Charles T Salmon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1322668 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles T Salmon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles T |
| FAMILY NAME | Salmon |
| SIGNATURE | SALMON C T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9696-1441 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 193 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Understanding the Effects of News-Finds-Me Perception on Health Knowledge and Information Seeking During Public Health Crises
News-finds-me (NFM) perception is a belief that, in the era of social media, individuals can remain adequately well-informed about current events even if they do not actively seek news. While it has been examined in the context of general and political news, NFM perception has not been explored in the context of other genres of news. Through an online survey involving 1,001 Singaporeans, with the Planned Risk Information Seeking Model, this study…
Cultural tightness-looseness and normative social influence in eight Asian countries: Associations of individual and collective norms with vaccination intentions
The effects of exergames on emotional well-being of older adults
A Field Analysis of Journalism in the Automation Age: Understanding Journalistic Transformations and Struggles Through Structure and Agency
As an unprecedented amount of information circulates, contemporary newsrooms are turning to automation to manage the data deluge. Amid claims of journalism in crisis, with falling revenues and newsroom closures, this study uses Bourdieu’s field theory to investigate how automation, as supplied by technological firms entering the journalistic field, may transform journalism in drastic ways. This study brings clarity to a field in flux, by reconcil…
When Journalism and Automation Intersect: Assessing the Influence of the Technological Field on Contemporary Newsrooms
In this era of “big data”, where information circulates in unprecedented amounts, this paper examines the use of automation in newsrooms to manage the data deluge—not from the perspective of newsworkers, but from the technologists driving these digital innovations instead. These technologists, in their work with journalists, have to learn about journalistic rules while carrying with them technology’s own internal logic. Using field theory and in-…
Journalism Reconfigured: Assessing human–machine relations and the autonomous power of automation in news production
Newsrooms are increasingly using automated technologies to manage the data deluge in this era of “big data” – tasks traditionally performed by human journalists are being taken over by machines, including the aggregation, prioritization, and writing of news. As machines become smarter and more capable of self-learning and self-judgment, an investigation into the social dynamics, and in turn, the power dynamics, of news production is warranted. Th…
Communicating to Influence Perceptions of Social Stigma: Implications for the Use of Signs by the Homeless as a Means of Soliciting Funds
Homelessness is an important social problem in many countries, including the United States. The plight of the homeless is compounded by a high level of stigma associated with the homeless. This study examines the effects of humorous and nonhumorous signs used by the homeless to attract donations. Study 1 shows that nonhumorous signs attracted 10 times as much money as humorous signs. Study 2 shows that subjects felt more comfortable in the presen…
Developing Effective Media Campaigns for Heatlth Promotion
Media exposure and smoking intention in adolescents: A moderated mediation analysis from a cultivation perspective
The study tested a moderated mediation model to examine the mechanisms underlying the link between media exposure and adolescent smoking intention by utilizing a modification of cultivation theory. A total of 12,586 non-current smoker adolescents in California were included in the analysis. Results showed that media exposure was positively related to smoking intention via perceived prevalence of peer smoking when friend disapproval of cigarette u…
The Spiral of Silence: New Perspectives on Communication and Public Opinion
1. Open Questions and Future Directions in Spiral of Silence Research Wolfgang Donsbach, Yariv Tsfati, Charles Salmon 2. Public Opinion and Social Control Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann Part I: Overview, Evidence, Methods 3. Paradigm Shifts in the Study of Media Effects Denis McQuail 4. Three contexts of the Spiral of Silence Theory Hans Mathias Kepplinger 5. Methodological Conundrums in Spiral of Silence Research Jorg Matthes, Andrew F. Hayes 6. Speak…
Spiral of Silence: New Perspectives on Communication and Public Opinion
Defining Public Will
Scientific elaboration of “public will” would enhance the concept's analytical usefulness and contribute to improved understanding in various fields, including political science and public policy. Previous work has utilized the term but has jumped the crucial stage of formally defining public will as a conceptual variable. This project constructs a definitional system that breaks the concept into components and offers operationalizations and asse…
Communication Yearbook 34
Mobilizing public will across borders: Roles and functions of communication processes and technologies
Public will is a social force that can mobilize organically, or with external support and influence, to become a political lever for social change. This essay investigates three different forms of public‐will mobilization: endogenous, which occurs within the confines of a social system; networked, which involves partnerships and collaborations across borders of a social system; and exogenous, which involves the collaborative efforts of change age…
Borders and communication: Connecting disciplines
The studies compiled in this special issue of the Journal of Borderlands Studies comprise a unique set of analyses investigating the role of communication across borders. Simply put, nothing can be more critical to the interaction of borders than communication. The works that follow arose from Communication Across Borders, a conference held in Israel in July, 2008, jointly sponsored by Michigan State University and the Interdisciplinary Center, H…
Unintended Effects of Health Communication Campaigns
Health communication campaigns, as an outcome of and an input into the social process, can create unintended as well as intended effects. The present paper represents an initial conceptual treatment of the unintended effects, the less studied of the two. It suggests that unintended effects can manifest in multiple dimensions, including those of time lapse, levels of analysis, audience types, content specificity, and valence. On these dimensions, …
The Influence of Student Sex and Instructor Sex on Student Ratings of Instructors: Results from a College of Communication
It is important to determine if student ratings of instructors reflect systematic bias due to sex of instructor. We posed research questions as to whether male and female students would rate male or female instructors more highly on five dimensions of student rating forms, one of which was instructor interaction. Results indicated that male and female students rated female instructors more highly on all five dimensions. The effect sizes of these …
Guilt, Fear, Stigma and Knowledge Gaps: Ethical Issues in Public Health Communication Interventions
Public health communication campaigns have been credited with helping raise awareness of risk from chronic illness and new infectious diseases and with helping promote the adoption of recommended treatment regimens. Yet many aspects of public health communication interventions have escaped the scrutiny of ethical discussions. With the transference of successful commercial marketing communication tactics to the realm of public health, consideratio…
Competencies for the Health Communication Specialist of the 21st Century
This article reports the results of an expert working group convened to define competencies required to function effectively as a health communication specialist. Participants were surveyed before the working group meeting on a range of issues related to training master's-level public health communication specialists. Survey responses were used to initiate the discussion at a subsequent two-day working group meeting. Survey and working group resu…
Bridging Theory “of” and Theory “for” Communication Campaigns: An Essay on Ideology and Public Policy
Motivational and Structural Factors in Predicting Different Kinds of Cancer Knowledge
Community Orientations and Newspaper Use among Korean Newcomers
A telephone survey of 165 Korean residents of Seattle examined newspaper use as a function of psychological orientation to Korea, the United States, both or neither. The study found main effects of orientation on newspaper use as well as a series of significant interaction effects between Korean-community and American-community orientations in predicting subscription, readership and attention to certain types of content. The paper concludes with …
The ‘Other’ as the Vulnerable Voter: A Study of the Third-Person Effect in the 1988 U.S. Presidential Campaign
Journal Article THE ‘OTHER’ AS THE VULNERABLE VOTER: A STUDY OF THE THIRD-PERSON EFFECT IN THE 1988 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN Get access Dianne Rucinski, Dianne Rucinski Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Charles T. Salmon Charles T. Salmon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Volume 2, Issue 4, WINTER 1990, Pages 345–368, …
The Next-Birthday Method of Respondent Selection
Four procedures for selecting telephone survey respondents within a household unit—Troldahl-Carter, male/female alternation, next-birthday, and no-selection methods—were compared in a small-sample survey. The data indicate that the next birthday method is a relatively efficient procedure for selecting a sample that is representative of all household members
The Next-Birthday Method of Respondent Selection
Four procedures for selecting telephone survey respondents within a household unit—Troldahl-Carter, male/female alternation, next-birthday, and no-selection methods—were compared in a small-sample survey. The data indicate that the next birthday method is a relatively efficient procedure for selecting a sample that is representative of all household members
Journalism Reconfigured: Assessing human–machine relations and the autonomous power of automation in news production
Newsrooms are increasingly using automated technologies to manage the data deluge in this era of “big data” – tasks traditionally performed by human journalists are being taken over by machines, including the aggregation, prioritization, and writing of news. As machines become smarter and more capable of self-learning and self-judgment, an investigation into the social dynamics, and in turn, the power dynamics, of news production is warranted. Th…
The ‘Other’ as the Vulnerable Voter: A Study of the Third-Person Effect in the 1988 U.S. Presidential Campaign
Journal Article THE ‘OTHER’ AS THE VULNERABLE VOTER: A STUDY OF THE THIRD-PERSON EFFECT IN THE 1988 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN Get access Dianne Rucinski, Dianne Rucinski Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Charles T. Salmon Charles T. Salmon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Volume 2, Issue 4, WINTER 1990, Pages 345–368, …
When Journalism and Automation Intersect: Assessing the Influence of the Technological Field on Contemporary Newsrooms
In this era of “big data”, where information circulates in unprecedented amounts, this paper examines the use of automation in newsrooms to manage the data deluge—not from the perspective of newsworkers, but from the technologists driving these digital innovations instead. These technologists, in their work with journalists, have to learn about journalistic rules while carrying with them technology’s own internal logic. Using field theory and in-…
A Field Analysis of Journalism in the Automation Age: Understanding Journalistic Transformations and Struggles Through Structure and Agency
As an unprecedented amount of information circulates, contemporary newsrooms are turning to automation to manage the data deluge. Amid claims of journalism in crisis, with falling revenues and newsroom closures, this study uses Bourdieu’s field theory to investigate how automation, as supplied by technological firms entering the journalistic field, may transform journalism in drastic ways. This study brings clarity to a field in flux, by reconcil…
Cultural tightness-looseness and normative social influence in eight Asian countries: Associations of individual and collective norms with vaccination intentions
Media exposure and smoking intention in adolescents: A moderated mediation analysis from a cultivation perspective
The study tested a moderated mediation model to examine the mechanisms underlying the link between media exposure and adolescent smoking intention by utilizing a modification of cultivation theory. A total of 12,586 non-current smoker adolescents in California were included in the analysis. Results showed that media exposure was positively related to smoking intention via perceived prevalence of peer smoking when friend disapproval of cigarette u…
Defining Public Will
Scientific elaboration of “public will” would enhance the concept's analytical usefulness and contribute to improved understanding in various fields, including political science and public policy. Previous work has utilized the term but has jumped the crucial stage of formally defining public will as a conceptual variable. This project constructs a definitional system that breaks the concept into components and offers operationalizations and asse…
Mobilizing public will across borders: Roles and functions of communication processes and technologies
Public will is a social force that can mobilize organically, or with external support and influence, to become a political lever for social change. This essay investigates three different forms of public‐will mobilization: endogenous, which occurs within the confines of a social system; networked, which involves partnerships and collaborations across borders of a social system; and exogenous, which involves the collaborative efforts of change age…
Motivational and Structural Factors in Predicting Different Kinds of Cancer Knowledge
The Next-Birthday Method of Respondent Selection
Four procedures for selecting telephone survey respondents within a household unit—Troldahl-Carter, male/female alternation, next-birthday, and no-selection methods—were compared in a small-sample survey. The data indicate that the next birthday method is a relatively efficient procedure for selecting a sample that is representative of all household members
Community Orientations and Newspaper Use among Korean Newcomers
A telephone survey of 165 Korean residents of Seattle examined newspaper use as a function of psychological orientation to Korea, the United States, both or neither. The study found main effects of orientation on newspaper use as well as a series of significant interaction effects between Korean-community and American-community orientations in predicting subscription, readership and attention to certain types of content. The paper concludes with …
The ‘Other’ as the Vulnerable Voter: A Study of the Third-Person Effect in the 1988 U.S. Presidential Campaign
Journal Article THE ‘OTHER’ AS THE VULNERABLE VOTER: A STUDY OF THE THIRD-PERSON EFFECT IN THE 1988 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN Get access Dianne Rucinski, Dianne Rucinski Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Charles T. Salmon Charles T. Salmon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Volume 2, Issue 4, WINTER 1990, Pages 345–368, …
Motivational and Structural Factors in Predicting Different Kinds of Cancer Knowledge
Bridging Theory “of” and Theory “for” Communication Campaigns: An Essay on Ideology and Public Policy
Competencies for the Health Communication Specialist of the 21st Century
This article reports the results of an expert working group convened to define competencies required to function effectively as a health communication specialist. Participants were surveyed before the working group meeting on a range of issues related to training master's-level public health communication specialists. Survey responses were used to initiate the discussion at a subsequent two-day working group meeting. Survey and working group resu…
Guilt, Fear, Stigma and Knowledge Gaps: Ethical Issues in Public Health Communication Interventions
Public health communication campaigns have been credited with helping raise awareness of risk from chronic illness and new infectious diseases and with helping promote the adoption of recommended treatment regimens. Yet many aspects of public health communication interventions have escaped the scrutiny of ethical discussions. With the transference of successful commercial marketing communication tactics to the realm of public health, consideratio…
Unintended Effects of Health Communication Campaigns
Health communication campaigns, as an outcome of and an input into the social process, can create unintended as well as intended effects. The present paper represents an initial conceptual treatment of the unintended effects, the less studied of the two. It suggests that unintended effects can manifest in multiple dimensions, including those of time lapse, levels of analysis, audience types, content specificity, and valence. On these dimensions, …
The Influence of Student Sex and Instructor Sex on Student Ratings of Instructors: Results from a College of Communication
It is important to determine if student ratings of instructors reflect systematic bias due to sex of instructor. We posed research questions as to whether male and female students would rate male or female instructors more highly on five dimensions of student rating forms, one of which was instructor interaction. Results indicated that male and female students rated female instructors more highly on all five dimensions. The effect sizes of these …
Communication Yearbook 34
Mobilizing public will across borders: Roles and functions of communication processes and technologies
Public will is a social force that can mobilize organically, or with external support and influence, to become a political lever for social change. This essay investigates three different forms of public‐will mobilization: endogenous, which occurs within the confines of a social system; networked, which involves partnerships and collaborations across borders of a social system; and exogenous, which involves the collaborative efforts of change age…
Borders and communication: Connecting disciplines
The studies compiled in this special issue of the Journal of Borderlands Studies comprise a unique set of analyses investigating the role of communication across borders. Simply put, nothing can be more critical to the interaction of borders than communication. The works that follow arose from Communication Across Borders, a conference held in Israel in July, 2008, jointly sponsored by Michigan State University and the Interdisciplinary Center, H…
The Spiral of Silence: New Perspectives on Communication and Public Opinion
1. Open Questions and Future Directions in Spiral of Silence Research Wolfgang Donsbach, Yariv Tsfati, Charles Salmon 2. Public Opinion and Social Control Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann Part I: Overview, Evidence, Methods 3. Paradigm Shifts in the Study of Media Effects Denis McQuail 4. Three contexts of the Spiral of Silence Theory Hans Mathias Kepplinger 5. Methodological Conundrums in Spiral of Silence Research Jorg Matthes, Andrew F. Hayes 6. Speak…
Spiral of Silence: New Perspectives on Communication and Public Opinion
Defining Public Will
Scientific elaboration of “public will” would enhance the concept's analytical usefulness and contribute to improved understanding in various fields, including political science and public policy. Previous work has utilized the term but has jumped the crucial stage of formally defining public will as a conceptual variable. This project constructs a definitional system that breaks the concept into components and offers operationalizations and asse…
Developing Effective Media Campaigns for Heatlth Promotion
Media exposure and smoking intention in adolescents: A moderated mediation analysis from a cultivation perspective
The study tested a moderated mediation model to examine the mechanisms underlying the link between media exposure and adolescent smoking intention by utilizing a modification of cultivation theory. A total of 12,586 non-current smoker adolescents in California were included in the analysis. Results showed that media exposure was positively related to smoking intention via perceived prevalence of peer smoking when friend disapproval of cigarette u…
Communicating to Influence Perceptions of Social Stigma: Implications for the Use of Signs by the Homeless as a Means of Soliciting Funds
Homelessness is an important social problem in many countries, including the United States. The plight of the homeless is compounded by a high level of stigma associated with the homeless. This study examines the effects of humorous and nonhumorous signs used by the homeless to attract donations. Study 1 shows that nonhumorous signs attracted 10 times as much money as humorous signs. Study 2 shows that subjects felt more comfortable in the presen…
Journalism Reconfigured: Assessing human–machine relations and the autonomous power of automation in news production
Newsrooms are increasingly using automated technologies to manage the data deluge in this era of “big data” – tasks traditionally performed by human journalists are being taken over by machines, including the aggregation, prioritization, and writing of news. As machines become smarter and more capable of self-learning and self-judgment, an investigation into the social dynamics, and in turn, the power dynamics, of news production is warranted. Th…
A Field Analysis of Journalism in the Automation Age: Understanding Journalistic Transformations and Struggles Through Structure and Agency
As an unprecedented amount of information circulates, contemporary newsrooms are turning to automation to manage the data deluge. Amid claims of journalism in crisis, with falling revenues and newsroom closures, this study uses Bourdieu’s field theory to investigate how automation, as supplied by technological firms entering the journalistic field, may transform journalism in drastic ways. This study brings clarity to a field in flux, by reconcil…
When Journalism and Automation Intersect: Assessing the Influence of the Technological Field on Contemporary Newsrooms
In this era of “big data”, where information circulates in unprecedented amounts, this paper examines the use of automation in newsrooms to manage the data deluge—not from the perspective of newsworkers, but from the technologists driving these digital innovations instead. These technologists, in their work with journalists, have to learn about journalistic rules while carrying with them technology’s own internal logic. Using field theory and in-…
The effects of exergames on emotional well-being of older adults
Understanding the Effects of News-Finds-Me Perception on Health Knowledge and Information Seeking During Public Health Crises
News-finds-me (NFM) perception is a belief that, in the era of social media, individuals can remain adequately well-informed about current events even if they do not actively seek news. While it has been examined in the context of general and political news, NFM perception has not been explored in the context of other genres of news. Through an online survey involving 1,001 Singaporeans, with the Planned Risk Information Seeking Model, this study…
Cultural tightness-looseness and normative social influence in eight Asian countries: Associations of individual and collective norms with vaccination intentions
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