Andrew M Lindner
Biographic Data
| ID | 215556 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew M Lindner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew M |
| FAMILY NAME | Lindner |
| SIGNATURE | LINDNER A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Skidmore College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4347-8787 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Embracing Generational Labels
Despite the popularity of generational labels like Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z in mass media, social scientists have debated their usefulness and accuracy in research. Consequently, little is known about the actual rate of self-identification with these generational labels in the U.S. population. This study investigated these labels as social identities and examined the extent of intragenerational variation in identification rates by b…
The new generationalism
Despite the prevalence of generational labels like Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z in popular discourse, most studies of generationalism have been restricted to content analyses of generational rhetoric. This study investigates the prevalence of negative generationalism, or negative affective sentiment towards perceived generational out‐groups within the US public and considers how it may be linked with partisan political identities. Using…
Clipped (2024)
Clipped, a new Hulu limited series created by Gina Welch and the team behind ESPN's podcast The Sterling Affairs (2019), on the Donald Sterling scandal, dramatizes one of the most notorious episodes in recent NBA history. The six-episode series recounts the 2014 downfall of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling after TMZ published an audio recording of Sterling telling his mistress, V. Stiviano, not to bring Black people to Clippers games. C…
America's Most Divided Sport
Football may be America's most popular sport, but with growing evidence of the risk of sport-associated concussions, some adults are reconsidering which sports to encourage children to play. Using data from a nationally representative sample of 958 respondents, we examine how political party, belief in patriotic displays in sport, attention to concussion news, social class, and race are associated with support for children playing each of the fiv…
Does Protest 'Distract' Athletes From Performing? Evidence From the National Anthem Demonstrations in the National Football League
While there is a long tradition of activism within sport, a popular criticism of athlete protest is that it is a 'distraction' that hinders on-field performance. The widespread demonstrations against racial injustice in 2017 among players in the National Football League (NFL) provided an opportunity to test this 'distraction hypothesis.' Using data drawn from multiple sources, we first explored which factors predicted player protest, finding that…
Now more than ever
Each year the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association curates a special issue highlighting sociological contributions to technology and media studies. That tradition continued in 2020, even as everything else changed. The articles included in this year’s special issue were mostly written pre-Pandemic, yet their implications seem amplified by the current historical moment. With …
Education, Political Party, and Football Viewership Predict Americans' Attention to News About Concussions in Sports
News outlets, sports coverage, and even Hollywood movies have highlighted the growing body of research documenting the long-term negative consequences of traumatic injury in athletics, particularly, (sports-related) concussions. Despite so much media coverage, little is known about how much attention members of the American public pay to sports concussion news. Disparities in attention to concussion news among sociodemographic groups may contribu…
Are All Politics National? County-Level Social Contexts and Inequality Remediation Attitudes, 2006 to 2012
Despite growing economic inequality in recent decades, public support for government intervention to address it has been stable. A substantial literature has documented the individual-level demographic, social, and political characteristics that are associated with the extent to which individuals favor government intervention to reduce inequality. However, less work has examined how the local social environments that individuals are embedded in s…
The Dark Web and cannabis use in the United States
Subverting Surveillance or Accessing the Dark Web? Interest in the Tor Anonymity Network in U.S. States, 2006–2015
The U.S. government engaged in unprecedented forms of mass surveillance in the twenty-first century. Users of the The Onion Router (Tor), an anonymity-granting technology, mask themselves from state surveillance and can gain access to illicit content on the Dark Web. Drawing on theory regarding “exposure” to surveillance, this study examines how two issue-attention cycles (related to the Edward Snowden state surveillance revelations and the Dark …
Tor and the City
In the twenty-first century, Americans have put more of their lives online while the US government has expanded its mass surveillance apparatus. Interest in anonymity-granting technologies like The Onion Router (Tor) has grown substantially as citizens seek to protect their privacy. However, this same technology can be used to engage in illegal activity on the dark web. This study examines how interest in the dark web, public attention to the 201…
Professionalization through attrition? An event history analysis of mortalities in citizen journalism
Despite both scholarly and popular claims that citizen journalism (CJ) represents a growing democratizing force in the journalistic field, recent scholarship in the area has noted the decline of the organizational population of CJ. In this paper, we investigate how individual characteristics of sites and the dynamics of larger organizational population affect a CJ site’s risk of experiencing a mortality. Drawing on the largest sample to date of U…
Regression and Regression Analysis
Regression is among the most common statistical techniques used to analyze correlational data. By controlling for intercorrelated variables, researchers attempt to isolate the effect of independent variables on a dependent variable. Due to limitations in ordinary least squares (OLS) regression, quantitative researchers use various extensions that allow for the analysis of more complex forms of data
How Movies with a Female Presence Fare with Critics
This study explores one potential mechanism contributing to the persistent underrepresentation of women in film by considering whether movie critics reward or penalize films with an independent female presence. Drawing on a sample of widely distributed movies from 2000 to 2009 (n = 975), we test whether films that pass the Bechdel Test (two or more named women speak to each other about something other than a man) have higher or lower Metacritic s…
The expansion and contraction of the journalistic field and American online citizen journalism, 2000-2012
The United States of Excess
Professional journalists in ‘citizen’ journalism
Scholars, journalists, and laypeople alike have argued that the relatively new field of citizen journalism (CJ) offers a space where citizens can act as amateur reporters to challenge the dominance of mainstream media. However, contrary to popular expectations, a large number of CJ sites include current or former professional journalists as contributors, calling into question the new field's independence from the mainstream media. Using a content…
Million Dollar Maybe? The Effect of Female Presence in Movies on Box Office Returns
This study examines processes that contribute to the underrepresentation of women in film by linking the depiction of gender in film to its impact on domestic box office returns. Drawing on a sample of widely distributed movies from 2000 to 2009 (n = 974), we test whether the box office under-performance of films with an independent female presence results primarily from 'downstream' public rejection or from an gendered 'upstream' division of res…
Teaching Quantitative Literacy through a Regression Analysis of Exam Performance
Quantitative literacy is increasingly essential for both informed citizenship and a variety of careers. Though regression is one of the most common methods in quantitative sociology, it is rarely taught until late in students’ college careers. In this article, the author describes a classroom-based activity introducing students to regression analysis in an introductory sociology course. Using a data set that draws on the students’ quiz and exam s…
Globalization, Culture Wars, and Attitudes Toward Soccer in America
This study examines the “culture wars” using the lens of attitudes toward soccer. Despite soccer's increasing popularity in the United States, anti-soccer rhetoric is fairly common. In his widely read book, How Soccer Explains the World (2004), Foer contends that the “culture wars,” including divisions over soccer, are better explained by reactions to globalization than social class or political ideology. Using data from a survey of Nebraskans, w…
Media Unlimited
Among the Troops
During Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Pentagon introduced a program "embedding" journalists in military units. Embedded reporters have been widely criticized for allegedly failing to adequately cover effects of the war on Iraqi civilians, while over-emphasizing the personal lives of troops. Proponents of the embedding program argue that the program provides journalists with a detailed understanding of military culture and life on the frontline. In …
Teaching Quantitative Literacy through a Regression Analysis of Exam Performance
Quantitative literacy is increasingly essential for both informed citizenship and a variety of careers. Though regression is one of the most common methods in quantitative sociology, it is rarely taught until late in students’ college careers. In this article, the author describes a classroom-based activity introducing students to regression analysis in an introductory sociology course. Using a data set that draws on the students’ quiz and exam s…
Million Dollar Maybe? The Effect of Female Presence in Movies on Box Office Returns
This study examines processes that contribute to the underrepresentation of women in film by linking the depiction of gender in film to its impact on domestic box office returns. Drawing on a sample of widely distributed movies from 2000 to 2009 (n = 974), we test whether the box office under-performance of films with an independent female presence results primarily from 'downstream' public rejection or from an gendered 'upstream' division of res…
Among the Troops
During Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Pentagon introduced a program "embedding" journalists in military units. Embedded reporters have been widely criticized for allegedly failing to adequately cover effects of the war on Iraqi civilians, while over-emphasizing the personal lives of troops. Proponents of the embedding program argue that the program provides journalists with a detailed understanding of military culture and life on the frontline. In …
Globalization, Culture Wars, and Attitudes Toward Soccer in America
This study examines the “culture wars” using the lens of attitudes toward soccer. Despite soccer's increasing popularity in the United States, anti-soccer rhetoric is fairly common. In his widely read book, How Soccer Explains the World (2004), Foer contends that the “culture wars,” including divisions over soccer, are better explained by reactions to globalization than social class or political ideology. Using data from a survey of Nebraskans, w…
Does Protest 'Distract' Athletes From Performing? Evidence From the National Anthem Demonstrations in the National Football League
While there is a long tradition of activism within sport, a popular criticism of athlete protest is that it is a 'distraction' that hinders on-field performance. The widespread demonstrations against racial injustice in 2017 among players in the National Football League (NFL) provided an opportunity to test this 'distraction hypothesis.' Using data drawn from multiple sources, we first explored which factors predicted player protest, finding that…
Are All Politics National? County-Level Social Contexts and Inequality Remediation Attitudes, 2006 to 2012
Despite growing economic inequality in recent decades, public support for government intervention to address it has been stable. A substantial literature has documented the individual-level demographic, social, and political characteristics that are associated with the extent to which individuals favor government intervention to reduce inequality. However, less work has examined how the local social environments that individuals are embedded in s…
The expansion and contraction of the journalistic field and American online citizen journalism, 2000-2012
The new generationalism
Despite the prevalence of generational labels like Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z in popular discourse, most studies of generationalism have been restricted to content analyses of generational rhetoric. This study investigates the prevalence of negative generationalism, or negative affective sentiment towards perceived generational out‐groups within the US public and considers how it may be linked with partisan political identities. Using…
Education, Political Party, and Football Viewership Predict Americans' Attention to News About Concussions in Sports
News outlets, sports coverage, and even Hollywood movies have highlighted the growing body of research documenting the long-term negative consequences of traumatic injury in athletics, particularly, (sports-related) concussions. Despite so much media coverage, little is known about how much attention members of the American public pay to sports concussion news. Disparities in attention to concussion news among sociodemographic groups may contribu…
Subverting Surveillance or Accessing the Dark Web? Interest in the Tor Anonymity Network in U.S. States, 2006–2015
The U.S. government engaged in unprecedented forms of mass surveillance in the twenty-first century. Users of the The Onion Router (Tor), an anonymity-granting technology, mask themselves from state surveillance and can gain access to illicit content on the Dark Web. Drawing on theory regarding “exposure” to surveillance, this study examines how two issue-attention cycles (related to the Edward Snowden state surveillance revelations and the Dark …
Media Unlimited
Among the Troops
During Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Pentagon introduced a program "embedding" journalists in military units. Embedded reporters have been widely criticized for allegedly failing to adequately cover effects of the war on Iraqi civilians, while over-emphasizing the personal lives of troops. Proponents of the embedding program argue that the program provides journalists with a detailed understanding of military culture and life on the frontline. In …
Teaching Quantitative Literacy through a Regression Analysis of Exam Performance
Quantitative literacy is increasingly essential for both informed citizenship and a variety of careers. Though regression is one of the most common methods in quantitative sociology, it is rarely taught until late in students’ college careers. In this article, the author describes a classroom-based activity introducing students to regression analysis in an introductory sociology course. Using a data set that draws on the students’ quiz and exam s…
Globalization, Culture Wars, and Attitudes Toward Soccer in America
This study examines the “culture wars” using the lens of attitudes toward soccer. Despite soccer's increasing popularity in the United States, anti-soccer rhetoric is fairly common. In his widely read book, How Soccer Explains the World (2004), Foer contends that the “culture wars,” including divisions over soccer, are better explained by reactions to globalization than social class or political ideology. Using data from a survey of Nebraskans, w…
Professional journalists in ‘citizen’ journalism
Scholars, journalists, and laypeople alike have argued that the relatively new field of citizen journalism (CJ) offers a space where citizens can act as amateur reporters to challenge the dominance of mainstream media. However, contrary to popular expectations, a large number of CJ sites include current or former professional journalists as contributors, calling into question the new field's independence from the mainstream media. Using a content…
Million Dollar Maybe? The Effect of Female Presence in Movies on Box Office Returns
This study examines processes that contribute to the underrepresentation of women in film by linking the depiction of gender in film to its impact on domestic box office returns. Drawing on a sample of widely distributed movies from 2000 to 2009 (n = 974), we test whether the box office under-performance of films with an independent female presence results primarily from 'downstream' public rejection or from an gendered 'upstream' division of res…
The United States of Excess
How Movies with a Female Presence Fare with Critics
This study explores one potential mechanism contributing to the persistent underrepresentation of women in film by considering whether movie critics reward or penalize films with an independent female presence. Drawing on a sample of widely distributed movies from 2000 to 2009 (n = 975), we test whether films that pass the Bechdel Test (two or more named women speak to each other about something other than a man) have higher or lower Metacritic s…
The expansion and contraction of the journalistic field and American online citizen journalism, 2000-2012
Professionalization through attrition? An event history analysis of mortalities in citizen journalism
Despite both scholarly and popular claims that citizen journalism (CJ) represents a growing democratizing force in the journalistic field, recent scholarship in the area has noted the decline of the organizational population of CJ. In this paper, we investigate how individual characteristics of sites and the dynamics of larger organizational population affect a CJ site’s risk of experiencing a mortality. Drawing on the largest sample to date of U…
Regression and Regression Analysis
Regression is among the most common statistical techniques used to analyze correlational data. By controlling for intercorrelated variables, researchers attempt to isolate the effect of independent variables on a dependent variable. Due to limitations in ordinary least squares (OLS) regression, quantitative researchers use various extensions that allow for the analysis of more complex forms of data
The Dark Web and cannabis use in the United States
Subverting Surveillance or Accessing the Dark Web? Interest in the Tor Anonymity Network in U.S. States, 2006–2015
The U.S. government engaged in unprecedented forms of mass surveillance in the twenty-first century. Users of the The Onion Router (Tor), an anonymity-granting technology, mask themselves from state surveillance and can gain access to illicit content on the Dark Web. Drawing on theory regarding “exposure” to surveillance, this study examines how two issue-attention cycles (related to the Edward Snowden state surveillance revelations and the Dark …
Tor and the City
In the twenty-first century, Americans have put more of their lives online while the US government has expanded its mass surveillance apparatus. Interest in anonymity-granting technologies like The Onion Router (Tor) has grown substantially as citizens seek to protect their privacy. However, this same technology can be used to engage in illegal activity on the dark web. This study examines how interest in the dark web, public attention to the 201…
Now more than ever
Each year the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association curates a special issue highlighting sociological contributions to technology and media studies. That tradition continued in 2020, even as everything else changed. The articles included in this year’s special issue were mostly written pre-Pandemic, yet their implications seem amplified by the current historical moment. With …
Education, Political Party, and Football Viewership Predict Americans' Attention to News About Concussions in Sports
News outlets, sports coverage, and even Hollywood movies have highlighted the growing body of research documenting the long-term negative consequences of traumatic injury in athletics, particularly, (sports-related) concussions. Despite so much media coverage, little is known about how much attention members of the American public pay to sports concussion news. Disparities in attention to concussion news among sociodemographic groups may contribu…
Are All Politics National? County-Level Social Contexts and Inequality Remediation Attitudes, 2006 to 2012
Despite growing economic inequality in recent decades, public support for government intervention to address it has been stable. A substantial literature has documented the individual-level demographic, social, and political characteristics that are associated with the extent to which individuals favor government intervention to reduce inequality. However, less work has examined how the local social environments that individuals are embedded in s…
Does Protest 'Distract' Athletes From Performing? Evidence From the National Anthem Demonstrations in the National Football League
While there is a long tradition of activism within sport, a popular criticism of athlete protest is that it is a 'distraction' that hinders on-field performance. The widespread demonstrations against racial injustice in 2017 among players in the National Football League (NFL) provided an opportunity to test this 'distraction hypothesis.' Using data drawn from multiple sources, we first explored which factors predicted player protest, finding that…
America's Most Divided Sport
Football may be America's most popular sport, but with growing evidence of the risk of sport-associated concussions, some adults are reconsidering which sports to encourage children to play. Using data from a nationally representative sample of 958 respondents, we examine how political party, belief in patriotic displays in sport, attention to concussion news, social class, and race are associated with support for children playing each of the fiv…
Embracing Generational Labels
Despite the popularity of generational labels like Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z in mass media, social scientists have debated their usefulness and accuracy in research. Consequently, little is known about the actual rate of self-identification with these generational labels in the U.S. population. This study investigated these labels as social identities and examined the extent of intragenerational variation in identification rates by b…
The new generationalism
Despite the prevalence of generational labels like Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z in popular discourse, most studies of generationalism have been restricted to content analyses of generational rhetoric. This study investigates the prevalence of negative generationalism, or negative affective sentiment towards perceived generational out‐groups within the US public and considers how it may be linked with partisan political identities. Using…
Clipped (2024)
Clipped, a new Hulu limited series created by Gina Welch and the team behind ESPN's podcast The Sterling Affairs (2019), on the Donald Sterling scandal, dramatizes one of the most notorious episodes in recent NBA history. The six-episode series recounts the 2014 downfall of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling after TMZ published an audio recording of Sterling telling his mistress, V. Stiviano, not to bring Black people to Clippers games. C…
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