Zizi Papacharissi

TL;DR: This article examined audience uses of the Internet from a uses-and-gratifications perspective and found that contextual age, unwillingness to communicate, social presence, and Internet motives predict outcomes of Internet exposure, affinity and satisfaction.

TL;DR: The internet and its surrounding technologies hold the promise of reviving the public sphere; however, several aspects of these new technologies simultaneously curtail and augment that potential as discussed by the authors, and it is possible that internet-based technologies will adapt themselves to the current political culture, rather than create a new one.

TL;DR: The study results revealed that most messages posted on political newsgroups were civil, and suggested that because the absence of face-to-face communication fostered more heated discussion, cyberspace might actually promote Lyotard's vision of democratic emancipation through disagreement and anarchy.

TL;DR: The Personal as Political: Everyday Disruptions of the Political Mainstream as mentioned in this paper is a collection of essays about the personal as political: everyday disruption of the political mainstream.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors trace the rhythms of news storytelling on Twitter via the #egypt hashtag and examine news values and the form of news exhibited in # egypt from January 25 to February 25, 2011, pre- and post-resignation of Hosni Mubarak.