The social media application Snapchat has ascended rapidly, quickly becoming the third most utilized platform of millennials with a valuation as high as US$19 billion. A national survey of 125 respondents revealed that people using Snapchat to follow sports devote roughly the same amount of time to the platform as Facebook and more time than Twitter, Instagram, or Pinterest. Despite finding other platforms better for sport information seeking, relaxation, and interaction, respondents still reported using Snapchat as a main platform for facilitating sport fandom. Both sport fandom and identification bolstered likelihood of using Snapchat for sport-related interactions. Implications for communication and sport scholars and industry professionals are offered.

The current study employed a national sample in order to investigate the phenomenon of fear-of-missing-out (FoMO), the apprehension associated with the fear that other people are having a pleasurable experience that one is not a part of. The current study investigated the role that FoMO plays in TV viewing habits, particularly binge-watching and the consumption of one-time megaevents. Results indicated that FoMO predicts the pace at which people choose to watch TV, social media use as it relates to TV, and whether they are likely to watch some one-time TV programs-such as sporting events like the Super Bowl.

This study analyzed magazine covers, as well as editorial and advertising content in women's health/fitness and beauty/fashion magazines. Results indicated that models in these magazines were of relatively the same thinness, and that there was very little emphasis placed on weight loss for the sake of overall health. Models in fashion/beauty magazines were glamorous, while models in health/fitness magazines were conspicuously thin. Health and body image content was generally framed as appearance-related rather than health-related in both types of magazines. These representations emphasize a thin, glamorous ideal, contradictory to the health-related messages that could be used to promote healthy body images and provide readers with healthy dieting and exercise advice.

The authors raise questions about the effects of reader comments on online news credibility, and among their findings is that the same feature—readers’ comments—that makes online news more appealing also decreases the credibility of the news outlet. The commenting system and the way comments are moderated do not appear to affect a news outlet’s credibility.