Fred Vultee
Biographic Data
| ID | 4266732 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fred Vultee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fred |
| FAMILY NAME | Vultee |
| SIGNATURE | VULTEE F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3233-2977 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Media Framing Approach to Securitization: Storytelling in Conflict, Crisis and Threat
Presenting securitization as a communication issue, this book combines media framing with the theory of securitization to explain how the discourse of security informs media content and what happens to policy and public understanding when it does. Because securitization studies the construction of threats to societal structures as well as political-institutional structures, this book addresses security framing as a question of identity and the ab…
Prone to Agreement: Does Context Matter for Men and Women in Political Discussions
In contemporary discourse, context matters for how people converse with one another about political topics. Discussion may occur face-to-face or online, topics of conversation may be controversial or less so, and gender dynamics may vary. We argue that men and women are affected differently by various contextual discussion factors. We employ a unique quasi-experiment that varies these factors and uses discourse analysis to examine patterns of gen…
Media Framing Approach to Securitization: Storytelling in Conflict, Crisis and Threat
The Impact of Instagram Mommy Blogger Content on the Perceived Self-Efficacy of Mothers
The prominence of social media in contemporary life has led more mothers to search for parenting information through various Internet and social media channels. The following study examines the impact that Instagram mommy blog content has on the perceived parenting skill of the typical American mother. In this experiment, participants were exposed to one of two types of Instagram motherhood blogger content. The first type of content did not addre…
Who dominates the conversation? The effect of gender, discussion medium, and controversy on political discussion
Previous research finds that when citizens discuss political topics, men tend to predominate. In this study, we investigate how discussion of political issues changes in different settings, using a design in which male and female participants discussed two political topics—one controversial, the other not—in in a variety of settings. We examine two aspects of discussion: the extent of participation and the style of participation. We find that wom…
Here’s What to Know About Clickbait: Effects of Image, Headline and Editing on Audience Attitudes
This experimental study examines responses to three features of news practice: headline style, selection of illustrations, and level of processing applied to the text. The strongest influence on perceptions of quality or credibility come from editing, though the use of stock illustrations has an independent effect on perceptions of writing quality, and the presence of editing also influences whether traditional or clickbait headlines are associat…
Duties, Rights and Election-Night Pizza: Toward an agenda of “what journalists are owed”
Audience Perceptions of Editing Quality: Assessing traditional news routines in the digital age
The technological and social upheaval that did such damage to the economic structure of professional journalism has had some of its greatest impact on positions that, even if they did not produce original words or pictures, were essential to the smooth functioning of the assembly line of news. If off-the-shelf posting software with a built-in spell-checking function is all that need stand between the audience and a stream of fresh—if unmediated—c…
Reporting Disaster on Deadline
Public attitudes toward media control and incitement of conflicts in Eastern Africa
Public opinion research in two post-conflict African countries, Ethiopia and Rwanda, offers new insights into how audiences view the trustworthiness and performance of different media and different ownership sectors. This survey examines how citizens of Rwanda and Ethiopia describe the role of mass media in covering conflicts and in stoking the attitudes that can lead to or worsen conflicts. State-owned media are widely used as a source of news, …
A Paleontology of Style: The evolution of the Middle East in the AP Stylebook 1977–2010
This article looks at the commonly understood rules and guidelines, which are set out and regularly modified in the Associated Press Stylebook, for how news about the Middle East “ought” to look and sound for US readers. By examining official news language longitudinally across a period from before the Iranian revolution to the second decade of the “war on terror,” it finds patterns that shed light not only on the normal evolution of news languag…
Man-Child in the White House: The discursive construction of Barack Obama in reader comments at foxnews.com
This study uses fantasy theme analysis to examine reader comments on news articles at foxnews.com in an attempt to unravel the rhetorical vision that Fox readers construct to help them make political and personal sense of Barack Obama's presidency. Results describe the dramatic forms that readers envision and re-enact when articles about the president—favorable, unfavorable, or tangential—are presented
Securitization: A new approach to the framing of the “war on terror”
To successfully cast an issue as an extraordinary threat requiring a suspension of normal political functions is to "securitize" it (e.g., Buzan et al., 1998). This content analysis uses portrayals of the "war on terror" in three US newspapers from 2001 to 2006 to show how a securitization frame can be invoked or contested and how it changes across time. Results suggest the importance to political figures of being able to invoke security, not onl…
The second casualty: Effects of interstate conflict and civil war on press freedom
This article builds on recent work that emphasizes the importance of press freedom in restraining international conflict by examining the reverse relationship: whether conflict has an impact on individual nations' levels of press freedom. It finds that, in general, civil wars have a greater negative impact than interstate wars, press systems in democracies are more affected than those in autocracies, and level of conflict is more relevant than th…
Jump Back Jack, Mohammed's Here: Fox News and the construction of Islamic peril
This discourse analysis uses Said's concept of Orientalism to explore the ways in which Fox News uses the tools of news practice to create an ideological clearinghouse for a uniquely menacing image of Islam. As Said (1979) suggested, within this image, Islam is inseparable from what Muslims do, and Muslims are inseparable from each other. The modern image of an irrational, backward East that can never reconcile with the rational, progressive West…
Fatwa on the Bunny”: News Language and the Creation of Meaning About the Middle East
How did fatwa, once an unambiguous, simple term for a ruling on a question of Islamic religious law, come to mean “death sentence” in U.S. news language and popular culture? This article uses content and discourse analyses to trace this newly created meaning through a series of gatekeeping failures to a position from which its more ominous meaning is easily inferred—not simply in references to political violence but in discussions of baseball and…
Jump Back Jack, Mohammed's Here: Fox News and the construction of Islamic peril
This discourse analysis uses Said's concept of Orientalism to explore the ways in which Fox News uses the tools of news practice to create an ideological clearinghouse for a uniquely menacing image of Islam. As Said (1979) suggested, within this image, Islam is inseparable from what Muslims do, and Muslims are inseparable from each other. The modern image of an irrational, backward East that can never reconcile with the rational, progressive West…
Securitization: A new approach to the framing of the “war on terror”
To successfully cast an issue as an extraordinary threat requiring a suspension of normal political functions is to "securitize" it (e.g., Buzan et al., 1998). This content analysis uses portrayals of the "war on terror" in three US newspapers from 2001 to 2006 to show how a securitization frame can be invoked or contested and how it changes across time. Results suggest the importance to political figures of being able to invoke security, not onl…
Audience Perceptions of Editing Quality: Assessing traditional news routines in the digital age
The technological and social upheaval that did such damage to the economic structure of professional journalism has had some of its greatest impact on positions that, even if they did not produce original words or pictures, were essential to the smooth functioning of the assembly line of news. If off-the-shelf posting software with a built-in spell-checking function is all that need stand between the audience and a stream of fresh—if unmediated—c…
The Impact of Instagram Mommy Blogger Content on the Perceived Self-Efficacy of Mothers
The prominence of social media in contemporary life has led more mothers to search for parenting information through various Internet and social media channels. The following study examines the impact that Instagram mommy blog content has on the perceived parenting skill of the typical American mother. In this experiment, participants were exposed to one of two types of Instagram motherhood blogger content. The first type of content did not addre…
Prone to Agreement: Does Context Matter for Men and Women in Political Discussions
In contemporary discourse, context matters for how people converse with one another about political topics. Discussion may occur face-to-face or online, topics of conversation may be controversial or less so, and gender dynamics may vary. We argue that men and women are affected differently by various contextual discussion factors. We employ a unique quasi-experiment that varies these factors and uses discourse analysis to examine patterns of gen…
Who dominates the conversation? The effect of gender, discussion medium, and controversy on political discussion
Previous research finds that when citizens discuss political topics, men tend to predominate. In this study, we investigate how discussion of political issues changes in different settings, using a design in which male and female participants discussed two political topics—one controversial, the other not—in in a variety of settings. We examine two aspects of discussion: the extent of participation and the style of participation. We find that wom…
The second casualty: Effects of interstate conflict and civil war on press freedom
This article builds on recent work that emphasizes the importance of press freedom in restraining international conflict by examining the reverse relationship: whether conflict has an impact on individual nations' levels of press freedom. It finds that, in general, civil wars have a greater negative impact than interstate wars, press systems in democracies are more affected than those in autocracies, and level of conflict is more relevant than th…
Fatwa on the Bunny”: News Language and the Creation of Meaning About the Middle East
How did fatwa, once an unambiguous, simple term for a ruling on a question of Islamic religious law, come to mean “death sentence” in U.S. news language and popular culture? This article uses content and discourse analyses to trace this newly created meaning through a series of gatekeeping failures to a position from which its more ominous meaning is easily inferred—not simply in references to political violence but in discussions of baseball and…
Here’s What to Know About Clickbait: Effects of Image, Headline and Editing on Audience Attitudes
This experimental study examines responses to three features of news practice: headline style, selection of illustrations, and level of processing applied to the text. The strongest influence on perceptions of quality or credibility come from editing, though the use of stock illustrations has an independent effect on perceptions of writing quality, and the presence of editing also influences whether traditional or clickbait headlines are associat…
A Paleontology of Style: The evolution of the Middle East in the AP Stylebook 1977–2010
This article looks at the commonly understood rules and guidelines, which are set out and regularly modified in the Associated Press Stylebook, for how news about the Middle East “ought” to look and sound for US readers. By examining official news language longitudinally across a period from before the Iranian revolution to the second decade of the “war on terror,” it finds patterns that shed light not only on the normal evolution of news languag…
Man-Child in the White House: The discursive construction of Barack Obama in reader comments at foxnews.com
This study uses fantasy theme analysis to examine reader comments on news articles at foxnews.com in an attempt to unravel the rhetorical vision that Fox readers construct to help them make political and personal sense of Barack Obama's presidency. Results describe the dramatic forms that readers envision and re-enact when articles about the president—favorable, unfavorable, or tangential—are presented
Fatwa on the Bunny”: News Language and the Creation of Meaning About the Middle East
How did fatwa, once an unambiguous, simple term for a ruling on a question of Islamic religious law, come to mean “death sentence” in U.S. news language and popular culture? This article uses content and discourse analyses to trace this newly created meaning through a series of gatekeeping failures to a position from which its more ominous meaning is easily inferred—not simply in references to political violence but in discussions of baseball and…
Securitization: A new approach to the framing of the “war on terror”
To successfully cast an issue as an extraordinary threat requiring a suspension of normal political functions is to "securitize" it (e.g., Buzan et al., 1998). This content analysis uses portrayals of the "war on terror" in three US newspapers from 2001 to 2006 to show how a securitization frame can be invoked or contested and how it changes across time. Results suggest the importance to political figures of being able to invoke security, not onl…
The second casualty: Effects of interstate conflict and civil war on press freedom
This article builds on recent work that emphasizes the importance of press freedom in restraining international conflict by examining the reverse relationship: whether conflict has an impact on individual nations' levels of press freedom. It finds that, in general, civil wars have a greater negative impact than interstate wars, press systems in democracies are more affected than those in autocracies, and level of conflict is more relevant than th…
Jump Back Jack, Mohammed's Here: Fox News and the construction of Islamic peril
This discourse analysis uses Said's concept of Orientalism to explore the ways in which Fox News uses the tools of news practice to create an ideological clearinghouse for a uniquely menacing image of Islam. As Said (1979) suggested, within this image, Islam is inseparable from what Muslims do, and Muslims are inseparable from each other. The modern image of an irrational, backward East that can never reconcile with the rational, progressive West…
Man-Child in the White House: The discursive construction of Barack Obama in reader comments at foxnews.com
This study uses fantasy theme analysis to examine reader comments on news articles at foxnews.com in an attempt to unravel the rhetorical vision that Fox readers construct to help them make political and personal sense of Barack Obama's presidency. Results describe the dramatic forms that readers envision and re-enact when articles about the president—favorable, unfavorable, or tangential—are presented
Reporting Disaster on Deadline
Public attitudes toward media control and incitement of conflicts in Eastern Africa
Public opinion research in two post-conflict African countries, Ethiopia and Rwanda, offers new insights into how audiences view the trustworthiness and performance of different media and different ownership sectors. This survey examines how citizens of Rwanda and Ethiopia describe the role of mass media in covering conflicts and in stoking the attitudes that can lead to or worsen conflicts. State-owned media are widely used as a source of news, …
A Paleontology of Style: The evolution of the Middle East in the AP Stylebook 1977–2010
This article looks at the commonly understood rules and guidelines, which are set out and regularly modified in the Associated Press Stylebook, for how news about the Middle East “ought” to look and sound for US readers. By examining official news language longitudinally across a period from before the Iranian revolution to the second decade of the “war on terror,” it finds patterns that shed light not only on the normal evolution of news languag…
Audience Perceptions of Editing Quality: Assessing traditional news routines in the digital age
The technological and social upheaval that did such damage to the economic structure of professional journalism has had some of its greatest impact on positions that, even if they did not produce original words or pictures, were essential to the smooth functioning of the assembly line of news. If off-the-shelf posting software with a built-in spell-checking function is all that need stand between the audience and a stream of fresh—if unmediated—c…
Duties, Rights and Election-Night Pizza: Toward an agenda of “what journalists are owed”
Who dominates the conversation? The effect of gender, discussion medium, and controversy on political discussion
Previous research finds that when citizens discuss political topics, men tend to predominate. In this study, we investigate how discussion of political issues changes in different settings, using a design in which male and female participants discussed two political topics—one controversial, the other not—in in a variety of settings. We examine two aspects of discussion: the extent of participation and the style of participation. We find that wom…
Here’s What to Know About Clickbait: Effects of Image, Headline and Editing on Audience Attitudes
This experimental study examines responses to three features of news practice: headline style, selection of illustrations, and level of processing applied to the text. The strongest influence on perceptions of quality or credibility come from editing, though the use of stock illustrations has an independent effect on perceptions of writing quality, and the presence of editing also influences whether traditional or clickbait headlines are associat…
The Impact of Instagram Mommy Blogger Content on the Perceived Self-Efficacy of Mothers
The prominence of social media in contemporary life has led more mothers to search for parenting information through various Internet and social media channels. The following study examines the impact that Instagram mommy blog content has on the perceived parenting skill of the typical American mother. In this experiment, participants were exposed to one of two types of Instagram motherhood blogger content. The first type of content did not addre…
A Media Framing Approach to Securitization: Storytelling in Conflict, Crisis and Threat
Presenting securitization as a communication issue, this book combines media framing with the theory of securitization to explain how the discourse of security informs media content and what happens to policy and public understanding when it does. Because securitization studies the construction of threats to societal structures as well as political-institutional structures, this book addresses security framing as a question of identity and the ab…
Prone to Agreement: Does Context Matter for Men and Women in Political Discussions
In contemporary discourse, context matters for how people converse with one another about political topics. Discussion may occur face-to-face or online, topics of conversation may be controversial or less so, and gender dynamics may vary. We argue that men and women are affected differently by various contextual discussion factors. We employ a unique quasi-experiment that varies these factors and uses discourse analysis to examine patterns of gen…
Media Framing Approach to Securitization: Storytelling in Conflict, Crisis and Threat
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