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

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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→

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

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

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

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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→

Active vs. Passive Ambivalent Voters: Implications for Interactive Political Communication and Participation

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Communication Research, Ahead of Print. Voters express different attitudes toward competing political parties and the issues they support. In this study, a polytomous latent class analysis of their opinions regarding party-divided issues identifies sev… Continue reading Active vs. Passive Ambivalent Voters: Implications for Interactive Political Communication and Participation→

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

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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→

Reading, Commenting and Sharing of Fake News: How Online Bandwagons and Bots Dictate User Engagement

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Communication Research, Volume 50, Issue 6, Page 667-694, August 2023. Do social media users read, comment, and share false news more than real news? Does it matter if the story is written by a bot and whether it is endorsed by many others? We conducte… Continue reading Reading, Commenting and Sharing of Fake News: How Online Bandwagons and Bots Dictate User Engagement→

Not All Norm Information is the Same: Effects of Normative Content in the Media on Young People’s Perceptions of E-Cigarette and Tobacco Use Norms

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Communication Research, Ahead of Print. Norm information in media can predict individuals’ norm perceptions and, ultimately, their behavior. Little research has examined how descriptive norm information manifests in media and impacts beliefs in the rea… Continue reading Not All Norm Information is the Same: Effects of Normative Content in the Media on Young People’s Perceptions of E-Cigarette and Tobacco Use Norms→

Not All Norm Information is the Same: Effects of Normative Content in the Media on Young People’s Perceptions of E-Cigarette and Tobacco Use Norms

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Communication Research, Ahead of Print. Norm information in media can predict individuals’ norm perceptions and, ultimately, their behavior. Little research has examined how descriptive norm information manifests in media and impacts beliefs in the rea… Continue reading Not All Norm Information is the Same: Effects of Normative Content in the Media on Young People’s Perceptions of E-Cigarette and Tobacco Use Norms→