Britta C Brugman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1180119 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Britta C Brugman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Britta C |
| FAMILY NAME | Brugman |
| SIGNATURE | BRUGMAN B C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0064-5154 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Beyond the single business
Purpose Organizations increasingly engage in corporate social advocacy (CSA), which can be understood as perceived organizational norm entrepreneurship. Perceived norm entrepreneurship may foster new societal norms, in this case related to public evaluations of organizations. This study aims to focus on factors explaining (a) when the general public feels that competitors should make similar CSA efforts too (norm-setting potential) and (b) when C…
Does more say more? Organizational heritage storytelling and the amount of historic information
Purpose This preregistered study investigated whether heritage storytelling becomes more effective as more of an organization's past is shared. We tested direct effects of increasing the amount of historic information on heritage, reputation, and legitimacy perceptions, as well as indirect effects mediated by credibility and psychological distance. Design/methodology/approach We conducted an experiment (N = 1,621) using quota sampling to approxim…
More engagement equals more persuasion? How entertainment experiences predict attitudinal effects of satirical news articles
Previous research found that satirical news has mixed effects on attitudes among the public: both large, small, and no effects have been observed. Our research aims to improve our understanding of the explanatory mechanisms behind persuasive effects of satirical news. It tests the prediction that satirical news increases negative attitudes toward satirical targets (e.g., politicians, journalists) through increased hedonic engagement (i.e., enjoym…
How the effects of emphasizing ethics are examined
Debunking the corporate paint shop
Misinformation thrives on social media, prompting much research into social media interventions such as debunks. This paper tests debunking’s effectiveness against an understudied but prominent form of online misinformation: misleading organizational claims of corporate social responsibility, or CSR-washing . British participants ( N = 657) took part in a preregistered experiment with a 2 (debunk: present, absent) x 3 (CSR-washing: greenwashing, …
Frame Repertoires at the Genre Level
Previous research suggests that, compared to regular news, satirical news has its own frame repertoire, which differs by outlet characteristics (e.g. medium type, political leaning). We analyzed two large corpora of satirical and regular news: television show episodes (8,925,180 words) and online written articles (64,301,669 words) of liberal and conservative outlets for character, emotional, and moral framing. Contrary to expectations, findings …
Satire from a far-away land
Satirical news and its effects on outcomes such as appreciation and persuasion have gained considerable currency as a topic of research in mass communication studies. Through the framework of construal level theory, we investigated whether different levels of spatial distance influence these effects. In a between-subjects experiment, participants in the United Kingdom (UK; n = 282) and New Zealand (NZ; n = 370) read a satirical or non-satirical n…
How Satirical News Impacts Affective Responses, Learning, and Persuasion
Satirical news blends entertainment with information and opinion. Satire can thus impact various audience responses, such as positive and negative affect, learning, and persuasion. However, the presence and size of these communicative effects have been debated. We conducted a three-level random-effects meta-analysis on the impact of satirical news ( k = 70, N total = 22,969). We compared satirical news to two reference categories: (1) control mes…
Audience Perceptions of Covid-19 Metaphors
Metaphors abound in descriptions of the COVID-19 pandemic: it is described, among other things, as a war, a flood, and a marathon. However, not all metaphors may resonate equally well with members of the public. Given that the pandemic has impacted people’s lives across countries in divergent ways – both in terms of spread and in terms of government-imposed measures, we investigated whether audience perceptions of metaphors for the COVID-19 pande…
Humor in Satirical News Headlines
Satirical news presents a critique of current affairs through humor. Previous research suggests that satirical news can have different humor forms (e.g. linguistic strategies) and humor contents (e.g. news topics, targets), and that such differences in humor characteristics can influence audience effects of satirical news. This paper extends this research by analyzing these relationships across different types of outlets in a content analysis (St…
From The Daily Show to Last Week Tonight
Satirical news shows constitute an innovative hybrid genre that mixes regular news and fiction. The discursive integration hypothesis posits that the defining characteristic of satirical news shows is that news and fiction elements are integrated such that boundaries between the preexisting genres have blurred. The current study quantitatively tests this hypothesis on both long-running American shows such as The Daily Show and more recent shows s…
Satirical news from left to right
Previous research suggests that a defining characteristic of satirical news shows (e.g. The Daily Show ) is discursive integration: a creative blend of genre conventions of regular news and fiction. This study aimed to extend the concept of discursive integration to another popular form of satirical news: written satirical news. We focused on both liberal (e.g. The Onion ) and conservative (e.g. The Babylon Bee ) online outlets of satire. We coll…
Systematic literature reviews
Political framing across disciplines
Twenty-five years after Entman (1993) argued that the framing paradigm was fractured, debates about the value of framing as a theoretical concept are still ongoing. In particular, discussions focus on the use of: (a) equivalence frames (i.e., frames with logical equivalence such as gain and loss frames) versus emphasis frames (i.e., frames that emphasize different dimensions of an issue); and (b) generic frames (frames that are applicable to mult…
Recategorizing political frames
Hip
This article introduces the Hyperbole Identification Procedure (HIP), a firstsystematic method for identifying linguistic hyperbole in discourse. We startby comparing existing definitions of linguistic hyperbole. Based on thecommonalities shared by these definitions, we provide our operationaldefinition of hyperbole as “an expression that is more extreme than justifiedgiven its ontological referent.” The next section argues why it is useful toide…
Political framing across disciplines
Twenty-five years after Entman (1993) argued that the framing paradigm was fractured, debates about the value of framing as a theoretical concept are still ongoing. In particular, discussions focus on the use of: (a) equivalence frames (i.e., frames with logical equivalence such as gain and loss frames) versus emphasis frames (i.e., frames that emphasize different dimensions of an issue); and (b) generic frames (frames that are applicable to mult…
Systematic literature reviews
Satirical news from left to right
Previous research suggests that a defining characteristic of satirical news shows (e.g. The Daily Show ) is discursive integration: a creative blend of genre conventions of regular news and fiction. This study aimed to extend the concept of discursive integration to another popular form of satirical news: written satirical news. We focused on both liberal (e.g. The Onion ) and conservative (e.g. The Babylon Bee ) online outlets of satire. We coll…
Debunking the corporate paint shop
Misinformation thrives on social media, prompting much research into social media interventions such as debunks. This paper tests debunking’s effectiveness against an understudied but prominent form of online misinformation: misleading organizational claims of corporate social responsibility, or CSR-washing . British participants ( N = 657) took part in a preregistered experiment with a 2 (debunk: present, absent) x 3 (CSR-washing: greenwashing, …
From The Daily Show to Last Week Tonight
Satirical news shows constitute an innovative hybrid genre that mixes regular news and fiction. The discursive integration hypothesis posits that the defining characteristic of satirical news shows is that news and fiction elements are integrated such that boundaries between the preexisting genres have blurred. The current study quantitatively tests this hypothesis on both long-running American shows such as The Daily Show and more recent shows s…
Humor in Satirical News Headlines
Satirical news presents a critique of current affairs through humor. Previous research suggests that satirical news can have different humor forms (e.g. linguistic strategies) and humor contents (e.g. news topics, targets), and that such differences in humor characteristics can influence audience effects of satirical news. This paper extends this research by analyzing these relationships across different types of outlets in a content analysis (St…
Hip
This article introduces the Hyperbole Identification Procedure (HIP), a firstsystematic method for identifying linguistic hyperbole in discourse. We startby comparing existing definitions of linguistic hyperbole. Based on thecommonalities shared by these definitions, we provide our operationaldefinition of hyperbole as “an expression that is more extreme than justifiedgiven its ontological referent.” The next section argues why it is useful toide…
Recategorizing political frames
Political framing across disciplines
Twenty-five years after Entman (1993) argued that the framing paradigm was fractured, debates about the value of framing as a theoretical concept are still ongoing. In particular, discussions focus on the use of: (a) equivalence frames (i.e., frames with logical equivalence such as gain and loss frames) versus emphasis frames (i.e., frames that emphasize different dimensions of an issue); and (b) generic frames (frames that are applicable to mult…
Systematic literature reviews
Satirical news from left to right
Previous research suggests that a defining characteristic of satirical news shows (e.g. The Daily Show ) is discursive integration: a creative blend of genre conventions of regular news and fiction. This study aimed to extend the concept of discursive integration to another popular form of satirical news: written satirical news. We focused on both liberal (e.g. The Onion ) and conservative (e.g. The Babylon Bee ) online outlets of satire. We coll…
From The Daily Show to Last Week Tonight
Satirical news shows constitute an innovative hybrid genre that mixes regular news and fiction. The discursive integration hypothesis posits that the defining characteristic of satirical news shows is that news and fiction elements are integrated such that boundaries between the preexisting genres have blurred. The current study quantitatively tests this hypothesis on both long-running American shows such as The Daily Show and more recent shows s…
How Satirical News Impacts Affective Responses, Learning, and Persuasion
Satirical news blends entertainment with information and opinion. Satire can thus impact various audience responses, such as positive and negative affect, learning, and persuasion. However, the presence and size of these communicative effects have been debated. We conducted a three-level random-effects meta-analysis on the impact of satirical news ( k = 70, N total = 22,969). We compared satirical news to two reference categories: (1) control mes…
Audience Perceptions of Covid-19 Metaphors
Metaphors abound in descriptions of the COVID-19 pandemic: it is described, among other things, as a war, a flood, and a marathon. However, not all metaphors may resonate equally well with members of the public. Given that the pandemic has impacted people’s lives across countries in divergent ways – both in terms of spread and in terms of government-imposed measures, we investigated whether audience perceptions of metaphors for the COVID-19 pande…
Humor in Satirical News Headlines
Satirical news presents a critique of current affairs through humor. Previous research suggests that satirical news can have different humor forms (e.g. linguistic strategies) and humor contents (e.g. news topics, targets), and that such differences in humor characteristics can influence audience effects of satirical news. This paper extends this research by analyzing these relationships across different types of outlets in a content analysis (St…
Frame Repertoires at the Genre Level
Previous research suggests that, compared to regular news, satirical news has its own frame repertoire, which differs by outlet characteristics (e.g. medium type, political leaning). We analyzed two large corpora of satirical and regular news: television show episodes (8,925,180 words) and online written articles (64,301,669 words) of liberal and conservative outlets for character, emotional, and moral framing. Contrary to expectations, findings …
Satire from a far-away land
Satirical news and its effects on outcomes such as appreciation and persuasion have gained considerable currency as a topic of research in mass communication studies. Through the framework of construal level theory, we investigated whether different levels of spatial distance influence these effects. In a between-subjects experiment, participants in the United Kingdom (UK; n = 282) and New Zealand (NZ; n = 370) read a satirical or non-satirical n…
How the effects of emphasizing ethics are examined
Debunking the corporate paint shop
Misinformation thrives on social media, prompting much research into social media interventions such as debunks. This paper tests debunking’s effectiveness against an understudied but prominent form of online misinformation: misleading organizational claims of corporate social responsibility, or CSR-washing . British participants ( N = 657) took part in a preregistered experiment with a 2 (debunk: present, absent) x 3 (CSR-washing: greenwashing, …
More engagement equals more persuasion? How entertainment experiences predict attitudinal effects of satirical news articles
Previous research found that satirical news has mixed effects on attitudes among the public: both large, small, and no effects have been observed. Our research aims to improve our understanding of the explanatory mechanisms behind persuasive effects of satirical news. It tests the prediction that satirical news increases negative attitudes toward satirical targets (e.g., politicians, journalists) through increased hedonic engagement (i.e., enjoym…
Beyond the single business
Purpose Organizations increasingly engage in corporate social advocacy (CSA), which can be understood as perceived organizational norm entrepreneurship. Perceived norm entrepreneurship may foster new societal norms, in this case related to public evaluations of organizations. This study aims to focus on factors explaining (a) when the general public feels that competitors should make similar CSA efforts too (norm-setting potential) and (b) when C…
Does more say more? Organizational heritage storytelling and the amount of historic information
Purpose This preregistered study investigated whether heritage storytelling becomes more effective as more of an organization's past is shared. We tested direct effects of increasing the amount of historic information on heritage, reputation, and legitimacy perceptions, as well as indirect effects mediated by credibility and psychological distance. Design/methodology/approach We conducted an experiment (N = 1,621) using quota sampling to approxim…
Sociology (10 works) · Humor Studies and Applications (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Social science (5 works)