatter” movement in 2013, it is not hard to find that the evolution of activism passed through two stages. Before the emergence of information and communication... More
After the 2016 election, “fake news” is one of the top words. Because during the election, fake news was widely shared on the Internet. And some people claimed that Trump would not have been elected president without the influence of fake news. Is that true? Many scholars tried to figure... More
Hate speech never comes with harbinger. It is the statements that “attack or delegitimize” particular individuals on social media platforms (Schofield and Davidson, 2017). We can tell how powerful hate speech is - it can destruct people’s life when some of them get depressed and some suicided because of these... More
As media started to contain the political content, media also began to continually change the modalities of human communication in the political arena. An amount of researchers has been working on this theme for decades. Especially concerning social media, with the pervasive use of multiple technological tools, social media has changed... More
The media composition has been continuously changing for decades with new technology emerging and incorporating itself into the previous media landscape. Currently, we are at an age where, more than ever, technology allows regular people to take part in the creation of media coverage, and exchange information rather than only... More