Homero Gil de Zúñiga and Zicheng Cheng have published the article ‘Origin and evolution of the News Finds Me perception: Review of theory and effects ‘ in El Profesional de la Información. Abstract Research [...]
NEW PUBLICATION: ‘Structural Influences on the News Finds Me Perception: Why People Believe They Don’t Have to Actively Seek News Anymore’
Nadine Strauß, Brigitte Huber and Homero Gil de Zúñiga have published the article ‘Structural Influences on the News Finds Me Perception: Why People Believe They Don’t Have to Actively Seek News Anymore‘ in Social [...]
NEW PUBLICATION: ‘Populism and new radical-right parties: The case of VOX’
Hugo Marcos-Marne, Carolina Plaza-Colodro and Ciaran O’Flynn have published the article “Populism and new radical-right parties: The case of VOX” in Politics. Abstract The populist radical-right label brings together parties characterised by their adherence [...]
NEW PUBLICATION: ‘Conspiracy Theories and Institutional Trust: Examining the Role of Uncertainty Avoidance and Active Social Media Use’
Silvia Mari, Homero Gil de Zúñiga, Ahmet Suerdem, Katja Hanke, Gary Brown, Roosevelt Vilar, Diana Boer, Michal Bilewicz have published the article “Conspiracy Theories and Institutional Trust: Examining the Role of Uncertainty Avoidance and [...]
Successful submissions for AEJMC 2021
The Democracy Research Unit will present six papers (a 100% acceptance rate!) at the 104th Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), ‘Turning the Page‘ (virtual), August 4-7, 2021. The DRU will [...]
NEW PUBLICATION: ‘Linking Extraversion to Collective and Individual Forms of Political Participation: The Mediating Role of Political Discussion’
Brigitte Huber, Manuel Goyanes and Homero Gil de Zúñiga have published the article ‘Linking Extraversion to Collective and Individual Forms of Political Participation: The Mediating Role of Political Discussion’ in the journal Social Science Quarterly. ABSTRACT Objectives. Scholars [...]
NEW PUBLICATION: ‘Demographic inequalities or personality differences? Exploring six types of social media usage divides in Mainland China’
Yiyan Zhang (BU), Lei Guo (BU), Homero Gil de Zúñiga, Tian Xie (WHU) and Robert Jiqi Zhang (NNU) have published the article ‘Demographic inequalities or personality differences? Exploring six types of social media usage divides [...]
SPECIAL ISSUE: ‘Pseudo-information, Media, Publics, and the Failing Marketplace of Ideas – Theory’
A new special issue edited by Jeong-Nam Kim and Homero Gil de Zúñiga has been published in the journal American Behavioral Scientist. Abstract (introduction) The explosive usage in recent years of the terms “fake [...]
RESEARCH SEMINAR: ‘The role of fake news in online political persuasion’
‘The role of fake news in online political persuasion’ Pablo González-González will participate in the research seminar organized by the Political Science Area at the University of Salamanca. In this session, Ángel Badillo (USAL) will [...]
NEW PUBLICATION: ‘How do people learn about politics when inadvertently exposed to news? Incidental news paradoxical Direct and indirect effects on political knowledge’
Homero Gil de Zúñiga, Porismita Borah and Manuel Goyanes have published the article “How do people learn about politics when inadvertently exposed to news? Incidental news paradoxical Direct and indirect effects on political knowledge” in Computers [...]