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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

‘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 [...]

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 [...]

Homero Gil de Zúñiga will participate in the event New Media Technologies and Social Impact: Creative Solutions for Community Well-being and Values, of the Global Convergence Contest Research Center’s Virtual 2021 International Conference, Sungkyunkwan [...]

Hugo Marcos-Marné, a member of the DRU, has published with Iván Llamazares and Susumu Shikano the article “Left-Right radicalism and Populist attitudes in France and Spain” in the Journal of Contemporary European Studies. Abstract [...]

The Democracy Research Unit will present five papers (a 100% acceptance rate!) eat the 71th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), “Engaging the Essential Work of Care: Communication, Connectedness, and Social Justice” that will take place [...]