Stewart M Cole
Biographic Data
| ID | 204879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stewart M Cole |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stewart M |
| FAMILY NAME | Cole |
| SIGNATURE | COLE S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7281-8651 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Media Depictions of Minority Groups: A Meta-Analytic Review Examining the Effects of Positive and Negative Portrayals on Outgroup Evaluations
After more than five decades of research on media depictions and outgroup evaluations, there remains a need for a comprehensive analysis that includes both positive and negative portrayals across a wide range of racial, ethnic, and religious groups. This meta-analysis of 60 studies from 49 articles fills this gap, revealing that negative media depictions of racial and ethnic minorities (k = 56, n = 16,476) lead to unfavorable evaluations of these…
A show for us: How racial and partisan cues about television audiences affect exposure intentions
Current explanations for political divides in entertainment media use identify divergent preferences for or evaluations of content. According to the theory of normative social behavior (TNSB), extratextual information such as cues about the audience may also influence exposure intentions due to viewers’ perceptions of ingroup norms. Social media users discuss and form communities around entertainment content while conveying partisan and racial id…
Conceptualizing evaluations of the political relevance of media texts: The Politically Relevant Media Model
Prior research acknowledges the potential implications of how media users evaluate media texts as being relevant to politics. Yet there are limitations to existing operationalizations of these evaluations due to how people use the words “politics” and “political.” What first appears as a measurement issue instead reveals a deficiency in the conceptualization of the evaluation being measured, as well as that evaluation’s relationships with its ant…
Making the impossible possible? Framing confrontations of racism on social media as norm-setting
Although confronting racist speech online can reduce future discriminatory behavior, people may be reluctant to confront because they perceive that it will be ineffective in changing racist attitudes. We test one theoretically grounded strategy for increasing white social media users’ willingness to confront online racism: reframing the confrontation goal from attitude change to norm-setting. We examine whether re-framing the confrontation goal i…
Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces in Political Communication: Special Issue Introduction
Despite the centrality of race and ethnicity in social and political life, they are often absent from studies of the urgent questions in contemporary political communication research. In this essay introducing a special issue focused on "Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces in Political Communication," we examine factors that may contribute to the relative absence of race/ethnicity in the political communication scholarship, including: 1) st…
How Reel Middle Easterners’ Portrayals Cultivate Stereotypical Beliefs and Policy Support
There is limited empirical research examining cultivation theory’s proposition that first-order estimates influence second-order attitudes. In two studies, we examine how Middle Easterners are portrayed on entertainment television and how these portrayals cultivate stereotypical beliefs and policy support. A content analysis in Study 1 finds that nearly half of Middle Eastern characters on entertainment television are portrayed as supporting terr…
The interplay of parenting style and family rules about video games on subsequent fighting behavior
Due to ongoing concerns about adolescent interpersonal aggression and debates surrounding violent media, this study assesses the potential impacts of parental mediation and parenting style on mature video game play and fighting behaviors using a longitudinal, random‐digit‐dial survey of adolescents ( N = 2722). By simultaneously considering fighting, M‐rated video game play, parental restrictions on media use, parenting style, and important covar…
Social Media Expression and User Predispositions: Applying the Differential Susceptibility to Media Effects Model to the Study of Issue Polarization
The ability of social media users to express themselves online should be influential for opinion formation, including potential polarization. Still, little is known about how expression interacts with users' psychological predispositions, especially for controversial topics. The potential for expression to relate to support for social media-based racial justice movements, which could also be affected by underlying feelings of racial resentment, i…
Intersectional invisibility revisited: How group prototypes lead to the erasure and exclusion of Black women.
Solidarity Effects in Social Movement Messaging: How Cueing Dominant Group Identity Can Increase Movement Support
Despite the historical importance of dominant group solidarity with movements for social justice, little empirical work has examined how the social identity of movement supporters influences the persuasiveness of their social movement messages. Across two experiments, we manipulated the group identity (White, Black, or anonymous) of a speaker in a message supporting the #BlackLivesMatter movement to examine its effects on White Americans' percept…
Solidarity Effects in Social Movement Messaging: How Cueing Dominant Group Identity Can Increase Movement Support
Despite the historical importance of dominant group solidarity with movements for social justice, little empirical work has examined how the social identity of movement supporters influences the persuasiveness of their social movement messages. Across two experiments, we manipulated the group identity (White, Black, or anonymous) of a speaker in a message supporting the #BlackLivesMatter movement to examine its effects on White Americans' percept…
Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces in Political Communication: Special Issue Introduction
Despite the centrality of race and ethnicity in social and political life, they are often absent from studies of the urgent questions in contemporary political communication research. In this essay introducing a special issue focused on "Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces in Political Communication," we examine factors that may contribute to the relative absence of race/ethnicity in the political communication scholarship, including: 1) st…
How Reel Middle Easterners’ Portrayals Cultivate Stereotypical Beliefs and Policy Support
There is limited empirical research examining cultivation theory’s proposition that first-order estimates influence second-order attitudes. In two studies, we examine how Middle Easterners are portrayed on entertainment television and how these portrayals cultivate stereotypical beliefs and policy support. A content analysis in Study 1 finds that nearly half of Middle Eastern characters on entertainment television are portrayed as supporting terr…
Social Media Expression and User Predispositions: Applying the Differential Susceptibility to Media Effects Model to the Study of Issue Polarization
The ability of social media users to express themselves online should be influential for opinion formation, including potential polarization. Still, little is known about how expression interacts with users' psychological predispositions, especially for controversial topics. The potential for expression to relate to support for social media-based racial justice movements, which could also be affected by underlying feelings of racial resentment, i…
Conceptualizing evaluations of the political relevance of media texts: The Politically Relevant Media Model
Prior research acknowledges the potential implications of how media users evaluate media texts as being relevant to politics. Yet there are limitations to existing operationalizations of these evaluations due to how people use the words “politics” and “political.” What first appears as a measurement issue instead reveals a deficiency in the conceptualization of the evaluation being measured, as well as that evaluation’s relationships with its ant…
Solidarity Effects in Social Movement Messaging: How Cueing Dominant Group Identity Can Increase Movement Support
Despite the historical importance of dominant group solidarity with movements for social justice, little empirical work has examined how the social identity of movement supporters influences the persuasiveness of their social movement messages. Across two experiments, we manipulated the group identity (White, Black, or anonymous) of a speaker in a message supporting the #BlackLivesMatter movement to examine its effects on White Americans' percept…
Intersectional invisibility revisited: How group prototypes lead to the erasure and exclusion of Black women.
The interplay of parenting style and family rules about video games on subsequent fighting behavior
Due to ongoing concerns about adolescent interpersonal aggression and debates surrounding violent media, this study assesses the potential impacts of parental mediation and parenting style on mature video game play and fighting behaviors using a longitudinal, random‐digit‐dial survey of adolescents ( N = 2722). By simultaneously considering fighting, M‐rated video game play, parental restrictions on media use, parenting style, and important covar…
Social Media Expression and User Predispositions: Applying the Differential Susceptibility to Media Effects Model to the Study of Issue Polarization
The ability of social media users to express themselves online should be influential for opinion formation, including potential polarization. Still, little is known about how expression interacts with users' psychological predispositions, especially for controversial topics. The potential for expression to relate to support for social media-based racial justice movements, which could also be affected by underlying feelings of racial resentment, i…
How Reel Middle Easterners’ Portrayals Cultivate Stereotypical Beliefs and Policy Support
There is limited empirical research examining cultivation theory’s proposition that first-order estimates influence second-order attitudes. In two studies, we examine how Middle Easterners are portrayed on entertainment television and how these portrayals cultivate stereotypical beliefs and policy support. A content analysis in Study 1 finds that nearly half of Middle Eastern characters on entertainment television are portrayed as supporting terr…
Making the impossible possible? Framing confrontations of racism on social media as norm-setting
Although confronting racist speech online can reduce future discriminatory behavior, people may be reluctant to confront because they perceive that it will be ineffective in changing racist attitudes. We test one theoretically grounded strategy for increasing white social media users’ willingness to confront online racism: reframing the confrontation goal from attitude change to norm-setting. We examine whether re-framing the confrontation goal i…
Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces in Political Communication: Special Issue Introduction
Despite the centrality of race and ethnicity in social and political life, they are often absent from studies of the urgent questions in contemporary political communication research. In this essay introducing a special issue focused on "Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces in Political Communication," we examine factors that may contribute to the relative absence of race/ethnicity in the political communication scholarship, including: 1) st…
Conceptualizing evaluations of the political relevance of media texts: The Politically Relevant Media Model
Prior research acknowledges the potential implications of how media users evaluate media texts as being relevant to politics. Yet there are limitations to existing operationalizations of these evaluations due to how people use the words “politics” and “political.” What first appears as a measurement issue instead reveals a deficiency in the conceptualization of the evaluation being measured, as well as that evaluation’s relationships with its ant…
Media Depictions of Minority Groups: A Meta-Analytic Review Examining the Effects of Positive and Negative Portrayals on Outgroup Evaluations
After more than five decades of research on media depictions and outgroup evaluations, there remains a need for a comprehensive analysis that includes both positive and negative portrayals across a wide range of racial, ethnic, and religious groups. This meta-analysis of 60 studies from 49 articles fills this gap, revealing that negative media depictions of racial and ethnic minorities (k = 56, n = 16,476) lead to unfavorable evaluations of these…
A show for us: How racial and partisan cues about television audiences affect exposure intentions
Current explanations for political divides in entertainment media use identify divergent preferences for or evaluations of content. According to the theory of normative social behavior (TNSB), extratextual information such as cues about the audience may also influence exposure intentions due to viewers’ perceptions of ingroup norms. Social media users discuss and form communities around entertainment content while conveying partisan and racial id…
Psychology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social Media and Politics (6 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Media Influence and Health (4 works) · Politics (4 works)