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In different worlds: The contributions of polarization and platforms to partisan (mis)perceptions
New Media & Society

Using Facebook Messenger versus Groups for News Engagement
Digital Journalism

User comments as news quality: Examining incivility in comments on perceptions of news quality
News Quality in a Digital Age

As Mediated Conversation Expands and Diversifies, so do Anti-Social Risks
Proceedings of the Digital and Social Media track of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 56

What Social Media Could Be: Normative Frameworks for Evaluating Digital Public Spaces
Social Media + Society

Selective Avoidance: Understanding How Position and Proportion of Online Incivility Influence News Engagement
Communication Research

Fake news by any other name: phrases for false content and effects on public perceptions of U.S. news media
Journal of Applied Communication Research

Signaling news outlet trust in a Google Knowledge Panel: A conjoint experiment in Brazil, Germany, and the United States
New Media & Society

Theorizing Connective Democracy: A New Way to Bridge Political Divides
Mass Communication and Society

Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America
Newspaper Research Journal

Extending the Spiral of Silence: Theorizing a Typology of Political Self-Silencing
Communication Studies

Indexing theory during an emerging health crisis: how U.S. TV news indexed elite perspectives and amplified COVID-19 misinformation
Annals of the International Communication Association

Facebook reactions as heuristics: Exploring relationships between reactions and commenting frequency on news about COVID-19
First Monday

Who Do You Think Wrote It?: Stakeholder Tensions in a Case of Anonymous Organizational Whistleblowing
Western Journal of Communication

Passive learning and incidental exposure to news
Journal of Communication

Conservative News Audiences A Lack of Media Trust and How They Think Journalism Can Improve
The Future of the Presidency, Journalism, and Democracy: After Trump

Effects of a high-person-centered response to commenters who disagree on readers’ positive attitudes toward a news outlet’s Facebook page
Digital Journalism

Online political comments: Americans talk about the election through a “horse-race” lens
Proceedings of the Digital and Social Media track of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences [HICSS]

Negotiating sociomateriality and commensurability: Human and algorithmic editorial judgment at social media platforms
Journalism Studies

Signaling news outlet credibility in a Google search
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

“It’s just not the whole story”: Black perspectives of protest portrayals
Howard Journal of Communications

“Toxic atmosphere effect”: Uncivil online comments cue negative audience perceptions of news outlet credibility
Journalism

Measure newsroom effectiveness differently
Fixing American Politics

News engagement: The roles of technological affordance, emotion, and social endorsement
Digital Journalism, 9:8, 1007-1017

Journalism as a profession of conditional permeability: A case study of boundaries in a participatory online news setting
Journalism

Constructive journalism in the face of a crisis: The effects of social media news updates about COVID-19
Journalism Studies

“To me, there’s always a bias”: Understanding the public’s folk theories about journalism
Journalism Studies

“Crisis coverage gap”: The divide between public interest and local news’ Facebook posts about COVID-19 in the United States
Digital Journalism

Pathways to deeper news engagement: Factors influencing click behaviors on news sites
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Volume 26, Issue 5, September 2021, Pages 265–283

Common sense or censorship: How algorithmic moderators and message type influence perceptions of online content deletion
New Media & Society