Working on the Fundamentals of Journalism and Mass Communication Research: Advancing Methods in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2007-2016

[...]they look at social media, which can be used for online focus groups, for recruitment of nonprobability samples, and as an alternative to traditional survey research when intending to analyze behavioral data in social media. The field now encompasses not only traditional online news sites, but also social media, organizational websites, forums, blogs, and so forth, as well as all the interactions that users have with these texts, and within their own social networks. [...]new topics are continually emerging, such as the role of fake news, filter bubbles, personalization, and even communication between humans and conversational agents enabled by artificial intelligence (such as chatbots, virtual assistants, or recommendation systems).