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Mainstreaming as a meta-process: A systematic review and conceptual model of factors contributing to the mainstreaming of radical and extremist positions Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Sophia Rothut, Heidi Schulze, Diana Rieger, Brigitte Naderer
Over the past decade, extremists have increasingly aimed to integrate their ideologies into the center of society by changing the presentation of their narratives to appeal to a larger audience. This process is termed (strategic) mainstreaming. Although this phenomenon is not new, the factors that contribute to the mainstreaming of radical and extremist ideas have not been systematically summarized
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Why, how, when, and for whom does digital disconnection work? A process-based framework of digital disconnection Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Mariek M P Vanden Abeele, Heidi Vandebosch, Ernst H W Koster, Tom De Leyn, Kyle Van Gaeveren, David de Segovia Vicente, Sara Van Bruyssel, Tim van Timmeren, Lieven De Marez, Karolien Poels, Ann DeSmet, Bram De Wever, Marijke Verbruggen, Elfi Baillien
Digital disconnection has emerged as a concept describing the actions people take to limit their digital connectivity to enhance their well-being. To date, evidence on its effectiveness is mixed, leading to calls for greater consideration of why, how, when, and for whom digital disconnection works. This article responds to these calls, presenting a framework that differentiates four key harms that
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Conceptualizing embeddedness as a key dimension for analyzing journalistic cultures Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Tim P Vos, Folker Hanusch
The study of journalistic cultures has a long history in communication research. Yet, much scholarship has been criticized for emanating too much from normative and—particularly in the case of comparative work—ethnocentric assumptions. While much progress has been made, the field arguably still suffers from these imbalances, restricting a more holistic understanding of journalistic cultures. This article
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Introducing a praxeological framework for studying disinformation Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Thales Lelo
This article introduces a praxeological framework for studying disinformation grounded on French pragmatism and American ethnomethodology. It underscores the relevance of looking upon the communicative setting where individuals must be engaged to tell deceptive stories. In addition, it foregrounds participants’ attitudinal commitment to an ongoing interaction that may drive them to believe in disinformation
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Refreshing the positive: bridging positive organizational communication and critical scholarship with Buddhist philosophies Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Rebecca B Leach, Sarah J Tracy, Terrie Wong
This article makes a case for the productive synergy between positive organizational communication scholarship (POCS) and critical scholarship, which have been often viewed as incompatible. The article opens with an overview of POCS and its key critiques from critical audiences, which allows us to unpack the metatheoretical assumptions driving each research tradition. Next, the article discusses the
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The journalist in the story. Conceptualizing ethos as integral framework to study news production, news texts and news audiences Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Kim Smeenk, Frank Harbers, Marcel Broersma
This theoretical article presents ethos as a conceptual framework to understand journalism’s authority and shifting epistemologies. We argue that ethos, the strategic self-image of the journalist in the text, is an essential part of the performative potential of journalism, even in detached “objective” journalism where journalists are seemingly absent in their articles. Analyzing journalism from an
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The situational self-orientation model of digital publics Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Hyelim Lee
This article proposes the conceptual model called the Situational Self-Orientation Model of Digital Publics (SOMP) as an extension of the Situational Theory of Problem Solving (STOPS). The model aims to explain the digital publics’ communicative behaviors. It suggests five propositions by introducing three different working self-concepts (individual, relational, and collective self) on the issue. The
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Public connection repertoires and communicative figurations of publics: conceptualizing individuals’ contribution to public spheres Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Uwe Hasebrink, Lisa Merten, Julia Behre
As public sphere(s) have been ascribed core functions for democratic societies, correlating theories have a long tradition in communications research. Yet they often fail to bridge the conceptual gap between the macro level of public sphere(s) and the micro level of individual citizens. In this article, we propose a conceptual approach that helps to describe and explain the contribution of individuals
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The public sphere and contemporary lifeworld: reconstruction in the context of systemic crises Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Lewis A Friedland, Risto Kunelius
For the Habermasian theory of the “public sphere” to make sense in the 2020s, it must be able to address the modern tendency toward global systemic crises. To examine the relevance of the Habermasian public sphere to today’s deeply interconnected digital world, this article provides a selective reading of Habermas’ writings on the public sphere, examining how he developed the concept from its conceptual
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When debates break apart: discursive polarization as a multi-dimensional divergence emerging in and through communication Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Michael Brüggemann, Hendrik Meyer
“Polarization” is a common diagnosis of the state of contemporary societies. Yet, few studies theorize or systematically analyze how polarization evolves in media content. To guide future empirical studies, we introduce a public sphere perspective on polarization. Discursive Polarization, defined as divergence emerging in public communication, may disrupt the public sphere if left untamed. Its analysis
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Editorial: Reconceptualizing public sphere(s) in the digital age? On the role and future of public sphere theory Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Mark Eisenegger, Mike S Schäfer
Theories of the public sphere—or more recently, of plural public spheres—are core elements of communication and media research. A lively and dynamic debate exists about the respective theories, and the approaches employed to do so have diversified in recent years. This special issue of Communication Theory aims to assess the role and future of public sphere(s) theory in digital societies: if, and where
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Social cohesion in platformized public spheres: toward a conceptual framework Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Pascal Schneiders, Daniel Stegmann, Birgit Stark
Social cohesion is crucial for democratic societies since it unites individuals who do not have a direct relationship with each other. By representing social heterogeneity and enabling public debate, the public sphere is vital for fostering social cohesion. However, platformization—that is, the establishment of social media platforms as an infrastructure for public communication—challenges the constitution
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Operationalizing distribution as a key concept for public sphere theory. A call for ethnographic sensibility of different social worlds Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Hallvard Moe
This article takes issue with public sphere theories’ lack of focus on the consequences of social inequality. Citizens divide the work of following politics between them, and we need a cohesive conceptualization of such divisions, through and beyond today’s intrusive media and with attention to social inequalities. Instead of ideals of fully informed individual citizens, I propose we take the empirical
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Democracy in the digital public sphere: disruptive or self-corrective? Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Hans-Jörg Trenz
The article assesses the post-democratic scenario of a public sphere that is detached from democracy. By describing how public spheres are transformed by the Internet, it is asked whether the co-constitutive dynamics between the public sphere and democracy still apply in the digital age, or whether we are witnessing an ultimate rupture. The field of contemporary public sphere struggles in response
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The public sphere as a dynamic network Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Thomas N Friemel, Christoph Neuberger
This article proposes to conceptualize the public sphere as a dynamic network of actors and contents that are linked with each other by communicative actions. This perspective allows us to theoretically derive and empirically describe the entire range of small to large network structures and their evolution over time. First, we will define the elements of these networks, which include the actors, content
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Recentering power: conceptualizing counterpublics and defensive publics Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Sarah J Jackson, Daniel Kreiss
In this manuscript we consider the inconsistent ways the concept of “counterpublics” has been taken up in the field to make the claim that considerations of social power must be recentered in the theorization of publics. To do this we provide an in-depth genealogy of the concept of counterpublics, analyze its use by critical scholars, and then consider its application in empirical studies of digital
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Artificial intelligence and the public arena Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Andreas Jungherr, Ralph Schroeder
The public arena relies on artificial intelligence (AI) to ever greater degrees. Media structures hosting the public arena—such as Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube—increasingly rely on AI-enabled applications to shape information environments, autonomously generate content, and communicate with people. These applications affect the public arena’s functions: make society visible to itself and
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From “the” public sphere to a network of publics: towards an empirically founded model of contemporary public communication spaces Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2023-06-17 Axel Bruns
“The” public sphere is now irretrievably fractured into a multiplicity of online and offline, larger and smaller, more or less public spaces that frequently (and often serendipitously) overlap and intersect with one another. This diverse array of what have been described variously as public spheres, public spherules, platform publics, issue publics, or personal publics nonetheless serves many of the
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Communicative labor resistance practices: organizing digital news media unions and precarious work Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Errol Salamon
Unionization among newsworkers has increased in the U.S. since 2015. This article develops a relational theoretical framework to examine communicative labor resistance practices. It is grounded in critical organizational communication, social movement studies, sociology of work, and labor studies, responding to how newsworkers’ union resistance has been undertheorized in extant journalism and media
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Anthropomorphism in human–robot interactions: a multidimensional conceptualization Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Rinaldo Kühne, Jochen Peter
With robots increasingly assuming social roles (e.g., assistants, companions), anthropomorphism (i.e., the cognition that an entity possesses human characteristics) plays a prominent role in human–robot interactions (HRI). However, current conceptualizations of anthropomorphism in HRI have not adequately distinguished between precursors, consequences, and dimensions of anthropomorphism. Building and
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Not everything is changing: on the relative neglect and meanings of continuity in communication and social change research Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Olivier Driessens
One of the central interests of media and communication research is how technologies and communication media are involved in social and cultural change. Often such studies are rather one-sided because they disregard questions of continuity, which can lead to inadequate analyses and exaggerated claims of change. Three categories of reasons for this bias towards change are identified through a literature
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Disinformation as a context-bound phenomenon: toward a conceptual clarification integrating actors, intentions and techniques of creation and dissemination Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2022-10-12 Michael Hameleers
Although disinformation has become a popular concept, we lack an integrative conceptualization that connects the actors, intentions and techniques underlying deceptive information. In this article, we conceptualize disinformation as a context-bound deliberate act for which actors covertly deceive recipients by de-contextualizing, manipulating or fabricating information to maximize utility with the
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Virtual relationship memory: a conceptual model of mediated communication and relational dissolution Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Leah E LeFebvre, Kate G Blackburn, Nicholas Brody
Virtual Relationship Memory (VRM) is a conceptual model to explore the way people remember and socially construct their romantic relationships, with a focus on the breakup process and memories after a relationship has ended. The model is situated within the research exploring relationships, technology, and memory. We articulate three components—objects, networks, and stories—which independently and
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The Perceived Convincingness Model: why and under what conditions processing fluency and emotions are valid indicators of a message’s perceived convincingness Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Hans Hoeken, Karin Fikkers, Anita Eerland, Bregje Holleman, Jos van Berkum, Henk Pander Maat
Persuasive messages aim to influence people’s behavior. Arguments in these messages typically refer to the positive consequences of the advocated behavior or the negative consequences of failing to do so. It has been claimed that people automatically generate a judgment about the message’s convincingness. We present the Perceived Convincingness Model (PCM) to explain how people generate this judgment
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Approaching evolutionary communication Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2022-09-21 James Lull
The determining roles played by communication in the ongoing evolution of our species remain largely unexplored in communications-related disciplines. An unhelpful controversy that raged over E. O. Wilson’s sociobiology last century contributed to the problem and is reconsidered here in terms of the fault lines that run between natural science, social science, and politics. The article describes paths
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Strategic illiteracies: the long game of technology refusal and disconnection Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Ethan Plaut
Disconnection and avoidance have been theorized various ways, e.g., by analyzing communicative and non-communicative affordances of devices and platforms; categorizing tactics and patterns of non-use; and through analogy with historical ways of seeking solitude and resisting technologies. This article, however, treats history not only as a source of analogies for momentary disconnections, but also
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Global media ethics, the good life, and justice Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Thomas Hove
One of the challenges for global media ethics is to define a theoretical perspective from which to adjudicate cross-cultural value conflicts. Early work in this field attempted to identify a universal norm from which the specific, applied norms of media professions and practices could be derived. However, postcolonial and pluralist critiques have revealed potential problems with this approach. To avoid
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A right to memory and communication policy: safeguarding the capability of remembrance Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Noam Tirosh, Amit M Schejter
Can a right to memory be counted among the rights society needs to safeguard, if so, what are its theoretical and conceptual foundations, and how do they relate to communications? We answer these questions by offering a new perspective regarding the right’s components, origin and justifications, the mechanisms needed to realize it and the legal framework required for such realization. We begin by first
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Mathematical models of message discrepancy: previous models and a modified psychological discounting model Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Sungeun Chung, Edward L Fink
Formal modeling is rare in communication studies. Still, several mathematical models have been proposed regarding the persuasive effects of message discrepancy, the difference between a message’s advocated position and a message recipient’s initial position. With numerical simulations, we analyzed four formal models to identify their strengths and weaknesses. Based on analyses of previous models, we
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The problem of popular culture Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Devon Powers
This article argues that concept of popular culture, as conceptualized within the media/cultural studies tradition in the Anglophone West, is in crisis. The idea of the “popular” that continues to be embraced by many critical media/communication and cultural studies scholars derives from postwar assumptions about mass media which no longer accurately fit present conditions. However, the resilience
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Media power and politics in framing and discourse theory Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Mette Marie Roslyng, Camilla Dindler
Two widely applied entrances to critically analyze mediated political communication are framing and discourse theory. While media discourse and framing are used in close connection in academic literature, we examine how the approaches theorize media power and politics differently. Framing theory examines how issues are constructed interactively, represented in mediated form, and interpreted within
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Book Review: Outside the Bubble, by Cristian Vaccari and Augusto Valeriani Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Chris Wells
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Theory and Method for Studying How Media Messages Prompt Shared Brain Responses Along the Sensation-to-Cognition Continuum Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2022-04-24 Ralf Schmälzle
When members of an audience are exposed to the same messages, their brains will, to a certain degree, exhibit similar responses. These similar, and thus shared audience responses constitute the recruitment of sensory, perceptual, and higher-level neurocognitive processes, which occur separately in the brain of each individual, but in a collectively shared fashion across the audience. A method called
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Media and Communication Studies. What is there to Decolonize? Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2022-04-22 Claudia Magallanes-Blanco
Following a decolonial perspective, I argue that there is a coloniality of representations that shapes our understanding of the world and our place in it and that perpetuates an ongoing system of domination and inequality that we have incorporated as a natural order.
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Dismantling the Western Canon in Media Studies Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2022-04-22 Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed
Although there have been extensive discussions on decolonizing the field of media and communication(s), not much attention has been paid to the way that curricula reproduce colonialism, imperialism, and racism in the classroom. In this article, I draw on my experiences as an African graduate student in an American classroom to highlight the ways that systemic racism is replicated, reproduced and frames
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Decolonizing Digital Methods Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2022-04-22 Tanja Bosch
The rapid growth of the Internet and social media platforms has increasingly made these central focus areas for media scholars around the world. Within the context of the broader framework of the movement towards decolonizing media and communication studies, this growth of digital methods raises key questions including: How are digital methods in these contexts currently being used and how might scholars
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Back to Bandung for the Future: The Never-Ending Project of De-imperialization Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2022-04-22 Kuan-Hsing Chen, Miao Lu, Jack Linchuan Qiu
As intellectuals in modern education systems, “we are all foreigners,” foreign to our histories, local conditions, and commoners living next to us. The proposal for a global Bandung School (BS) has been on the table, with the mission to transform existing modes of thought and carry on the de-imperializing spirit of Bandung. By establishing Mandarin-World Bandung School (MBS), we propose to rediscover
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Narrating the Field of Communication Through Some Female Voices: Women’s Experiences and Stories in Academia Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2022-04-22 Leonarda García-Jiménez, Esperanza Herrero
The field of communication has been constructed through primarily masculinized stories, such as the myth of the “founding fathers,” a situation that has tended to exclude the views and figures of female researchers. This article tries to remedy this by recovering the voices of women via eight in-depth interviews among prominent researchers (second-generation, 1960s–1970s) from Australia, Brazil, Canada
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The Many-Sided Franklin Ford and the History of a Post-Discipline Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Dominique Trudel, Juliette De Maeyer
Building on recent works emphasizing the “post-disciplinary” status of communication research, this article explores the implications of this thesis for the history of communication studies. While a portion of the existing historiography fits the disciplinary framework, the post-disciplinary thesis raises theoretical, methodological, and empirical challenges. In order to meet those challenges, we argue
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Re-Conceptualizing Solitude in the Digital Era: From “Being Alone” to “Noncommunication” Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Scott W Campbell, Morgan Q Ross
This article revisits the theoretical terrain surrounding solitude to address conceptual, methodological, and practical challenges manifest in the digital era. First, solitude has been approached from a number of different research traditions, resulting in disconnected streams of theory. Furthermore, these streams were developed before the rise of the Internet and mobile media. As a result, solitude
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Deception as a Bridging Concept in the Study of Disinformation, Misinformation, and Misperceptions: Toward a Holistic Framework Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2021-10-21 Andrew Chadwick, James Stanyer
We propose deception as a bridging concept that will enhance the study of misinformation, disinformation, and misperceptions. As we set it out here, the concept integrates insights from multiple social science disciplines and uniquely connects actors’ intentions, information, and attitudinal or behavioral outcomes. A focus on deception will enrich research that describes the existence of false and
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Communication Theory at a Time of Racial Reckoning Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2021-10-20 Kreiss D.
Distributed Blackness: African American cybercultures. André Brock Jr. Vol. 9. NYU Press, 2020.
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Incivility as a Violation of Communication Norms—A Typology Based on Normative Expectations toward Political Communication Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2021-10-09 Marike Bormann, Ulf Tranow, Gerhard Vowe, Marc Ziegele
Research on incivility in political communication usually defines uncivil communication as a violation of established norms. Few studies, however, have specified these norms and corroborated them using relevant theoretical concepts. This article aims at strengthening the foundations of incivility research by analytically reconstructing the potential normative expectations of communication participants
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Digital Discipline: Theorizing Concertive Control in Online Communities Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2021-09-06 Jennifer L Gibbs, Ronald E Rice, Gavin L Kirkwood
Concertive control (CC) theory has primarily been applied to traditional offline, work-based, closed membership teams. New organizational forms such as online communities have opened up additional sites in which CC processes may operate. This article makes several contributions to CC theory and research. First, it increases the applicability of CC theory by extending it from offline to online, work
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Rethinking the Rhetorical Epistemics of Gaslighting Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2021-08-27 Clint G Graves, Leland G Spencer
Gaslighting is defined as a dysfunctional communication dynamic in which one interlocutor attempts to destabilize another’s sense of reality. In this article, we advance a model of gaslighting based in an epistemic rhetoric perspective. Our model directs attention to the rhetorics used to justify competing knowledge claims, as opposed to philosophical models that tend to rely on objective truth-value
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Social Control of Intellect: Four Features of the Academic–Media Nexus Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2021-08-19 Michael McDevitt
Intellect in social theory is often presented as an ideal type—the critical, iconoclastic side of the mind—but it must anticipate an audience in mediated contexts, unlike in the Kantian realm of transcendent reason. The terrain in which academia and media meet, consequently, is ripe for exploration into the fate of intellect when transgressive. This article explicates four features of the academic–media
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Multiperspectival Normative Assessment: The Case of Mediated Reactions to Terrorism Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2021-08-07 Hartmut Wessler, Scott L Althaus, Chung-hong Chan, Marc Jungblut, Kasper Welbers, Wouter van Atteveldt
This article provides a model for how communication phenomena can be normatively assessed using multiple normative perspectives simultaneously. We exemplify the procedure of multiperspectival normative assessment (MNA) using mediated reactions to terrorism as our case in point. We first identify the normative challenges related to the speed and substance of terrorism communication and the ways in which
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Theodor Adorno, Paul Lazarsfeld, and the Public Interest Mandate of Early Communications Research, 1935–1941 Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2021-08-07 Josh Shepperd
Through detailed archival analysis of personal letters, this article examines how the “public interest” mandate of the Communications Act of 1934 inspired the formation of the Princeton Radio Research Project (PRRP), and influenced Paul Lazarsfeld’s development of two-step flows and media effects research. Buried in federal records, a post-Act Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Pursuant that mandated
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Recovering the Voice in Our Techno-Social World: On the Phone Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2021-08-06 Kelly Errera
Recovering the Voice in Our Techno-Social World: On the Phone serves as an exemplar and timely work that calls attention to several consequences of our techno-social world, most notably, the loss of voice. Eicher-Catt argues that the field of human communication study is largely preoccupied with the textual and visual realms of communication, and thereby neglects the vibrant medium of the voice. Upon
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An Empirical Procedure to Evaluate Misinformation Rejection and Deception in Mediated Communication Contexts Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2021-08-04 Ryan S Paquin, Vanessa Boudewyns, Kevin R Betts, Mihaela Johnson, Amie C O’Donoghue, Brian G Southwell
Although misleading health information is not a new phenomenon, no standards exist to assess consumers’ ability to detect and subsequently reject misinformation. Part of this deficit reflects theoretical and measurement challenges. After drawing novel connections among legal, regulatory, and philosophical perspectives on false, misleading or deceptive advertising and cognitive-process models of persuasive
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Social Media Information Environments and Their Implications for the Uses and Effects of News: The PINGS Framework Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2021-08-02 Anna Sophie Kümpel
Social media have become a central source for news and current affairs information. This article focuses on the overarching attributes that shape how people come in contact with news, engage with news, and are affected by news on social media. Although all social media are different and change constantly, news experiences on these platforms can consistently be characterized as personalized, incidental
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Beyond Neutrality: Conceptualizing Platform Values Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Blake Hallinan, Rebecca Scharlach, Limor Shifman
Social media platforms are prominent sites where values are expressed, contested, and diffused. In this article, we present a conceptual framework for studying the communication of values on and through social media composed of two dimensions: scale (from individual users to global infrastructures) and explicitness (from the most explicit to the invisible). Utilizing the model, we compare the communication
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The Effects of Co-Viewers on the Viewing Experience Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2021-07-15 Nurit Tal-Or
Although media consumption often occurs with others, relatively few studies have documented the effect of co-viewing on the viewing experience. Moreover, theories of media effects generally focus on the individual and do not pay attention to group processes. Thus, previous co-viewing research has used various theories related to different aspects specific to each study, making it difficult to comprehend
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Poetry and Journalism Revisited: Toward an Affective Dimension of Journalism Culture Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Perry Parks
This article seeks to reconcile disparate conceptions of thinking and feeling in journalism by foregrounding an affective dimension of news epistemology through the example of journalistic poetry. Drawing from Archibald MacLeish’s classic 20th-century lecture linking knowledge and the imagination, and locating Postema and Deuze’s continuum of journalism and the arts within Hanitzsch’s broader framework
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Corrigendum to: “Embracing Intersectionality in Co-Cultural and Dominant Group Theorizing: Implications for Theory, Research, and Pedagogy” Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2021-06-12
Communication Theory, Volume 31, Issue 2, 2021, Pages 228–249, https://doi.org/10.1093/ct/qtab002
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Rethinking the Public Sphere in an Age of Radical-Right Populism: A Case for Building an Empathetic Public Sphere Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2021-05-29 Timo Korstenbroek
With right-wing populist movements gaining ever more traction worldwide, great attention is paid to addressing their exclusionary rhetoric. In this article, I focus on the question how to deal with these radical-right sentiments in our public debates. Believing that both exclusion and inclusion of right-wing populist voices wield counter-productive effects, I juxtapose Habermas’s public sphere theory
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Embracing Intersectionality in Co-Cultural and Dominant Group Theorizing: Implications for Theory, Research, and Pedagogy Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2021-05-08 Razzante R, Boylorn R, Orbe M.
It can be difficult to identify consequential social identities when both conversation participants feel culturally disadvantaged. This phenomenon is especially present in intercultural interactions that are power-laden, but are also present when there are multiple perceptions of social disadvantage at play within a given interaction. Depending on the saliency of a cultural marker such as race or sex
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Revisiting Attribution Theory: Toward a Critical Feminist Approach for Understanding Attributions of Blame Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2021-05-07 Maria DelGreco, Amanda Denes, Shardé Davis, Katrina T Webber
Heeding the necessary call for interpersonal communication research to be theorized and conducted from a more critical perspective, we employ feminist standpoint theory as a critical tool for reading attribution theory. Specifically, we examine social positionality as an essential aspect of the attribution process and identify how oppressive power structures (macro-level) and a critical consciousness
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Populism in an Identity Framework: A Feedback Model Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2021-04-28 Maud Reveilhac, Davide Morselli
Drawing upon the social psychology concept of identity entrepreneurs (Haslam et al., 2010), we develop a feedback model between politicians and the public that strongly emphasizes the circumstances in which public opinion may facilitate populist discursive elements and politics. We thus consider the success of populism as neither inherently driven by political leaders nor primarily driven by increasing
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A Critical Tribute to Ciro Marcondes’ New Communication Theory Communication Theory (IF 4.111) Pub Date : 2021-04-17 Daros O.
A comunicação do sensível: acolher, vivenciar, fazer sentir. FilhoC. Marcondes. ECA/USP, São Paulo, 2019(Open Book), pp. 218.