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

Guarding the Firewall: How Political Journalists Distance Themselves From the Editorial Endorsement Process

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Volume 100, Issue 2, Page 354-372, June 2023. Through a lens of boundary work and role conception, this study seeks to understand how political journalists discursively construct the role of the newspaper edit… Continue reading Guarding the Firewall: How Political Journalists Distance Themselves From the Editorial Endorsement Process

Visually Framing Disasters: Humanitarian Aid Organizations’ Use of Visuals on Social Media

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. The present study seeks to systematically describe how humanitarian aid organizations use visuals in their natural disaster-related social media messages and to analyze their effects on social … Continue reading Visually Framing Disasters: Humanitarian Aid Organizations’ Use of Visuals on Social Media

Visually Framing Disasters: Humanitarian Aid Organizations’ Use of Visuals on Social Media

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. The present study seeks to systematically describe how humanitarian aid organizations use visuals in their natural disaster-related social media messages and to analyze their effects on social … Continue reading Visually Framing Disasters: Humanitarian Aid Organizations’ Use of Visuals on Social Media

“I Can’t Just Pull a Woman Out of a Hat”: A Mixed-Methods Study on Journalistic Drivers of Women’s Representation in Political News

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. While the persisting issue of women’s underrepresentation in political news partly arises from biases in the social reality, journalism plays a crucial role in mediating these biases. This stud… Continue reading “I Can’t Just Pull a Woman Out of a Hat”: A Mixed-Methods Study on Journalistic Drivers of Women’s Representation in Political News

“I Can’t Just Pull a Woman Out of a Hat”: A Mixed-Methods Study on Journalistic Drivers of Women’s Representation in Political News

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. While the persisting issue of women’s underrepresentation in political news partly arises from biases in the social reality, journalism plays a crucial role in mediating these biases. This stud… Continue reading “I Can’t Just Pull a Woman Out of a Hat”: A Mixed-Methods Study on Journalistic Drivers of Women’s Representation in Political News

Asian American Influencer Cultural Identity Portrayal on Instagram

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Social media provides minority groups with more control over their portrayals than stereotypical misrepresentations of Hollywood. To understand how Asian Americans are negotiating their own eth… Continue reading Asian American Influencer Cultural Identity Portrayal on Instagram

Asian American Influencer Cultural Identity Portrayal on Instagram

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Social media provides minority groups with more control over their portrayals than stereotypical misrepresentations of Hollywood. To understand how Asian Americans are negotiating their own eth… Continue reading Asian American Influencer Cultural Identity Portrayal on Instagram

Building the Science News Agenda: The Permeability of Science Journalism to Public Relations

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. The current study examines the influence of press releases about scientific studies in terms of their impact on news coverage. Using an innovative approach that allowed for analysis of a large … Continue reading Building the Science News Agenda: The Permeability of Science Journalism to Public Relations

Building the Science News Agenda: The Permeability of Science Journalism to Public Relations

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. The current study examines the influence of press releases about scientific studies in terms of their impact on news coverage. Using an innovative approach that allowed for analysis of a large … Continue reading Building the Science News Agenda: The Permeability of Science Journalism to Public Relations