Nathaniel Paul
Biographic Data
| ID | 1259581 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nathaniel Paul |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nathaniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Paul |
| SIGNATURE | PAUL N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Texas |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3208-1768 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Cambridge Companion to US First Ladies
First ladies have always received a great deal of attention and are among the most recognizable figures of any presidential administration. They're often treated as celebrities, making them some of the most prominent women of their eras. Yet many of their stories and contributions have been overlooked. Through a collection of thematic essays, The Cambridge Companion to US First Ladies provides a thorough and compelling examination of the developm…
Empowered Narratives: How BLK Magazine Used Advocacy Journalism to Represent Black LGBTQ People
Despite the important role played by BLK magazine in the Black gay rights movement in the US, there is little scholarship focusing on the content of the magazine and how its pages gave voice and visibility to a marginalized population. Using archived issues of BLK, this paper conducted a qualitative content analysis of the articles published in the magazine from its inception in 1988 to its closure in 1994 to understand how the magazine used advo…
Good Guys Became Bad Guys? Changing Representations of Asians and Other Races in Crime News During Covid-19
During COVID-19, Asian Americans were perceived as a threat to the American society, which could have led to heightened media scrutiny and a shift in media portrayals. This study examines this question with a quantitative analysis of crime stories sampled from five newspapers (2019–2021). Our results suggested that large-scale social events such as COVID-19 might have transformed media representations of Asians and other racial groups, with notew…
When Readers Do Not Fight Falsehood: An Exploration of Factors Influencing the Perceived Realism of False News on International Disputes
This study examines the effects of misleading news-one type of false information presented by news media in the U.S. and China-in the context of international disputes. Through a web-based survey experiment, we tested how Chinese readers' perception of false news is affected by the source of the news, the presence of visual elements, and general trust in mainstream Chinese media and that in mainstream U.S. media, as well as news literacy. Our res…
Characterizing Asians in violence: A comparative analysis of English- and Chinese-language media’s crime news coverage during the pandemic
This study examined variances in crime news involving Asian perpetrators and Asian victims in a mainstream English-language daily USA Today, and an ethnic newspaper Qiao Bao. Our quantitative content analysis focused on (a) the volume of crime stories published about Asians (as perpetrators and victims respectively), and (b) the news frames used to cover crime incidents involving Asians (as perpetrators and victims respectively). Our results reve…
Visualizing the Pandemic: How the Front Pages of Local and National U.S. Media Used Images to Cover the Coronavirus Pandemic
This study explored how The New York Times and the Dallas Morning News used visuals on their front pages to frame the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and 2021. Findings indicated that the Times was more likely to publish COVID-related images on the front page, use the threat frame in its images, and use photographs taken by staff photojournalists than sourced from wire services or freelancers. The two newspapers were equally likely to give prominenc…
The Numbers Game: How Local Newspapers Used Statistics and Data Visualizations to Cover the Coronavirus Pandemic
Data and visualizations are an important part of local health news. Systematic data sourced from credible sources provide context to stories and educate audiences. Data visualizations help simplify complex statistical information and increase audience interactivity. Journalists associate statistics with objectivity, and use them to quantify risk in crisis situations. This study explores how local news used data to cover the coronavirus pandemic. …
When love wins: Framing analysis of the Indian media’s coverage of Section 377, decriminalization of same-sex relationships
In 2018, the Indian Supreme Court overturned Section 377 of the Penal Code which criminalized consensual homosexual sex between adults. This study examines the Indian media’s framing of this repeal, the sources quoted and the prominence given to the issue. Findings reveal that the human/civil rights frame was most common; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) sources were most prominent, and the issue was covered prominently in mo…
Politics of the plate: How an Indian food blog explored issues of identity, community, and food politics during the pandemic
Immigrants use food blogs to construct and maintain their ethnic identities. During the pandemic in spring of 2020, the Indian food blog Bongmom’s Cookbook, which showcases food from the Kolkata region of India, was my go-to for coping with the sense of uncertainty in the world. The blog and Facebook posts used humor to document meals and family life during the pandemic, while avoiding more difficult topics surrounding the pandemic. Using Bongmom…
Is More Better? Effects of Newsroom and Audience Diversity on Trait Coverage of Minority Candidates
This article examines how the racial composition of newsrooms and that of the news audiences influence campaign coverage of candidates. Using observational data compiled from multiple sources for analyses, our findings suggest that candidate trait coverage is influenced by what we term racial congruence at two levels. First, when the number of non-white journalists increases in newsroom, white candidates are more likely to receive positive trait …
Is news for men: Effects of women’s participation in news-making on audience perceptions and behaviors
News avoidance, particularly among women, raises potential challenges for democracy. While research shows audiences don’t penalize women reporters or the outlets that employ them, we don’t know whether the presence of women in the newsroom affects such avoidance behaviors, particularly for women audiences. Additionally, the news may communicate gender to the audience in other ways beyond ascriptive characteristics of the reporter. We ask, do repo…
Look Who’s Writing: How Gender Affects News Credibility and Perceptions of News Relevance
Women reporters are underrepresented in newsrooms and assigned to gender-stereotypic roles, but to what effect? To better understand the role of gender in news making, this article utilizes three survey experiments to investigate the effects of journalists’ gender on reader perceptions toward reporter credibility, outlet credibility, and the relevance of news to them. We find little evidence that readers doubt the credibility of a reporter or a n…
Narrative Framing of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in British Religious News
This paper examines how religious news organizations in the UK covered the Syrian refugee crisis in Europe. Using narrative framing theory, this paper examines all coverage from 2015 and 2016 published in bbc Religion (a part of bbc News ), The Muslim News , and Christian Today to examine shared and disparate narratives regarding Syrian refugees migrating to the UK. Four major frames emerged from our analysis of the media coverage in religious an…
I Can Feel What You Feel: Emotion Exchanges in Twitter Conversations between Candidates and the Public
Twitter offers politicians a direct path of communication to the public, and by its very nature, encourages tweets that are often heavy on emotions. Given the rise of Twitter and emotional appeals in politics, this paper investigates two important questions: How “emotional” are political candidates on Twitter, and, how does the public respond to candidates’ tweets containing emotional appeals such as joy, fear, anger, and disgust? Based on Crimso…
News Attention in a Mobile Era
Mobile access to the Internet is changing the way people consume information, yet we know little about the effects of this shift on news consumption. Consuming news is key to democratic citizenship, but is attention to news the same in a mobile environment? We argue that attention to news on mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones is not the same as attention to news for those on computers. Our research uses eye tracking in two lab experim…
Latino Portrayals in Local News Media: Underrepresentation, Negative Stereotypes, and Institutional Predictors of Coverage
Given the rise in negative rhetoric about Latinos in the U.S., it is essential to examine whether this negative tone extends to general, local news as well. An analysis of 2426 news articles drawn from 55 local newspapers in 2015 reveals several important findings. First, despite the intense spotlight on Latinos, they are still underrepresented in local news media. Relative to the other ethnic groups and whites, Latinos are more likely to be port…
Online product research as a labor of love: Motherhood and the social construction of the baby registry
This article examines how women engage in online product research as a means to negotiate their transition into motherhood. Drawing upon data from in-depth interviews with 32 expectant mothers, we demonstrate how the process of constructing baby registries is mediated by intensive online product research. By exploring the role of online resources in consumer decision-making and the different strategies that women employ to meet the perceived chal…
Transnational political engagement: Asian Americans’ participation in US politics and in the politics of their nation of origin
Asian Americans are in the unique position of participating in American politics as well as politics related to their nation of origin. However, there is a lack of consensus about the factors that are likely to make this group participate in homeland or US politics. We examine this question using data drawn from the 2008 National Asian American Survey (NAAS). Results suggest that Asian Americans’ participation in homeland politics is positively r…
A Case of More Is Less: The Role of Gender in U.S. Presidential Debates
For candidates and voters alike, U.S. politics is a gendered space in which women are often underrepresented. Participation from women is assumed to equalize representation and voice in the political process; however, little research has explored gender influence on campaign agendas, particularly in non-news contexts. This study applies a quantitative content analysis to explore the influence of (1) candidate gender, (2) journalist gender, and (3…
I Approve This Candidate: The Strategic Use of Ad Endorsements in the 2008 Election
Contextual and strategic factors that influence the use of endorsements in political advertisements represent an underexplored area of the scholarly literature, resulting in a gap between the art and science of campaigning and the advertising-effects literature. This article uses data from the Wisconsin Ad Project to study endorsements in ads aired during the 2008 election cycle. We show that endorsements are used strategically by campaigns and t…
News Attention in a Mobile Era
Mobile access to the Internet is changing the way people consume information, yet we know little about the effects of this shift on news consumption. Consuming news is key to democratic citizenship, but is attention to news the same in a mobile environment? We argue that attention to news on mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones is not the same as attention to news for those on computers. Our research uses eye tracking in two lab experim…
I Can Feel What You Feel: Emotion Exchanges in Twitter Conversations between Candidates and the Public
Twitter offers politicians a direct path of communication to the public, and by its very nature, encourages tweets that are often heavy on emotions. Given the rise of Twitter and emotional appeals in politics, this paper investigates two important questions: How “emotional” are political candidates on Twitter, and, how does the public respond to candidates’ tweets containing emotional appeals such as joy, fear, anger, and disgust? Based on Crimso…
Transnational political engagement: Asian Americans’ participation in US politics and in the politics of their nation of origin
Asian Americans are in the unique position of participating in American politics as well as politics related to their nation of origin. However, there is a lack of consensus about the factors that are likely to make this group participate in homeland or US politics. We examine this question using data drawn from the 2008 National Asian American Survey (NAAS). Results suggest that Asian Americans’ participation in homeland politics is positively r…
Look Who’s Writing: How Gender Affects News Credibility and Perceptions of News Relevance
Women reporters are underrepresented in newsrooms and assigned to gender-stereotypic roles, but to what effect? To better understand the role of gender in news making, this article utilizes three survey experiments to investigate the effects of journalists’ gender on reader perceptions toward reporter credibility, outlet credibility, and the relevance of news to them. We find little evidence that readers doubt the credibility of a reporter or a n…
A Case of More Is Less: The Role of Gender in U.S. Presidential Debates
For candidates and voters alike, U.S. politics is a gendered space in which women are often underrepresented. Participation from women is assumed to equalize representation and voice in the political process; however, little research has explored gender influence on campaign agendas, particularly in non-news contexts. This study applies a quantitative content analysis to explore the influence of (1) candidate gender, (2) journalist gender, and (3…
Is news for men: Effects of women’s participation in news-making on audience perceptions and behaviors
News avoidance, particularly among women, raises potential challenges for democracy. While research shows audiences don’t penalize women reporters or the outlets that employ them, we don’t know whether the presence of women in the newsroom affects such avoidance behaviors, particularly for women audiences. Additionally, the news may communicate gender to the audience in other ways beyond ascriptive characteristics of the reporter. We ask, do repo…
I Approve This Candidate: The Strategic Use of Ad Endorsements in the 2008 Election
Contextual and strategic factors that influence the use of endorsements in political advertisements represent an underexplored area of the scholarly literature, resulting in a gap between the art and science of campaigning and the advertising-effects literature. This article uses data from the Wisconsin Ad Project to study endorsements in ads aired during the 2008 election cycle. We show that endorsements are used strategically by campaigns and t…
When Readers Do Not Fight Falsehood: An Exploration of Factors Influencing the Perceived Realism of False News on International Disputes
This study examines the effects of misleading news-one type of false information presented by news media in the U.S. and China-in the context of international disputes. Through a web-based survey experiment, we tested how Chinese readers' perception of false news is affected by the source of the news, the presence of visual elements, and general trust in mainstream Chinese media and that in mainstream U.S. media, as well as news literacy. Our res…
A Case of More Is Less: The Role of Gender in U.S. Presidential Debates
For candidates and voters alike, U.S. politics is a gendered space in which women are often underrepresented. Participation from women is assumed to equalize representation and voice in the political process; however, little research has explored gender influence on campaign agendas, particularly in non-news contexts. This study applies a quantitative content analysis to explore the influence of (1) candidate gender, (2) journalist gender, and (3…
I Approve This Candidate: The Strategic Use of Ad Endorsements in the 2008 Election
Contextual and strategic factors that influence the use of endorsements in political advertisements represent an underexplored area of the scholarly literature, resulting in a gap between the art and science of campaigning and the advertising-effects literature. This article uses data from the Wisconsin Ad Project to study endorsements in ads aired during the 2008 election cycle. We show that endorsements are used strategically by campaigns and t…
Online product research as a labor of love: Motherhood and the social construction of the baby registry
This article examines how women engage in online product research as a means to negotiate their transition into motherhood. Drawing upon data from in-depth interviews with 32 expectant mothers, we demonstrate how the process of constructing baby registries is mediated by intensive online product research. By exploring the role of online resources in consumer decision-making and the different strategies that women employ to meet the perceived chal…
Transnational political engagement: Asian Americans’ participation in US politics and in the politics of their nation of origin
Asian Americans are in the unique position of participating in American politics as well as politics related to their nation of origin. However, there is a lack of consensus about the factors that are likely to make this group participate in homeland or US politics. We examine this question using data drawn from the 2008 National Asian American Survey (NAAS). Results suggest that Asian Americans’ participation in homeland politics is positively r…
Latino Portrayals in Local News Media: Underrepresentation, Negative Stereotypes, and Institutional Predictors of Coverage
Given the rise in negative rhetoric about Latinos in the U.S., it is essential to examine whether this negative tone extends to general, local news as well. An analysis of 2426 news articles drawn from 55 local newspapers in 2015 reveals several important findings. First, despite the intense spotlight on Latinos, they are still underrepresented in local news media. Relative to the other ethnic groups and whites, Latinos are more likely to be port…
News Attention in a Mobile Era
Mobile access to the Internet is changing the way people consume information, yet we know little about the effects of this shift on news consumption. Consuming news is key to democratic citizenship, but is attention to news the same in a mobile environment? We argue that attention to news on mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones is not the same as attention to news for those on computers. Our research uses eye tracking in two lab experim…
Narrative Framing of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in British Religious News
This paper examines how religious news organizations in the UK covered the Syrian refugee crisis in Europe. Using narrative framing theory, this paper examines all coverage from 2015 and 2016 published in bbc Religion (a part of bbc News ), The Muslim News , and Christian Today to examine shared and disparate narratives regarding Syrian refugees migrating to the UK. Four major frames emerged from our analysis of the media coverage in religious an…
I Can Feel What You Feel: Emotion Exchanges in Twitter Conversations between Candidates and the Public
Twitter offers politicians a direct path of communication to the public, and by its very nature, encourages tweets that are often heavy on emotions. Given the rise of Twitter and emotional appeals in politics, this paper investigates two important questions: How “emotional” are political candidates on Twitter, and, how does the public respond to candidates’ tweets containing emotional appeals such as joy, fear, anger, and disgust? Based on Crimso…
Look Who’s Writing: How Gender Affects News Credibility and Perceptions of News Relevance
Women reporters are underrepresented in newsrooms and assigned to gender-stereotypic roles, but to what effect? To better understand the role of gender in news making, this article utilizes three survey experiments to investigate the effects of journalists’ gender on reader perceptions toward reporter credibility, outlet credibility, and the relevance of news to them. We find little evidence that readers doubt the credibility of a reporter or a n…
The Numbers Game: How Local Newspapers Used Statistics and Data Visualizations to Cover the Coronavirus Pandemic
Data and visualizations are an important part of local health news. Systematic data sourced from credible sources provide context to stories and educate audiences. Data visualizations help simplify complex statistical information and increase audience interactivity. Journalists associate statistics with objectivity, and use them to quantify risk in crisis situations. This study explores how local news used data to cover the coronavirus pandemic. …
When love wins: Framing analysis of the Indian media’s coverage of Section 377, decriminalization of same-sex relationships
In 2018, the Indian Supreme Court overturned Section 377 of the Penal Code which criminalized consensual homosexual sex between adults. This study examines the Indian media’s framing of this repeal, the sources quoted and the prominence given to the issue. Findings reveal that the human/civil rights frame was most common; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) sources were most prominent, and the issue was covered prominently in mo…
Politics of the plate: How an Indian food blog explored issues of identity, community, and food politics during the pandemic
Immigrants use food blogs to construct and maintain their ethnic identities. During the pandemic in spring of 2020, the Indian food blog Bongmom’s Cookbook, which showcases food from the Kolkata region of India, was my go-to for coping with the sense of uncertainty in the world. The blog and Facebook posts used humor to document meals and family life during the pandemic, while avoiding more difficult topics surrounding the pandemic. Using Bongmom…
Is More Better? Effects of Newsroom and Audience Diversity on Trait Coverage of Minority Candidates
This article examines how the racial composition of newsrooms and that of the news audiences influence campaign coverage of candidates. Using observational data compiled from multiple sources for analyses, our findings suggest that candidate trait coverage is influenced by what we term racial congruence at two levels. First, when the number of non-white journalists increases in newsroom, white candidates are more likely to receive positive trait …
Is news for men: Effects of women’s participation in news-making on audience perceptions and behaviors
News avoidance, particularly among women, raises potential challenges for democracy. While research shows audiences don’t penalize women reporters or the outlets that employ them, we don’t know whether the presence of women in the newsroom affects such avoidance behaviors, particularly for women audiences. Additionally, the news may communicate gender to the audience in other ways beyond ascriptive characteristics of the reporter. We ask, do repo…
Characterizing Asians in violence: A comparative analysis of English- and Chinese-language media’s crime news coverage during the pandemic
This study examined variances in crime news involving Asian perpetrators and Asian victims in a mainstream English-language daily USA Today, and an ethnic newspaper Qiao Bao. Our quantitative content analysis focused on (a) the volume of crime stories published about Asians (as perpetrators and victims respectively), and (b) the news frames used to cover crime incidents involving Asians (as perpetrators and victims respectively). Our results reve…
Visualizing the Pandemic: How the Front Pages of Local and National U.S. Media Used Images to Cover the Coronavirus Pandemic
This study explored how The New York Times and the Dallas Morning News used visuals on their front pages to frame the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and 2021. Findings indicated that the Times was more likely to publish COVID-related images on the front page, use the threat frame in its images, and use photographs taken by staff photojournalists than sourced from wire services or freelancers. The two newspapers were equally likely to give prominenc…
Good Guys Became Bad Guys? Changing Representations of Asians and Other Races in Crime News During Covid-19
During COVID-19, Asian Americans were perceived as a threat to the American society, which could have led to heightened media scrutiny and a shift in media portrayals. This study examines this question with a quantitative analysis of crime stories sampled from five newspapers (2019–2021). Our results suggested that large-scale social events such as COVID-19 might have transformed media representations of Asians and other racial groups, with notew…
When Readers Do Not Fight Falsehood: An Exploration of Factors Influencing the Perceived Realism of False News on International Disputes
This study examines the effects of misleading news-one type of false information presented by news media in the U.S. and China-in the context of international disputes. Through a web-based survey experiment, we tested how Chinese readers' perception of false news is affected by the source of the news, the presence of visual elements, and general trust in mainstream Chinese media and that in mainstream U.S. media, as well as news literacy. Our res…
The Cambridge Companion to US First Ladies
First ladies have always received a great deal of attention and are among the most recognizable figures of any presidential administration. They're often treated as celebrities, making them some of the most prominent women of their eras. Yet many of their stories and contributions have been overlooked. Through a collection of thematic essays, The Cambridge Companion to US First Ladies provides a thorough and compelling examination of the developm…
Empowered Narratives: How BLK Magazine Used Advocacy Journalism to Represent Black LGBTQ People
Despite the important role played by BLK magazine in the Black gay rights movement in the US, there is little scholarship focusing on the content of the magazine and how its pages gave voice and visibility to a marginalized population. Using archived issues of BLK, this paper conducted a qualitative content analysis of the articles published in the magazine from its inception in 1988 to its closure in 1994 to understand how the magazine used advo…
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Media Studies and Communication (11 works) · Advertising (10 works) · Business (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · History (7 works) · Media studies (7 works)