Adam J Saffer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 136565 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Adam J Saffer |
| NOMBRES | Adam J |
| APELLIDO | Saffer |
| FIRMA | SAFFER A J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8032-4256 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Why are people skeptical of social media
Network Histories
This article details “network histories” as a methodological approach for studying organizations, teams, and individuals in digital journalism. Network histories trace the pattern of prior relationships between actors (e.g., organizations and individuals). The network histories approach provides an analytical and methodological framework that builds on extant networks scholarship and enables an examination of the role that an actor’s prior histor…
Communicating CSR relationships in Covid ‐19
Cross‐sector relationship building is an important strategy in corporate social responsibility initiatives, and communicating cross‐sector relationships on social media can help raise the visibility of collaborative relationships. A noticeable gap in the literature is how social media enables and constrains the formation patterns of cross‐sector connections. To understand how businesses communicate their relationships with government agencies and…
Curating Emergent Publics Through Domain Crossing
Audiences for messages divide attention among a variety of media outlets, sources, and venues. Such segmentation creates a challenge for message creators to (re)engage audiences' attentional capacities. This research investigates how domain elites may curate emergent attentive publics for public affairs content by engaging in processes of domain crossing to potentially redirect audience attention. Conceptually, we contribute to historic and conte…
Network dynamics of civil society
This article explores the role of macro-level factors, specifically political opportunity structures (POS), in shaping interorganizational network tie formation and persistence. Grounded in the POS literature and the multitheoretical multilevel (MTML) framework-specifically using the theories of resource dependency and collective action-we examine how changes in POS are associated with network structures in Malaysian civil society. Data were coll…
What Drives People Away from Covid-19 Information
1,304), we examined the effects of network size, heterogeneity, ego-alter dissimilarity, and social norms. Our results suggest that the four network variables had varying effects on different forms of information avoidance. Notably, social norms significantly predicted individuals' information avoidance. The theoretical and methodological implications of our findings are discussed
Emotion as a predictor of crisis communicative behaviors
Those affected by catastrophic events like hurricanes are burdened with the task of preparing for and responding to the threats of harm in addition to dealing with the emotionally taxing process of consuming and sharing disaster-related information. However, little is known about how threats and emotions during natural disasters impact media usage for information seeking and sharing. This study examined the relationship between the perceived thre…
Civil Society Networks and Malaysian Government Reform
While communication research on interorganizational homophily has grown, little is known about how issue homophily—defined here as the propensity to form ties based on shared issue priorities—influences interorganizational relationships in civil society. Our theoretical framework brings together homophily research and issue niche theory to explore the potential influence issues have on interorganizational network tie formation. Our empirical case…
How Public Health Agencies Break through Covid-19 Conversations
In times of public health emergencies, health agencies need to engage and communicate with the public in real-time to share updates and accurate information. This is especially the case for the COVID-19 pandemic where public engagement can potentially save lives and flatten the curve. This paper considers how the use of interactive features and strategic network positions of health agencies on social media influenced their public engagement outco…
What Influences Relationship Formation in a Global Civil Society Network? An Examination of Valued Multiplex Relations
Recent interorganizational communication research has taken up the question: why are networks structured the way they are? This line of inquiry has advanced communication network research by helping explain how and why networks take on certain structures or why certain organizations become positioned advantageously (or not). Yet, those studies assume relationships among organizations are either present or absent. This study considers how the stre…
Interorganizational homophily and social capital network positions in Malaysian civil society
The interorganizational relationship communication literature has identified homophily – the tendency for actors to form ties with similar others – as a mechanism predictive of tie formation among organizations in civil society networks. This study examined the connection between homophily and network structures equated with different types of social capital and perceptions of influence. Using survey data gathered from a network of Malaysian civi…
Promoting the Faith
Jordan Morehousea* & Adam J. Safferb a Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USAb University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USAJordan Morehouse (PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is Assistant Professor of Strategic Communication, Department of Communication, Clemson University.Adam J. Saffer (PhD, University of Oklahoma) is Assistant Professor of Strategic Communication, Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communic…
The Influence of Interdependence in Networked Publics Spheres
Investigations of networked public spheres often examine the structures of online platforms by studying users’ interactions. These works suggest that users’ interactions can lead to cyberbalkanization when interlocutors form homophilous communities that typically have few connections to others with opposing ideologies. Yet, rather than assuming communities are isolated, this study examines community-level interactions to reveal how communities in…
Managing Stakeholder Expectations in a Politically Polarized Society
In a polarized society, organizations are increasingly forced to take sides on controversial corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues. In recent years organizations have been challenged for their wrongdoings, inactions, or misinterpretations of societal expectations, which have drawn questions about their CSR efforts. The current study draws upon expectation violation theory to examine how stakeholders’ expectations for an organization’s CSR …
Standing out in a networked communication context
Social media can offer strategic communicators cost-effective opportunities to reach millions of individuals. However, in practice it can be difficult to be heard in these crowded digital spaces. This study takes a strategic network perspective and draws from recent research in network science to propose the network contingency model of public attention. This model argues that in the networked social-mediated environment, an organization’s abilit…
Interlocking among American Newspaper Organizations Revisited
Today’s media companies seem to be more intertwined than ever. But are they? Do these “interlocks” affect editors and the content journalists produce? This study uses a three-method design to examine the connections among newspaper organizations and corporations. The network analysis examined the interlocks among newspaper companies’ directors. The second phase surveyed editors of newspapers owned by these companies to assess the influence on the…
MSM Behavior Disclosure Networks and HIV Testing
It Takes a Village
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), like most strategic communicators, are challenged with breaking through the saturated international media environment as they attempt to influence public opinion. Yet, before strategic communicators can build an agenda, they must get attention from the public. The current study examined how NGOs' network positions in the public Twitter discussion of the global refugee crisis influenced the public engagement N…
NGOs' Advocacy in the 2015 Refugee Crisis
In the 2015 European refugee crisis, nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) offered help and actively advocated for millions of refugees. The current study aims to understand what communication strategies are most effective for NGOs to influence media coverage and the public's social media conversations about refugees. We found that agenda building on traditional media and in social media conversations require different strategies. Sp…
Mapping a Subfield's Sociology of Science
Sport crisis communication research has emerged as a substantial subfield of communication, sport communication, and crisis communication. The purpose of this study is to assess the development and diffusion of the subfield's scholarly works to uncover the influential authors, theories, and journals central to the subfield's knowledge construction process. We chart the development of the subfield by combining network analysis and bibliometric met…
Networks and Innovation in the Production of Communication
We outline a network analytic framework for analyzing the production of communication. In our framework, individuals—in part the products of the history of their social and professional ties—merge from various fields and a medley of prior production experiences within organizations to produce communicative innovations. Organizations with individuals who have diverse backgrounds and significant overlap in work experiences will be more innovative. …
Mapping a Subfield's Sociology of Science
Sport crisis communication research has emerged as a substantial subfield of communication, sport communication, and crisis communication. The purpose of this study is to assess the development and diffusion of the subfield's scholarly works to uncover the influential authors, theories, and journals central to the subfield's knowledge construction process. We chart the development of the subfield by combining network analysis and bibliometric met…
NGOs' Advocacy in the 2015 Refugee Crisis
In the 2015 European refugee crisis, nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) offered help and actively advocated for millions of refugees. The current study aims to understand what communication strategies are most effective for NGOs to influence media coverage and the public's social media conversations about refugees. We found that agenda building on traditional media and in social media conversations require different strategies. Sp…
Standing out in a networked communication context
Social media can offer strategic communicators cost-effective opportunities to reach millions of individuals. However, in practice it can be difficult to be heard in these crowded digital spaces. This study takes a strategic network perspective and draws from recent research in network science to propose the network contingency model of public attention. This model argues that in the networked social-mediated environment, an organization’s abilit…
It Takes a Village
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), like most strategic communicators, are challenged with breaking through the saturated international media environment as they attempt to influence public opinion. Yet, before strategic communicators can build an agenda, they must get attention from the public. The current study examined how NGOs' network positions in the public Twitter discussion of the global refugee crisis influenced the public engagement N…
Interorganizational homophily and social capital network positions in Malaysian civil society
The interorganizational relationship communication literature has identified homophily – the tendency for actors to form ties with similar others – as a mechanism predictive of tie formation among organizations in civil society networks. This study examined the connection between homophily and network structures equated with different types of social capital and perceptions of influence. Using survey data gathered from a network of Malaysian civi…
The Influence of Interdependence in Networked Publics Spheres
Investigations of networked public spheres often examine the structures of online platforms by studying users’ interactions. These works suggest that users’ interactions can lead to cyberbalkanization when interlocutors form homophilous communities that typically have few connections to others with opposing ideologies. Yet, rather than assuming communities are isolated, this study examines community-level interactions to reveal how communities in…
Interlocking among American Newspaper Organizations Revisited
Today’s media companies seem to be more intertwined than ever. But are they? Do these “interlocks” affect editors and the content journalists produce? This study uses a three-method design to examine the connections among newspaper organizations and corporations. The network analysis examined the interlocks among newspaper companies’ directors. The second phase surveyed editors of newspapers owned by these companies to assess the influence on the…
Networks and Innovation in the Production of Communication
We outline a network analytic framework for analyzing the production of communication. In our framework, individuals—in part the products of the history of their social and professional ties—merge from various fields and a medley of prior production experiences within organizations to produce communicative innovations. Organizations with individuals who have diverse backgrounds and significant overlap in work experiences will be more innovative. …
NGOs' Advocacy in the 2015 Refugee Crisis
In the 2015 European refugee crisis, nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) offered help and actively advocated for millions of refugees. The current study aims to understand what communication strategies are most effective for NGOs to influence media coverage and the public's social media conversations about refugees. We found that agenda building on traditional media and in social media conversations require different strategies. Sp…
Mapping a Subfield's Sociology of Science
Sport crisis communication research has emerged as a substantial subfield of communication, sport communication, and crisis communication. The purpose of this study is to assess the development and diffusion of the subfield's scholarly works to uncover the influential authors, theories, and journals central to the subfield's knowledge construction process. We chart the development of the subfield by combining network analysis and bibliometric met…
MSM Behavior Disclosure Networks and HIV Testing
It Takes a Village
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), like most strategic communicators, are challenged with breaking through the saturated international media environment as they attempt to influence public opinion. Yet, before strategic communicators can build an agenda, they must get attention from the public. The current study examined how NGOs' network positions in the public Twitter discussion of the global refugee crisis influenced the public engagement N…
Managing Stakeholder Expectations in a Politically Polarized Society
In a polarized society, organizations are increasingly forced to take sides on controversial corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues. In recent years organizations have been challenged for their wrongdoings, inactions, or misinterpretations of societal expectations, which have drawn questions about their CSR efforts. The current study draws upon expectation violation theory to examine how stakeholders’ expectations for an organization’s CSR …
Standing out in a networked communication context
Social media can offer strategic communicators cost-effective opportunities to reach millions of individuals. However, in practice it can be difficult to be heard in these crowded digital spaces. This study takes a strategic network perspective and draws from recent research in network science to propose the network contingency model of public attention. This model argues that in the networked social-mediated environment, an organization’s abilit…
Interlocking among American Newspaper Organizations Revisited
Today’s media companies seem to be more intertwined than ever. But are they? Do these “interlocks” affect editors and the content journalists produce? This study uses a three-method design to examine the connections among newspaper organizations and corporations. The network analysis examined the interlocks among newspaper companies’ directors. The second phase surveyed editors of newspapers owned by these companies to assess the influence on the…
Promoting the Faith
Jordan Morehousea* & Adam J. Safferb a Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USAb University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USAJordan Morehouse (PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is Assistant Professor of Strategic Communication, Department of Communication, Clemson University.Adam J. Saffer (PhD, University of Oklahoma) is Assistant Professor of Strategic Communication, Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communic…
The Influence of Interdependence in Networked Publics Spheres
Investigations of networked public spheres often examine the structures of online platforms by studying users’ interactions. These works suggest that users’ interactions can lead to cyberbalkanization when interlocutors form homophilous communities that typically have few connections to others with opposing ideologies. Yet, rather than assuming communities are isolated, this study examines community-level interactions to reveal how communities in…
Civil Society Networks and Malaysian Government Reform
While communication research on interorganizational homophily has grown, little is known about how issue homophily—defined here as the propensity to form ties based on shared issue priorities—influences interorganizational relationships in civil society. Our theoretical framework brings together homophily research and issue niche theory to explore the potential influence issues have on interorganizational network tie formation. Our empirical case…
How Public Health Agencies Break through Covid-19 Conversations
In times of public health emergencies, health agencies need to engage and communicate with the public in real-time to share updates and accurate information. This is especially the case for the COVID-19 pandemic where public engagement can potentially save lives and flatten the curve. This paper considers how the use of interactive features and strategic network positions of health agencies on social media influenced their public engagement outco…
What Influences Relationship Formation in a Global Civil Society Network? An Examination of Valued Multiplex Relations
Recent interorganizational communication research has taken up the question: why are networks structured the way they are? This line of inquiry has advanced communication network research by helping explain how and why networks take on certain structures or why certain organizations become positioned advantageously (or not). Yet, those studies assume relationships among organizations are either present or absent. This study considers how the stre…
Interorganizational homophily and social capital network positions in Malaysian civil society
The interorganizational relationship communication literature has identified homophily – the tendency for actors to form ties with similar others – as a mechanism predictive of tie formation among organizations in civil society networks. This study examined the connection between homophily and network structures equated with different types of social capital and perceptions of influence. Using survey data gathered from a network of Malaysian civi…
What Drives People Away from Covid-19 Information
1,304), we examined the effects of network size, heterogeneity, ego-alter dissimilarity, and social norms. Our results suggest that the four network variables had varying effects on different forms of information avoidance. Notably, social norms significantly predicted individuals' information avoidance. The theoretical and methodological implications of our findings are discussed
Emotion as a predictor of crisis communicative behaviors
Those affected by catastrophic events like hurricanes are burdened with the task of preparing for and responding to the threats of harm in addition to dealing with the emotionally taxing process of consuming and sharing disaster-related information. However, little is known about how threats and emotions during natural disasters impact media usage for information seeking and sharing. This study examined the relationship between the perceived thre…
Curating Emergent Publics Through Domain Crossing
Audiences for messages divide attention among a variety of media outlets, sources, and venues. Such segmentation creates a challenge for message creators to (re)engage audiences' attentional capacities. This research investigates how domain elites may curate emergent attentive publics for public affairs content by engaging in processes of domain crossing to potentially redirect audience attention. Conceptually, we contribute to historic and conte…
Network dynamics of civil society
This article explores the role of macro-level factors, specifically political opportunity structures (POS), in shaping interorganizational network tie formation and persistence. Grounded in the POS literature and the multitheoretical multilevel (MTML) framework-specifically using the theories of resource dependency and collective action-we examine how changes in POS are associated with network structures in Malaysian civil society. Data were coll…
Network Histories
This article details “network histories” as a methodological approach for studying organizations, teams, and individuals in digital journalism. Network histories trace the pattern of prior relationships between actors (e.g., organizations and individuals). The network histories approach provides an analytical and methodological framework that builds on extant networks scholarship and enables an examination of the role that an actor’s prior histor…
Communicating CSR relationships in Covid ‐19
Cross‐sector relationship building is an important strategy in corporate social responsibility initiatives, and communicating cross‐sector relationships on social media can help raise the visibility of collaborative relationships. A noticeable gap in the literature is how social media enables and constrains the formation patterns of cross‐sector connections. To understand how businesses communicate their relationships with government agencies and…
Why are people skeptical of social media
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