Ashley Muddiman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 277184 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ashley Muddiman |
| NOMBRES | Ashley |
| APELLIDO | Muddiman |
| FIRMA | MUDDIMAN A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Kansas |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7735-8113 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 192 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The role of media use in the development of discursive citizenship norms among U.S. Latinx
Aiming to expand current research on the mechanisms and conditions under which novel citizenship norms emerge among different populations, we investigate the antecedents of discursive citizenship norms among Latinx individuals in the United States. Results from a two-wave survey suggest that cross-platform news media repertoires are positively associated with individual information care norms and considered contribution norms. Social media politi…
Why are people skeptical of social media
What Kind of Depolarization Should We Aim For? Making Communication Transformative
Polarization may become a threat to democracy, if it starts to block the capacities for collective problem-solving. This is particularly problematic in the current state of multiple social and ecological crises. Calls for depolarization often lack clarity about what kind of depolarization is normatively desirable. Academic texts often lack transparency about the values that underpin recommendations for better communication. Focusing on discursive…
Robust Comment Sections Need Robust Resources
"Robust Comment Sections Need Robust Resources." Journal of Media Ethics, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
The Influence of Conflict News on Audience Digital Engagement
In a competitive digital environment, news outlets employ attention-gaining strategies, including the portrayal of conflict. Yet such coverage may backfire. Using an experiment comparing exposure to disagreeable or uncivil conflict news, we examine how articles with different types of conflict relate to intended news engagement through the mediating variables of perceived incivility, news source credibility, and/or surveillance emotions and test …
The Stability of Cable and Broadcast News Intermedia Agenda Setting Across the Covid-19 Issue Attention Cycle
In today's fragmented media environment, it is unclear whether the correspondence between media agendas that characterizes intermedia agenda setting persists. Through a combination of manual and computerized content analysis of 486,068 paragraphs of COVID−19 coverage across 4,589 cable and broadcast news transcripts, we analyze second and third-level attribute agenda setting, both in terms of central themes and aspects. Through the lens of the is…
Emotion Work on Social Media
Research has found that individuals may engage with emotions differently depending on social media platforms and/or social norms. Yet it remains unclear how individuals deal with emotions differently depending on whether the communication is public or private or depending on the topic. Using a 2 × 2 experimental design, we find that people engage in emotion work on social media, noting a difference in experienced emotion during the process of opi…
Descriptive and Injunctive Incivility Norms in Political Campaigns
Despite evidence that a majority of people in the United States say that they want more civil politics, candidates still use incivility strategically during campaigns. Distinguishing between descriptive and injunctive norms may help explain this apparent contradiction. This study presents an experiment conducted with participants recruited at 2020 Democratic Iowa Caucus rallies that tested whether (a) individuals differ in their descriptive and i…
Disrespectful Democracy
The US public consistently reports that civility is important to a successful democracy (Allegheny College/Zogby 2016)—yet incivility in politics is quite commonplace on television, in comment sections, and in presidential addresses. Why this clash between what citizens say they want and the prevalence of incivility in our political discourse? Some, including Mutz (2015), suggest that partisan identity affects incivility perceptions, with members…
Predicting perceptions of incivility across 20 news comment sections
Research on incivility has focused on individual differences or message characteristics that affect perceptions of incivility. Given the potential consequences of incivility in news spaces, it is essential to extend research on incivility perceptions to characteristics of digital news environments. We explore how the perception and availability of comment section features (i.e. comment moderation and anonymity), as well as a feeling of connection…
How People Perceive Political Incivility
Politicians, journalists, and at times even scholars toss around the term “incivility” without carefully defining its meaning. Headlines may claim a campaign is uncivil without clearly explaining why. Politicians may call for civility without explicitly stating whose behavior needs to change. Surveys contain questions asking about incivility and democracy without providing a definition of incivility to respondents. Yet few have explored how indiv…
Social Media Engagement With Strategy- and Issue-Framed Political News
Issue and strategy frames, oft-used ways of conveying political news, affect people’s political beliefs and attitudes, with strategic news frames producing greater cynicism and distrust than issue frames. Although some past research suggests that audiences prefer strategically framed news, it is not clear whether the public gravitates toward issue or strategy frames on social media. We partnered with a national news organization to conduct 48 tes…
The curiosity effect
This research investigates how digital news headlines influence contemporary news information seeking. In two studies (a lab experiment and a field test), we examine how the presentation of news information—traditional, summary news headlines or clickbait, curiosity news headlines—influences the attitudinal and behavioral components of news seeking. Study 1 models the news-seeking process, finding that summary headlines heighten perceptions of he…
(Re)Claiming Our Expertise
Content analysis of large-scale textual data sets poses myriad problems, particularly when researchers seek to analyze content that is both theoretically derived and context dependent. In this piece, we detail the approach we developed to tackle the analysis of the context-dependent content of political incivility. After describing our manually validated organic dictionaries approach, we compare the method to others we could have used and then re…
We Should Not Get Rid of Incivility Online
Incivility and toxicity have become concepts du jour in research about social media. The clear normative implication in much of this research is that incivility is bad and should be eliminated. Extensive research-including some that we've authored-has been dedicated to finding ways to reduce or eliminate incivility from online discussion spaces. In our work as part of the Civic Signals Initiative, we've been thinking carefully about what metrics …
News Values, Cognitive Biases, and Partisan Incivility in Comment Sections
Partisan incivility is prevalent in news comments, but we have limited insight into how journalists and news users engage with it. Gatekeeping, cognitive bias, and social identity theories suggest that journalists may tolerate incivility while users actively promote partisan incivility. Using 9.6 million comments from The New York Times, we analyze whether the presence of uncivil and partisan terms affects how journalists and news users engage wi…
The influence of online quizzes on the acquisition of public affairs knowledge
Drawing from a “mix of attributes” approach, this study analyzes whether interactive online news quizzes engage site visitors and help individuals acquire news knowledge. Results of a nationwide experiment (n = 456) indicate that online quizzes, whether using a multiple-choice or slider format, help citizens acquire public affairs knowledge and lead them to spend more time with public affairs information relative to presenting information without…
Like, recommend, or respect? Altering political behavior in news comment sections
Drawing from the stereotype content model, we examine how people respond to likeminded and counter-attitudinal political comments appearing after a news article. We experimentally test how citizens behave when they are able to click on one of three different buttons posted next to others’ comments—“Like,” “Recommend,” or “Respect.” In the experiment, political attitudes predicted button clicking, but the button label affected the strength of the …
In-Your-Face Politics
Citizens, politicians, and journalists alike enjoy decrying political incivility. Diana C. Mutz complicates these attacks on incivility by investigating the effects of in-your-face politics. In-your-face political television includes two attributes: it contains incivility, that is, violations of face-to-face interaction norms, and it violates norms of interpersonal social distance by including close-up shots that make a televised person appear ph…
Negativity in Democratic Politics
Questions of negativity permeate politics. Why are so many campaign advertisements negative? Why are there so few positive news stories? Why do politicians attack one another instead of working tog
Seeing Media as Group Members
Drawing upon research on ingroup and outgroup perceptions, 2 studies examine citizen perceptions of media bias. Study 1 examines how citizens think about media bias across multiple sources. Consistent with the phenomenon of outgroup homogeneity, citizens' political leanings influence how much variation they perceive; politically dissimilar media are seen as having a more uniform partisan bias and politically similar media are seen as having more …
Changing Deliberative Norms on News Organizations' Facebook Sites
Comments posted to news sites do not always live up to the ideals of deliberative theorists. Drawing from theories about deliberation and group norms, this study investigates whether news organizations can affect comment section norms by engaging directly with commenters. We conducted a field study with a local television station in a top-50 Designated Market Area. For 70 political posts made on different days, we randomized whether an unidentifi…
The “Deliberative Digital Divide
This study examined the association between political ideology and linguistic indicators of integrative complexity and opinion leadership in U.S. political blog posts ( N = 519). Using L inguistic I nquiry and W ord C ount ( LIWC ) text analysis, we found that the posts of conservative bloggers were more integratively simple than those of liberal bloggers. Furthermore, in support of a proposed opinion leadership model of integrative complexity, t…
Deliberative Television
With Americans’ confidence in the news media dwindling, the quality of programming declining, and audiences turning elsewhere, the American news media is at a crossroads. We argue that news outlets should consider a new form of deliberation-based programming for local news coverage as a means of responding to these problems. As a basis for the programming, we build on public journalism (Rosen & Merritt, 1994) and deliberative citizen panels (Knob…
Searching for the Next U.S. President
Studies have examined online campaigns, but none have researched the role of search engines during elections. This study analyzes search engine results from the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Analyses show that the sources and content generated by three search engines differed among the search engines. The top-three results from each search engine, however, originated from large, well-trafficked sites. The results indicate that search engines a…
Changing Deliberative Norms on News Organizations' Facebook Sites
Comments posted to news sites do not always live up to the ideals of deliberative theorists. Drawing from theories about deliberation and group norms, this study investigates whether news organizations can affect comment section norms by engaging directly with commenters. We conducted a field study with a local television station in a top-50 Designated Market Area. For 70 political posts made on different days, we randomized whether an unidentifi…
(Re)Claiming Our Expertise
Content analysis of large-scale textual data sets poses myriad problems, particularly when researchers seek to analyze content that is both theoretically derived and context dependent. In this piece, we detail the approach we developed to tackle the analysis of the context-dependent content of political incivility. After describing our manually validated organic dictionaries approach, we compare the method to others we could have used and then re…
The “Deliberative Digital Divide
This study examined the association between political ideology and linguistic indicators of integrative complexity and opinion leadership in U.S. political blog posts ( N = 519). Using L inguistic I nquiry and W ord C ount ( LIWC ) text analysis, we found that the posts of conservative bloggers were more integratively simple than those of liberal bloggers. Furthermore, in support of a proposed opinion leadership model of integrative complexity, t…
Selective Exposure, Tolerance, and Satirical News
Journal Article Selective Exposure, Tolerance, and Satirical News Get access Natalie J. Stroud, Natalie J. Stroud 1Department of Communication Studies, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA; 2Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA; 3Communication & Journalism Department, University of Wyoming, WY, USA Natalie (Talia) Jomini Stroud (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is an Assistant Professor in the Depar…
Like, recommend, or respect? Altering political behavior in news comment sections
Drawing from the stereotype content model, we examine how people respond to likeminded and counter-attitudinal political comments appearing after a news article. We experimentally test how citizens behave when they are able to click on one of three different buttons posted next to others’ comments—“Like,” “Recommend,” or “Respect.” In the experiment, political attitudes predicted button clicking, but the button label affected the strength of the …
The curiosity effect
This research investigates how digital news headlines influence contemporary news information seeking. In two studies (a lab experiment and a field test), we examine how the presentation of news information—traditional, summary news headlines or clickbait, curiosity news headlines—influences the attitudinal and behavioral components of news seeking. Study 1 models the news-seeking process, finding that summary headlines heighten perceptions of he…
Predicting perceptions of incivility across 20 news comment sections
Research on incivility has focused on individual differences or message characteristics that affect perceptions of incivility. Given the potential consequences of incivility in news spaces, it is essential to extend research on incivility perceptions to characteristics of digital news environments. We explore how the perception and availability of comment section features (i.e. comment moderation and anonymity), as well as a feeling of connection…
We Should Not Get Rid of Incivility Online
Incivility and toxicity have become concepts du jour in research about social media. The clear normative implication in much of this research is that incivility is bad and should be eliminated. Extensive research-including some that we've authored-has been dedicated to finding ways to reduce or eliminate incivility from online discussion spaces. In our work as part of the Civic Signals Initiative, we've been thinking carefully about what metrics …
Descriptive and Injunctive Incivility Norms in Political Campaigns
Despite evidence that a majority of people in the United States say that they want more civil politics, candidates still use incivility strategically during campaigns. Distinguishing between descriptive and injunctive norms may help explain this apparent contradiction. This study presents an experiment conducted with participants recruited at 2020 Democratic Iowa Caucus rallies that tested whether (a) individuals differ in their descriptive and i…
Searching for the Next U.S. President
Studies have examined online campaigns, but none have researched the role of search engines during elections. This study analyzes search engine results from the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Analyses show that the sources and content generated by three search engines differed among the search engines. The top-three results from each search engine, however, originated from large, well-trafficked sites. The results indicate that search engines a…
The Stability of Cable and Broadcast News Intermedia Agenda Setting Across the Covid-19 Issue Attention Cycle
In today's fragmented media environment, it is unclear whether the correspondence between media agendas that characterizes intermedia agenda setting persists. Through a combination of manual and computerized content analysis of 486,068 paragraphs of COVID−19 coverage across 4,589 cable and broadcast news transcripts, we analyze second and third-level attribute agenda setting, both in terms of central themes and aspects. Through the lens of the is…
Disrespectful Democracy
The US public consistently reports that civility is important to a successful democracy (Allegheny College/Zogby 2016)—yet incivility in politics is quite commonplace on television, in comment sections, and in presidential addresses. Why this clash between what citizens say they want and the prevalence of incivility in our political discourse? Some, including Mutz (2015), suggest that partisan identity affects incivility perceptions, with members…
The influence of online quizzes on the acquisition of public affairs knowledge
Drawing from a “mix of attributes” approach, this study analyzes whether interactive online news quizzes engage site visitors and help individuals acquire news knowledge. Results of a nationwide experiment (n = 456) indicate that online quizzes, whether using a multiple-choice or slider format, help citizens acquire public affairs knowledge and lead them to spend more time with public affairs information relative to presenting information without…
In-Your-Face Politics
Citizens, politicians, and journalists alike enjoy decrying political incivility. Diana C. Mutz complicates these attacks on incivility by investigating the effects of in-your-face politics. In-your-face political television includes two attributes: it contains incivility, that is, violations of face-to-face interaction norms, and it violates norms of interpersonal social distance by including close-up shots that make a televised person appear ph…
Deliberative Television
With Americans’ confidence in the news media dwindling, the quality of programming declining, and audiences turning elsewhere, the American news media is at a crossroads. We argue that news outlets should consider a new form of deliberation-based programming for local news coverage as a means of responding to these problems. As a basis for the programming, we build on public journalism (Rosen & Merritt, 1994) and deliberative citizen panels (Knob…
Searching for the Next U.S. President
Studies have examined online campaigns, but none have researched the role of search engines during elections. This study analyzes search engine results from the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Analyses show that the sources and content generated by three search engines differed among the search engines. The top-three results from each search engine, however, originated from large, well-trafficked sites. The results indicate that search engines a…
Selective Exposure, Tolerance, and Satirical News
Journal Article Selective Exposure, Tolerance, and Satirical News Get access Natalie J. Stroud, Natalie J. Stroud 1Department of Communication Studies, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA; 2Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA; 3Communication & Journalism Department, University of Wyoming, WY, USA Natalie (Talia) Jomini Stroud (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is an Assistant Professor in the Depar…
Seeing Media as Group Members
Drawing upon research on ingroup and outgroup perceptions, 2 studies examine citizen perceptions of media bias. Study 1 examines how citizens think about media bias across multiple sources. Consistent with the phenomenon of outgroup homogeneity, citizens' political leanings influence how much variation they perceive; politically dissimilar media are seen as having a more uniform partisan bias and politically similar media are seen as having more …
Changing Deliberative Norms on News Organizations' Facebook Sites
Comments posted to news sites do not always live up to the ideals of deliberative theorists. Drawing from theories about deliberation and group norms, this study investigates whether news organizations can affect comment section norms by engaging directly with commenters. We conducted a field study with a local television station in a top-50 Designated Market Area. For 70 political posts made on different days, we randomized whether an unidentifi…
The “Deliberative Digital Divide
This study examined the association between political ideology and linguistic indicators of integrative complexity and opinion leadership in U.S. political blog posts ( N = 519). Using L inguistic I nquiry and W ord C ount ( LIWC ) text analysis, we found that the posts of conservative bloggers were more integratively simple than those of liberal bloggers. Furthermore, in support of a proposed opinion leadership model of integrative complexity, t…
Negativity in Democratic Politics
Questions of negativity permeate politics. Why are so many campaign advertisements negative? Why are there so few positive news stories? Why do politicians attack one another instead of working tog
The influence of online quizzes on the acquisition of public affairs knowledge
Drawing from a “mix of attributes” approach, this study analyzes whether interactive online news quizzes engage site visitors and help individuals acquire news knowledge. Results of a nationwide experiment (n = 456) indicate that online quizzes, whether using a multiple-choice or slider format, help citizens acquire public affairs knowledge and lead them to spend more time with public affairs information relative to presenting information without…
Like, recommend, or respect? Altering political behavior in news comment sections
Drawing from the stereotype content model, we examine how people respond to likeminded and counter-attitudinal political comments appearing after a news article. We experimentally test how citizens behave when they are able to click on one of three different buttons posted next to others’ comments—“Like,” “Recommend,” or “Respect.” In the experiment, political attitudes predicted button clicking, but the button label affected the strength of the …
In-Your-Face Politics
Citizens, politicians, and journalists alike enjoy decrying political incivility. Diana C. Mutz complicates these attacks on incivility by investigating the effects of in-your-face politics. In-your-face political television includes two attributes: it contains incivility, that is, violations of face-to-face interaction norms, and it violates norms of interpersonal social distance by including close-up shots that make a televised person appear ph…
News Values, Cognitive Biases, and Partisan Incivility in Comment Sections
Partisan incivility is prevalent in news comments, but we have limited insight into how journalists and news users engage with it. Gatekeeping, cognitive bias, and social identity theories suggest that journalists may tolerate incivility while users actively promote partisan incivility. Using 9.6 million comments from The New York Times, we analyze whether the presence of uncivil and partisan terms affects how journalists and news users engage wi…
How People Perceive Political Incivility
Politicians, journalists, and at times even scholars toss around the term “incivility” without carefully defining its meaning. Headlines may claim a campaign is uncivil without clearly explaining why. Politicians may call for civility without explicitly stating whose behavior needs to change. Surveys contain questions asking about incivility and democracy without providing a definition of incivility to respondents. Yet few have explored how indiv…
Social Media Engagement With Strategy- and Issue-Framed Political News
Issue and strategy frames, oft-used ways of conveying political news, affect people’s political beliefs and attitudes, with strategic news frames producing greater cynicism and distrust than issue frames. Although some past research suggests that audiences prefer strategically framed news, it is not clear whether the public gravitates toward issue or strategy frames on social media. We partnered with a national news organization to conduct 48 tes…
The curiosity effect
This research investigates how digital news headlines influence contemporary news information seeking. In two studies (a lab experiment and a field test), we examine how the presentation of news information—traditional, summary news headlines or clickbait, curiosity news headlines—influences the attitudinal and behavioral components of news seeking. Study 1 models the news-seeking process, finding that summary headlines heighten perceptions of he…
(Re)Claiming Our Expertise
Content analysis of large-scale textual data sets poses myriad problems, particularly when researchers seek to analyze content that is both theoretically derived and context dependent. In this piece, we detail the approach we developed to tackle the analysis of the context-dependent content of political incivility. After describing our manually validated organic dictionaries approach, we compare the method to others we could have used and then re…
We Should Not Get Rid of Incivility Online
Incivility and toxicity have become concepts du jour in research about social media. The clear normative implication in much of this research is that incivility is bad and should be eliminated. Extensive research-including some that we've authored-has been dedicated to finding ways to reduce or eliminate incivility from online discussion spaces. In our work as part of the Civic Signals Initiative, we've been thinking carefully about what metrics …
Predicting perceptions of incivility across 20 news comment sections
Research on incivility has focused on individual differences or message characteristics that affect perceptions of incivility. Given the potential consequences of incivility in news spaces, it is essential to extend research on incivility perceptions to characteristics of digital news environments. We explore how the perception and availability of comment section features (i.e. comment moderation and anonymity), as well as a feeling of connection…
Disrespectful Democracy
The US public consistently reports that civility is important to a successful democracy (Allegheny College/Zogby 2016)—yet incivility in politics is quite commonplace on television, in comment sections, and in presidential addresses. Why this clash between what citizens say they want and the prevalence of incivility in our political discourse? Some, including Mutz (2015), suggest that partisan identity affects incivility perceptions, with members…
Descriptive and Injunctive Incivility Norms in Political Campaigns
Despite evidence that a majority of people in the United States say that they want more civil politics, candidates still use incivility strategically during campaigns. Distinguishing between descriptive and injunctive norms may help explain this apparent contradiction. This study presents an experiment conducted with participants recruited at 2020 Democratic Iowa Caucus rallies that tested whether (a) individuals differ in their descriptive and i…
The Influence of Conflict News on Audience Digital Engagement
In a competitive digital environment, news outlets employ attention-gaining strategies, including the portrayal of conflict. Yet such coverage may backfire. Using an experiment comparing exposure to disagreeable or uncivil conflict news, we examine how articles with different types of conflict relate to intended news engagement through the mediating variables of perceived incivility, news source credibility, and/or surveillance emotions and test …
The Stability of Cable and Broadcast News Intermedia Agenda Setting Across the Covid-19 Issue Attention Cycle
In today's fragmented media environment, it is unclear whether the correspondence between media agendas that characterizes intermedia agenda setting persists. Through a combination of manual and computerized content analysis of 486,068 paragraphs of COVID−19 coverage across 4,589 cable and broadcast news transcripts, we analyze second and third-level attribute agenda setting, both in terms of central themes and aspects. Through the lens of the is…
Emotion Work on Social Media
Research has found that individuals may engage with emotions differently depending on social media platforms and/or social norms. Yet it remains unclear how individuals deal with emotions differently depending on whether the communication is public or private or depending on the topic. Using a 2 × 2 experimental design, we find that people engage in emotion work on social media, noting a difference in experienced emotion during the process of opi…
Robust Comment Sections Need Robust Resources
"Robust Comment Sections Need Robust Resources." Journal of Media Ethics, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
The role of media use in the development of discursive citizenship norms among U.S. Latinx
Aiming to expand current research on the mechanisms and conditions under which novel citizenship norms emerge among different populations, we investigate the antecedents of discursive citizenship norms among Latinx individuals in the United States. Results from a two-wave survey suggest that cross-platform news media repertoires are positively associated with individual information care norms and considered contribution norms. Social media politi…
Why are people skeptical of social media
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