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COVID-19 vaccine reviews on YouTube: What do they say? Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Da-Young Kang, Eyun-Jung Ki
After the Covid-19 vaccination started, social media users created an enormous amount of content on the vaccines. Especially in the early stages of vaccination, people searched and watched YouTube videos sharing personal experiences after getting the vaccines (i.e., vaccine review videos), usually titled “I got the COVID-19 vaccine.” Few studies have examined the characteristics and impacts of vaccine
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Hate speech mainstreaming in the Greek virtual public sphere: A quantitative and qualitative approach Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Yannis Tsirbas, Lina Zirganou-Kazolea
This study delves into the manifestation and characteristics of hate speech in the Greek online public sphere, specifically exploring its most prominent forms, namely racism, anti-immigrant sentiment, nationalism, sexism, and homophobia/transphobia. Combining quantitative and qualitative methods, the research analyzes popular Greek online news media. It aims to uncover the visibility and operational
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Oldies but goldies? Comparing the trustworthiness and credibility of ‘new’ and ‘old’ information intermediaries Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Lisa Weidmüller, Sven Engesser
People increasingly access news through ‘new’, algorithmic intermediaries such as search engines or aggregators rather than the ‘old’ (i. e., traditional), journalistic intermediaries. As algorithmic intermediaries do not adhere to journalistic standards, their trustworthiness comes into question. With this study, we (1) summarize the differences between journalistic and algorithmic intermediaries
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A qualitative examination of (political) media diets across age cohorts in five countries Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 David Nicolas Hopmann, Agnieszka Stępińska, James Stanyer, Denis Halagiera, Ludovic Terren, Luisa Gehle, Christine E. Meltzer, Raluca Buturoiu, Nicoleta Corbu, Ana S. Cardenal, Christian Schemer
In recent research, the concept of “media diets” has received increased attention. However, the concept remains vague and not fully developed, and rarely, if at all, do researchers ask citizens about their perceptions of their own and others’ media diets. With the ongoing transformation of the media landscape, there has never been a more pertinent time to explore these perceptions, which this research
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Bringing the campaign closer to the voters: Facebook in partisan-managed campaigning in France Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Marie Neihouser, Julien Figeac
During presidential campaigns, party members often operate Facebook pages or groups concurrently with the official communications of their respective political parties. However, there is limited evidence regarding the true motivations of these partisans, and how their efforts supplement the online strategies of the parties. Our study is based on interviews conducted with party members who ran Facebook
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Life online during the pandemic : How university students feel about abrupt mediatization Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Szymon Zylinski, Charles H. Davis, Florin Vladica
The COVID-19 pandemic caused university education to transition from face-to-face contacts to virtual learning environments. Young adults were forced to live an entirely new life online, without valuable and enjoyable social interaction. We examined subjective perspectives towards life online during the pandemic. We identified four viewpoints about life mediated by computers. Two viewpoints express
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“That’s just, like, your opinion” – European citizens’ ability to distinguish factual information from opinion Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Andreas C. Goldberg, Franziska Marquart
In the current media landscape, it is becoming increasingly difficult for citizens to rely on trustworthy information, not least because reliable facts are mixed with dubious claims, unsubstantiated opinions, or outright lies. The ability to distinguish factual from other types of mediated information is becoming increasingly crucial, but we know little about how well-equipped citizens are to make
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The contextual interplay between advertising and online disinformation: How brands suffer from and amplify deceptive content Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Brahim Zarouali
The proliferation of online disinformation has become of major societal concern. Because of online programmatic algorithms, brands may find their ads running on disinformation websites alongside disinformation. In this experimental study (N = 617), we investigate people’s brand-related and news-related responses in this context. Results show that when an advertised brand is displayed on the same webpage
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The discursive construction of a news event: Access and legitimation in the media framing of an escalated anti-asylum protest in Belgium Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Priscilla Hau, Steve Paulussen, Pieter Maeseele
In October 2019, the Belgian government announced the opening of an asylum center in a former retirement home, leading to civic and political protest that escalated into arson. We examine the construction of the events before, on, and after the arson by analyzing 135 articles from Flemish newspapers, the public broadcaster’s news website, and alternative media between October 25 and November 30, 2019
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With time comes trust? The development of misinformation perceptions related to COVID-19 over a six-month period: Evidence from a five-wave panel survey study in the Netherlands Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Michael Hameleers, Toni van der Meer
Misinformation perceptions related to global crises such as COVID-19 can have negative ramifications for democracy. Beliefs related to the prevalence of falsehoods may increase news avoidance or even vaccine hesitancy – a problematic context for successful interventions and policymaking. To explore how misinformation beliefs developed over a six-month pandemic period and how they corresponded to (digital)
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Communication and academic burnout: The effects of social support and participation in decision-making Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Sonja Ivančević, Milica Maričić, Tamara Vlastelica
Just as burnout is manifested through changes in behavioural and communication patterns, it is important to examine whether certain aspects of communication can affect student burnout development. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the relationship between communication and academic burnout. To achieve this, the study proposes an integrated model examining the effects of three communication
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“It’s not us, it’s the government”: Perceptions of a national minority of their representations in the mainstream media during a global pandemic – the case of Israeli Arabs and COVID-19 Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Nissim Katz
The purpose of this research is to examine how a national minority, in our case Israeli Arabs, perceives its representations in the media during a global pandemic. The importance of this research is in gaining a better understanding of the perceptions of such minorities during global crises so that it can serve as a framework for various similar studies. Israeli Arabs were perceived as those who did
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Platform regulation and “overblocking” – The NetzDG discourse in Germany Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Jens Pohlmann, Adrien Barbaresi, Peter Leinen
This paper analyzes the internet policy discourse regarding the German Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG) in different media settings. We examine the conversation about this highly controversial anti-hate speech law on IT blogs, websites, and in daily German newspapers. We compare the positions brought forward in these different media environments concerning one of the most important topics within the
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Mapping environment-focused social media, audiovisual media and art, in Sweden: How a diversity of voices and issues is combined with ideological homogeneity Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Vaia Doudaki, Nico Carpentier
Employing mapping research, this study mapped the populations of environment-focused social media, audiovisual media and art, in Sweden, over a one-year period. The study explored what is being communicated about the environment in Sweden in these fields, by whom, and how it circulates in diverse communicative spaces. The research identified 502 units across the three fields and a multitude of voices
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Combatting disinformation with crisis communication: An analysis of Meta’s newsroom stories Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Michaël Opgenhaffen
This study examines how Meta as a company of various social media platforms communicates the disinformation crisis. Social media platforms are seen as a breeding ground for disinformation, and companies like Meta risk not only suffering reputational damage but also being further regulated by national and international legislation. We consider in this paper the news stories that Meta posted on the topic
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Sociotechnical infrastructuring for digital participation in rural development: A survey of public administrators in Germany Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Veronika Stein, Christian Pentzold, Sarah Peter, Simone Sterly
The “smart village” flourishes – at least in policy papers that envision the revitalization of rural areas through the civic deployment of networked media and telecommunications. Yet, while such aspirations are widespread, little is known about the views of those tasked with supervising and supporting digitally driven public participation for rural progress. To address the lack of insight into what
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Promoting responsible AI: A European perspective on the governance of artificial intelligence in media and journalism Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Colin Porlezza
Artificial intelligence and automation have become pervasive in news media, influencing journalism from news gathering to news distribution. As algorithms are increasingly determining editorial decisions, specific concerns have been raised with regard to the responsible and accountable use of AI-driven tools by news media, encompassing new regulatory and ethical questions. This contribution aims to
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Where to next with Australia’s News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code? Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Tim Dwyer, Terry Flew, Derek Wilding
Taken at face value the introduction in 2021 of Australia’s News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code (“the Code”) may appear “world leading,” innovative, and, in general, a productive and strategic intervention to reverse the decline of public interest journalism. It is claimed that in the Australian news industry context, an annual transfer of around $200 million between two platform
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A normative perspective on information avoidance behaviors: Separating various types of avoidance-related norms Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Elena Link
Information avoidance is a prevalent communication phenomenon that is less well understood than information seeking. The present study adopts a social-normative perspective on information avoidance as social norms are powerful drivers of behaviors. We aim to separate various types of avoidance-related norms and examine how they relate to information avoidance intentions about the COVID-19 vaccination
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Successive intertwining of young consumers’ reliance on social media influencers Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Maria Tsourela
This study investigates young consumers’ reliance on social media influencers (SMIs) in the context of social commerce. With regard to the four streams of influencer endorsement – influencer credibility, influencer attractiveness, match-up, and meaning transfer – we propose that they can either lead to a direct consumer reliance on SMIs’ suggestions for their purchasing decisions, or that attitudes
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The “neo-intermediation” of large on-line platforms: Perspectives of analysis of the “state of health” of the digital information ecosystem Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Isabella de Vivo
The key role played by online platforms in the neo-intermediation of the public debate requires a review of current tools for mapping the digital information ecosystem, highlighting the political nature of such an analysis: Starting from a synoptic overview of the main models of platform governance, we try to understand whether the ongoing European shift towards the Limited Government Regulation (LGR)
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From “screen time” to screen times: Measuring the temporality of media use in the messy reality of family life Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Giovanna Mascheroni, Lorenzo Giuseppe Zaffaroni
The discrepancy between children’s actual amount of viewing time and parents’ accounts of their concerns, rules, and parental mediation choices has been documented in empirical research, and typically interpreted through the lens of the Uses and Gratifications theory – showing how parents change their attitudes towards screen media in order to satisfy their own needs. Based on a qualitative longitudinal
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Does credibility become trivial when the message is right? Populist radical-right attitudes, perceived message credibility, and the spread of disinformation Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Clara Christner
Individuals with populist radical-right (PRR) attitudes seem particularly inclined to spread disinformation. However, it is unclear whether this is due to the large amount of disinformation with a PRR bias or a general tendency to perceive disinformation as credible and/or spread it further. This study explores (1) effects of a PRR bias on perceived message credibility and likelihood of spreading disinformation
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Cognitio populi – Vox populi: Implications of science-related populism for communication behavior Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Niels G. Mede, Mike S. Schäfer, Julia Metag
In many countries, science is challenged by science-related populism, which deems the common sense of “ordinary people” superior to the knowledge of “academic elites”. Individual support for science-related populism can be associated with people’s communication behavior: On the one hand, people who hold science-related populist attitudes may inform themselves differently about science; they may even
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Deficits and biases in the leading German press coverage of the Greek sovereign debt crisis Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Victoria Sophie Teschendorf, Marwin Kruß, Kim Otto, Roman Rusch
In times of crisis and social turbulence, the mass media play a crucial role. This becomes particularly evident in economic crises within the European Union. The (biased) way the crisis is reported shapes people’s understanding of the crisis and the parties involved. In this study, the coverage of the Greek sovereign debt crisis in the German newspapers BILD, Die Welt, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
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Emerging adults’ food media experiences: Preferences, opportunities, and barriers for food literacy promotion Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Lauranna Teunissen, Isabelle Cuykx, Paulien Decorte, Heidi Vandebosch, Christophe Matthys, Sara Pabian, Kathleen Van Royen, Charlotte De Backer
This study aims to understand how and why emerging adults come into contact with food media messages, and what they perceive as positive and negative outcomes related to food literacy. Seven focus groups, stratified by gender and socio-economic status, with 37 emerging adults aged between 18 and 25 were conducted. Photovoice was used to reflect on participants’ real-life food media experiences. Findings
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Crisis alert: (Dis)information selection and sharing in the COVID-19 pandemic Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Lea-Johanna Klebba, Stephan Winter
High levels of threat and uncertainty characterize the onset of societal crises. Here, people are exposed to conflicting information in the media, including disinformation. Because individuals often base their news selection on pre-existing attitudes, the present study aims to examine selective exposure effects in the face of a crisis, and identify right-wing ideological, trust-, and science-related
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They are all against us! The effects of populist blame attributions to political, corporate, and scientific elites Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Michael Hameleers, Toni G. L. A. van der Meer, Jelle W. Boumans
Populist attributions of blame have important effects on citizens’ attitudes, cognitions, emotions, and behaviors. Extending previous studies that have mostly looked at populist messages blaming political elites, we use an online survey experiment (N = 805) to investigate the effects of blaming different elitist actors in populist and non-populist ways: (1) political elites, (2) corporate elites, (3)
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Sweden’s online nation branding in times of refugee movement: A multimodal analysis of “Portraits of migration” Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Weronika Rucka, Rozane De Cock
Textual and visual analyses of nation-branding campaigns are rare but highly needed (Bolin and Ståhlberg, 2010; Hao, Paul, Trott, Guo, and Wu, 2019) as online media have become a popular tool for states to shape people’s perception (Volcic and Andrejevic, 2011). In Anholt’s much applied nation brand hexagon (2007), immigration and investment, society, governance, and culture and heritage are, along
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Ageing bodies and beauty in selected Polish women’s magazines Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Katarzyna Kociołek
The aim of the article is to examine the representation of ageing in selected issues of the Polish women’s magazine Twój Styl. With reference to Wolf’s concept of the “beauty myth,” the article argues that ageing is presented as a threat to women’s psychological integrity. Although the theme of old age is rarely directly addressed in the magazines, its presence is implied in the advertised anti-age
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Can media literacy help to promote civic participation? It’s not quite that simple Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Ianis Bucholtz, Vineta Silkāne, Agnese Dāvidsone
A number of previous studies have documented the link between media literacy and civic or political participation, and some researchers argue that the advancement of media literacy may encourage citizens to take part in addressing various issues of societal concern. However, the previous studies tend to include relatively few civic or political activities in the measurements and do not demonstrate
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Bundles of trust? Examining the relationships between media repertoires, institutional trust, and social contexts Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Marc Verboord
How the media influence the trust that citizens have in institutions such as politics and science seems more important than ever, given the decline of institutional trust in Western societies, and the increasingly diversified media landscape. This paper focuses on the relationship between media repertoires, institutional trust, and two socializing contexts (parents, social networks). Applying Latent
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Viral challenges as a digital entertainment phenomenon among children. Perceptions, motivations and critical skills of minors Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Beatriz Feijoo, Charo Sádaba, Jesús Segarra-Saavedra
This research aims to gain insight on the perception that minors have of viral challenges as an entertainment format and the motivations behind their participation in this digital entertainment phenomenon. A qualitative study was performed by way of twelve focus groups with sixty-two minors aged between eleven and seventeen years from Spain. For minors, viral challenges represent a form of entertainment
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Media malaise or mobilization during repeat elections? Evidence from Israel’s three consecutive rounds of elections (2019–2020) Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Moran Yarchi, Tal Samuel-Azran
In 2019–2020, Israel went through three consecutive elections in less than a year on grounds of alleged corruption by Prime Minister Netanyahu, and his lack of ability to form a coalition. This study aims to contribute to analyses of the media mobilization/malaise effect by examining the impact of such a prolonged period of campaigning on citizens’ political behavior. Thus, we conducted six online
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No-go zone for Jews? Examining how news on anti-Semitic attacks increases victim blaming Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Christian von Sikorski, Pascal Merz
Antisemitism is on the rise. Recently, discussions have considered so-called “no-go zones for Jews” (city areas Jews should avoid to reduce the likelihood of being attacked). In this context and drawing from attribution theory, we examined if news consumers perceive a Jewish hate crime victim as partly responsible for being attacked when news coverage explicitly emphasizes that the victim displayed
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Television from the periphery – Slow television and national identity in Norway Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Roel Puijk
Since 2009, the Norwegian public service broadcaster NRK has produced a number of slow TV shows. Some of the programmes have had a surprisingly big success in terms of public engagement and audience share even though the majority of the audience was from the oldest age groups. These programmes are not only slow, lasting a long time and lacking dramatic development and progress, they also engage in
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Evolving global communications policy agendas and ‘North-South’ relations: the internet and telecommunications Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Seamus Simpson
This article focuses on the recent evolution of global policy agendas in two key parts of the communications sector: the internet and telecommunications. It explores the key regulatory governance ideas and practices that have come to the fore in shaping these fast-moving policy arenas. It sheds light on the ways in which selected global institutional contexts have played vital roles in shaping telecommunications
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You are the agenda: The pursuit of personal significance in social media contexts Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Philemon Bantimaroudis, Theodora A. Maniou, Thanasis Ziogas
This paper draws evidence from a national survey conducted in the Republic of Cyprus. Respondents provided evidence about their own self-promotion on social media while assessing other users’ personal salience online. Furthermore, they provided evidence about their own reactions toward other people’s personal salience. The study shows that respondents display affective, perceptional, as well as behavioral
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Vaccine-related conspiracy and counter-conspiracy narratives. Silencing effects Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Nicoleta Corbu, Raluca Buturoiu, Valeriu Frunzaru, Gabriela Guiu
Recent research explores the high proliferation of conspiracy theories about COVID-19 vaccination, and their potential effects within digital media environments. By means of a 2 × 2 experimental design (N = 945) conducted in Romania, we explore whether exposure to media messages promoting conspiracy theories about vaccination versus media messages debunking such conspiracy narratives could influence
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“How can I keep quiet?” Motivations to participate in vaccination communication on Facebook Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Pavel Rodin
Risk and crisis communication (RCC) is a complex constellation of multiple actors, platforms, and voices. It involves institutional actors but also laypeople. Participation by social media users can both facilitate and obstruct effective RCC. The present study draws on in-depth interviews with Swedish Facebook users, and explores motivational factors for lay participation in RCC in the context of vaccination
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Peer socialization of male adolescents in digital games: Achievement, competition, and harassment Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Natalia Waechter, Markus Meschik
Socialization theories suggest that, due to social change and technological transformation, peers and media have become important institutions of socialization for young people. Assuming that male adolescents use digital games for processes of peer self-socialization, this article investigates the values they mediate in digital games and how these values are related to their practice (with a focus
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Visibility, solidarity, and empowerment via the internet: A case study of young Portuguese activists Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Ricardo Campos, Daniela Ferreira da Silva
The last few years have seen the development of a new line of research around the relationship between digital platforms and activism. The influence of the internet and social media on the civic and political engagement of young people in particular has become clear. Digital platforms perform in this regard a set of functions crucial to activism in terms of communication, mobilization, and logistics
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Clearing the air: A systematic review of mass media campaigns to increase indoor radon testing and remediation Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Sofie Apers, Heidi Vandebosch, Tanja Perko
Indoor radon is a natural radioactive gas that enters homes through cracks in the foundations. It is one of the leading causes of lung cancer. Although radon can be detected with an indoor radon test and can be mitigated by means of either ventilation or professional measures, testing and mitigating rates of the at-risk population remain insufficient. The objective of this study is to systematically
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When citizens get fed up. Causes and consequences of issue fatigue – Results of a two-wave panel study during the coronavirus crisis Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Christina Schumann, Dorothee Arlt
In the context of the long-lasting coronavirus crisis, this study examines the occurrence, causes, and consequences of issue fatigue – a phenomenon that refers to a feeling of annoyance with an issue that is repeated continually in the news. Using data obtained from a representative two-wave panel survey conducted online in April and May 2020 (n = 1,232) in Germany, the study employed a cross-lagged
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An online world of bias. The mediating role of cognitive biases on extremist attitudes Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Brigitte Naderer, Diana Rieger, Ulrike Schwertberger
Extremists often aim to paint a biased picture of the world. Radical narratives, for instance, in forms of internet memes or posts, could thus potentially trigger cognitive biases in their users. These cognitive biases, in turn, might shape the users’ formation of extremist attitudes. To test this association, an online experiment (N=392) was conducted with three types of right-wing radical narratives
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Extend the context! Measuring explicit and implicit populism on three different textual levels Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Tamás Tóth, Manuel Goyanes, Márton Demeter
This paper focuses on a methodological question regarding a content analysis tool in populism studies, namely the explicit and implicit populism approach. The study argues that scholars adopting this approach need to conduct content analysis simultaneously on different coding unit lengths, because the ratio of explicit and implicit messages varies significantly between units such as single sentences
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Inappropriate? Gay characters affect adults’ perceived age appropriateness of animated cartoons Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Christian von Sikorski, Brigitte Naderer, Doreen Brandt
Children’s movies and animated cartoons today increasingly include homosexual characters, which can be welcomed from an equal-rights perspective. Yet, an intensive public debate has been initiated regarding the (age) appropriateness of such depictions. So far, it is unclear how heterosexual adults react to the presence of gay characters in children’s animated cartoons. Drawing from social identity
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Let’s talk about risks. Parental and peer mediation and their relation to adolescents’ perceptions of on- and off-screen risk behavior Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Anne Sadza, Esther Rozendaal, Serena Daalmans, Moniek Buijzen
Studies of mediation practices typically focus on parental mediation, but during adolescence parents’ impact decreases relative to that of peers. This study compares perceived parental and peer mediation in the context of media portrayals of risk behavior and adolescents’ perceptions thereof. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 278 adolescents aged 12 to 17 (M = 14.18, SD = 1.62, 51.4 % girls)
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Attractive or repellent? How right-wing populist voters respond to figuratively framed anti-immigration rhetoric Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Amber Boeynaems, Christian Burgers, Elly A. Konijn, Gerard J. Steen
The rhetoric employed by right-wing populist parties (RWPPs) has been seen as a driver for their success. This right-wing populist (RWP) rhetoric is partly characterized by the use of anti-immigration metaphors and hyperboles, which likely appeal to voters’ grievances. We tested the persuasive impact of figuratively framed RWP rhetoric among a unique sample of Dutch RWPP voters, reporting an experiment
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Women politicians in Austria: Still not breaking the media ceiling Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Lore Hayek, Manuel Mayrl, Uta Russmann
The underrepresentation of women politicians in the media is a persistent feature in many contemporary democracies. Gender bias in election coverage makes it harder for women to reach positions of power in politics. Drawing on the special circumstances in Austria during the 2019 election campaign which saw the first female top candidate of a major party and a caretaker government containing equal numbers
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Understanding the importance of trust in patients’ coping with uncertainty via health information-seeking behaviors Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Elena Link, Eva Baumann, Christoph Klimmt
Disease-related challenges are often associated with perceived uncertainties in individuals, triggering attempts to cope with the situation. Our study aims to understand patients’ coping strategies regarding health information-seeking behaviors (HISBs). It is guided by the Uncertainty Management Theory, and seeks to grant insights into multi-channel HISB by describing how uses of interpersonal and
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The role of different “media diets” on the perception of immigration: Evidence from nine European countries Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Ludovic Terren
A better understanding of media effects on immigration attitudes is crucial for policy development and innovation. While many studies have focused on immigration discourses or the salience of this issue in print media and broadcast TV, few have looked at how different “media diets” influence immigration attitudes. Using two-wave panel data composed of 14,480 observations (7,240 individuals) from nine
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Furries, freestylers, and the engine of social change: The struggle for recognition in a mediatized world Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Leif Hemming Pedersen
This article merges the ‘terminologies of social change’ from recognition theory and mediatization research to argue that the mediatization of society has eased and accelerated processes of what recognition theorist Axel Honneth calls individualization and social inclusion. This, however, cannot be understood unambiguously as moral progress. Thus, the first part of the article outlines the conceptualization
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Social media, social unfreedom Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2022-11-09 João C. Magalhães, Jun Yu
This essay addresses the moral nature of corporate social media platforms through the lenses of Axel Honneth’s concept of justice, according to which relations of mutual recognition must be institutionalized into spheres of social freedom to claim a just society. This perspective allows us to observe how platforms configure a symmetrically inverted form of ethical sphere, in which users are led to
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Media populism and the life-cycle of the Norwegian Progress Party Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2022-10-12 Juha Herkman, Bente Kalsnes
The paper examines the media attention given to the Norwegian Progress Party (FrP) during the parliamentary elections in which it participated between 1973 and 2017. Particular attention is paid to the ideas of media populism and the so-called life-cycle model that outlines the relationship between the different media types and a populist movement regarding its life span. Our data consist of media
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“You just have to join in” – A mixed-methods study on children’s media consumption worlds and parental mediation Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Caroline Roth-Ebner
In contemporary society, childhood is characterized as mediatized and commercialized. Media consumption worlds (MCWs) are a phenomenon that mirrors both aspects. They are narratives that are presented through various media platforms, games, and merchandising products. In this paper, the concept of children’s MCWs is developed theoretically and investigated empirically using the case of primary school
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Health-related communication in everyday life: Communication partners, channels, and patterns Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Anna Wagner, Doreen Reifegerste
Although health matters are commonly discussed in various social contexts, health-related interpersonal communication still remains a black box in health communication research. Bringing together research from the fields of health communication and interpersonal communication, we therefore examine how people communicate about health and illness in their everyday lives. Based on Channel Complementary
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Cultural capital as a background of media use and civic engagement Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2022-09-19 Stanislaw Jedrzejewski
This article outlines the relationship that cultural capital, which is identified as a media user’s education level, shares with news media consumption patterns, civic engagement, and cultural participation. The article’s findings are based on data gathered during a 2015 investigation on news media consumption conducted by a group of European researchers as part of a comparative research project, supplemented
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State vs. anti-vaxxers: Analysis of Covid-19 echo chambers in Serbia Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Ljubisa Bojic, Nemanja Nikolic, Lana Tucakovic
Times of uncertainty and fear were brought on by Covid-19. The ongoing pandemic is a fruitful ground for fake news, as citizens try to find explanations that fit into their worldviews. This process polarizes society and creates echo chambers amplified by recommender systems. Our main goal is to detect anti-vaxxer echo chambers in Serbia by analyzing online reactions to the recent detention of prominent
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Uninterested, disenchanted, or overwhelmed? An analysis of motives behind intentional and unintentional news avoidance Communications (IF 1.339) Pub Date : 2022-09-06 Lea C. Gorski
In the light of a vast political information ‘buffet’, so-called news-avoiders stay away from the news for indefinite periods of time. Recent research suggests that news avoidance can be intentional or unintentional. However, research has mostly focused on one form of news avoidance or has not differentiated at all. Based on survey data, this study (a) identifies and compares motivations for intentional