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Breaking Agenda Setting Boundaries: A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Understanding Salience of Gun Control in the Polarized Public Sphere Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Chris J. Vargo, Milad Minooie
We reexamine agenda setting by analyzing the salience of gun control within diverse U.S. audience groups. Utilizing data spanning from 2015 to 2022, we investigate the impact of traditional media, ...
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The Model Family: The Effect of Multiracial Families in Advertising on Emerging Adult Consumers’ Attitudes and Intentions Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Chelsea E. Moss, Spiro K. Kiousis
This experimental study tested the effect of advertisements featuring a multiracial family on emerging adult consumers’ responses. Participants (N = 225) had more favorable attitudes toward multira...
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Gendered Agenda-Building: How Female Candidates Communicate Heterogeneous Issue Agendas Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Ayla Oden, Annelise Russell, Nicole Bauer
This study investigates the extent to which the issues emphasized by female political candidates in American congressional elections vary based on the media platforms used to promote their messages...
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Visuals as Identity Markers in Political Communication on Social Media: Evidence for Effects of Visual Cues in Liberals, but Not in Conservatives Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Viorela Dan, Florian Arendt
Politicians often rely on in-group markers of identity, aiming to signal their ideology to specific segments of the electorate. The impact of this practice on the electorate is insufficiently under...
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Journalist Identity and Selective Exposure: The Effects of Racial and Ethnic Diversity in News Staff Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Emily Van Duyn, Jay Jennings, Natalie Jomini Stroud
Newsrooms are challenged with representing a diverse public, yet news staff are not always diverse themselves. Drawing from research on selective exposure along lines of race and ethnicity, this st...
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Understanding Digital Campaign Competence: Conceptualizing Data-Driven Political Advertising Literacy Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Sophie Minihold, Sophie Lecheler, Rachel Gibson, Claes de Vreese, Sanne Kruikemeier
Technological advancements create new ways of informing and persuading citizens in the political advertising context. Insights are limited regarding how citizens deal with data-driven political adv...
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Encouraging Positive Dialog Toward COVID-19 Vaccines on Social Media Using Hope Appeals, Celebrity Types, and Emoticons Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Yen-I Lee, Ying-Chia Hsu, Joe Phua, Tai-Yee Wu, Sarah Hachman
This study examined the effects of hope appeals, celebrity endorser types, and valence of emoticons on COVID-19 vaccine confidence, hesitancy, and intention to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The pot...
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Ethically Motivated or Emotionally Charged? Examining Relationships Among Moral Norms, Anticipated Negative Emotions, and Laypeople’s Online Misinformation Correction Intentions Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Yang Hu, Anfan Chen, Yu Yang, Tong Tong
The extant research on misinformation correction largely emphasizes institutional-approach-based fact-checking practices while underestimating laypeople’s potential to correct misinformation. By in...
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Is Social Media Use Related to Social Anxiety? A Meta-Analysis Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Yuanfeixue Nan, Jiaqi Qin, Zichao Li, Natalie Garyeung Kim, Steffie Sofia Yeonjoo Kim, Lynn Carol Miller
During face-to-face interactions, social anxiety involves an intense fear which precipitates impaired communication and avoidance. Social media provides an alternate, potentially less anxiety-provo...
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Populist Radical-Right Attitudes, Political Involvement and Selective Information Consumption: Who Tunes Out and Who Prefers Attitude-Consonant Information Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Michaela Maier, Silke Adam, Teresa Gil Lopez, Mykola Makhortykh, Laurits Bromme, Clara Christner, Ernesto de León, Aleksandra Urman
This study seeks to understand how populist radical-right (PRR) attitudes and political involvement relate to individuals’ political information consumption and selective exposure to ideological co...
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When are Fact-Checks Effective? An Experimental Study on the Inclusion of the Misinformation Source and the Source of Fact-Checks in 16 European Countries Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Patrick F. A. van Erkel, Peter van Aelst, Claes H. de Vreese, David N. Hopmann, Jörg Matthes, James Stanyer, Nicoleta Corbu
Despite increasing academic attention, several questions about fact-checking remain unanswered. First, it remains unclear to what extent fact-checks are effective across different political and med...
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A Systematic Content Analysis of the Moral Foundations Featured in Celebrities’, Influencers’, and Athletes’ Instagram Content Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Anaëlle J. Gonzalez, Drew P. Cingel, Laura Vandenbosch
Despite the attention that moral media content has received for many years, no research has systematically investigated the moral foundations featured in (visual) user-generated content. This is im...
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Trans Youth Sport Bans and the Facilitation of Moral Panic: A Cross-Platform Comparison of 2022 Media Narratives Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Andrew C. Billings, Leigh Moscowitz, Joshua R. Jackson, Emily Dirks, Spencer M. Tomsett
This study incorporates moral panics as a lens for investigating discussions in US news reports and on social media surrounding anti-transgender youth sports legislation. A total of 210 newspaper a...
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The Effects of Peer Mental Illness Narratives on Reducing Stigma Among U.S. Marginalized College Students Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Najma Akhther, Elizabeth Stoycheff
Mental health stigma remains a significant barrier to accessing mental health care and treatment, particularly among racial, ethnic, gender, and LGBTQIA+ underrepresented groups in the United State...
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The revolution will be hilarious: Comedy for social change and civic power Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Matthew R. Meier
Published in Mass Communication and Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Changes and Continuity for a Second Editorial Term Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Mike Schmierbach
Published in Mass Communication and Society (Vol. 27, No. 2, 2024)
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Seeing “Us” and “Them”: How Political Symbols Polarize Through Anger, Anxiety, and Enthusiasm Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Christian Staal Bruun Overgaard, Renita Coleman
This study investigated how political symbols influence affective polarization through emotions. Integrating research on visual communication, social identity theory, and the affective contagion hy...
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Evidence of Ambivalent Sexism in Female Video Game Character Designs Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Teresa Lynch, Jessica E. Tompkins, Michael Gilbert, Sage Burridge
This report shares the results of a systematic, quantitative analysis of themes resonant with ambivalent sexism in playable female video game characters. Applying principles of ambivalent sexism’s ...
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User Engagement on Facebook: Examining the Role of Visual and Verbal Politeness Cues Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Fabienne Bünzli, Omid Alizadeh-Afrouzi
Nonprofit organizations have eagerly embraced Facebook as a strategic tool to reach large audiences and promote their advocacy. While there are numerous means to motivate users to engage with Faceb...
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Opinion Leadership via Conversation: How Opinion Leaders Talk About the Media Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Nicole Podschuweit, Stephanie Geise
Opinion leadership is an influential concept in communication research. Although opinion leadership is established through the transmission, classification, and interpretation of mass media content...
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Examining the Dynamics of Uncivil Discourse Between Sub-National Political Officials and the Public on Twitter Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Juliana L. Barbati, Stephen A. Rains, Kate Kenski, Yotam Shmargad, Steven Bethard, Kevin Coe
Despite agreement about the challenges posed by incivility for democratic discourse, much remains to be learned about how incivility manifests in interactions between the public and political elite...
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The Future of Feminism in Public Relations and Strategic Communication: A Socio-Ecological Model of Influences Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Breann Murphy
Published in Mass Communication and Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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I Do Not (Want To) Know! The Relationship Between Intentional News Avoidance and Low News Consumption Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Dominika Betakova, Hajo Boomgaarden, Sophie Lecheler, Svenja Schäfer
News avoidance is associated with misperceptions and lower political knowledge and participation. Synthetizing the research results in differentiating between intentional news avoidance, a consciou...
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Time to ‘Wine’: A Content Analysis Investigating How Social Media Influencers Refer to Alcohol Use in Instagram’s Feed Posts and Stories Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Sofie Vranken, Sebastian Kurten, Kathleen Beullens
This exploratory content analysis examines how well-known social media influencers (SMIs) refer to alcohol in their Instagram stories and feed messages. Guided by the attention, retention, and moti...
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Why Do People Underestimate Polling Effects? Examining the Gap Between Actual and Perceived Polling Effects Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Yujin Heo, Junghyun Moon, S Mo Jones-Jang, Sungeun Chung
Two major challenges have limited the advance of our knowledge about people’s bias in perceived polling effects compared with actual polling effects. The first challenge comes from a methodological...
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Media Salience Shifts and the Public’s Perceptions About Reality: How Fluctuations in News Media Attention Influence the Strength of Citizens’ Sociotropic Beliefs Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Monika Djerf-Pierre, Adam Shehata, Bengt Johansson
This article examines whether shifts in news media attention to societal issues matter for how strong beliefs citizens have about those issues. Based on an issue signal approach, in which media sal...
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Picturing Tragedy: A Content Analysis of the Publication of Graphic Images in Newspapers Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Gabriela Ruhl Ibarra, Jonathan van ’t Riet, Mariska Kleemans, Marieke Fransen
For decades, the inclusion of graphic photographs in the news has been a matter of controversy. One important criticism made by news audiences is that the publication of graphic imagery could be gu...
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The Scary World Syndrome: News Orientations, Negativity Bias, and the Cultivation of Anxiety Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Kim Andersen, Monika Djerf-Pierre, Adam Shehata
Negativity bias is one of the most salient features of news reporting. According to cultivation theory, this bias can foster anxiety about societal issues among news audiences. The relationship is,...
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Comedy for Racial Justice? The Mediating Roles of Narrative Mechanisms and Perceived Humor Types on Persuasive Outcomes Related to Racially Biased Policing Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Corinne Weinstein, Lauren Feldman
Despite the greater attention brought to systemically racist policing practices through protest movements in recent years, police in the United States continue to target racial minorities with aggr...
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Miscommunicating the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Asian Perspective Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Reviewed by Wenjing Pan
Published in Mass Communication and Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Scriptwriters’ Conceptions of Audience Attitudes Toward LGBTQ+ Characters Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 María T. Soto-Sanfiel, Isabel Villegas-Simón
Drawing on media production studies, this research observes the understudied figure of the scriptwriters of fictional series to identify their feelings about different audiences and the way they re...
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Who Says “Muslims Are Not Terrorists”? News Differentiation, Muslim versus Non-Muslim Sources, and Attitudes toward Muslims Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Ruta Kaskeleviciute, Helena Knupfer, Jörg Matthes
Media coverage on terrorism can lead to negative attitudes toward Muslims. We theorize that undifferentiated news—i.e., not explicitly distinguishing Muslims from terrorists—can accelerate these ne...
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Worn Out & Tuned Out: Does Politics Fatigue on Social Media Foster Participatory Inequality Among Americans? Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Daniel S. Lane, Nancy Molina-Rogers, Emilija Gagrčin
In this paper, we take seriously evidence of growing politics fatigue on social media among Americans and consider how this fatigue might ultimately foster participatory inequalities on these platf...
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Political Opinion Leaders in High-Choice Information Environments: Are They More Informed Than Others? Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Jesper Strömbäck, Elina Lindgren, Yariv Tsfati, Alyt Damstra, Rens Vliegenthart, Hajo Boomgaarden, Elena Broda, Noelle Lebernegg, Sebastian Galyga
One implication of the transition to high-choice media environments is that what information people are exposed to depends less than on journalistic curation and more on social, algorithmic, and pe...
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‘Look at How Corrupt They Are!’: How Anti-Political Discourse from Politicians Affects Their Own Image and the Image of Politics Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Dieter Dekeyser, Henk Roose
In this article, we use a survey experiment (N = 1,626) to test whether anti-political Facebook messages from politicians improve the character evaluation of the messenger while damaging the image ...
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Why We Broke Up with X (And You Should Too) Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Mike Schmierbach
Published in Mass Communication and Society (Vol. 26, No. 6, 2023)
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I Participate in Politics Because the News is Influential Against Me: Hostile Media Perception, Third-Person Perception, and Political Participation Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Seungsu Lee, Kyungmo Kim
The present study examines the interactive roles of hostile media perception (HMP) and third-person perception (TPP) on political participation. In the context of partisan news and polarized politi...
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Examining the Role of Distrust in Science and Social Media Use: Effects on Susceptibility to COVID Misperceptions with Panel Data Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Sangwon Lee, S Mo Jones-Jang, Myojung Chung, Edmund W. J. Lee, Trevor Diehl
Trust in scientific actors and institutions in the United States is at an all-time low. At the same time, studies show that people use social media for science information and become increasingly v...
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Responses to Mental Health Care Posts by Social Media Influencers: The Moderating Effects of Previous Experience and Follower Involvement Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Olivia Simone Reed
Mental health information on social media is more often communicated by regular users as opposed to healthcare professionals, and a subset of these regular users, social media influencers, are empl...
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Exploring the Audience of Alternative News Media: Trust, Reflexivity, and Political Attitudes in the Czech Republic Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Alena Macková, lenka Hrbková, jakub Macek
This study explores the audiences of Czech alternative news media (ANM) and seeks the predictors for its use. It examines the relationship between ANM usage and trust in mainstream media, media ref...
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A Meta-Analytical Review of the Determinants of Social Media Discontinuance Intentions Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Guangchao Charles Feng, Xianglin Su, Yiru He
The use of social media has grown tremendously, but a considerable number of individuals have stopped using it. This meta-analysis aims to examine the factors that contribute to discontinuing socia...
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The Dynamics of Information-Seeking Repertoires: A Cross-Sectional Latent Class Analysis of Information-Seeking During the COVID-19 Pandemic Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Sofia Johansson, Bengt Johansson, Johannes Johansson
Understanding audiences’ information-seeking behaviors during a societal crisis it vital for effective crisis communication. Prior research has identified how individuals combine information source...
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Fuming Mad and Jumping with Joy: Emotional Responses to Uncivil and Post-Truth Communication by Populist and Non-Populist Politicians on Facebook During the COVID-19 Crisis Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Alena Kluknavská, Martina Novotná, Olga Eisele
Social networking sites offer politicians an opportunity to mobilize followers through carefully crafted messages appealing to their emotions. We examine the effects of uncivil and post-truth commu...
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Adolescents’ Remembering of Sexual Television Narratives and Their Relations with Positive Sexuality Components: A Biographic Resonance Perspective Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Chelly Maes, Ulrike Schwertberger, Diana Rieger, Laura Vandenbosch
Little to no knowledge exists about television’s role in the sexual socialization of adolescents from the perspective of remembrance and resonance of narratives dealing with sexuality. The current ...
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Taking Political Alternative Media into Account: Investigating the Linkage Between Media Repertories and (Mis)perceptions. Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Rens Vliegenthart, Jesper Stromback, Hajo Boomgaarden, Elena Broda, Alyt Damstra, Elina Lindgren, Yariv Tsfati, Annelien Van Remoortere
ABSTRACT In most studies on news repertoires and the linkage between media use and (mis)perceptions of social and political matters, the use of political alternative media has not been included. In this paper, we therefore investigate how people combine both traditional and political alternative media into different media repertoires, and how these media repertoires are related to misperceptions. We
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Temporal Framing in Balanced News Coverage of Artificial Intelligence and Public Attitudes Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Sukyoung Choi
This study investigates how balanced news coverage, presenting both the positive and negative aspects of artificial intelligence (AI), may lead to attitudinal changes among the public when it is pa...
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“Everything Else is Public Relations” How Rural Journalists Draw the Boundary Between Journalism and Public Relations in Rural Communities Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Mildred F. Perreault, Jessica Fargen Walsh, Louisa Lincoln, Gregory Perreault, Ruth Moon
Rural journalists are news professionals, but also citizens engaged in their communities. The function and purpose of local journalism and public relations have become interdependent as media and c...
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Media Representations and Capabilities: An Intergroup Analysis of Muslim Arabs, Bedouin, Druze, and Christian Arabs Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Baruch Shomron
This study examines the media representations of the four Palestinian-Israeli subgroups (Muslim Arabs, Bedouins, Druze, and Christian Arabs) in the Israeli broadcast media. This breaks with the emp...
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Real-World Developments Predict Immigration News in Right-Wing Media: Evidence from Germany Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Christian S. Czymara
Exclusionist positions on immigration have become a key component of right-wing ideology in most countries around the world. Combining group threat and news values theory, this study sheds light on...
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Mapping the Media Genome: An Unsupervised Machine Learning Analysis of News Framing of Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Testing Kits Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Christopher M. Dobmeier, Yotam Ophir, Dror Walter, Austin Y. Hubner
ABSTRACT Despite their heightening popularity and potential individual and societal implications, little scientific attention has been given to the news coverage of direct-to-consumer genetic testing (DTC-GT) kits (e.g. 23andMe, AncestryDNA, and MyHeritage). To accommodate, this study leverages the Analysis of Topic Model Networks to inductively develop a comprehensive overview of how major U.S. news
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Share to Stop the Harm: How Social Media Metrics Drive Sharing of Fact-Checking Messages via First-Person Perception Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Myojung Chung
ABSTRACT While fact-checking has received much attention as an important tool to address the prevalence of misinformation, how to ensure fact-checking messages spread as far and wide as misinformation remains to be studied. To fill this gap, this study examined when people decide to share fact-checking messages on social media and what psychological mechanisms underlie such a decision. Two experiments
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Minding Children’s Media Morals: Parents’ Moral Foundation Salience Differentially Relates to Attitudes and Motivations Toward Children’s Educational Media Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Drew P. Cingel, Allyson L. Snyder, Samantha L. Vigil
ABSTRACT Guided by Moral Foundations Theory and the Model of Intuitive Morality and Exemplars (MIME), we examined the relationships between parents’ moral foundation salience and their attitudes and motivations toward using educational media with their young children (N = 449; child ages 4–7 years). Although research has shown that individuals’ moral foundation salience predicts their own liking and
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The Handbook on Religion and Communication Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Cylor Spaulding
Published in Mass Communication and Society (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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When Appearance Social Comparison Benefits Women’s Body Satisfaction: Examining the Effects of Viewing Lean Sports Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Yin Yang, Zizhuo Yin
While media representations of female athletes in lean sports often lead to negative body image perceptions in female audiences, media images depicting athletes playing sports may generate positive...
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A Social Identity Model of Localized Social Media Dependency During Post-Earthquake Disaster Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Jinhee Kim, Yong-Chan Kim, Mihye Seo
ABSTRACT Intra- and inter-group dynamics involving local identity have rarely been examined in media contexts. Drawing on Media System Dependency and Social Identity Perspectives, we examine the information power of localized social media (LSM) during post-earthquake disaster. The quake-affected city, Pohang in South Korea, is relatively small-sized and geographically peripheral compared to the Seoul
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A Direct and Indirect Effect of Third-Person Perception of COVID-19 Fake News on Support for Fake News Regulation on Social Media: Investigating the Role of Negative Emotions and Political Views Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Mihee Kim
ABSTRACT Based on the third-person effect theory, the present study explored the direct and indirect relationships between the third-person perception of fake news and public support for fake news regulations in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study found that the direct effect of the third-person perception of COVID-19 fake news on the support for fake news regulations was significant and
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Politics of Disinformation: The Influence of Fake News on the Public Sphere Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Reviewed by Yongjin Wang
Published in Mass Communication and Society (Vol. 26, No. 6, 2023)
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The Impact of Familiarity with a Communicator on the Persuasive Effectiveness of Pandemic-Related Fear Appeals Explained Through Parasocial Relationships Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Nicole Liebers, Achim Vogel, Priska Breves, Holger Schramm
ABSTRACT Parasocial relationships can improve the effectiveness of persuasive messages such as advertising. However, little is known about the role of parasocial relationships in the processing of fear appeals—a communication strategy that, despite its popularity, often evokes unwanted responses such as reactance. Perceived self-efficacy is one key variable that determines whether a fear appeal improves
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COVID-19 in International Media: Global Pandemic Perspectives Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Raluca Cozma
Published in Mass Communication and Society (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Pragmatics Online Mass Communication and Society (IF 3.256) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Mila Ida Nurhidayah
Published in Mass Communication and Society (Vol. 27, No. 1, 2024)