Justin D Martins
Biographic Data
| ID | 4380428 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Justin D Martins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Justin D |
| FAMILY NAME | Martins |
| SIGNATURE | MARTINS J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University in Qatar |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0187-8424 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
“We Must Save Ourselves”
Between 1964 and 1968, a Black-led grassroots organization known as the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) mounted one of the most ambitious and successful attempts at independent Black politics in the United States. Beginning as a political party challenging racial exclusion in electoral politics, the MFDP evolved into a hybrid organization that combined electoral challenges with mass direct action protests and community organizing. Whi…
The effect of religiosity and cultural conservatism on digital privacy concerns
This study examines the influence of religiosity and cultural conservatism on digital privacy concerns (DPC) among internet users from five Arab countries. Across four waves (2017–2022), in-person and telephone interviews captured responses from 18,160 adults in Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Lebanon, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). We fitted random-intercept multilevel regressions that nest individuals within country-by-wave clusters, allowin…
A “regional halo effect”
Countries in the Middle East go to considerable lengths using mass media to try to maintain or improve their images among the U.S. public. The same countries often engage in negative media campaigns in the U.S. against each other, attempting to bring down public support for regional rivals. This study examined diplomatic evaluations of five Middle East countries—rating Saudi Arabia, Israel, Palestine, Qatar, and UAE as an ally, neutral, or enemy …
Are Newsjunkies More Likely to Vote? Intrinsic Need for Orientation and Voter Registration, Intention to Vote, and Voter Conscientiousness
This study examined the newsjunkie characteristic—intrinsic need for orientation (INFO)—as a predictor of being registered to vote, intention to vote, and voter conscientiousness among a large sample of U.S. adults (N = 2,059), while controlling for media use, news consumption, political partisanship, and demographics. INFO assesses the extent to which people access news in their downtime, feel discomfort when they cannot get news, check news amo…
Testing Classical Predictors of Public Willingness to Censor on the Desire to Block Fake News Online
This study examined media use and attitudinal predictors of public willingness to censor fake online political news among representative samples in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Tunisia (total N = 2880). The study utilized research on the corrective action hypothesis (CAH) and the theory of presumed media influence (TPMI) as frameworks. The CAH holds that an individual’s belief that media are hostile and influential increases the likelihood that the…
Getting news from social media influencers and from digital legacy news outlets and print legacy news outlets in seven countries
Legacy news consumption was found to be a predictor of getting news from social media influencers (SMIs) among respondents in seven nationally representative samples in Arab countries (N = 5,166). Getting news from SMIs does not seem to be an “alternative” for persons disenchanted with legacy media; SMI news use may, itself, be a form of legacy news consumption. The results provide strong evidence of the more-and-more phenomenon first identified …
From echo chambers to ‘idea chambers’
Countering conventional theory, this study found that online homophily and heterophily—connectivity with both similar and dissimilar others—are not necessarily countervailing phenomena, among representative surveys of internet users from five Arab countries: Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Lebanon, Qatar, and UAE ( N = 4,198). Respondents who said the Internet has increased their contact with politically and religiously similar people also tended to say i…
Ambivalent Sexism? Shifting Patterns of Gender Bias in Five Arab Countries
While institutional support is growing for women in leadership positions across the Arab world, little is known about how rising numbers of women in roles of authority and expertise are being perceived. We examine how general theories of gender bias fit new data from a survey experiment spanning nationally representative samples in five Arab countries. The experiment captured how citizens judge women who adopt the stereotypically masculine role o…
Is heavy binge-watching a socially driven behaviour? Exploring differences between heavy, regular and non-binge-watchers
Results of an online survey suggest that heavy binge-watching of serialized video content might be in part socially motivated. Among a sample of US college students, heavy binge-watchers were more likely to be opinion leaders and to experience fear of missing out (FOMO) than regular binge-watchers or non-binge-watchers. They also reported higher levels of parasocial engagement with the shows’ characters than other viewers. Contrary to common beli…
Binge-Watching Serial Video Content
This study examined psychological constructs related to the subjective experience of binge-watching serial video content. The results underscore the centrality of transportation in shaping viewers’ perceptions of the binge-watching experience and their binge-watching behaviors. Transportation was positively related to binge-watching frequency and mediated the impact of binge-watching session length on development of parasocial interactions (full …
News Media Credibility Ratings and Perceptions of Online Fake News Exposure in Five Countries
This study examined media credibility ratings as predictors of perceptions of online fake political news exposure (FNE) among internet users in five Arab countries: Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and UAE (N = 4,616). Regression models of media credibility and media use variables explained sizeable amounts of variance in FNE in three countries (14% to 26%). The hypothesis that respondents’ credibility ratings of news media would negatively…
Attribute substitution and stereotypes about the online Arab public sphere
This study examined concerns about Internet surveillance among Internet users in Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Lebanon, Qatar, and the UAE ( N = 4160). Despite common stereotypes about how variables like gender, youth, income, nationality, and liberal or conservative ideology affect political and cultural attitudes in Arab countries, these indicators were not significant predictors of concerns about online surveillance by governments and companies. Arab…
It Depends on Who’s Asking
This study examined interviewer gender effects on attitudes toward male and female journalists in a survey experiment in six Arab countries. Respondents (N = 5,040) in Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and UAE were read a scenario, by a male or female interviewer, of either a male or female journalist covering a political scandal, and were then asked about the journalist’s perceived credibility. Interviewer gender affected ratings of…
Media use predictors of online political efficacy among Internet users in five Arab countries
Informed by research on the uses and gratifications of the Internet for political activity, this study examines predictors of online political efficacy among Internet users in five Arab countries (N = 4029): Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Lebanon, Qatar, and the U.A.E. As predicted, variables presumed to be associated with political dissidence in Arab countries – unemployment, distrust of mainstream media, young age, and feeling country is on the wrong t…
Employing Perceptual-Learning Research in Journalism and Communication
Perceptual-learning methods teach concepts and skills using numerous, rapid-fire questions and immediate visual feedback. A quasi-experiment compared a digital perceptual-learning module (PLM) of 200 multiple choice questions on Associated Press style to an introductory journalism/strategic communication course in which students learned AP style. The PLM, which took only 70 min, significantly improved participants’ declarative and procedural know…
Predictors of blogging activity in six Arab countries
This study examines predictors of blogging in six Arab countries in a secondary analysis of population surveys of, in total, 7,525 respondents in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Lebanon, Bahrain, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates in 2013. The surveys assessed a wide variety of Internet uses, news and information consumption, and also levels of political efficacy, media trust, and attitudes toward free speech, among other cultural and political indicators…
Outsourced Credibility
This study tests the assumption that outsourcing copy editing harms accuracy. Authors content analyzed all corrected errors in five newspapers in a full year both before and after outsourcing of all copy editing (N = 3255), while controlling for newspapers' circulation during the two-year period. Literature on media credibility informs the analyses. Five daily newspapers in the United States and Canada have outsourced all copy editing either to p…
News use and political socialization among young Jordanians
This study examined the relationship between young Jordanians' ( N = 321) news use and their feelings toward the Jordanian and US governments. Consumption of traditional news delivery formats (such as print newspapers, radio broadcasts and interpersonal sources) was measured, as was reliance on new media formats such as blogs, text messaging and podcasting. Political socialization measures were indices of political trust and appraisals of the US …
Global journalism research
Martin Loffelholz and David Weaver address an important sphere of mass media research in Global journalism research: Theories, methods, findings, future. A corpus of literature has examined journalists and journalistic practices in North America and Western Europe in the last 60 years, but journalism scholars have written much less about newsmakers in many other parts of the world. Loffelholz and Weaver's edited volume discusses the importance of…
Blogging and Hyperlinking
(2005). Blogging and Hyperlinking: use of the Web to enhance viability during the 2004 US campaign. Journalism Studies: Vol. 6, Content and Effects of Media in the 2004 US Presidential Campaign, pp. 177-186
Hepatitis A Among Residents of First Nations Reserves in British Columbia, 1991–1996
Negativistic delinquency revisited a behavioral analysis
Obedience under Conditions Demanding Self-Immolation
Subjects in a boys' secondary school were asked to participate in an experiment which exposed them to the risk of up to 50% hearing loss. Of 42 Ss, 39 participated voluntarily. Each operated a fake "sound generator" similar to Milgram's "shock generator" and administered to himself a supposed stimulus whose "danger level" was prominently displayed before him. The highest level of stimulus to which each was prepared to go was recorded. Results sho…
Liberal vs. labor attitudes to social control
Techniques for Obtaining Rank Orderings
Two techniques are presented for obtaining complete rankings of relatively large numbers of items with minimum difficulty for the respondent. The alternating extremes technique involves the successive selection of items with high and low extreme ranks, in effect ranking inward from the ends of the ordering toward the middle. The successive halvings technique involves the division of the set of items into 'high' and 'low' halves, followed by the d…
Blogging and Hyperlinking
(2005). Blogging and Hyperlinking: use of the Web to enhance viability during the 2004 US campaign. Journalism Studies: Vol. 6, Content and Effects of Media in the 2004 US Presidential Campaign, pp. 177-186
Measurement of Relative Variation
There exists a variety of situations in which the dispersion of data, rather than their mean or other central value, is of interest. The coefficient of variation, which is a measure of dispersion divided by the appropriate measure of central tendency, is preferable to a raw measure of dispersion for this purpose. However, these measures do not have a constant range, and the common practice of dividing the variation value obtained by 100 and expre…
The Replication Problem in Sociology
The deleterious effects of joint bias in favor of statistical inference and against replication are becoming well known. The acceptance of numerous Type I errors into the literature is by far the most serious of these. Data on the contents of three major journals support the contention that a joint bias for statistical significance tests, for rejections, and against replication exists in modern sociology. This finding replicates that of Sterling …
Ambivalent Sexism? Shifting Patterns of Gender Bias in Five Arab Countries
While institutional support is growing for women in leadership positions across the Arab world, little is known about how rising numbers of women in roles of authority and expertise are being perceived. We examine how general theories of gender bias fit new data from a survey experiment spanning nationally representative samples in five Arab countries. The experiment captured how citizens judge women who adopt the stereotypically masculine role o…
News Media Credibility Ratings and Perceptions of Online Fake News Exposure in Five Countries
This study examined media credibility ratings as predictors of perceptions of online fake political news exposure (FNE) among internet users in five Arab countries: Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and UAE (N = 4,616). Regression models of media credibility and media use variables explained sizeable amounts of variance in FNE in three countries (14% to 26%). The hypothesis that respondents’ credibility ratings of news media would negatively…
Attribute substitution and stereotypes about the online Arab public sphere
This study examined concerns about Internet surveillance among Internet users in Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Lebanon, Qatar, and the UAE ( N = 4160). Despite common stereotypes about how variables like gender, youth, income, nationality, and liberal or conservative ideology affect political and cultural attitudes in Arab countries, these indicators were not significant predictors of concerns about online surveillance by governments and companies. Arab…
Are Newsjunkies More Likely to Vote? Intrinsic Need for Orientation and Voter Registration, Intention to Vote, and Voter Conscientiousness
This study examined the newsjunkie characteristic—intrinsic need for orientation (INFO)—as a predictor of being registered to vote, intention to vote, and voter conscientiousness among a large sample of U.S. adults (N = 2,059), while controlling for media use, news consumption, political partisanship, and demographics. INFO assesses the extent to which people access news in their downtime, feel discomfort when they cannot get news, check news amo…
Outsourced Credibility
This study tests the assumption that outsourcing copy editing harms accuracy. Authors content analyzed all corrected errors in five newspapers in a full year both before and after outsourcing of all copy editing (N = 3255), while controlling for newspapers' circulation during the two-year period. Literature on media credibility informs the analyses. Five daily newspapers in the United States and Canada have outsourced all copy editing either to p…
On Punishment and Crime (Chiricos and Waldo, 1970)
Binge-Watching Serial Video Content
This study examined psychological constructs related to the subjective experience of binge-watching serial video content. The results underscore the centrality of transportation in shaping viewers’ perceptions of the binge-watching experience and their binge-watching behaviors. Transportation was positively related to binge-watching frequency and mediated the impact of binge-watching session length on development of parasocial interactions (full …
It Depends on Who’s Asking
This study examined interviewer gender effects on attitudes toward male and female journalists in a survey experiment in six Arab countries. Respondents (N = 5,040) in Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and UAE were read a scenario, by a male or female interviewer, of either a male or female journalist covering a political scandal, and were then asked about the journalist’s perceived credibility. Interviewer gender affected ratings of…
News use and political socialization among young Jordanians
This study examined the relationship between young Jordanians' ( N = 321) news use and their feelings toward the Jordanian and US governments. Consumption of traditional news delivery formats (such as print newspapers, radio broadcasts and interpersonal sources) was measured, as was reliance on new media formats such as blogs, text messaging and podcasting. Political socialization measures were indices of political trust and appraisals of the US …
Hepatitis A Among Residents of First Nations Reserves in British Columbia, 1991–1996
Obedience under Conditions Demanding Self-Immolation
Subjects in a boys' secondary school were asked to participate in an experiment which exposed them to the risk of up to 50% hearing loss. Of 42 Ss, 39 participated voluntarily. Each operated a fake "sound generator" similar to Milgram's "shock generator" and administered to himself a supposed stimulus whose "danger level" was prominently displayed before him. The highest level of stimulus to which each was prepared to go was recorded. Results sho…
A “regional halo effect”
Countries in the Middle East go to considerable lengths using mass media to try to maintain or improve their images among the U.S. public. The same countries often engage in negative media campaigns in the U.S. against each other, attempting to bring down public support for regional rivals. This study examined diplomatic evaluations of five Middle East countries—rating Saudi Arabia, Israel, Palestine, Qatar, and UAE as an ally, neutral, or enemy …
Is heavy binge-watching a socially driven behaviour? Exploring differences between heavy, regular and non-binge-watchers
Results of an online survey suggest that heavy binge-watching of serialized video content might be in part socially motivated. Among a sample of US college students, heavy binge-watchers were more likely to be opinion leaders and to experience fear of missing out (FOMO) than regular binge-watchers or non-binge-watchers. They also reported higher levels of parasocial engagement with the shows’ characters than other viewers. Contrary to common beli…
Predictors of blogging activity in six Arab countries
This study examines predictors of blogging in six Arab countries in a secondary analysis of population surveys of, in total, 7,525 respondents in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Lebanon, Bahrain, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates in 2013. The surveys assessed a wide variety of Internet uses, news and information consumption, and also levels of political efficacy, media trust, and attitudes toward free speech, among other cultural and political indicators…
Black Militant Ideology and the Law Some Indications From a Questionnaire Study
Note on a mathematical “theory” of coital frequency in marriage∗
The factual status of such a theory would require a long and complex determination; perhaps some day a few data can be reported by the grandson of the man who began a project to test it-if someone ever begins the project, and if he can get subjects, . . . In any case, since it can safely be assumed that the theory does not assert that its prediction is a physiological necessity, such data would be obsolete by the time they could be reported. Time…
Stooge Role and Stooge 'Detection
Stooge Role and Stooge 'Detection
Suspicion and the Experimental Confederate
Note on a mathematical “theory” of coital frequency in marriage∗
The factual status of such a theory would require a long and complex determination; perhaps some day a few data can be reported by the grandson of the man who began a project to test it-if someone ever begins the project, and if he can get subjects, . . . In any case, since it can safely be assumed that the theory does not assert that its prediction is a physiological necessity, such data would be obsolete by the time they could be reported. Time…
Two Significance Tests for Shotgun Studies
On Punishment and Crime (Chiricos and Waldo, 1970)
Social Interaction and the Formation of Restriction of Output Norms
Measurement of Relative Variation
There exists a variety of situations in which the dispersion of data, rather than their mean or other central value, is of interest. The coefficient of variation, which is a measure of dispersion divided by the appropriate measure of central tendency, is preferable to a raw measure of dispersion for this purpose. However, these measures do not have a constant range, and the common practice of dividing the variation value obtained by 100 and expre…
Black Militant Ideology and the Law Some Indications From a Questionnaire Study
Liberal vs. labor attitudes to social control
Techniques for Obtaining Rank Orderings
Two techniques are presented for obtaining complete rankings of relatively large numbers of items with minimum difficulty for the respondent. The alternating extremes technique involves the successive selection of items with high and low extreme ranks, in effect ranking inward from the ends of the ordering toward the middle. The successive halvings technique involves the division of the set of items into 'high' and 'low' halves, followed by the d…
The Replication Problem in Sociology
The deleterious effects of joint bias in favor of statistical inference and against replication are becoming well known. The acceptance of numerous Type I errors into the literature is by far the most serious of these. Data on the contents of three major journals support the contention that a joint bias for statistical significance tests, for rejections, and against replication exists in modern sociology. This finding replicates that of Sterling …
Obedience under Conditions Demanding Self-Immolation
Subjects in a boys' secondary school were asked to participate in an experiment which exposed them to the risk of up to 50% hearing loss. Of 42 Ss, 39 participated voluntarily. Each operated a fake "sound generator" similar to Milgram's "shock generator" and administered to himself a supposed stimulus whose "danger level" was prominently displayed before him. The highest level of stimulus to which each was prepared to go was recorded. Results sho…
Negativistic delinquency revisited a behavioral analysis
Hepatitis A Among Residents of First Nations Reserves in British Columbia, 1991–1996
Blogging and Hyperlinking
(2005). Blogging and Hyperlinking: use of the Web to enhance viability during the 2004 US campaign. Journalism Studies: Vol. 6, Content and Effects of Media in the 2004 US Presidential Campaign, pp. 177-186
Global journalism research
Martin Loffelholz and David Weaver address an important sphere of mass media research in Global journalism research: Theories, methods, findings, future. A corpus of literature has examined journalists and journalistic practices in North America and Western Europe in the last 60 years, but journalism scholars have written much less about newsmakers in many other parts of the world. Loffelholz and Weaver's edited volume discusses the importance of…
News use and political socialization among young Jordanians
This study examined the relationship between young Jordanians' ( N = 321) news use and their feelings toward the Jordanian and US governments. Consumption of traditional news delivery formats (such as print newspapers, radio broadcasts and interpersonal sources) was measured, as was reliance on new media formats such as blogs, text messaging and podcasting. Political socialization measures were indices of political trust and appraisals of the US …
Predictors of blogging activity in six Arab countries
This study examines predictors of blogging in six Arab countries in a secondary analysis of population surveys of, in total, 7,525 respondents in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Lebanon, Bahrain, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates in 2013. The surveys assessed a wide variety of Internet uses, news and information consumption, and also levels of political efficacy, media trust, and attitudes toward free speech, among other cultural and political indicators…
Outsourced Credibility
This study tests the assumption that outsourcing copy editing harms accuracy. Authors content analyzed all corrected errors in five newspapers in a full year both before and after outsourcing of all copy editing (N = 3255), while controlling for newspapers' circulation during the two-year period. Literature on media credibility informs the analyses. Five daily newspapers in the United States and Canada have outsourced all copy editing either to p…
Media use predictors of online political efficacy among Internet users in five Arab countries
Informed by research on the uses and gratifications of the Internet for political activity, this study examines predictors of online political efficacy among Internet users in five Arab countries (N = 4029): Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Lebanon, Qatar, and the U.A.E. As predicted, variables presumed to be associated with political dissidence in Arab countries – unemployment, distrust of mainstream media, young age, and feeling country is on the wrong t…
Employing Perceptual-Learning Research in Journalism and Communication
Perceptual-learning methods teach concepts and skills using numerous, rapid-fire questions and immediate visual feedback. A quasi-experiment compared a digital perceptual-learning module (PLM) of 200 multiple choice questions on Associated Press style to an introductory journalism/strategic communication course in which students learned AP style. The PLM, which took only 70 min, significantly improved participants’ declarative and procedural know…
Attribute substitution and stereotypes about the online Arab public sphere
This study examined concerns about Internet surveillance among Internet users in Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Lebanon, Qatar, and the UAE ( N = 4160). Despite common stereotypes about how variables like gender, youth, income, nationality, and liberal or conservative ideology affect political and cultural attitudes in Arab countries, these indicators were not significant predictors of concerns about online surveillance by governments and companies. Arab…
It Depends on Who’s Asking
This study examined interviewer gender effects on attitudes toward male and female journalists in a survey experiment in six Arab countries. Respondents (N = 5,040) in Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and UAE were read a scenario, by a male or female interviewer, of either a male or female journalist covering a political scandal, and were then asked about the journalist’s perceived credibility. Interviewer gender affected ratings of…
Is heavy binge-watching a socially driven behaviour? Exploring differences between heavy, regular and non-binge-watchers
Results of an online survey suggest that heavy binge-watching of serialized video content might be in part socially motivated. Among a sample of US college students, heavy binge-watchers were more likely to be opinion leaders and to experience fear of missing out (FOMO) than regular binge-watchers or non-binge-watchers. They also reported higher levels of parasocial engagement with the shows’ characters than other viewers. Contrary to common beli…
Binge-Watching Serial Video Content
This study examined psychological constructs related to the subjective experience of binge-watching serial video content. The results underscore the centrality of transportation in shaping viewers’ perceptions of the binge-watching experience and their binge-watching behaviors. Transportation was positively related to binge-watching frequency and mediated the impact of binge-watching session length on development of parasocial interactions (full …
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