Flames and Debates: Do Social Media Affect Satisfaction with Democracy?

Internet, News, and Political Trust: The Difference Between Social Media and Online Media Outlets

“…So far, however, this gap between mediated and unmediated sources of information has implications for the debate on social media as a public sphere for deliberative democracy (Halpern & Gibbs, 2013;Loader & Mercea, 2011) and warns against the potential drawbacks of e-democracy (Ceron & Memoli, 2015b). In fact, the lack of editorial filtering allows social media to harbor alternative information and non-mainstream viewpoints.…”

“…The main independent variables are related to the consumption of online news. While users can access the web for a number of purposes, we know that “the potential political influence of the Internet hinges on its capacity to make communication, information retrieval, and information dispersion more efficient” (Bailard, , p. 157; Ceron & Memoli, ). As such, we test H1 and H2 by distinguishing whether Internet users consume news from news websites or social media.…”

Mediating the contributions of Facebook to political participation in Italy and the UK: the role of media and political landscapes

“…The purpose of this article is not to embark on a theoretical discussion of how SNSs, and more generally the Internet, can contribute (or be detrimental) to democratic systems, and to the formation of a more informed and politically engaged electorate -an issue already widely covered in the literature (Ceron and Memoli, 2016;Fasano et al, 2016;Fuchs, 2014;Hindman, 2009). The goal of the present paper is much more specific-namely to further the development of SNSs and political participation research by tackling the lack of cross-national comparative studies in the field and exploring how different media and political contexts mediate the contributions of these platforms to citizens' political participation.…”

Trust, control, and privacy in children’s digitalized lives: introduction to the special symposium

“…We argue that "trust" is equally important to children's wellbeing. Trust plays a multifaceted role in today's digitalized society, ranging from debates about trust of information presented in media (Ceron & Memoli, 2016;Fletcher & Kleis Nielsen, 2017) to trust between those engaging in online communication (Henderson & Gilding, 2004) and trust in others and our own media, digital, and online competencies (Siiman et al, 2016;Xu, Harrison, MacLeod, & Zhu, 2019).…”