David Atkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1454715 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Atkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Atkin |
| SIGNATURE | ATKIN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0087-597X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 130 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Does Streaming Undermine Mainstreaming? Finding Common Cultural Ground in Divisive Times
This study assesses whether the mainstreaming hypothesis, derived from cultivation frameworks developed during the mass audience era, remains operative in a digital media environment characterized by fragmenting media and cultural taste publics. In particular, we consider evolving conceptions of mainstreaming that stimulated our research questions and hypotheses in four surveys conducted from 2015 to 2024. We broaden our view of media to see if e…
Mask Use by 2020 U.S. Presidential Candidates: Visio-Textual Framing Effects of Covid-19-related Social Media News Posts
Drawing from framing theory and the health belief model, we investigated the influence of images and comments accompanying COVID-19-related social media news posts on COVID-19-related attitudes and mask use. Using a mixed factorial design, we examined the visual cue mask use frame and the textual cue comment valence (between-subjects), and the U.S. presidential candidate (Republican v. Democrat) portraying mask-wearing behavior (within-subjects) …
Examining older adults’ vulnerability to online health scams: Insights from routine activity theory
Introduction: Online health fraud has emerged as a significant digital risk for older adults in China, leading to considerable financial losses. This study aims to investigate the mechanisms underlying health fraud targeting and victimization among older adult populations, refining Routine Activity Theory (RAT) to account for the distinct stages of fraud exposure and victimization. Methods: A survey was conducted among retired individuals in July…
A Meta-Analysis into the Influence of Multi-Screening on Enjoyment
The current study synthesizes 34 effect sizes from 18 articles involving 9,271 participants to investigate how media multitasking influences enjoyment under different circumstances. The moderating effects of task combination, sample demographics, and methodological artifacts are examined. Study results indicate that task relevance boosts the positive relationship between media multitasking and enjoyment, with sample mean age and gender ratio bein…
Is an emoji worth a thousand words in breaking the online spiral of silence? Cross-cultural comparisons of emoji use in online political discussion
Emojis enjoy global popularity on social media and can be used either as an avoidance strategy or a coded language for opinion expression, depending on user personality and political climate. Drawing from spiral of silence theory, the current study employed online surveys to connect personality traits to four types of political emoji use (i.e., emotional, identity, indirect, and polite expression) in Chinese and American contexts. Results demonst…
Ideological Beliefs and Internalized Beauty Ideals as Predictors of Aesthetic Labor Among Chinese Feminists
Diversity of digital media exposure, information verification and vaccination intention: An empirical study in China
Purpose During the COVID-19 pandemic, the public relied heavily on digital media to stay tuned for the latest update. Media preference could increase risk perceptions, although the influence of diverse media exposure remains unknown. Based on protection motivation theory, this study aims to investigate how digital media exposure diversity and information verification influence vaccination intention. Design/methodology/approach Analyzing survey da…
Content creators as social influencers: Predicting online video posting behaviors
Purpose Creative content influencers are increasingly seizing the opportunity not only to express themselves, but also to monetize their videos and become entrepreneurs. The present study tests an integrative framework to determine whether the “creative influencers environment” impacts the degree of motivation for posting videos online, alongside the gratifications derived from such activity. Design/methodology/approach Utilizing a national onlin…
Check the Report and Comments: The Veracity Assessment of Unfamiliar News on Social Media
Given growing concerns regarding the spread of medical misinformation, the current research set out to assess the message effects of social media news on reader veracity assessments. A 2 (news report with hedging vs. without hedging) by 3 (uncivil vs. civil vs. no comments) between-subject experiment on Facebook users was conducted (valid N = 824). Results reveal that news hedging was more predictive of perceived credibility, news sharing, and fa…
Engagement in Social Distancing: An Empirical Test of Media, Intra-Family and Doctor-Patient Communication During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB), this study investigated how media presentations, intra-family communication, and doctor-patient communication influence compliance with social distancing orders during the initial COVID-19 outbreak. Results from an online survey in China suggested that media risk communication, intra-family communication, and doctor-patient communication enhanced respondents’ intention for social distancing via the m…
Migration stress, risky Internet uses, and scam victimization: An empirical study among Chinese migrant workers
In China, Internet scams against migrant workers have grown increasingly prevalent. This study uses routine activity theory and uses and gratifications theory to investigate how migration stress affects susceptibility to risky internet use and scam-related outcomes among Chinese migrant workers. The present study utilized a survey of 543 migrant workers. Findings reveal that migration stress was a significant predictor of engaging in risky online…
Mobile gaming and Internet addiction: When is playing no longer just fun and games
Auditory Cuteness in Sports Podcasting: A New Lookism
A major challenge facing female sportscasters resides in their being frequently judged based on physical appearance. However, little is known about the influence of audience perceptions of female sports podcasters’ physical attractiveness when their image is unavailable. Drawing from source credibility and social role theories, the present study employed a posttest-only quasi-experimental design to examine whether Chinese female sports podcasters…
Fear of Covid-19 Opinion Expression: Digitally Mediated Spirals of Silence and the Situational Theory of Problem Solving
Integrating the Spiral of Silence and the Situational Theory of Problem Solving, this study examines the relationships among fear of isolation, public segmentation, and willingness to express COVID-19 opinions amidst a public climate polarized by social media. An online survey sampled 338 U.S. participants. Findings revealed that fear of isolation predicted COVID-19 opinion expression. Additionally, segmentation of publics predicted COVID-19 onli…
Social media portrait-editing intentions: Comparisons between Chinese and American female college students
The Evolution of Research in Journalism and Communication: An Analysis of Scholarly Cios-Indexed Journals From 1915 to Present
Assessments of programmatic research remain important in the current higher education landscape, as the field of Journalism & Mass Communication (JMC) enters its second century. This study profiles scholarly productivity across the larger discipline’s first century, focusing on scholarly output for institutions in referred journals indexed by the Communication Institute for Online Scholarship (CIOS) database since 1915. The 30 most prolific schol…
Understanding third-person perception about Internet privacy risks
This study aims to test the third-person effect (TPE) in the perception of Internet privacy risks. Support was found for a TPE model suggesting that users report greater perceived Internet privacy risks on others than on themselves, based on a sample ( N = 613) from Amazon MTurk. In particular, the differential perception of Internet privacy risks between self and others increased people’s willingness to recommend protective measures to others bu…
The alternatives to being silent: Exploring opinion expression avoidance strategies for discussing politics on Facebook
Purpose This study integrates the spiral of silence (SoS) theory and theory of planned behavior (TPB) by examining Facebook users' opinion expression avoidance, the reactions to dissenting views without revealing one's true opinion, in the context of political discussions. The present integrative approach provides a more comprehensive framework that expands our understanding of online opinion expression and withdrawal. Design/methodology/approach…
How Do We Choose Our Identity? A Revealed Preference Approach Using Food Consumption
Are identities fungible? How do people come to identify with specific groups? This paper proposes a revealed preference approach, using food consumption to uncover ethnic and religious identity choices in India. We first show that consumption of identity goods responds to forces suggested by social identity research: group status and group salience. Moreover, identity choices respond to the cost of following the group’s prescribed behaviors. We p…
How Government Surveillance Policies Modify SNS Use in South Korea
The present study examines the assumption that online users would be influenced by widely reported privacy threats; namely, that public servants might monitor personal online communications between instant messenger users, and compel the Korean domestic social network service (SNS) providers to cooperate with their surveillance efforts. Utilizing uses and gratifications (U&G) theory, we integrate previous research on government surveillance, priv…
The Incarcerated Parent: Examining Mother-Child Conflict at the Margins through a Bio-Ecological Lens
This study examined conflict, parenting communication style, and attitudes regarding the parent-child relationship for a marginalized special population: incarcerated mothers and their children. Bronfenbrenner’s bio-ecological perspective served as a guiding framework, based on its ability to consider family interactions across ecological contexts, both proximal and distal to the developing child’s home setting. Fifty incarcerated mothers in the …
Negative Advertising Effects on Presidential Support Ratings During the 2012 Election: A Hierarchical Linear Modeling and Serial Dependency Study
In a literature where different research approaches generate inconsistent effects, we examine negative TV advertising effects on public support ratings of presidential candidates over time. Weekly national advertising and poll data from 2011 and 2012 were analyzed via (a) pooled time series analysis with growth curve modeling and (b) individual time serial dependency analysis with autoregressive integrated moving average. Study results support a …
To comment or not to comment: Examining the influences of anonymity and social support on one’s willingness to express in online news discussions
This study examines the effects of online anonymity and different sources of social influence on the Spiral of Silence phenomenon in online news discussions about abortion. The results ( N = 339) substantiated that technical anonymity predicts one’s perceived anonymity, but only the latter significantly increases one’s willingness to post personal opinions in the comment sections. Perceived support from other commenters was also found to reduce t…
Exporting and Firm Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
We conduct a randomized experiment that generates exogenous variation in the access to foreign markets for rug producers in Egypt. Combined with detailed survey data, we causally identify the impact of exporting on firm performance. Treatment firms report 16–26% higher profits and exhibit large improvements in quality alongside reductions in output per hour relative to control firms. These findings do not simply reflect firms being offered higher…
Retail Globalization and Household Welfare: Evidence from Mexico
The arrival of global retail chains in developing countries is causing a radical transformation in the way that households source their consumption. This paper draws on a new collection of Mexican microdata to estimate the effect of foreign supermarket entry on household welfare. The richness of the microdata allows us to estimate a general expression for the gains from retail FDI, and to decompose these gains into several distinct channels. We f…
Predicting Political Discussion in a Censored Virtual Environment
Contrary to the optimistic view that the Internet would promote democracy in authoritarian countries like China, the pervasive political apathy among younger generations calls for a closer examination of micro-level individual political participation. This study contributes to the nascent body of empirical literature probing Chinese Internet users' political participation online by examining related behavioral and attitudinal factors. We argue th…
A Model Linking Community Activity and Communication With Political Attitudes and Involvement in Neighborhoods
Although people tend to mobilize around local problems and restrict their political involvement at other times, the political communication literature generally has focused on national politics and elections. This is particularly surprising in investigations of political involvement since it is at the community level that people should feel more efficacious. Also, both mass and interpersonal communication should be more significant locally given …
How Do We Choose Our Identity? A Revealed Preference Approach Using Food Consumption
Are identities fungible? How do people come to identify with specific groups? This paper proposes a revealed preference approach, using food consumption to uncover ethnic and religious identity choices in India. We first show that consumption of identity goods responds to forces suggested by social identity research: group status and group salience. Moreover, identity choices respond to the cost of following the group’s prescribed behaviors. We p…
Understanding the use of circumvention tools to bypass online censorship
Circumvention tools designed to bypass online censorship—such as simple web proxies, virtual private network service, and so on—are frequently used in countries whose governments impose heavy Internet censorship. Around 18 million Internet users in China are currently using those tools to bypass the Great Firewall and access unblocked online content. In a pioneering empirical investigation of unblocked information seeking in China’s censored onli…
Satisfaction, demographic, and media environment predictors of cable subscription
As cable subscribership surpasses half of all U.S. television households, there is little consistent information about cable subscribing behavior, including the factors that lead to initial subscription and to subscription retention. Regression analyses of a national survey of 1,296 U.S. homes passed by cable revealed that intentions to disconnect were more strongly predicted by satisfaction variables than those related to demographics, service c…
To comment or not to comment: Examining the influences of anonymity and social support on one’s willingness to express in online news discussions
This study examines the effects of online anonymity and different sources of social influence on the Spiral of Silence phenomenon in online news discussions about abortion. The results ( N = 339) substantiated that technical anonymity predicts one’s perceived anonymity, but only the latter significantly increases one’s willingness to post personal opinions in the comment sections. Perceived support from other commenters was also found to reduce t…
Spirals of Silence: Expressing Opinions When the Climate of Opinion Is Unambiguous
In a field study, Noelle-Neumann's spiral of silence was adapted to a case of racially polarized, highly publicized opinions: the O. J. Simpson criminal trial. The predicted "spirals between and within groups" (based on a fear-of-negative-sanctions explanation) and "spirals between groups" (based on a presentation-of-a-public-face explanation) were not confirmed. However, there was evidence of racial differences in respondents' concerns regarding…
Managing the virtual boundaries: Online social networks, disclosure, and privacy behaviors
Online social networks are designed to encourage disclosure while also having the ability to disrupt existing privacy boundaries. This study assesses those individuals who are the most active online: “Digital Natives.” The specific focus includes participants’ privacy beliefs; how valuable they believe their personal, private information to be; and what risks they perceive in terms of disclosing this information in a fairly anonymous online setti…
Ready for prime time: Network series devoted to working women in the 1980s
Auditory Cuteness in Sports Podcasting: A New Lookism
A major challenge facing female sportscasters resides in their being frequently judged based on physical appearance. However, little is known about the influence of audience perceptions of female sports podcasters’ physical attractiveness when their image is unavailable. Drawing from source credibility and social role theories, the present study employed a posttest-only quasi-experimental design to examine whether Chinese female sports podcasters…
Diffusion Theory in the New Media Environment: Toward an Integrated Technology Adoption Model
This article explores the venerable diffusion of innovations model and how changing technologies impact its applications and generalizations viewed as “products” of the model. We've examined some of the concepts involved, including characteristics of innovations, stages in the process, and characteristics of adopters. Then we attempted to develop a more complex understanding of the diffusion process by integrating theoretical frameworks from info…
What viewers watch when they watch TV: Affiliation change as case study
The investigation reported here lends further support to the interrelated‐ness of television use motives, the identification of instrumental and ritualized patterns in how television is used, and the generalizability of these patterns to times when local television stations change network affiliation. By augmenting traditional measures of viewing affinity and viewer perceptions, this study expands the known parameters of television viewer uses an…
Understanding third-person perception about Internet privacy risks
This study aims to test the third-person effect (TPE) in the perception of Internet privacy risks. Support was found for a TPE model suggesting that users report greater perceived Internet privacy risks on others than on themselves, based on a sample ( N = 613) from Amazon MTurk. In particular, the differential perception of Internet privacy risks between self and others increased people’s willingness to recommend protective measures to others bu…
Integrating Theoretical Traditions in Media Effects: Using Third-Person Effects to Link Agenda-Setting and Cultivation
In an earlier period of mass communication research, scholars were more adventuresome in advancing “new” theories and less hesitant to “create” theory. The 1970s, in particular, bore witness to the emergence of several such theories—from the knowledge gap and agenda-setting to cultivation. Scholars have generated substantial literatures elaborating work in these and other traditions. Those contributions are now sufficiently robust that it is time…
Negative Advertising Effects on Presidential Support Ratings During the 2012 Election: A Hierarchical Linear Modeling and Serial Dependency Study
In a literature where different research approaches generate inconsistent effects, we examine negative TV advertising effects on public support ratings of presidential candidates over time. Weekly national advertising and poll data from 2011 and 2012 were analyzed via (a) pooled time series analysis with growth curve modeling and (b) individual time serial dependency analysis with autoregressive integrated moving average. Study results support a …
Retail Globalization and Household Welfare: Evidence from Mexico
The arrival of global retail chains in developing countries is causing a radical transformation in the way that households source their consumption. This paper draws on a new collection of Mexican microdata to estimate the effect of foreign supermarket entry on household welfare. The richness of the microdata allows us to estimate a general expression for the gains from retail FDI, and to decompose these gains into several distinct channels. We f…
Cosmopoliteness in the Internet Age
The concept of cosmopoliteness previously has been associated with the diffusion of innovations. Previous research suggests that cosmopolites are earlier adopters of innovations (e.g., new media technologies) and that they use more diverse media sources. This paper details the history of the concept and identifies eight dimensions. Two surveys were employed to investigate the relationship between the concept of cosmopoliteness and new media techn…
The alternatives to being silent: Exploring opinion expression avoidance strategies for discussing politics on Facebook
Purpose This study integrates the spiral of silence (SoS) theory and theory of planned behavior (TPB) by examining Facebook users' opinion expression avoidance, the reactions to dissenting views without revealing one's true opinion, in the context of political discussions. The present integrative approach provides a more comprehensive framework that expands our understanding of online opinion expression and withdrawal. Design/methodology/approach…
The Incarcerated Parent: Examining Mother-Child Conflict at the Margins through a Bio-Ecological Lens
This study examined conflict, parenting communication style, and attitudes regarding the parent-child relationship for a marginalized special population: incarcerated mothers and their children. Bronfenbrenner’s bio-ecological perspective served as a guiding framework, based on its ability to consider family interactions across ecological contexts, both proximal and distal to the developing child’s home setting. Fifty incarcerated mothers in the …
Senses of humor, media use, and opinions about the treatment of marginalized groups
Disentangling the Effects of Discrepant and Disconfirming Information
Stan A. Kaplowitz, Edward L. Fink, James Mulcrone, David Atkin, Saleh Dabil, Disentangling the Effects of Discrepant and Disconfirming Information, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 54, No. 3 (Sep., 1991), pp. 191-207
Network Tv Programming: Economics, Audiences, and the Ratings Game, 1971–1986
David Atkin, Barry Litman; Network Tv Programming: Economics, Audiences, and the Ratings Game, 1971–1986, Journal of Communication, Volume 36, Issue 3, 1 S
Psychoanalysis and Religious Experience
Satisfaction, demographic, and media environment predictors of cable subscription
As cable subscribership surpasses half of all U.S. television households, there is little consistent information about cable subscribing behavior, including the factors that lead to initial subscription and to subscription retention. Regression analyses of a national survey of 1,296 U.S. homes passed by cable revealed that intentions to disconnect were more strongly predicted by satisfaction variables than those related to demographics, service c…
Obituaries
The Home Ecology of Children's Televison Viewing: Parental Mediation and the New Video Environment
David J. Atkin, Bradley S. Greenberg, Thomas F. Baldwin; The Home Ecology of Children's Televison Viewing: Parental Mediation and the New Video Environment
Ready for prime time: Network series devoted to working women in the 1980s
Disentangling the Effects of Discrepant and Disconfirming Information
Stan A. Kaplowitz, Edward L. Fink, James Mulcrone, David Atkin, Saleh Dabil, Disentangling the Effects of Discrepant and Disconfirming Information, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 54, No. 3 (Sep., 1991), pp. 191-207
An analysis of television series with minority‐lead characters
This paper traces the development of trends in serial programming devoted to minorities in prime‐time television. It also revisits the literature on minorities and media to see if past “media‐as‐mirror” findings can be better understood in light of interdependent economic conduct characteristic of the network oligopoly. Study results reveal that quantitative growth in minority‐lead series was greatest during the 1970s, although Asians, Hispanics,…
Audio information services and the electronic media environment
Recent developments in technology have transformed the telephone from an exclusively interpersonal medium to an interactive electronic mass medium. The diffusion of innovations framework was applied to examine whether adoption of audiotext and 1–900 services is related to use of functionally similar entertainment media. Findings suggest that adoption of audio information services was more powerfully explained by media use patterns than demographi…
What viewers watch when they watch TV: Affiliation change as case study
The investigation reported here lends further support to the interrelated‐ness of television use motives, the identification of instrumental and ritualized patterns in how television is used, and the generalizability of these patterns to times when local television stations change network affiliation. By augmenting traditional measures of viewing affinity and viewer perceptions, this study expands the known parameters of television viewer uses an…
Spirals of Silence: Expressing Opinions When the Climate of Opinion Is Unambiguous
In a field study, Noelle-Neumann's spiral of silence was adapted to a case of racially polarized, highly publicized opinions: the O. J. Simpson criminal trial. The predicted "spirals between and within groups" (based on a fear-of-negative-sanctions explanation) and "spirals between groups" (based on a presentation-of-a-public-face explanation) were not confirmed. However, there was evidence of racial differences in respondents' concerns regarding…
A Model Linking Community Activity and Communication With Political Attitudes and Involvement in Neighborhoods
Although people tend to mobilize around local problems and restrict their political involvement at other times, the political communication literature generally has focused on national politics and elections. This is particularly surprising in investigations of political involvement since it is at the community level that people should feel more efficacious. Also, both mass and interpersonal communication should be more significant locally given …
Cosmopoliteness in the Internet Age
The concept of cosmopoliteness previously has been associated with the diffusion of innovations. Previous research suggests that cosmopolites are earlier adopters of innovations (e.g., new media technologies) and that they use more diverse media sources. This paper details the history of the concept and identifies eight dimensions. Two surveys were employed to investigate the relationship between the concept of cosmopoliteness and new media techn…
Integrating Theoretical Traditions in Media Effects: Using Third-Person Effects to Link Agenda-Setting and Cultivation
In an earlier period of mass communication research, scholars were more adventuresome in advancing “new” theories and less hesitant to “create” theory. The 1970s, in particular, bore witness to the emergence of several such theories—from the knowledge gap and agenda-setting to cultivation. Scholars have generated substantial literatures elaborating work in these and other traditions. Those contributions are now sufficiently robust that it is time…
Exploring the evolution of digital television in China: An interplay between economic and political interests
Predicting Political Discussion in a Censored Virtual Environment
Contrary to the optimistic view that the Internet would promote democracy in authoritarian countries like China, the pervasive political apathy among younger generations calls for a closer examination of micro-level individual political participation. This study contributes to the nascent body of empirical literature probing Chinese Internet users' political participation online by examining related behavioral and attitudinal factors. We argue th…
Understanding the use of circumvention tools to bypass online censorship
Circumvention tools designed to bypass online censorship—such as simple web proxies, virtual private network service, and so on—are frequently used in countries whose governments impose heavy Internet censorship. Around 18 million Internet users in China are currently using those tools to bypass the Great Firewall and access unblocked online content. In a pioneering empirical investigation of unblocked information seeking in China’s censored onli…
Senses of humor, media use, and opinions about the treatment of marginalized groups
Diffusion Theory in the New Media Environment: Toward an Integrated Technology Adoption Model
This article explores the venerable diffusion of innovations model and how changing technologies impact its applications and generalizations viewed as “products” of the model. We've examined some of the concepts involved, including characteristics of innovations, stages in the process, and characteristics of adopters. Then we attempted to develop a more complex understanding of the diffusion process by integrating theoretical frameworks from info…
Endogenous Skill Acquisition and Export Manufacturing in Mexico
This paper presents empirical evidence that the growth of export manufacturing in Mexico during a period of major trade reforms (the years 1986 to 2000) altered the distribution of education. I use variation in the timing of factory openings across commuting zones to show that school drop-out increased with local expansions in export-manufacturing industries. The magnitudes I find suggest that for every 25 jobs created, one student dropped out of…
Managing the virtual boundaries: Online social networks, disclosure, and privacy behaviors
Online social networks are designed to encourage disclosure while also having the ability to disrupt existing privacy boundaries. This study assesses those individuals who are the most active online: “Digital Natives.” The specific focus includes participants’ privacy beliefs; how valuable they believe their personal, private information to be; and what risks they perceive in terms of disclosing this information in a fairly anonymous online setti…
Exporting and Firm Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
We conduct a randomized experiment that generates exogenous variation in the access to foreign markets for rug producers in Egypt. Combined with detailed survey data, we causally identify the impact of exporting on firm performance. Treatment firms report 16–26% higher profits and exhibit large improvements in quality alongside reductions in output per hour relative to control firms. These findings do not simply reflect firms being offered higher…
Retail Globalization and Household Welfare: Evidence from Mexico
The arrival of global retail chains in developing countries is causing a radical transformation in the way that households source their consumption. This paper draws on a new collection of Mexican microdata to estimate the effect of foreign supermarket entry on household welfare. The richness of the microdata allows us to estimate a general expression for the gains from retail FDI, and to decompose these gains into several distinct channels. We f…
Negative Advertising Effects on Presidential Support Ratings During the 2012 Election: A Hierarchical Linear Modeling and Serial Dependency Study
In a literature where different research approaches generate inconsistent effects, we examine negative TV advertising effects on public support ratings of presidential candidates over time. Weekly national advertising and poll data from 2011 and 2012 were analyzed via (a) pooled time series analysis with growth curve modeling and (b) individual time serial dependency analysis with autoregressive integrated moving average. Study results support a …
To comment or not to comment: Examining the influences of anonymity and social support on one’s willingness to express in online news discussions
This study examines the effects of online anonymity and different sources of social influence on the Spiral of Silence phenomenon in online news discussions about abortion. The results ( N = 339) substantiated that technical anonymity predicts one’s perceived anonymity, but only the latter significantly increases one’s willingness to post personal opinions in the comment sections. Perceived support from other commenters was also found to reduce t…
Psychology (30 works) · Computer Science (25 works) · Political science (22 works) · Social Psychology (21 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Business (16 works) · Social media (14 works) · Social Media and Politics (14 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Internet privacy (12 works)