Introduction: community building in a digital era / Candi S. Carter Olson -- "I became more aware of how divided America really is": social media use, fake news, and spiral of silence before and after the 2016 U.S. elections / Victoria L. LaPoe and Candi S. Carter Olson -- "Absolutely nothing political in nature": perceptions of topics that were appropriate or "too controversial" for social media discussion around the 2016 U.S. presidential election / Candi S. Carter Olson and Victoria L. LaPoe -- Digital communication as a promotion building community: scholars' use of social media for peer-communication / Stine Eckert, Candi S. Carter Olson, and Victoria L. LaPoe -- Community crisis and coverage: coping with newsroom compassion fatigue / Victoria L. LaPoe, Mary A. Bemker, Candi S. Carter Olson, Mary T. Rogus, and Nerissa Young -- Digital crisis community communication: tweeting the first anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster: responsibility, recovery, and commemoration / Victoria L. LaPoe and Andrea L. Miller -- Gender and racial real-life discourse around fictional programs: sticking it to the mother myth: discussing race and gender in Nurse Jackie and Hawthorne Online / Benjamin R. LaPoe II, Victoria L. LaPoe, Daniel A. Berkowitz, and Mary A. Bemker -- History and an international community perspective: "an afternoon with Signor Lynch": Roi Ottley's |