The Reciprocal Effects of Perceived Accuracy and Trust in News Media: A Two-Wave Online Panel Study in the Context of the 2021 German Federal Election

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Volume 101, Issue 1, Page 156-177, March 2024. Trust in the news media is an important prerequisite for democracies. Building on media trust and accuracy research, we investigate reciprocal effects between per… Continue reading The Reciprocal Effects of Perceived Accuracy and Trust in News Media: A Two-Wave Online Panel Study in the Context of the 2021 German Federal Election

Who Is Worthy of a Name? Identity, Naming, and Social Difference in News Images’ Captions

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Volume 101, Issue 1, Page 206-229, March 2024. This study examined news images and captions published by The Associated Press (N = 7,455) between 2018 and 2022 to ascertain whether names were more frequently i… Continue reading Who Is Worthy of a Name? Identity, Naming, and Social Difference in News Images’ Captions

From Punchlines to Punches: A Meta-Analysis of the Persuasive Effects of Horatian and Juvenalian Political Satires

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. A meta-analysis evaluated the persuasive effects of political satire and how such effects may differ between Horatian (light-hearted) and Juvenalian (acerbic) satire types. A synthesis of 33 st… Continue reading From Punchlines to Punches: A Meta-Analysis of the Persuasive Effects of Horatian and Juvenalian Political Satires

In AI We Trust: The Interplay of Media Use, Political Ideology, and Trust in Shaping Emerging AI Attitudes

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Using data from a nationally representative survey of U.S. adults, this study explores how trust in key actors to responsibly manage artificial intelligence (AI) develops among members of the U… Continue reading In AI We Trust: The Interplay of Media Use, Political Ideology, and Trust in Shaping Emerging AI Attitudes