Douglas M Mcleod
Biographic Data
| ID | 138201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas M Mcleod |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas M |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcleod |
| SIGNATURE | MCLEOD D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5808-2457 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 574 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Visual Constructs of Conflict and Solidarity: The Role of Visual Framing on Public Perceptions and Engagement Intentions with Social Protests
This study investigates the role of visual framing in shaping public perceptions of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests through an online experiment, informed by news value and protest paradigm theory. It specifically examines the effects of conflict versus solidarity visual frames on audience reactions when paired with textual framing of protest goals. Results indicate that solidarity visuals significantly decrease negative perceptions about p…
Reading Faces: The Power of Facial Expressions as Visual Cues in Reports of Social Movements
Framing Social Change in Health Messaging: The Effects of Dynamic vs. Static Thematic Frames and Normative Information
Fighting Fire or Fighting War: Examining the Framing Effects of Covid-19 Metaphors
551 U.S. adults) to examine the impact of war metaphors compared to non-metaphorical literal frames and fire metaphors (e.g. "the pandemic is a wildfire"). War metaphors exhibited little advantage over literal frames across a variety of desirable outcomes (i.e. the adoption of pro-health behaviors against COVID-19, perceived solidarity and collective responsibility to curb the pandemic, and intentions to discuss and share the health news with oth…
Equivalence Framing and the Construction of Advocacy Messages
Alternative messages that present logically equivalent information, often referred to as equivalence frames, have been shown to influence readers' opinions on public issues. While equivalence framing has been studied in the context of issue advocacy, exhibiting pervasive effects across domains of decision‐making, little attention has been paid to whether the general public is able to choose these equivalence frames based on the goal of persuasion…
National Independence Versus Traditional Culture: Framing the Same-Sex Marriage Movement and Countermovement in Taiwan
Taiwan’s legalization of same-sex marriage in 2019 made it the first nation in Asia to grant marital rights to gay and lesbian couples. In the years leading up to legalization, the Marriage Equality Coalition Taiwan (pro-same-sex marriage) and the Coalition for the Happiness of Our Next Generation (anti-same-sex marriage) mobilized large-scale social movements on social media between 2016 and 2017 to influence the legislative process. The network…
Another Point of View: Scholarly Responses to the State of Third-Person Research
In a series of essays, scholars respond to Perloff and Shen’s article, “The Third-Person Effect 40 Years After Davison Penned It.” They offer further thoughts on how to measure the phenomenon, where future research is headed, and even whether the effect is real
Spatial Polarization, Partisan Climate, and Participatory Actions: Do Congenial Contexts Lead to Mobilization, Resignation, Activation, or Complacency
Exploring Numerical Framing Effects: The Interaction Effects of Gain/Loss Frames and Numerical Presentation Formats on Message Comprehension, Emotion, and Perceived Issue Seriousness
Statistical information permeates media messages, but little is known about how the use of different presentation formats influences message processing. Thus, we explore numerical framing effects by examining how presentation formats interact with gain/loss frames to alter message processing and issue perceptions. We found that logically equivalent information embedded in gain/loss frames generated different levels of comprehension when it was pr…
Breaking the “Virtuous Circle”: How Partisan Communication Flows Can Erode Social Trust but Drive Participation
We examine how individuals’ interactions with the shifting contemporary communication ecology—either by seeking information selectively from partisan sources or immersing themselves in a broad range of partisan communications — relate to shifting levels of social trust and online engagement. Using national panel surveys of young adults (i.e., millennials age 18–34) collected over the 2016 U.S. presidential election, we find that individuals’ part…
Chiming In: A Computer-Assisted Analysis of Popular Musicians' Political Engagement on Twitter
While music as an artistic form is well studied, the individuals behind the art receive relatively less attention. In this article, we provide evidence of celebrity advocacy with a systematic examination of musicians' political engagement on Twitter. This study estimates the extent to which musicians use Twitter for political purposes, with particular attention to whether such engagement varies across music genres. Through a computational-assiste…
The Effects of Framing and Advocacy Expectancy on Belief Importance and Issue Attitude
Message frames have been found to influence relevant issue attitudes by influencing the weight of issue considerations emphasized in the message. As such message frames often originate from advocacy interest groups, this study investigates differences in the framing effects of advocacy groups, depending on whether the message fits readers’ expectations for the communicators’ issue position (expected advocacy) or not (unexpected advocacy). Across …
Don’t Quote me: Effects of Named, Quoted, and Partisan News Sources
Many news organizations have developed policies on the use of named and unnamed sources, including whether the latter can be directly quoted or paraphrased in news stories. In this experiment, we test how audience members respond to these policy dictates by measuring news credibility in a political story that manipulated whether the source was named, whether that source was directly quoted, and the source’s political connection to the story. We f…
Effects of Frame Repetition Through Cues in the Online Environment
Research has shown that message frames can shape a reader’s subsequent judgments on political issues. In the online news environment, additional cues outside the story may be present that can affect the power of the frame. This online experiment investigates the role of repetitive cues in the framing processes using news editorials and their accompanying recommended headlines that repeat the editorial’s frame. Results suggest that regarding issue…
Beyond the Notion of Accessibility Bias: Message Content as the Common Source of Agenda-Setting and Priming Effects
This study examines the cognitive mechanisms behind agenda-setting and priming effects. Recent evidence suggessts that accessibility effects within network models of memory are not well suited to explain agenda-setting and priming effects. This article attempts to provide additional evidence regarding the roles of issue accessibility and message content in agenda-setting and priming processes. Our findings indicate that changes in issue accessibi…
News Framing and Social Protest
This chapter lays out a set of procedures to investigate visual and verbal frames in news packages with an integrated approach. It provides an updated literature review on how audiovisual analyses can be conducted, reveals strengths and weaknesses of existing approaches, and adapts this advice to the necessities of visual news framing analyses. With a focus on issue framing, researchers will be guided through all the stages of the process from da…
Framing Risk with Numbers: The Framing Effects of Risk Assertions and Number Formats on Emotions and Risk Perceptions
This study examines how risk assertions and relevant statistics presented in different number formats interact to influence emotional and cognitive outcomes. Experimental news stories present risk assertions that highlight either safety from or vulnerability to violent crime; these assertions are accompanied by crime statistics in absolute frequency, simple fraction, or percentage format. Although it may be tempting to assume that national statis…
Revising the Communication Mediation Model for a New Political Communication Ecology: Communication Mediation Model
A long tradition of research focuses on conversation as a key catalyst for community integration and a focal mediator of media influence on participation. Changes in media systems, political environments, and electoral campaigning demand that these influences, and the communication mediation model, be revised to account for the growing convergence of media and conversation, heightened partisan polarization, and deepening social contentiousness in…
When women attack: Sex scandals, gender stereotypes, and candidate evaluations
The common assumption that female candidates on the campaign trail should not go on the attack, because such tactics contradict gender stereotypes, has not received consistent support. We argue that in some circumstances gender stereotypes will favor female politicians going negative. To test this proposition, this study examines how gender cues affect voter reactions to negative ads in the context of a political sex scandal, a context that shoul…
Effects of Journalistic Adjudication on Factual Beliefs, News Evaluations, Information Seeking, and Epistemic Political Efficacy
A frequent critique of contemporary journalism is that journalists rarely adjudicate factual disputes when covering politics; however, very little research has been done on the effects of such passive journalism on audiences. This study tests effects of active adjudication versus “he said/she said” journalism on a variety of outcomes, finding that adjudication can correct factual beliefs, increase perceived news quality, satisfy perceived informa…
Facebook Use and Social Capital: To Bond, To Bridge, or to Escape
This study employs the uses and gratification approach to investigate how different forms of Facebook use are linked to bridging social capital and bonding social capital. A survey of 152 college students was conducted to address research questions and to test hypotheses. Factor analysis identified six unique uses and gratifications: (a) information seeking, (b) entertainment, (c) communication, (d) social relations, (e) escape, and (f) Facebook …
Adherence to the Protest Paradigm: The Influence of Protest Goals and Tactics on News Coverage in U.S. and International Newspapers
Research shows that news coverage of protest groups that challenge the status quo treats them relatively critically. To develop a more precise understanding of such coverage, this study content analyzes an international set of newspapers ( N = 220) to explore the relationships between a protest group’s goals and tactics on resulting news coverage. The findings indicate that a group’s tactics—more than its goals—play a substantial role in affectin…
Exploring Third-Person Differences Between Gamers and Nongamers
Numerous studies have demonstrated the third-person perception, but many aspects of its origin and consequences remain unaddressed. In this study, we examine how potential positive and negative video game effects are perceived differently based on the extent to which respondents actually play video games. Although video games exhibit clear third-person perceptions and subsequent support for censorship, these patterns are greatly diminished for he…
A Global Trend: How news coverage of protests reinforces gender stereotypes
Social protest is truly a global phenomenon with recent examples including protests in Asia, North America, and the Middle East. This study investigates how gender representations in protest coverage differ not only based on characteristics of the protests but also location and other factors. Examining 220 newspaper stories from four global regions, a content analysis revealed that gender portrayals differ in part by the region of the world. Furt…
Community Structure and Social Protest: Influences on Newspaper Coverage
Research on news coverage of social protest has yielded evidence of a “protest paradigm,” a framework of common news attributes that contribute to the marginalizing of protesters as social deviants. Analysis here investigates whether adherence to the protest paradigm varies by structural characteristics of the communities in which news organizations originate. More specifically, news organizations in less pluralistic communities may exhibit lower…
Campaigns, Reflection, and Deliberation: Advancing an O-S-R-O-R Model of Communication Effects
Journal Article Campaigns, Reflection, and Deliberation: Advancing an O-S-R-O-R Model of Communication Effects Get access Jaeho Cho, Jaeho Cho 1Department of Communication, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Dhavan V. Shah, Dhavan V. Shah 2School of Journalism and Mass Communication and Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison, WI 53706 Search …
Revising the Communication Mediation Model for a New Political Communication Ecology: Communication Mediation Model
A long tradition of research focuses on conversation as a key catalyst for community integration and a focal mediator of media influence on participation. Changes in media systems, political environments, and electoral campaigning demand that these influences, and the communication mediation model, be revised to account for the growing convergence of media and conversation, heightened partisan polarization, and deepening social contentiousness in…
The Manufacture of `Public Opinion' by Reporters: Informal Cues for Public Perceptions of Protest Groups
This study examines how conceptions of `public opinion' are embedded within news-coverage of social protests at two levels: the micro-level in terms of informal characterizations of public opinion and the macro-level in terms of general conceptions of public opinion. At the micro-level, public opinion is brought into news stories in a variety of ways, including: statements about public opinion, depictions of compliance with or violation of social…
Political Consumerism: How Communication and Consumption Orientations Drive “Lifestyle Politics”
Historians and cultural theorists have long asserted that a desire to express political concerns often guides consumer behavior, yet such political consumerism has received limited attention from social scientists. Here, the authors explore the relationship of political consumerism with dispositional factors, communication variables, and consumption orientations using data collected from a panel survey conducted in the United States between Febru…
Framing Policy Debates: Issue Dualism, Journalistic Frames, and Opinions on Controversial Policy Issues
This study examines how the news frames that journalists use to present contentious policy debates shape reasoning processes and opinion outcomes. Drawing on the notion that framing is a cognitive process in which the message affects how individuals weigh existing considerations (i.e., political orientations and relevant attitudes/beliefs) to make a judgment, the authors conducted two experiments in which they presented participants with news sto…
Adherence to the Protest Paradigm: The Influence of Protest Goals and Tactics on News Coverage in U.S. and International Newspapers
Research shows that news coverage of protest groups that challenge the status quo treats them relatively critically. To develop a more precise understanding of such coverage, this study content analyzes an international set of newspapers ( N = 220) to explore the relationships between a protest group’s goals and tactics on resulting news coverage. The findings indicate that a group’s tactics—more than its goals—play a substantial role in affectin…
The Influence of Level of Deviance and Protest Type on Coverage of Social Protest in Wisconsin from 1960 to 1999
This research examined the relationship between the nature of newspaper coverage of social protests and the level of deviance and type of protest. A content analysis of 280 protest news stories from the Milwaukee Journal, Wisconsin State Journal, Sauk Prairie Star, Watertown Times, and Park Falls Herald from 1960 to 1999 was conducted to compare indicators of the protest paradigm between protests that either support the status quo, endorse modera…
The Effect of Social Desirability on Perceived Media Impact: Implications for Third-Person Perceptions
Journal Article THE EFFECT OF SOCIAL DESIRABILITY ON PERCEIVED MEDIA IMPACT: IMPLICATIONS FOR THIRD-PERSON PERCEPTIONS Get access William P. Eveland, Jr., William P. Eveland, Jr. William P. Eveland. Jr. (Ph.D).,University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997) is an assistant professor. His research focuses on the impact of traditional and non-traditional media on knowledge and preceptions with special attention to the roles of motivation and information pr…
Community Structure and Social Protest: Influences on Newspaper Coverage
Research on news coverage of social protest has yielded evidence of a “protest paradigm,” a framework of common news attributes that contribute to the marginalizing of protesters as social deviants. Analysis here investigates whether adherence to the protest paradigm varies by structural characteristics of the communities in which news organizations originate. More specifically, news organizations in less pluralistic communities may exhibit lower…
Understanding Person Perceptions: Comparing Four Common Statistical Approaches to Third-Person Research
This article addresses whether current methods of measurement are sufficient to reflect all nuances of the third-person effect. We do so by content analyzing all major third-person effect (3PE) articles, assessing measurement and analysis approaches employed by 3PE researchers. We revisit data from two published studies, comparing analytical models that emerged as commonly used by 3PE researchers (i.e., the standard subtractive measure, Whitt's D…
The Politics of Consumption/The Consumption of Politics
As consumer culture pervades the social life of citizens in America and Europe, it becomes increasingly important to clarify the relationship between consumption and citizenship. With this in mind, faculty and students at the University of Wisconsin organized a conference titled “The Politics of Consumption/The Consumption of Politics.” Held in October 2006, the meeting provided a forum for leading scholars to discuss the interplay of markets, me…
Effects of Journalistic Adjudication on Factual Beliefs, News Evaluations, Information Seeking, and Epistemic Political Efficacy
A frequent critique of contemporary journalism is that journalists rarely adjudicate factual disputes when covering politics; however, very little research has been done on the effects of such passive journalism on audiences. This study tests effects of active adjudication versus “he said/she said” journalism on a variety of outcomes, finding that adjudication can correct factual beliefs, increase perceived news quality, satisfy perceived informa…
The Efficacy Gap and Political Participation: When Political Influence Fails to Meet Expectations
Journal Article The Efficacy Gap and Political Participation: When Political Influence Fails to Meet Expectations Get access Michael R. McCluskey, Michael R. McCluskey Michael R. McCluskey is a Lecturer at the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism, California State University, Fresno, USA. Sameer Deshpande is an Assistant Professor of Marketing, Faculty of Management, at the University of Lethbridge, Canada. Dhavan V. Shah is an Associa…
Frame Intensity Effects of Television News Stories About a High-Visibility Protest Issue
This study investigated the effects of the intensity of the protest paradigm frame in news stories about social protests. In contrast to previous research, this experiment examined framing effects in the context of a highly visible and familiar issue. The intensity of the application of the protest paradigm frame and its attendant signifying elements and framing devices were manipulated in television news stories about pro-choice and pro-life pro…
Circles Drawing Toward High Risk Activism: The Use of Usroh and Halaqa in Islamist Radical Movements
Kurzman (2004) Kurzman, C. 2004. “Conclusion: Social movement theory and Islamic studies”. In Islamic activism: A social movement theory approach, Edited by: Wiktorowicz, Q. 289–303. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. [Google Scholar] argued that social movements research and Islamic studies “followed parallel trajectories, with few glances across the chasm that have separated them.” This article will illuminate one influential process that h…
Actual and Perceived U.S. Public Opinion: The Spiral of Silence During the Persian Gulf War
This study analyzes actual and perceived support for the Persian Gulf War in the United States. Data were collected from 292 residents of New Castle County, Delaware, during the 1991 Gulf War. Results show that support for the war was not the strong consensus reported in mainstream media. In fact, 53.1 percent of the respondents fell within the neutral, disagree, or strongly disagree ranges of a support for the war scale. Only 6.6 percent of the …
The Role of Ego Enhancement and Perceived Message Exposure in Third-Person Judgments Concerning Violent Video Games
Ego enhancement has been offered as the psychological mechanism that drives differences in judgments about effects on self and others. This study employs a three-cell (ego threat, ego enhancement, and control) experimental design to test the validity of the ego-enhancement argument in explaining the third-person perception and related outcomes (e.g., support for government control). Findings indicate that although ego enhancement does not appear …
Civic Attachment in the Aftermath of September 11
After September 11, 2001, many theorists saw indications of a surge in social capital, indicated by increased trust and civic engagement. This surge may have been linked to factors such as rally effects and the spiral of silence, as well as to behaviors like participation and conversation. This study analyzes panel data collected shortly after September 11 and again several months later. Predictors of civic attachment were very different from Wav…
Effects of Frame Repetition Through Cues in the Online Environment
Research has shown that message frames can shape a reader’s subsequent judgments on political issues. In the online news environment, additional cues outside the story may be present that can affect the power of the frame. This online experiment investigates the role of repetitive cues in the framing processes using news editorials and their accompanying recommended headlines that repeat the editorial’s frame. Results suggest that regarding issue…
A Global Trend: How news coverage of protests reinforces gender stereotypes
Social protest is truly a global phenomenon with recent examples including protests in Asia, North America, and the Middle East. This study investigates how gender representations in protest coverage differ not only based on characteristics of the protests but also location and other factors. Examining 220 newspaper stories from four global regions, a content analysis revealed that gender portrayals differ in part by the region of the world. Furt…
Community Structure and Editor Opinions about Planning
This research focuses on the role of editors as community news gatekeepers. It surveys more than 150 editors from Minnesota, Iowa, North and South Dakota, and Wisconsin, comparing findings for two time periods, 1965 and 1985. The 1985 period was characterized by increased planning, especially in large, complex communities. This study finds that nearly all surveyed editors, as community elites, favored community planning, but by 1985 saw this plan…
Spatial Polarization, Partisan Climate, and Participatory Actions: Do Congenial Contexts Lead to Mobilization, Resignation, Activation, or Complacency
Framing Risk with Numbers: The Framing Effects of Risk Assertions and Number Formats on Emotions and Risk Perceptions
This study examines how risk assertions and relevant statistics presented in different number formats interact to influence emotional and cognitive outcomes. Experimental news stories present risk assertions that highlight either safety from or vulnerability to violent crime; these assertions are accompanied by crime statistics in absolute frequency, simple fraction, or percentage format. Although it may be tempting to assume that national statis…
Another Point of View: Scholarly Responses to the State of Third-Person Research
In a series of essays, scholars respond to Perloff and Shen’s article, “The Third-Person Effect 40 Years After Davison Penned It.” They offer further thoughts on how to measure the phenomenon, where future research is headed, and even whether the effect is real
Don’t Quote me: Effects of Named, Quoted, and Partisan News Sources
Many news organizations have developed policies on the use of named and unnamed sources, including whether the latter can be directly quoted or paraphrased in news stories. In this experiment, we test how audience members respond to these policy dictates by measuring news credibility in a political story that manipulated whether the source was named, whether that source was directly quoted, and the source’s political connection to the story. We f…
Community Structure and Editor Opinions about Planning
This research focuses on the role of editors as community news gatekeepers. It surveys more than 150 editors from Minnesota, Iowa, North and South Dakota, and Wisconsin, comparing findings for two time periods, 1965 and 1985. The 1985 period was characterized by increased planning, especially in large, complex communities. This study finds that nearly all surveyed editors, as community elites, favored community planning, but by 1985 saw this plan…
The Manufacture of `Public Opinion' by Reporters: Informal Cues for Public Perceptions of Protest Groups
This study examines how conceptions of `public opinion' are embedded within news-coverage of social protests at two levels: the micro-level in terms of informal characterizations of public opinion and the macro-level in terms of general conceptions of public opinion. At the micro-level, public opinion is brought into news stories in a variety of ways, including: statements about public opinion, depictions of compliance with or violation of social…
Actual and Perceived U.S. Public Opinion: The Spiral of Silence During the Persian Gulf War
This study analyzes actual and perceived support for the Persian Gulf War in the United States. Data were collected from 292 residents of New Castle County, Delaware, during the 1991 Gulf War. Results show that support for the war was not the strong consensus reported in mainstream media. In fact, 53.1 percent of the respondents fell within the neutral, disagree, or strongly disagree ranges of a support for the war scale. Only 6.6 percent of the …
Support for Censorship of Violent and Misogynic Rap Lyrics: An Analysis of the Third-Person Effect
Recent calls for censorship of rap music have demonstrated the need to test the perceptual and especially the behavioral components of Davison's third-person effect hypothesis. The hypothesis states that people perceive media content to have a greater impact on others than on themselves (perceptual component), and that these perceptions lead people to take actions, such as censorship, to prevent the impact (behavioral component). Results of a sur…
Rethinking the Social Distance Corollary: Perceived Likelihood of Expsoure and the Third-Person Perception
Researchers have proposed a social distance corollary to the third-person perception to explain the common finding that as comparison groups become more different from the self or more generally described, the size of the third-person perception increases (i.e., media messages are perceived to have greater negative impact on others than self). The two studies presented here investigate whether third-person perceptions are influenced by social dis…
Framing Effects of Television News Coverage of Social Protest
We investigated framing effects of television news coverage of an anarchist protest. Three treatment stories differed in their level of status quo support. Status quo support had significant effects on viewers, leading them to be more critical of, and less likely to identify with, the protesters; less critical of the police; and less likely to support the protesters' expressive rights. Status quo support also produced lower estimates of the prote…
The Effect of Social Desirability on Perceived Media Impact: Implications for Third-Person Perceptions
Journal Article THE EFFECT OF SOCIAL DESIRABILITY ON PERCEIVED MEDIA IMPACT: IMPLICATIONS FOR THIRD-PERSON PERCEPTIONS Get access William P. Eveland, Jr., William P. Eveland, Jr. William P. Eveland. Jr. (Ph.D).,University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997) is an assistant professor. His research focuses on the impact of traditional and non-traditional media on knowledge and preceptions with special attention to the roles of motivation and information pr…
Behind the Third-Person Effect: Differentiating Perceptual Processes for Self and Other
This study investigated factors related to two types of judgments that make up the third-person perception: media effects on others and effects on self. Specifically, separate regression path models revealed that estimates of effects on others are based on a relatively naive schema for media effects that is similar to the “magic bullet” model of media effects (i.e., more exposure leads to greater effects). On the other hand, assessing effects on …
A Multiperspectival Approach to Framing Analysis: A Field Guide
To personalize news and make it appear timely, media professionals tend to construct stories in episodic terms, focusing on specific instances and individuals, rather than presenting issues in their larger thematic context. Such episodic and strategic framing of news has been shown to influence citizens' information processing and political judgments, altering the criteria used to evaluate politicians and shaping assessments of governmental effec…
Media, Terrorism, and Emotionality: Emotional Differences in Media Content and Public Reactions to the September 11th Terrorist Attacks
Research on print and broadcast media shows differences in cognitive and affective responses. We extend that research by combining content analysis and survey methods to examine medium differences in the emotional tone of coverage concerning the September 11th terrorist attacks, and audience differences in emotional reactions to the attacks. A computer- aided content analysis of national television and newspaper transcripts demonstrates that tele…
The Influence of Level of Deviance and Protest Type on Coverage of Social Protest in Wisconsin from 1960 to 1999
This research examined the relationship between the nature of newspaper coverage of social protests and the level of deviance and type of protest. A content analysis of 280 protest news stories from the Milwaukee Journal, Wisconsin State Journal, Sauk Prairie Star, Watertown Times, and Park Falls Herald from 1960 to 1999 was conducted to compare indicators of the protest paradigm between protests that either support the status quo, endorse modera…
The Efficacy Gap and Political Participation: When Political Influence Fails to Meet Expectations
Journal Article The Efficacy Gap and Political Participation: When Political Influence Fails to Meet Expectations Get access Michael R. McCluskey, Michael R. McCluskey Michael R. McCluskey is a Lecturer at the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism, California State University, Fresno, USA. Sameer Deshpande is an Assistant Professor of Marketing, Faculty of Management, at the University of Lethbridge, Canada. Dhavan V. Shah is an Associa…
Personifying the Radical: How News Framing Polarizes Security Concerns and Tolerance Judgments
Journal Article Personifying the Radical: How News Framing Polarizes Security Concerns and Tolerance Judgments Get access Heejo Keum, Heejo Keum 1University of Texas at San Antonio 3Heejo Keum, Department of Communication, University of Texas at San Antonio, 6900 N. Loop 1604 W., San Antonio, TX 78249–0643 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Elloitt D. Hillback, Elloitt D. Hillback 2University of Wisconsin-Mad…
Understanding Third-Person Perception Processes: Predicting Perceived Impact on Self and Others for Multiple Expressive Contexts
This article examines the role of message context in third-person perceptions. Results challenge the assumption that context desirability is linearly related to the magnitude of self-other disparities. Rather, the interplay between message context and specific “others” who may be in the audience is an important determinant. Judgments about perceived exposure are one way this interplay manifests itself, but stereotypes about the relative susceptib…
Civic Attachment in the Aftermath of September 11
After September 11, 2001, many theorists saw indications of a surge in social capital, indicated by increased trust and civic engagement. This surge may have been linked to factors such as rally effects and the spiral of silence, as well as to behaviors like participation and conversation. This study analyzes panel data collected shortly after September 11 and again several months later. Predictors of civic attachment were very different from Wav…
Expressive Responses to News Stories About Extremist Groups: A Framing Experiment
With the tension between national security and civil liberties as a backdrop, this study examines responses to news coverage of activist groups. This 2 × 2 experiment presented participants with news stories about government efforts to restrict the civil liberties of an “extremist” individual or group (news frame) advocating for a cause supported or opposed by the respondent (cause predisposition). Willingness to take expressive action was greate…
Korean Abstract
Journal Article Korean Abstract Get access Hyunseo Hwang, Hyunseo Hwang Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Melissa R. Gotlieb, Melissa R. Gotlieb Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Seungahn Nah, Seungahn Nah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Douglas M. McLeod Douglas M. McLeod Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic…
Campaign Ads, Online Messaging, and Participation: Extending the Communication Mediation Model
Political communication researchers have devoted a great deal of attention to the role of political advertising, the Internet, and political discussion in civic and political life. In this article, we integrate and extend this research by developing a campaign communication mediation model of civic and campaign participation. Two data sets are merged for this inquiry: (a) content-coded ad-buy data on the placement of campaign messages on a market…
Chinese Abstract
Journal Article Chinese Abstract Get access Hyunseo Hwang, Hyunseo Hwang Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Melissa R. Gotlieb, Melissa R. Gotlieb Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Seungahn Nah, Seungahn Nah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Douglas M. McLeod Douglas M. McLeod Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academi…
Spanish Abstract
Aplicando un Modelo de Procesamiento Cognitivo a los Efectos de los Debates Presidenciales: Análisis de Noticias Post-Debate y Reflexión Primed Hyunseo Hwang Candidato al Doctorado Escuela de Periodismo y Comunicación Masiva UW-Madison Melissa R. Gotlieb Estudiante de Maestría Escuela de Periodismo y Comunicación Masiva UW-Madison Seungahn Nah Profesor Asistente Departamento de Comunidad y Desarrollo de Liderazgo UW-Madison Douglas M. McLeod Prof…
French Abstract
L’application d’un modèle cognitif du traitement de l’information pour comprendre les effets des débats présidentiels: Analyse des actualités post-débats et des réflexions préparées Hyunseo Hwang Candidat au doctorat School of Journalism and Mass Communication UW-Madison Melissa R. Gotlieb Étudiante à la maîtrise School of Journalism and Mass Communication UW-Madison Seungahn Nah Assistant Professeur adjoint Department of Community and Leadership…
Structural Antecedents to Knowledge and Participation: Extending the Knowledge Gap Concept to Participation
This paper investigates relationships between community characteristics and levels of knowledge and participation examined at both the individual and the community levels. This research extends the knowledge gap concept to a parallel phenomenon, the participation gap. Results from the Social Capital Benchmark Survey 2000 showed that community density, education, and cohesion were significant positive predictors of knowledge but less consistent pr…
Applying a Cognitive-Processing Model to Presidential Debate Effects: Postdebate News Analysis and Primed Reflection
This article integrates priming and framing into a cognitive-processing model that illustrates how the effects of watching a presidential debate might be influenced by a priming message as it interacts with an individual’s schema. We examine how the frame of postdebate news analysis primes audience reflection on a previously viewed segment from the 2004 presidential debates (a process we identify as “primed reflection”). Results show that the inf…
Applying a Cognitive-Processing Model to Presidential Debate Effects: Postdebate News Analysis and Primed Reflection
This article integrates priming and framing into a cognitive-processing model that illustrates how the effects of watching a presidential debate might be influenced by a priming message as it interacts with an individual’s schema. We examine how the frame of postdebate news analysis primes audience reflection on a previously viewed segment from the 2004 presidential debates (a process we identify as “primed reflection”). Results show that the inf…
Frame Intensity Effects of Television News Stories About a High-Visibility Protest Issue
This study investigated the effects of the intensity of the protest paradigm frame in news stories about social protests. In contrast to previous research, this experiment examined framing effects in the context of a highly visible and familiar issue. The intensity of the application of the protest paradigm frame and its attendant signifying elements and framing devices were manipulated in television news stories about pro-choice and pro-life pro…
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