Nicholas Browning
Biographic Data
| ID | 2283359 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Browning |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Browning |
| SIGNATURE | BROWNING N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5402-7143 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Role of Passion and Emotions in Social Movements
In societies where racial justice is salient and social movement organizations (SMOs) are increasingly relying on social media for mobilization, it is crucial to understand the psychological mechanisms that propel activists to scale up the movement in the digital sphere. Going beyond traditional approaches where activism is mainly conceptualized as public mainstream and normative behaviors, this study goes a little further by examining why BLM ac…
Building the Science News Agenda
The current study examines the influence of press releases about scientific studies in terms of their impact on news coverage. Using an innovative approach that allowed for analysis of a large corpus of text and calculation of similarity scores, we were able to trace the uptake of press release materials into news media articles. In some cases, up to 65% of sentences in science news articles reflected high similarity to press release material—a p…
Muting or Meddling? Advocacy as a Relational Communication Strategy Affecting Organization–Public Relationships and Stakeholder Response
This article conceptualizes organizational advocacy as a relational communication strategy by which organizations take stances on controversial, sociopolitical issues to signal shared commitment with key publics. The authors conducted a series of two-by-two experimental surveys—controlling whether an organization took a defined position (advocacy vs. silence) and whether it acted alone or in line with peers (leader vs. follower)—across both less …
The Let Down Effect
Using experimental design, this study compares first-time voters' gratifications and uses of a traditional News1 format with the increasingly popular fake news format. The data here found that while indeed young people may have initially assessed a greater level of gratification associated with the fake news genre, the group was significantly "let down" after exposure to such a program. Though first-time voters understand that traditional surveil…
No prominent works on this page.
The Let Down Effect
Using experimental design, this study compares first-time voters' gratifications and uses of a traditional News1 format with the increasingly popular fake news format. The data here found that while indeed young people may have initially assessed a greater level of gratification associated with the fake news genre, the group was significantly "let down" after exposure to such a program. Though first-time voters understand that traditional surveil…
Muting or Meddling? Advocacy as a Relational Communication Strategy Affecting Organization–Public Relationships and Stakeholder Response
This article conceptualizes organizational advocacy as a relational communication strategy by which organizations take stances on controversial, sociopolitical issues to signal shared commitment with key publics. The authors conducted a series of two-by-two experimental surveys—controlling whether an organization took a defined position (advocacy vs. silence) and whether it acted alone or in line with peers (leader vs. follower)—across both less …
Building the Science News Agenda
The current study examines the influence of press releases about scientific studies in terms of their impact on news coverage. Using an innovative approach that allowed for analysis of a large corpus of text and calculation of similarity scores, we were able to trace the uptake of press release materials into news media articles. In some cases, up to 65% of sentences in science news articles reflected high similarity to press release material—a p…
Role of Passion and Emotions in Social Movements
In societies where racial justice is salient and social movement organizations (SMOs) are increasingly relying on social media for mobilization, it is crucial to understand the psychological mechanisms that propel activists to scale up the movement in the digital sphere. Going beyond traditional approaches where activism is mainly conceptualized as public mainstream and normative behaviors, this study goes a little further by examining why BLM ac…
Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Advertising (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Public relations (2 works) · Public Relations and Crisis Communication (2 works)