How News Audiences Allocate Trust in the Digital Age: A Figuration Perspective

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. 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… Continue reading How News Audiences Allocate Trust in the Digital Age: A Figuration Perspective

How News Audiences Allocate Trust in the Digital Age: A Figuration Perspective

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. 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… Continue reading How News Audiences Allocate Trust in the Digital Age: A Figuration Perspective

A Matter of Perspective: An Experimental Study on Potentials of Constructive Journalism for Communicating a Crisis

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. 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 inves… Continue reading A Matter of Perspective: An Experimental Study on Potentials of Constructive Journalism for Communicating a Crisis

A Matter of Perspective: An Experimental Study on Potentials of Constructive Journalism for Communicating a Crisis

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. 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 inves… Continue reading A Matter of Perspective: An Experimental Study on Potentials of Constructive Journalism for Communicating a Crisis

What Constitutes Disinformation? Disinformation Judgment, Influence of Partisanship, and Support for Anti-Disinformation Legislation

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This study examines people’s judgment of what constitutes disinformation, how partisanship shapes such judgment, and how broadness of disinformation judgment relates to perceptions of the disin… Continue reading What Constitutes Disinformation? Disinformation Judgment, Influence of Partisanship, and Support for Anti-Disinformation Legislation

What Constitutes Disinformation? Disinformation Judgment, Influence of Partisanship, and Support for Anti-Disinformation Legislation

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This study examines people’s judgment of what constitutes disinformation, how partisanship shapes such judgment, and how broadness of disinformation judgment relates to perceptions of the disin… Continue reading What Constitutes Disinformation? Disinformation Judgment, Influence of Partisanship, and Support for Anti-Disinformation Legislation

Moderation Effects of Language Skills, Residential Tenure, and Education on Immigrants’ Learning From News

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Volume 100, Issue 2, Page 416-437, June 2023. Authors of the knowledge gap hypothesis predicted television’s potential to narrow the gaps in some circumstances. This online experiment aimed to bound the condit… Continue reading Moderation Effects of Language Skills, Residential Tenure, and Education on Immigrants’ Learning From News

Communicating Cultism in the Media: Discursive Sense-Giving of Cult Status

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. 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… Continue reading Communicating Cultism in the Media: Discursive Sense-Giving of Cult Status

Communicating Cultism in the Media: Discursive Sense-Giving of Cult Status

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. 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… Continue reading Communicating Cultism in the Media: Discursive Sense-Giving of Cult Status

Highlighting Incivility: How the News Media’s Focus on Political Incivility Affects Political Trust and News Credibility

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Previous research showed that political trust declines when politicians debate in uncivil ways. This article extends this research by analyzing how the news media’s tendency to focus on and eve… Continue reading Highlighting Incivility: How the News Media’s Focus on Political Incivility Affects Political Trust and News Credibility