Gatekeeping

News by popular demand: Ideology, Reputation, and Issue Attention in Social Media News Sharing

Social media news sharing has become a central subject of scholarly research in communication studies. To test current theories, it is of the utmost importance to estimate meaningful parameters of news sharing behavior from observational data. In …

Will I Get Covid? Partisanship, Social Media Frames, and Perceptions of Health Risk in Brazil

In these polarized and challenging times, not even perceptions of personal risk are immune to partisanship. This paper introduces results from a new survey with an embedded social media experiment conducted during the first months of the COVID-19 …

Polarization, News Sharing, and Gatekeeping: A study of the Bolsonaro Election

The increasing importance of news sharing, and its effect on the routines, practices, and values described by the hierarchy of influences model, raises new questions about content creation in polarized social media environments. How does news sharing …