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Book Review: To Know Is to Compare: Studying Social Media Across Nations, Media, and Platforms, by Mora Matassi and Pablo J Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Hayley Booth
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Book Review: Happiness in Journalism, by Valérie Bélair-Gagnon, Avery E. Holton, Mark Deuze, and Claudia Mellado Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Phoebe Maares
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Book Review: Re-imagining Communication in Africa and the Caribbean: Global South Issues in Media, Culture and Technology, by Hopeton S. Dunn, Dumisayo Moyo, William O. Lesitaokana and Shanade Bianca Barnabas Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Job Allan Wefwafwa
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Book Review: Bioware’s Mass Effect, by Jerome Winter Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Joseph Jerome
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Evolution and Challenges for Peer Review Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Daniela Dimitrova
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Book Review: Changing Models for Journalism: Reinventing the Newsroom, by Brant Houston Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Guodong Jiang
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Book Review: City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington, by Kathryn J. McGarr Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Suzannah Evans Comfort
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The Democratic Value of Strategic Game Reporting and Uncivil Talk: A Computational Analysis of Facebook Conversations During U.S. Primary Debates Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Lindita Camaj, Lea Hellmueller, Sebastián Vallejo Vera, Peggy Lindner
This study explores discourse features on Facebook pages of news organizations during the 2020 U.S. primary debates using a state-of-the-art machine-learning model. Informing the scholarly debate about the implications of strategic game reporting in online spaces, we find that it is not necessarily linked to uncivil discourse, yet it might deter from relevant conversations. Second, addressing fears
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“Real News Arrives From Abroad”: Transnational Eyewitnessing in Leonora Raines’ War Correspondence for the New York Evening Sun (1914–1918) Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Elisabeth Fondren
This article synthesizes results from historical newspaper analysis and archival research with standpoint epistemology to explore the dynamics of transnational eyewitnessing illustrated by Leonora Raines, a Paris-based American journalist who reported the Great War (1914-1918) for the metropolitan New York Sun. Few World War I military-press histories have explored how female reporters engaged in transnational
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Verification Behaviors and Countermeasures in the Age of Misinformation Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Michael Chan
Across the globe, social media have become dominant channels of communication and news for many citizens. They also provide online spaces where misleading information can exacerbate social cleavages and political differences in societies, which can then lead to deleterious democratic outcomes. Therefore, much work has sought to understand the ways in which the effects of misinformation can be attenuated
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Intermedia Attribute Agenda Setting Between the U.S. Mainstream Newspapers and Twitter: A Two-Study Analysis of the Paradigm and Driving Forces of the Agenda Flow Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Yan Su, Xizhu Xiao
Performing two studies, we explore the intermedia attribute agenda-setting effects between the U.S. mainstream newspapers and Twitter. Leveraging computational methodologies, Study 1 analyzes 3,541 newspaper articles and over 1.06 million tweets about the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement, illustrating asymmetrical reciprocity of substantive attributes and mutual independency of affective attributes
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Factors Associated With Information Credibility Perceptions: A Meta-Analysis Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Mengxue Ou, Shirley S. Ho
Research on factors influencing information credibility judgment is increasing, whereas their findings are mixed. This study conducted a meta-analysis of 85 empirical studies, synthesizing the effects of 12 frequently examined source, content, channel, and receiver factors on information credibility perception. Results reveal that message quality, source credibility, and message fluency have large
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Navigating Political Polarization in News Production: The Case of Italy Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Sergio Splendore, Arianna Piacentini
This study looks at political polarization from Italian political journalists’ perspectives and investigates (a) how they conceive political polarization and (b) how they navigate it in their daily work. Empirical data shed light on a number of main factors shaping journalists’ perceptions of political polarization, pinpointing the existence of “media polarization.” The findings also revealed five
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Unraveling the Digital Threat: Exploring the Impact of Online Harassment on South Korean Journalists’ Professional Roles Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2024-01-06 Na Yeon Lee, Ahran Park
This research examines whether and to what extent journalists are harassed online and the effects of online harassment on their professional roles. The study classifies online harassment against journalists into five types: insults, threats, privacy intrusion, sexual assault, and cyber-hacking. The findings reveal a positive correlation between online harassment and various adverse outcomes for journalists
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Measuring Gaze: Women’s Visual Processing of Empowerment and Objectification Messages in Empowerment-Themed Advertisements Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Amelia C. Couture Bue, Kristen Harrison
Empowerment-themed advertisements (ETAs) often pair ostensibly empowering narratives with objectification imagery. Existing research demonstrates that women do not report feeling empowered after viewing ETAs but cannot confirm why. In this study, 186 female participants were randomly assigned to view captions and/or photos from ETAs while their eye movements were recorded. The empowerment-themed captions
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Cable News Use and Conspiracy Theories: Exploring Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC Effects on People’s Conspiracy Mentality Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Homero Gil de Zúñiga, Rebecca Scheffauer, Bingbing Zhang
Research on the origin, dissemination, and support of conspiracy theories has skyrocketed. Studies reveal how individual antecedents such as people’s personality traits, intrinsic motivations, and ...
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Fact-Checking Journalism: A Palliative Against the COVID-19 Infodemic in Ibero-America Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Luisa Martínez-García, Iliana Ferrer
This study explores how fact-checkers understand information disorder in Ibero-America, in particular the COVID-19 disinformation. We conducted a quantitative content analysis of the LatamChequea C...
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Closing the Barn Door? Fact-Checkers as Retroactive Gatekeepers of the COVID-19 “Infodemic” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Jane B. Singer
Based on a study of U.S.-tagged items in a global database of fact-checked statements about the novel coronavirus throughout the first year of the pandemic, this article explores the nature of fact...
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From Advocacy to Activism: A Multi-Dimensional Scale of Communicative, Collective, and Combative Behaviors Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2023-03-25 Brooke W. McKeever, Robert McKeever, Minhee Choi, Shudan Huang
Although advocacy and activism have been discussed in communication literature, are important in society, and often aid in organizational success, conceptual definitions and valid measurement of th...
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Country Roads and Cityscapes: Examining the Relationship Between Place-Based Identity and Feelings Toward Journalists Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Jay D. Hmielowski, Eliana DuBosar
In this article, using two data sets, we examine whether place-based identity correlates with feelings toward journalists. Next, we examine whether the importance of a place-based identity moderate...
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Goodbye, Gender Stereotypes? Trait Attributions to Politicians in 11 Years of News Coverage Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Aliya Andrich, Marko Bachl, Emese Domahidi
In this study, we examine gender differences in political news coverage to determine whether the media employ stereotypical traits in portrayals of 1,095 U.S. politicians. Using a sample of over 5 ...
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The Rohingya Refugee Crisis: A Social Semiotic Study of Visuals in The New York Times and The Washington Post Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Bimbisar Irom, Porismita Borah, Stephanie Gibbons
In this social semiotic analysis, we examined visuals of Rohingya refugees in two U.S. newspapers: The New York Times and The Washington Post. We identified prominent tropes and themes exemplifying...
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Online Harassment and Hate Among Media Professionals: Reactions to One’s Own and Others’ Victimization Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2023-01-07 Magdalena Celuch, Rita Latikka, Reetta Oksa, Atte Oksanen
This study investigated the experiences of Finnish media professionals with online harassment. Participants (N = 695) answered a survey including questions concerning their experiences with online ...
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An Obscured View of “Both Sides”: Default Whiteness and the Protest Paradigm in Television News Coverage of the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” Rally Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Angie Chuang, Autumn Tyler
The violence surrounding the 2017 Unite the Right rally challenged journalists with ambiguities from a euphemistic language like “alt-right” to describe White supremacy, to President Trump’s “very ...
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The Barack Benefit? A Content Analysis of How News Coverage of America’s First African American Presidential Family Alters the Overall Presentation of Blacks in News Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Christopher S. Josey, Travis L. Dixon
A content analysis of over 1-year worth of online news coverage was undertaken to assess the impact of the election of Barack Obama, America’s first Black President, on the overall portrayal of Bla...
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Selection, Trust, and the Effects of Cable News Consumption Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-12-10 Jennifer Hoewe, Janel Jett, Amber Lusvardi, Eric Wiemer
Using two experimental studies, we examine how the selection and consumption of cable news influences news consumers’ cognitive processing, attitudes, and policy preferences. As expected, participa...
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Fact-checking Climate Change: An Analysis of Claims and Verification Practices by Fact-checkers in Four Countries Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Hong Tien Vu, Annalise Baines, Nhung Nguyen
This study examines climate claims by analyzing fact-checked content from four countries. In addition, it investigates several important aspects of professional fact-checking practices including tr...
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Predicting Audience Verification Intention: The impact of partisanship, source, importance, and information familiarity on willingness to verify headlines Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Rachel R. Mourão, Esther Thorson, Kevin Kryston, Carin Tunney
This study employed a 2 × 3 × 2 experiment in the United States to understand how headlines trigger willingness to verify information, manipulating partisan leaning, source credibility, and factual...
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Too Much Information? A Longitudinal Analysis of Information Overload and Avoidance of Referendum Information Prior to Voting Day Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Julia Metag, Gwendolin Gurr
Previous research has mostly ignored that citizens could experience information overload from a single issue extensively covered in the news. Especially when it comes to issues upon which citizens ...
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Facing the Competition: Gender Differences in Facial Emotion and Prominence in Visual News Coverage of Democratic Presidential Primary Candidates Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Mike Gruszczynski, Danielle K. Brown, Haley Pierce, Maria E. Grabe
This study considered the impact of gender on visual coverage of the top 12 candidates in the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary. Using Microsoft Azure’s Face API, we analyzed 9,529 still images ...
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No Escape From the Media Gates? How Public Support and Issue Salience Shape Interest Groups’ Media Prominence Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Evelien Willems
This study adopts an issue-specific approach to explain interest groups’ media prominence. Contrary to the classic presumption that groups confronted with public opposition invariably manage to esc...
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Watching the Watchdogs: Examining the Adoption and Implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Communication on Diversity in News Organizations Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Allie Kosterich, Paul Ziek
This article examines the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication and the commitment to CSR in practice, specifically on the topic of employee diversity. A large-sc...
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The Dichotomy of Male Sports and Female Announcing: Examining the Credibility of Gendered Pairs for NFL Announcing Teams Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Travis R. Bell, Sean R. Sadri, Andrew C. Billings
During a 2018 Amazon Prime simulcast alongside the Fox broadcast announced by Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, Hannah Storm and Andrea Kremer became the first all-female broadcast team for a National Foot...
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Book Review: All the News That’s Fit to Click: How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-08-30 Tomás Dodds
Lured by the promise of effective and efficient journalism, some newsrooms have allowed themselves to be overtaken by the corporate needs of dominant digital platforms that provide metrics-driven technologies. The proliferation of audience metrics has undoubtedly affected journalistic cultures, especially the norms, values, and practices at the core of news production. Yet, although there has been
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“Where’s the Outrage??”: An Analysis of #BlackLivesMatter and #BlackTransLivesMatter Twitter Counterpublics Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Macy Dunklin, Paige Jennings
Twitter activism is a powerful tool for #BlackLivesMatter, but #BlackTransLivesMatter has not seen the same success. This study examined tweets collected during 1 week in May 2020 that encompassed ...
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Trusting the Facts: The Role of Framing, News Media as a (Trusted) Source, and Opinion Resonance for Perceived Truth in Statistical Statements Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Elina Lindgren, Torun Lindholm, Rens Vliegenthart, Hajo G. Boomgaarden, Alyt Damstra, Jesper Strömbäck, Yariv Tsfati
Scholars have raised concerns that on many issues, citizens are reluctant to trust factual evidence and statistics. One factor that has been shown to impact the perceived truth in statistics is how...
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A Two-Study Qualitative Exploration of Ecological Momentary Assessment as a Tool for Media, Health Behavior Measurement Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Jessica Fitts Willoughby, Stephanie Gibbons, Shuang Liu Hundley
Ecological momentary assessment (EMA), a method that allows for data collection in real-time, may offer benefits for communication research. We conducted two EMA studies on different topics (i.e., alcohol and sexual content in media and social media use, emotions, and tanning) in 2017 and 2018, respectively, and completed in-depth interviews (N = 19 and N = 16) following each study. Participants were
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Can CEO Activism Be Good for the Organization? The Importance of Authenticity, Morality, and Timeliness Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Jie Jin, Renee Mitson, Yufan Sunny Qin, Marc Vielledent, Linjuan Rita Men
This research presents a model connecting the perceived morality, authenticity, and timeliness (MAT) of CEO activism to consumer trust and supportive behaviors (e.g., consumer advocacy and intentio...
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Visual Social Media and Black Activism: Exploring How Using Instagram Influences Black Activism Orientation and Racial Identity Ideology Among Black Americans Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Minjie Li
During the civil unrest emphasizing the Black Lives Matter movement amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Instagram was widely adopted by activists, journalists, and the general audience to disseminate and gather information about critical social issues and protests. Through a survey sampling Black Instagram users (N = 402), this study examined how Black people’s use of Instagram and its specific features—Instagram
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Social Movements and Identification: An Examination of How Black Lives Matter and March for Our Lives Use Identification Strategies on Twitter to Build Relationships Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-07-31 Candice L. Edrington
This project presents a comprehensive understanding of how social movements use identification strategies across multiple digital platforms to build relationships with their publics. Drawing from a theoretical framework that blends dialogic communication, public relations, and rhetorical message strategies, and digital social advocacy, this study examines the Black Lives Matter and March For Our Lives
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Selling Breonna: Twitter Responses to Breonna Taylor on the Covers of O, The Oprah Magazine and Vanity Fair Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-07-23 Rachel Grant, Joy Jenkins, Ayleen Cabas-Mijares
Black women are largely invisible in mainstream media’s coverage of police brutality, despite the rise of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Breonna Taylor’s killing by police in March 2020 gained some media attention after George Floyd’s killing. To engage with BLM, O, The Oprah Magazine and Vanity Fair released special issues in September 2020 featuring Taylor’s portrait on the covers. This study
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Special Issue Introductory Essay Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-07-23 Mia Moody-Ramirez, Earnest L. Perry, Jr.
Mass media messages create, popularize, and reinforce stereotypical narratives of Black people that fuel fear and hatred of the group (Dates & Pease, 1994). Blackface representations overemphasized and ridiculed personality traits, mannerisms, and the vernacular of Black people. Narratives of Black men included images of criminals, dupes, social deviants, and brutes. In the 21st century, U.S. media
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Framing a Movement: Media Portrayals of the George Floyd Protests on Twitter Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-07-23 Holly S. Cowart, Ginger E. Blackstone, Jeffrey K. Riley
This study examines the way news media framed the protests following the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020. It utilizes 510 tweets from 13 different U.S. media outlets in a mixed-methods content analysis of images tweeted by those media outlets. It looks at how protestors and police are portrayed as well as the role of race in the news images. Civil liberties, as opposed to law and order, are found
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Engaging With Vilifying Stereotypes: The Role of YouTube Algorithmic Use in Perpetuating Misinformation About Muslim Congresswomen Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-07-23 Saifuddin Ahmed, Teresa Gil-Lopez
This study examines the relationship between personal traits, news use via YouTube algorithmic searches, and engagement with misinformation about U.S. Muslim congresswomen. Based on analyses of survey data, we find that those with lower cognitive ability and frequent algorithmic use were more likely to believe and share misinformation. Republicans and those with higher levels of nationalism and prejudice
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Journalism’s Change Agents: Black Lives Matter, #BlackoutTuesday, and a Shift Toward Activist Doxa Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Summer Harlow
Based on interviews with journalists during the 2020 racial justice protests, this study uses field theory and doxa to explore to what extent journalists who cover social justice issues are redrawing the boundary between journalism and activism. I use #BlackoutTuesday and journalists’ discourse about posting black squares on Instagram in support of #BlackLivesMatter to examine social media’s role in
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Police Brutality and Racial Justice Narratives Through Multi-Narrative Framing: Reporting and Commenting on the George Floyd Murder on YouTube Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Richard N. Canevez, Moshe Karabelnik, Jenifer Sunrise Winter
The increasing use of social media like YouTube as a news platform provides new opportunities for the public to react to news reporting. This convergence produces multi-narrative framings of police violence-related evidence that requires further attention, especially given the potential impact on state accountability processes. Using a frame analysis of news outlets and content analysis of comments
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The Influence of Visual Frame Combinations in Solutions Journalism Stories Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Jennifer Midberry, Danielle K. Brown, Robert F. Potter, Ryan N. Comfort
This study investigated how visual framing influences discrete emotional responses, empathy, behavioral intentions, and efficacy in reaction to visual solutions journalism. A 2 (story topic: drug addiction, homelessness) × 4 (visual frame condition: no photo, solution-only, problem-only, combination) mixed design experiment revealed that images showing only social problems elicited the lowest levels
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“They Killin’ Us for No Reason”: Black Lives Matter, Police Brutality, and Hip-Hop Music—A Quantitative Content Analysis Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Dante Mozie
A quantitative content analysis of rap lyrics released after the 2020 death of George Floyd (n = 66) was conducted to examine the dominant emotions of artists who use their songs to address police brutality and other forms of racism. A large, negative, and statistically significant correlation between negative emotions toward the police and a desire for retaliation was found. This finding may lend
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Black Audiences’ Identity-Focused Social Media Use, Group Vitality, and Consideration of Collective Action Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-07-06 David L. Stamps
Black individuals use social media at higher rates than their racial counterparts, and these relationships often promote favorable group-based outcomes. However, quantitative examinations of these relationships are lacking. Using a cross-sectional U.S. Black adult sample (N = 295) and applying social identity gratifications, the present work examines individuals’ social media use, racial adherence
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After the Killing of Atatiana Jefferson: Black Stakeholder Experiences Within a Municipal Listening Structure Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Julie O’Neil, Ashley E. English, Jacqueline Lambiase
Starting with a public relations pioneer’s maxim to “listen to stakeholders,” many contemporary scholars have emphasized listening as the key to the inclusion of marginalized communities. Based on 25 in-depth interviews including 19 Black residents of Fort Worth, this study amplifies the voices of Black community members after the killing of Atatiana Jefferson in her home by a White police officer
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On Commemorating Hrant Dink: Affective Nationalism, Hate Speech, and Digital News Media Users Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Alptug Okten
This article focuses on the digital reproduction of hate speech. It investigates the normalization of affective nationalistic discourses via user comments posted on digital news media websites. I analyze digital posts concerning the murder in Turkey of Hrant Dink, a well-known Turkish Armenian journalist, on the websites of the two most popular Turkish newspapers. This examination considers readers’
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Don’t Throw the Frame Out With the Bathwater: How Episodic News Frames Can Prevent Identity-Motivated Reasoning Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Ming M. Boyer, Sophie Lecheler, Loes Aaldering
Framing research has predominantly revealed detrimental effects of episodic news frames, including individualist blame attributions and political cynicism. However, such frames may also discourage group biases and impede motivated reasoning regarding identity politics. In two experiments (N = 815; N = 1,019), we test the effect of episodic frames on group-consonant attitudes through identity-motivated
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Who Covers the Qualifications of Female Candidates? Examining Gender Bias in News Coverage Across National and Local Newspapers Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Nichole M. Bauer
This article examines differences in news coverage of female candidates using a media sociology framework that examines the interplay between organizational, routine, and individual levels of influence. The analyses find that national and local newspapers are more likely to write about the political qualifications of female candidates relative to male candidates, and female journalists at local newspapers
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The Role of Channel Selection and Communication Transparency in Enhancing Employee Commitment to Change Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Linjuan Rita Men, Marlene S. Neill, Cen April Yue, Aniisu K Verghese
This study examined how the organizations’ use of mediated and interpersonal channels during change affects employees’ change-related outcomes. Specifically, the study proposed and tested a conceptual model that links organizations’ frequency of use of communication channels to perceived organizational communication transparency during change, employees’ feeling of uncertainty toward change, and employee
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Information Literacy in the Age of Disinformation Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Daniela Dimitrova
As a recent New York Times piece reminds us, it has become increasingly harder to detect disinformation campaigns and to recognize purposeful attempts to mislead the public, especially online (Kang, 2022). The spread of COVID-19 disinformation during the past 2 years and the current Ukraine–Russia war have shown the critical importance of information literacy in today’s day and age. Being able to discern
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How News Audiences Allocate Trust in the Digital Age: A Figuration Perspective Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-06-02 Frank Mangold, Marko Bachl, Fabian Prochazka
The article enriches the understanding of trust in news at a time when mass and interpersonal communication have merged in the digital sphere. We propose disentangling individual-level patterns of trust allocation (i.e., trust figurations) across journalistic media, social media, and peers to reflect the multiplicity among modern news audiences. A latent class analysis of a representative survey among
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Communicating Cultism in the Media: Discursive Sense-Giving of Cult Status Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Kyle A. Hammonds, Michael W. Kramer
The term cult has been variously applied to contemporary groups and organizations, marking them as unusual or frightening. Scholarly literature has yet to settle on a concrete conceptualization of cults and reveals little about the communicative processes by which the stigmatizing name becomes attached to certain groups. This study utilizes a constant comparison method to assess qualities associated
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Moderation Effects of Language Skills, Residential Tenure, and Education on Immigrants’ Learning From News Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Yulia S. Medvedeva, Glenn M. Leshner
Authors of the knowledge gap hypothesis predicted television’s potential to narrow the gaps in some circumstances. This online experiment aimed to bound the conditions that facilitate the leveling role of audiovisual news for a foreign-born audience (N = 137) residing in the United States. Results showed that audiovisual news narrowed the gaps by improving learning for those who scored low on language
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A Matter of Perspective: An Experimental Study on Potentials of Constructive Journalism for Communicating a Crisis Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Svenja Schäfer, Hannah Greber, Michael Sülflow, Sophie Lecheler
Restorative narratives describe a new form of journalism that attempts to overcome the detrimental effects of the more prevalent negative and destructive tone of news coverage. This study investigates the potentials and risks of restorative narratives in the coverage of crises with a 2 (restorative/negative) × 2 (COVID-19/climate crisis) experimental online study (n = 829) for emotional, cognitive
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The Process of Online Keyword Activism in Political Figure’s Crisis: Moderating Roles of Like-Minded Public Opinion and Government Controllability of Crisis Outcomes Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (IF 3.431) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Sora Kim, Yingru Ji, Hyejoon Rim
Using a national online survey in South Korea, this study examines the underlying psychological mechanisms of online keyword activism in supporting a politician. Findings show that when perceived like-minded opinion is extremely negative toward the politician, the like-minded opinion perception mitigates the effects of perceived majority opinion on crisis blame attribution and pro-politician activism