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After Deception: How Falling for a Deepfake Affects the Way We See, Hear, and Experience Media The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Teresa Weikmann, Hannah Greber, Alina Nikolaou
With the emergence of artificial intelligence, deepfakes have rendered it possible to manipulate anyone’s and anything’s audio-visual representation, adding fuel to the discussion about the believability of what we hear and see in the news. However, we do not know yet whether deepfakes can actually impact (1) the credibility attributed to audio-visual media in general, as well as (2) the perceived
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Who Relies on Social Media Influencers for Political Information? A Cross-Country Study Among Youth The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Darian Harff, Desiree Schmuck
Social media influencers (SMIs) are defined as regular individuals who become well-known via self-branding on social media. Youth use content posted by SMIs not just for entertainment, but also for political information. However, we know little about which groups of young people are most likely to be exposed to their political messages or why some youth seem to favor SMIs’ political information over
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Source Matters? Exploring the Effects of Source Congeniality on Corrections of False Information on Twitter The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Luxuan Wang, Lauren Feldman
This study examines the impact of source congeniality and its interaction with partisanship on the effectiveness of debunking false information on Twitter in the United States. Conducted in February 2022, a survey experiment revealed that most respondents paid little attention to correction source information. Politically congenial sources failed to enhance the effectiveness of corrective tags, whereas
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Give the Media What They Need: Negativity as a Media Access Tool for Politicians The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Željko Poljak
Recent studies indicate that politicians’ negativity usage fails to enhance their approval ratings among the general public, yet politicians regularly use it. This begs the following question: why are politicians so negative if this strategy does not bolster their prospects for re-election? In this paper, I argue that the media, driven by audience engagement, plays a pivotal role in shaping politicians’
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Why do Citizens Choose to Read Fact-Checks in the Context of the Russian War in Ukraine? The Role of Directional and Accuracy Motivations in Nineteen Democracies The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Marina Tulin, Michael Hameleers, Claes de Vreese, Toril Aalberg, Nicoleta Corbu, Patrick Van Erkel, Frank Esser, Luisa Gehle, Denis Halagiera, David Nicolas Hopmann, Karolina Koc-Michalska, Jörg Matthes, Sabina Mihelj, Christian Schemer, Vaclav Stetka, Jesper Strömbäck, Ludovic Terren, Yannis Theocharis
The recent surge of false information accompanying the Russian invasion of Ukraine has re-emphasized the need for interventions to counteract disinformation. While fact-checking is a widely used intervention, we know little about citizen motivations to read fact-checks. We tested theoretical predictions related to accuracy-motivated goals (i.e., seeking to know the truth) versus directionally-motivated
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Imagined Journalists: New Framework for Studying Media–Audiences Relationship in Populist Times The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Ayala Panievsky, Yossi David, Noam Gidron, Lior Sheffer
These are challenging times for journalists’ relationship with their audiences. Attacks against “the media” and the increasing weaponization of social media to harass journalists have drawn the attention of scholars worldwide. In the current climate, journalists are not only distrusted but also hated, which creates a series of distinct ramifications. In this article, we suggest a new framework to study
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Conduits of the Kremlin’s Informational Influence Abroad? How German-Language Alternative Media Outlets Are Connected to Russia’s Ruling Elites The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Arista Beseler, Florian Toepfl
Extant research on alternative media in Western democracies has focused on scrutinizing their content, organization, production, and audiences. However, the extent to which alternative outlets are linked to powerful foreign actors has not yet been analyzed, despite the fact that a plethora of outlets have openly sided with Russia after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, spreading
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The Colors of the Populist Radical Right: The Strategic Use of Hue and Saturation in Party Logos The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Luigi Curini, Benjamin Moffitt, Mattia Zulianello
Populist radical right (PRR) parties tend to stress their differences from other parties. Yet at the same time, PRR parties have increasingly sought to integrate into party systems across the globe. In seeking to understand the way that PRR parties negotiate this paradoxical situation, the literature tends to focus on their policy offerings or discourse. We, on the contrary, investigate an underestimated
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When Social Media Attack: How Exposure to Political Attacks on Social Media Promotes Anger and Political Cynicism The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Ariel Hasell, Audrey Halversen, Brian E. Weeks
Political cynicism is rising in many democracies throughout the world. At the same time, people increasingly use social media to access news and political information. However, much of the political content people see on these platforms is hostile, uncivil, and attacking. This study examines whether exposure to these political attacks on social media is associated with political cynicism and, if so
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Populism as “Truth”: How Mediated Authenticity Strengthens the Populist Message The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Gunn Enli
The rise of populism is often explained by political factors, economic factors, and media and communication factors. This article analyzes populism in the context of an increased focus on authenticity in political communication. The main aim is to discuss to what degree mediated authenticity strengthens the populist message and what consequences the nexus between authenticity and populism might have
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Beyond Media Systems: Corporate-Consensus and Confrontational Media Regimes in Three Latin American Cases The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Manuel Alejandro Guerrero, Mariana Sanchez-Santos, Eduardo Pérez Otaño
The term captured-liberal has been proposed as an approach to Latin American media systems. Here, we contend these systems result from the region’s particular democratization path (i.e., competitive and open access to power but a flawed exercise of power). We also contend that since media systems operate at structural levels, the concept does not seem flexible enough to explain conjunctural variations
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Success or Failure? News Framing of the COP26 Glasgow Summit and its Effects on Citizens’ Beliefs About Climate Change The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Per Oleskog Tryggvason, Adam Shehata
The UN climate summits represent decisive moments for climate change policy. Under significant media coverage, world leaders gather for intense negotiations over policies to address global warming. Given the enormous political, economic, and environmental issues at stake, news media typically frame these summits in terms of success or failure. Still, we know surprisingly little about how these mediated
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Engaging With Fandom and Politics: The Case of Giuseppe Conte’s Fans on Instagram The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Donatella Campus, Marco Mazzoni, Roberto Mincigrucci
The article focuses on the phenomenon of political fandom and its potential impact on citizens’ political engagement. In particular, our research intends to offer a contribution to the discussion of possible types of online fan-like attachment to a political leader. Our case study is the Instagram account @lebimbedigiuseppeconte, a fanpage celebrating the former Italian Prime minister Giuseppe Conte
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Fostering Bottom-Up Censorship From the Top-Down: Nationalism and Media Restrictions The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Nicole Anderson, Aerin Commins, Jenifer Whitten-Woodring
From US President Donald Trump’s Tweet labeling news media “the enemy of the people” to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s establishment of a politically appointed Media Authority, media freed...
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What Can We Learn From the Short History of Independent Media in Serbia? Radio B92, George Soros, and New Models of Media Development The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Janet Steele
Radio B92 was an iconic independent media institution in Serbia. Founded in 1989, B92 provided Belgrade listeners with subversive rock music, high-quality journalism, and independent perspectives o...
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“Repressed Opposition Media” or “Tools of Hybrid Warfare”? Negotiating the Boundaries of Legitimate Journalism in Ukraine Prior to Russia's Full-Scale Invasion The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Kostiantyn Yanchenko, Alona Shestopalova, Gerret von Nordheim, Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw
In transitional democracies, the boundary work of defining journalism and through this, ousting certain media actors as illegitimate and threatful to national security and/or democratic stability c...
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“I Don’t Think That’s True, Bro!” Social Corrections of Misinformation in India The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Sumitra Badrinathan, Simon Chauchard
Fact-checks and corrections of falsehoods have emerged as effective ways to counter misinformation online. But in contexts with encrypted messaging applications (EMAs), corrections must necessarily...
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Challenging the Global Cultural Conflict Narrative: An Automated Content Analysis on How PerPetrator Identity Shapes Worldwide News Coverage of Islamist and Right-Wing Terror Attacks The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Chung-hong Chan, Hartmut Wessler, Marc Jungblut, Kasper Welbers, Scott Althaus, Joseph Bajjalieh, Wouter van Atteveldt
Recent terrorist attacks such as the Christchurch mosque attacks in 2019 renew the discussion of whether right-wing attacks are reported less negatively than Islamist attacks. To clarify this point...
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News Can Help! The Impact of News Media and Digital Platforms on Awareness of and Belief in Misinformation The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Sacha Altay, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Richard Fletcher
Does the news media exacerbate or reduce misinformation problems? Although some news media deliberately try to counter misinformation, it has been suggested that they might also inadvertently, and ...
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A New Protest Paradigm: Toward a Critical Approach to Protest News Analyses The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Summer Harlow, Danielle K. Brown
Decades after the development of the “protest paradigm,” scholarship continues to question the applicability of the paradigm under different circumstances, rather than pushing forward a more holist...
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Populism and Critical Incidents in Journalism: Has Bolsonaro Disrupted the Mainstream Press in Brazil? The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Francisco Paulo Jamil Marques
Despite the increasing number of studies examining the conflicts between the media and populist leaders, understanding how such clashes prompt shifts in journalism norms and practices remains to be...
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‘Keeping an Eye on the Other Side’ RT, Sputnik, and Their Peculiar Appeal in Democratic Societies The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Charlotte Wagnsson, Torsten Blad, Aiden Hoyle
The reach of illiberal international propaganda outlets rests on citizens in democratic countries as recipients and potential disseminators. However, little research has scrutinised the audiences f...
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The Medium and the Message in Argentina's Presidential Campaigns The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Kevin Pallister, Erin Fitzpatrick
Do campaigns message to voters consistently across different media? And do competing candidates tend to converge over time on a single national style of campaign messaging? To address these questio...
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Just a “Mouthpiece of Biased Elites?” Populist Party Sympathizers and Trust in Czech Public Service Media The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Klára Smejkal, Jakub Macek, Lukáš Slavík, Jan Šerek
Existing research indicates that people with populist attitudes express lower trust in media, especially in Public Service Media. It is assumed that these people are alienated because of their valu...
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Gender Imbalance in the Media: Time Lag or Hysteresis?—French Newspapers, Gender Parity Shocks, and the Long and Winding Road to the Demasculinization of Political Reporting (1990–2020) The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Gilles Bastin
A large corpus of scientific literature details how the media generates an imbalance in their portrayal of society and thus contributes to the reproduction of extant power structures, particularly ...
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Bringing History back into Media Systems Theory. Multiple Modernities and Institutional Legacies in Latin America The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Martin Echeverria, Rubén Arnoldo González, Vıctor Hugo Reyna
Since Hallin and Mancini's (2004) seminal work, many scholars from around the world have proposed different models of media systems for countries and regions outside the Western world. Particular c...
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Looking in the Mirror: US and French Coverage of Black Lives Matter in France The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Erik Bleich, Amelia Pollard, A. Maurits van der Veen
We demonstrate how sociological theories of discursive opportunity structures illuminate key elements of US and French media coverage of Black Lives Matter (BLM) in France. Fundamental discursive d...
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Compromise-Building in the Spotlight of the Media? Individual and Situational Influences on the Self-Mediatization of Parliamentary Negotiations The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-10-16 Gerrit Philipps
Political actors in negotiations often face the challenge of contradictory logics of discreet compromise-building on the one hand and generating media publicity to enhance transparency and gain pub...
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Ideology, Polarization, and News Culture: The Secular-Islamist Tension in Turkish Journalism The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Ozan Aşık
What role does political ideology play in the production of news in a contentious cultural context? To address this question, this article investigates how Turkish Islamic conservative journalists ...
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Government Digital Repression and Political Engagement: A Cross-National Multilevel Analysis Examining the Roles of Online Surveillance and Censorship The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Michael Chan, Jingjing Yi, Dmitry Kuznetsov
Much research has shown that online news engenders greater political participation, but less attention has been paid to how the relationship can be suppressed by government online surveillance and ...
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Protesting the Protest Paradigm: TikTok as a Space for Media Criticism The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Ioana Literat, Lillian Boxman-Shabtai, Neta Kligler-Vilenchik
Though news representations of protest have been studied extensively, little is known about how media audiences critique such representations. Focusing on TikTok as a space for media criticism, thi...
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The Watchdog Press in the Doghouse: A Comparative Study of Attitudes about Accountability Journalism, Trust in News, and News Avoidance The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Benjamin Toff, Richard Fletcher
The watchdog role has been one of the most widely discussed normative functions of the press. In this study, we examine the public’s attitudes toward the news media’s watchdog performance and how t...
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Selective Exposure and New Political Cleavages: Media Use and Ideological Reinforcement Over Time The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Adam Shehata, Mats Ekström, Per Oleskog Tryggvason
New political cleavages are reshaping the political landscape in established democracies. The classic left-right ideological dimension that has structured politics for decades is increasingly chall...
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Election Campaigns, News Consumption Gaps, and Social Media: Equalizing Political News Use When It Matters? The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Atle Haugsgjerd, Rune Karlsen
We investigate how inequalities in political media use develop throughout election campaigns, and in particular whether social media use helps counterbalance traditional news consumption gaps. Usin...
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Trump Lies, Truth Dies? Epistemic Crisis and the Effect of False Balance Reporting on Beliefs About Voter Fraud The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Matthew David Jenkins, Daniel Gomez
Media scholars have long recognized the potential for falsely balanced reporting to distort public opinion, but existing empirical evidence is inconclusive. In this study, we examine the effect of ...
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Power Struggles in a Small Town Community: The Intersection of Rural Environmental Protest, Politics, and Hyperlocal News Media The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Julie Freeman, Brett Hutchins
This article presents an in-depth case study of large-scale conflict in a small town, and reveals the complex ways that community groups and activism, hyperlocal news media, and political power int...
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How Climate Movement Actors and News Media Frame Climate Change and Strike: Evidence from Analyzing Twitter and News Media Discourse from 2018 to 2021 The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-06-19 Kaiping Chen, Amanda L. Molder, Zening Duan, Shelley Boulianne, Christopher Eckart, Prince Mallari, Diyi Yang
Twitter enables an online public sphere for social movement actors, news organizations, and others to frame climate change and the climate movement. In this paper, we analyze five million English tweets posted from 2018 to 2021 demonstrating how peaks in Twitter activity relate to key events and how the framing of the climate strike discourse has evolved over the past three years. We also collected
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Neither Absent nor Ambient: Incidental News Exposure From the Perspective of News Avoiders in the UK, United States, and Spain The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Ruth Palmer, Benjamin Toff
Scholars have long argued that incidental news exposure (INE) is a potentially valuable way citizens gain political information and learn about current affairs. Yet growing scholarship on news avoidance suggests many people still manage to consume little news, and algorithmic curation may decrease the likelihood that they will be exposed to it incidentally. In this article, we put the literatures on
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My Voters Should See This! What News Items Are Shared by Politicians on Facebook? The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Tobias Heidenreich, Jakob-Moritz Eberl, Petro Tolochko, Fabienne Lind, Hajo G. Boomgaarden
Political actors play an increasingly important role in the dissemination of political information on social media. However, relatively little is known about the mechanisms why specific news items are shared with the support base instead of others. For a timespan between December 2017 and the end of 2018, we combine the analysis of Facebook content from 1,022 politicians associated with 20 political
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How Do Populists Visually Represent ‘The People’? A Systematic Comparative Visual Content Analysis of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders’ Instagram Accounts The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Benjamin Moffitt
How do populists visually represent “the people”? While the literature on populism has tended to focus on text- and language-based documents, such as speeches, policies, and party documents to consider how populists characterize “the people,” in this article I undertake a systematic visual content analysis to consider how populist leaders on either side of the ideological spectrum visually represent
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Distract and Divert: How World Leaders Use Social Media During Contentious Politics The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-05-22 Pablo Barberá, Anita R. Gohdes, Evgeniia Iakhnis, Thomas Zeitzoff
How do leaders communicate during domestic crises? We provide the first global analysis of world leader communication on social media during social unrest. We develop a theory of leaders’ digital communication strategies, building on the diversionary theory of foreign policy, as well as research on the role of democratic institutions in explaining elite responsiveness. To test our theory, we construct
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Troublemakers in the Streets? A Framing Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Protests in the UK 1992− 2017 The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-05-22 Johannes B. Gruber
Research indicates that when mainstream news media report about demonstrations, protesters often face delegitimizing coverage. This phenomenon, known as the “(journalistic) protest paradigm,” is thought to be a default mindset that leads journalists to emphasize the method of protesters over their message. However, empirical work has so far limited itself to specific protest movements or events and
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No Laughing Matter: Armin Laschet and the Photographic Exposé The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Thomas Olesen
On July 17, 2021, the CDU's chancellor candidate Armin Laschet was photographed laughing during a speech by the German Federal President in the flood-stricken city of Erftstadt. The photographic images caused an uproar and contributed to the CDU's defeat in the September 23 election. The paper analyzes why these images resonated with such damaging effects. Theoretically, it sets the analysis on the
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Anything Goes? Youth, News, and Democratic Engagement in the Roaring 2020s The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Jakob Ohme,Kim Andersen,Erik Albæk,Claes H. de Vreese
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Online and Offline Battles: Usage of Different Political Conflict Frames The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Emma van der Goot,Sanne Kruikemeier,Jeroen de Ridder,Rens Vliegenthart
Conflict framing is key in political communication. Politicians use conflict framing in their online messages (e.g., criticizing other politicians) and journalists in their political coverage (e.g., reporting on political tensions). Conflicts can take a variety of forms and can provoke different reactions. However, the literature still lacks a systematic and theoretically-grounded conceptual framework
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From Statistics to Stories: Indices and Indicators as Communication Tools for Social Change The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-04-14 Lauren Kogen
The terms ‘indices’ and ‘indicators’ may immediately cause eyelids to droop. How, then, might they serve to impassion publics and, ultimately, promote social change? This paper examines the extent to which indices and indicators can be considered communication tools for social movements and social change. The analysis is based on a 2018 evaluation of one index based in the United States – the Ranking
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News, Threats, and Trust: How COVID-19 News Shaped Political Trust, and How Threat Perceptions Conditioned This Relationship The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Ernesto de León,Mykola Makhortykh,Teresa Gil-Lopez,Aleksandra Urman,Silke Adam
This study explores shifts in political trust during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland, examining the role that media consumption and threat perceptions played in individuals’ trust in politics. We combine panel surveys taken before and during the first nation-wide lockdown with webtracking data of participants' online behaviour to paint a nuanced picture of media effects during
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Book Review: Youth Active Citizenship in Europe - Ethnographies of Participation by Shakuntala Banaji and Sam Mejias The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Jakob Ohme
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Power Hierarchies and Visibility in the News: Exploring Determinants of Politicians’ Presence and Prominence in the Chilean Press (1991–2019) The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-03-29 Ximena Orchard,Bastián González-Bustamante
This article studies determinants of political actors’ visibility in the news, and their stability over time, observing the press coverage received by Chilean politicians in the elite press since the beginning of the democratic transition in 1991 and until 2019. In dialogue with theories of news values, we test how political positions in a markedly presidential system, the belonging to a government
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Politics – Simply Explained? How Influencers Affect Youth’s Perceived Simplification of Politics, Political Cynicism, and Political Interest The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Desirée Schmuck, Melanie Hirsch, Anja Stevic, Jörg Matthes
Social media influencers promote not only products and brands but also their opinions on serious topics like party politics or climate change. These so-called digital opinion leaders may exert a powerful impact on their followers’ political attitudes. Accordingly, we explore new directions to explain how influencers’ communication is related to political outcomes by proposing the concept of perceived
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Social Media and Belief in Misinformation in Mexico: A Case of Maximal Panic, Minimal Effects? The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Sebastián Valenzuela, Carlos Muñiz, Marcelo Santos
Contrary to popular narratives, it is not clear whether using social media for news increases belief in political misinformation. Several of the most methodologically sound studies find small to nonexistent effects. However, extant research is limited by focusing on few platforms (usually Facebook, Twitter or YouTube) and is heavily U.S. centered. This leaves open the possibility that other platforms
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Motivated Mobilization: The Role of Emotions in the Processing of Poll Messages The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-03-18 Taberez Ahmed Neyazi, Ozan Kuru
This study investigates how exposure to favorable messages about one's preferred party can affect emotional reactions and subsequent behavioral intentions. Integrating the motivated reasoning and discrete emotions’ frameworks, we offer a theoretical framework of motivated mobilization for explaining political engagement in response to poll exposure. Specifically, we examine the mediating role of emotions
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Poll Wars: Perceptions of Poll Credibility and Voting Behaviour The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-03-18 Stephen Dawson
Pre-election opinion polls are an increasingly prominent aspect of political campaigns, yet they often vary in terms of their results, sources, and where they are published. Citizens are therefore increasingly confronted with the proposition of which polls to give more credence to than others in shaping their voting behaviour. This study investigates the relationship between subjective determinations
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Unpacking the Determinants of Outrage and Recognition in Public Discourse: Insights Across Socio-Cultural Divides, Political Systems, and Media Types The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Charlotte Löb, Eike Mark Rinke, Carina Weinmann, Hartmut Wessler
The degree to which civility norms are upheld or violated is an important criterion in evaluating the democratic quality of public debates. We investigate civility across media types, political systems, and levels of socio-cultural division, offering a comparative perspective on how these factors shape levels of civility in public debates around a key question for societies around the world: What is
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Corrigendum to Diffusion of Development Journalism Inside Egyptian Newsrooms The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-03-03
Allam, Rasha, and El Gody, Ahmed. 2021. “Diffusion of Development Journalism Inside Egyptian Newsrooms.” The International Journal of Press/Politics. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612211040026
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Discursive Toolkits of Anti-Muslim Disinformation on Twitter The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Kiran Vinod Bhatia, Payal Arora
In this article, we investigate the socio-technical ecology of Twitter, including the technological affordances of the platform and the user-generated discursive strategies used to create and circulate anti-Muslim disinformation online. During the first wave of Covid-19, right-wing followers claimed that Muslims were spreading the virus to perform Jihad. We analyzed a sample of 7000 tweets using Critical
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Playing Both Sides: Russian State-Backed Media Coverage of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Samantha Bradshaw, Renée DiResta, Carly Miller
Russian influence operations on social media have received significant attention following the 2016 US presidential elections. Here, scholarship has largely focused on the covert strategies of the Russia-based Internet Research Agency and the overt strategies of Russia's largest international broadcaster RT (Russia Today). But since 2017, a number of new news media providers linked to the Russian state
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Judging Value in a Time of Information Cacophony: Young Adults, Social media, and the Messiness of do-it-Yourself Expertise The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Kelley Cotter, Kjerstin Thorson
In this paper, we explore U.S. young adults’ strategies for evaluating news and information value within the rapidly changing, increasingly digitalized media environment. We draw on interviews with U.S. young adults conducted between April and November 2020. Based on our findings, we develop the concept of information cacophony to characterize young adults’ experience of the contemporary information
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Identity, Social Media and Politics: How Young Emirati Women Make Sense of Female Politicians in the UAE The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Leysan Storie, Sarah Marschlich
Social media offered new opportunities for politicians to engage with the public. However, little research has explored public perceptions of women politicians and their role in women's empowerment, especially in non-Western contexts. This study used a qualitative methodology to explore how young Emirati women made sense of gender and other identities in their discussions of Emirati women politicians
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Making African Suffering Legible: Co-Constructing Narrative of the Darfur Atrocities The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 j Siguru Wahutu
Although the last two decades have seen a concerted effort to understand the role and place of African journalism in covering events on the continent, there has been little focus on who journalists chose to quote as sources in their stories. This despite scholarship on sources being vital to our understanding of how journalists gain the “raw materials” to produce stories about events. Thus, while scholarship