Frank Esser

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on another part of the hybrid media system and explore how politicians in four countries (AT, CH, IT, UK) use Facebook and Twitter for populist purposes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review research on key changes and trends in political information environments and assess their democratic implications, focusing on advanced postindustrial democracies and six concerns that are all closely linked to the dissemination and acquisition of political knowledge: (1) declining supply of political information, (2) declining quality of news, (3) increasing media concentration and declining diversity of news.

TL;DR: In this article, a three-step empirical analysis is performed to identify the factors responsible for the degree of "tabloidization" in a given country, based on a definition developed before, showing that journalistic values, media cultures as well as economic and legal conditions are responsible.

TL;DR: The introduction to a special International Journal of Press/Politics (IJPP) issue on populism articulate and define populism as a communication phenomenon and offers an overview of populist political communication research and its current foci.

TL;DR: In this article, the first systematic analysis of sound-bit analysis across countries and across time is presented, which goes beyond traditional sound bite research by extending the scope of analysis to include image-bit analyses.