Sai Datta Mikkilineni
Biographic Data
| ID | 2536693 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sai Datta Mikkilineni |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sai Datta |
| FAMILY NAME | Mikkilineni |
| SIGNATURE | MIKKILINENI S D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4095-2180 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mechanisms of Partisan News Use
This study considers how the metacognitive effort and enjoyment that result from partisan news consumption impact news consumers’ intentions for future news use. Participants who experienced incoherence during partisan news use exhibited increased metacognitive effort and reduced enjoyment, which then decreased their intentions to use that partisan news source in the future. Conversely, participants who experienced coherence during partisan news …
Exemplification Effects on Policy Support
This research examined the relationship between exemplar characteristics and concern for maternal health disparities. A two-wave 2 (familiarity) X 2 (vividness) between-subjects experiment tested the effects of exemplar familiarity and vividness on attitudes toward maternal health and maternal health disparities, perceptions of disparate risk, and policy support after exposure to a story about a mother who faced complications during childbirth an…
The effects of augmented reality on prosocial behavior intentions in the disaster news context
Despite the increasing adoption of augmented reality (AR) in journalism, there is limited scholarly attention devoted to understanding its effects compared to traditional modalities. This study investigates user engagement with AR-enabled disaster news through a between-subjects experiment ( N = 89), comparing AR, image, or text-only modalities. The results demonstrate that psychological responses to the technological affordances of AR (perceived…
Framing risk and responsibility
In early April 2020, as states began to release demographic data related to COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, and deaths, it became clear that Black individuals in the United States were disproportionately impacted by the virus. The current research is a content analysis of stories about racial disparities related to COVID-19 published by U.S. newspapers between April and June 2020 (N = 181) conducted to examine framing patterns. Specificall…
Collegiate Student-Athletes as Health Advocates
Binge drinking is a major public health concern on college campuses and shares a deep connection to sporting culture. As such, student-athletes are potential referent points for addressing this destructive behavior among the student body. This study utilizes the theoretical frameworks of the elaboration likelihood model (ELM) and parasocial relationships (PSRs) to investigate the effects that student-athletes’ health advocacy has on college stude…
The Next Best Thing
COVID-19 ushered new forms of media engagement when traditional sporting events and league play were suspended. Subsequently, certain sections of the audience moved online to fill their needs typically satisfied via traditional sport consumption. Esport is one such form of digital entertainment that significantly altered the ways in which sport fans can immerse themselves in related content. To examine how those audience obtained gratifications, …
Everyone Hates the NCAA
This manuscript is a case study into public responses to an amateurism transgression committed by Chase Young, a former Ohio State University football player and Heisman candidate. In November of 2019, Young utilized his personal Twitter to announce an amateurism transgression stemming from his acceptance of an improper loan. This study considers 1,674 public and direct replies to Young on Twitter. A variety of themes were identified, including a…
Communication for the win
There is a heuristic and practical need to identify prosocial coaching behaviors that benefit both the relational climates on sports teams and team performance. This study considers the influence of coaches’ use of confirmation (i.e., consisting of acceptance and challenge) on student-athletes’ self-confidence, team task cohesion, and team winning. Data collected from 117 Division-I student-athletes, who participated in team sports, partially sup…
Everyone Hates the NCAA
This manuscript is a case study into public responses to an amateurism transgression committed by Chase Young, a former Ohio State University football player and Heisman candidate. In November of 2019, Young utilized his personal Twitter to announce an amateurism transgression stemming from his acceptance of an improper loan. This study considers 1,674 public and direct replies to Young on Twitter. A variety of themes were identified, including a…
Communication for the win
There is a heuristic and practical need to identify prosocial coaching behaviors that benefit both the relational climates on sports teams and team performance. This study considers the influence of coaches’ use of confirmation (i.e., consisting of acceptance and challenge) on student-athletes’ self-confidence, team task cohesion, and team winning. Data collected from 117 Division-I student-athletes, who participated in team sports, partially sup…
Everyone Hates the NCAA
This manuscript is a case study into public responses to an amateurism transgression committed by Chase Young, a former Ohio State University football player and Heisman candidate. In November of 2019, Young utilized his personal Twitter to announce an amateurism transgression stemming from his acceptance of an improper loan. This study considers 1,674 public and direct replies to Young on Twitter. A variety of themes were identified, including a…
Framing risk and responsibility
In early April 2020, as states began to release demographic data related to COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, and deaths, it became clear that Black individuals in the United States were disproportionately impacted by the virus. The current research is a content analysis of stories about racial disparities related to COVID-19 published by U.S. newspapers between April and June 2020 (N = 181) conducted to examine framing patterns. Specificall…
Collegiate Student-Athletes as Health Advocates
Binge drinking is a major public health concern on college campuses and shares a deep connection to sporting culture. As such, student-athletes are potential referent points for addressing this destructive behavior among the student body. This study utilizes the theoretical frameworks of the elaboration likelihood model (ELM) and parasocial relationships (PSRs) to investigate the effects that student-athletes’ health advocacy has on college stude…
The Next Best Thing
COVID-19 ushered new forms of media engagement when traditional sporting events and league play were suspended. Subsequently, certain sections of the audience moved online to fill their needs typically satisfied via traditional sport consumption. Esport is one such form of digital entertainment that significantly altered the ways in which sport fans can immerse themselves in related content. To examine how those audience obtained gratifications, …
Exemplification Effects on Policy Support
This research examined the relationship between exemplar characteristics and concern for maternal health disparities. A two-wave 2 (familiarity) X 2 (vividness) between-subjects experiment tested the effects of exemplar familiarity and vividness on attitudes toward maternal health and maternal health disparities, perceptions of disparate risk, and policy support after exposure to a story about a mother who faced complications during childbirth an…
The effects of augmented reality on prosocial behavior intentions in the disaster news context
Despite the increasing adoption of augmented reality (AR) in journalism, there is limited scholarly attention devoted to understanding its effects compared to traditional modalities. This study investigates user engagement with AR-enabled disaster news through a between-subjects experiment ( N = 89), comparing AR, image, or text-only modalities. The results demonstrate that psychological responses to the technological affordances of AR (perceived…
Mechanisms of Partisan News Use
This study considers how the metacognitive effort and enjoyment that result from partisan news consumption impact news consumers’ intentions for future news use. Participants who experienced incoherence during partisan news use exhibited increased metacognitive effort and reduced enjoyment, which then decreased their intentions to use that partisan news source in the future. Conversely, participants who experienced coherence during partisan news …
Psychology (6 works) · Media Influence and Health (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (3 works)