Category Archives: Communication Research

Communication Research, Ahead of Print. Across liberal democracies, optimalizing gender balance in communication research production and impact is a growing aspiration of scientific leaders and research-intensive universities alike. Despite eloquent mo… Continue reading The Matilda Effect in Communication Research: The Effects of Gender and Geography on Usage and Citations Across 11 Countries→

Communication Research, Ahead of Print. Prior research has reliably shown a positive relationship between political talk and political knowledge. This study sought to build upon this research by assessing the association between internet-based textual … Continue reading Is Online Textual Political Expression Associated With Political Knowledge?→

Communication Research, Ahead of Print. Prior research has reliably shown a positive relationship between political talk and political knowledge. This study sought to build upon this research by assessing the association between internet-based textual … Continue reading Is Online Textual Political Expression Associated With Political Knowledge?→

Communication Research, Ahead of Print. Political parties increasingly rely on sophisticated targeting strategies to persuade potential voters. However, questions have been raised about the effectiveness of targeted political ads, considering that citi… Continue reading Living is Easy With Eyes Closed: Avoidance of Targeted Political Advertising in Response to Privacy Concerns, Perceived Personalization, and Overload→

Communication Research, Volume 50, Issue 6, Page 773-797, August 2023. Research asserts that populist messages are more persuasive when the audience’s predispositions align with the framing and topic of these messages. Yet, few studies have empirically… Continue reading What Makes Populist Messages Persuasive? Experimental Evidence for How Emotions and Issue Characteristics Moderate Populist Framing Effects→

Communication Research, Ahead of Print. This study suggests a unified framework to examine the third-person perception (TPP) in the context of partisan news use. By amalgamating social identity theories with the elaboration likelihood model or the heur… Continue reading Perceived Influence of Partisan News and Online News Participation: Third-person Effect, Hostile Media Phenomenon, and Cognitive Elaboration→

Communication Research, Ahead of Print. The public agenda is an ecosystem in which public issues interact and compete to gain public attention. Whether this ecosystem is primarily competitive or cooperative is an unsettled question in the literature on… Continue reading Competition, Cooperation, and Coexistence: An Ecological Approach to Public Agenda Dynamics in the United States (1958–2020)→

Communication Research, Ahead of Print. The public agenda is an ecosystem in which public issues interact and compete to gain public attention. Whether this ecosystem is primarily competitive or cooperative is an unsettled question in the literature on… Continue reading Competition, Cooperation, and Coexistence: An Ecological Approach to Public Agenda Dynamics in the United States (1958–2020)→

Communication Research, Ahead of Print. This study examines whether and how exposure to information about health disparities from mediated and interpersonal sources and political trust are jointly associated with policy support and political advocacy. … Continue reading The Role of Communication in Redressing Health Disparities: Mobilizing Public Support and Action→

Communication Research, Ahead of Print. This study examines whether and how exposure to information about health disparities from mediated and interpersonal sources and political trust are jointly associated with policy support and political advocacy. … Continue reading The Role of Communication in Redressing Health Disparities: Mobilizing Public Support and Action→