Jeroen Jonkman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4430131 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeroen Jonkman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeroen |
| FAMILY NAME | Jonkman |
| SIGNATURE | JONKMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0866-4085 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
How Do News Media Frame Society’s Future Problems? Investigating Distance and Scenarios in News Coverage About Climate Change and Aging Populations
Society faces several pressing challenges that demand sustained attention as they unfold. Key examples of such persistent social issues include climate change and aging populations, which are characterized by future-oriented, global considerations and uncertainties. Because of this distance, news media play a crucial role in making these issues relevant to audiences. This study illustrates how two existing concepts important for public understand…
From alarmed optimists to dismissive pessimists
Societies across the globe face the urgent need to transition to sustainable and renewable energy systems. Because the success of this transition depends in part on citizen engagement, it is important to understand how different groups of citizens perceive and engage with it. Citizen segmentation offers a useful approach for identifying meaningful differences in how citizens relate to the energy transition. While citizen segmentation approaches a…
The next media-fueled moral technology panic? News media’s and audience’s views on ChatGPT
With the diffusion of new technologies, “moral panics” often tend to emerge, with news outlets frequently seen as catalysts. However, empirical evidence on their specific role still remains scarce. The rise of ChatGPT offers a unique chance to observe a new form of moral technology panic in real time. Using a longitudinal survey of a Dutch quota sample and computational content analysis of Dutch news coverage on ChatGPT, we examined whether both …
The ongoing and contentious coverage of abortion in a progressive context
Utilising automated content analysis with transformer-based topic modelling (BERTopic), this study examines cross-outlet variation in volume and topics over two decades (2000-2022) of abortion coverage in seven major daily newspapers in the Netherlands. Our findings reveal an ongoing coverage of abortion. Volume of coverage was notably highest in religious newspapers, indicating that these newspapers constitute a prominent voice in Dutch abortion…
Climate-Solutions Polarization
Polarization dynamics around climate change are shifting from debates about the reality and severity of climate change to debates about climate solutions. We propose taking a value-based approach to understanding “climate-solutions polarization”. As a case study, we identified the discursive value expressions underlying the polarized biomass media discourse in the Netherlands, from 2019–2021. A discourse analysis showed how the value expressions …
Mutually Reinforcing or Excluding? How Compatibility Perceptions of Economy and Environment Link to Issue-Related Attitudes and Media Use
With growing discussions about the possible contribution of economic growth to increasingly severe environmental crises, scholars have called for greater attention to public opinion on the possible tradeoffs between continuous growths and protecting the environment. While ample research investigates public opinion on the environment-economy dilemma, so far, the role of the media environment has not been considered. Using a scale for perceived com…
Mutual Influences in Economic Agendas
This study examined agenda-setting relationships across the media, politics, and the public, while accounting for contextual boundaries from 1978 to 2018 in the United States. Our findings indicate that (1) for the overall model, the media and the public influence the prominence of economic concerns on the political agenda, but the political agenda has no agenda-setting power; (2) under a Republican president, the prominence of economic topics in…
Economic News
When Do Media Matter Most? A Study on the Relationship between Negative Economic News and Consumer Confidence across the Twenty-Eight EU States
This study provides a longitudinal, cross-national account of the relationship between negative news coverage and consumer confidence across all twenty-eight European Union (EU) member states for the period 2005–2017. We rely on an extensive data set of international news agency coverage and a range of economic indicators retrieved from Eurostat. Employing fixed-effects pooled time series and multilevel models, we demonstrate that negative news c…
Buffering Negative News
Building on the agenda-setting theory, this study investigates the effect of corporations’ visibility and tone in news coverage on reputation. More specifically, we examine the buffering role that prior reputation may have for the potential damaging impact of news coverage. Providing a stringent test of causality, data from an automated content analysis of Dutch online and print newspaper coverage (N = 5,235 articles) were linked to individual re…
To Pass or Not to Pass
To pass or not to pass through the news gates? That is a key question with respect to the relationship between large commercial firms and the journalistic outlets that publish news regarding them. Whereas previous research has considered how corporate communication affects media content, the focus of this study is on corporate characteristics (e.g. company size, age, location and ownership structure). Building on the gatekeeping approach, the stu…
Scaling up Content Analysis
Employing a number of different standalone programs is a prevalent approach among communication scholars who use computational methods to analyze media content. For instance, a researcher might use a specific program or a paid service to scrape some content from the Web, then use another program to process the resulting data, and finally conduct statistical analysis or produce some visualizations in yet another program. This makes it hard to buil…
Mediatization and the Disproportionate Attention to Negative News
Do news media increasingly portray a distorted world image when reporting menace? The purpose of this study is to investigate how media attention for negative incidents evolves over time and how this relates to real-world trends and public responses. A longitudinal content analysis (1991–2015) of media coverage of aviation incidents is used to provide a systematic investigation into the trends of media attention related to real-world data. Result…
Mediatization and the Disproportionate Attention to Negative News
Do news media increasingly portray a distorted world image when reporting menace? The purpose of this study is to investigate how media attention for negative incidents evolves over time and how this relates to real-world trends and public responses. A longitudinal content analysis (1991–2015) of media coverage of aviation incidents is used to provide a systematic investigation into the trends of media attention related to real-world data. Result…
Scaling up Content Analysis
Employing a number of different standalone programs is a prevalent approach among communication scholars who use computational methods to analyze media content. For instance, a researcher might use a specific program or a paid service to scrape some content from the Web, then use another program to process the resulting data, and finally conduct statistical analysis or produce some visualizations in yet another program. This makes it hard to buil…
Buffering Negative News
Building on the agenda-setting theory, this study investigates the effect of corporations’ visibility and tone in news coverage on reputation. More specifically, we examine the buffering role that prior reputation may have for the potential damaging impact of news coverage. Providing a stringent test of causality, data from an automated content analysis of Dutch online and print newspaper coverage (N = 5,235 articles) were linked to individual re…
When Do Media Matter Most? A Study on the Relationship between Negative Economic News and Consumer Confidence across the Twenty-Eight EU States
This study provides a longitudinal, cross-national account of the relationship between negative news coverage and consumer confidence across all twenty-eight European Union (EU) member states for the period 2005–2017. We rely on an extensive data set of international news agency coverage and a range of economic indicators retrieved from Eurostat. Employing fixed-effects pooled time series and multilevel models, we demonstrate that negative news c…
To Pass or Not to Pass
To pass or not to pass through the news gates? That is a key question with respect to the relationship between large commercial firms and the journalistic outlets that publish news regarding them. Whereas previous research has considered how corporate communication affects media content, the focus of this study is on corporate characteristics (e.g. company size, age, location and ownership structure). Building on the gatekeeping approach, the stu…
Scaling up Content Analysis
Employing a number of different standalone programs is a prevalent approach among communication scholars who use computational methods to analyze media content. For instance, a researcher might use a specific program or a paid service to scrape some content from the Web, then use another program to process the resulting data, and finally conduct statistical analysis or produce some visualizations in yet another program. This makes it hard to buil…
Mediatization and the Disproportionate Attention to Negative News
Do news media increasingly portray a distorted world image when reporting menace? The purpose of this study is to investigate how media attention for negative incidents evolves over time and how this relates to real-world trends and public responses. A longitudinal content analysis (1991–2015) of media coverage of aviation incidents is used to provide a systematic investigation into the trends of media attention related to real-world data. Result…
When Do Media Matter Most? A Study on the Relationship between Negative Economic News and Consumer Confidence across the Twenty-Eight EU States
This study provides a longitudinal, cross-national account of the relationship between negative news coverage and consumer confidence across all twenty-eight European Union (EU) member states for the period 2005–2017. We rely on an extensive data set of international news agency coverage and a range of economic indicators retrieved from Eurostat. Employing fixed-effects pooled time series and multilevel models, we demonstrate that negative news c…
Buffering Negative News
Building on the agenda-setting theory, this study investigates the effect of corporations’ visibility and tone in news coverage on reputation. More specifically, we examine the buffering role that prior reputation may have for the potential damaging impact of news coverage. Providing a stringent test of causality, data from an automated content analysis of Dutch online and print newspaper coverage (N = 5,235 articles) were linked to individual re…
To Pass or Not to Pass
To pass or not to pass through the news gates? That is a key question with respect to the relationship between large commercial firms and the journalistic outlets that publish news regarding them. Whereas previous research has considered how corporate communication affects media content, the focus of this study is on corporate characteristics (e.g. company size, age, location and ownership structure). Building on the gatekeeping approach, the stu…
Economic News
Mutual Influences in Economic Agendas
This study examined agenda-setting relationships across the media, politics, and the public, while accounting for contextual boundaries from 1978 to 2018 in the United States. Our findings indicate that (1) for the overall model, the media and the public influence the prominence of economic concerns on the political agenda, but the political agenda has no agenda-setting power; (2) under a Republican president, the prominence of economic topics in…
The next media-fueled moral technology panic? News media’s and audience’s views on ChatGPT
With the diffusion of new technologies, “moral panics” often tend to emerge, with news outlets frequently seen as catalysts. However, empirical evidence on their specific role still remains scarce. The rise of ChatGPT offers a unique chance to observe a new form of moral technology panic in real time. Using a longitudinal survey of a Dutch quota sample and computational content analysis of Dutch news coverage on ChatGPT, we examined whether both …
The ongoing and contentious coverage of abortion in a progressive context
Utilising automated content analysis with transformer-based topic modelling (BERTopic), this study examines cross-outlet variation in volume and topics over two decades (2000-2022) of abortion coverage in seven major daily newspapers in the Netherlands. Our findings reveal an ongoing coverage of abortion. Volume of coverage was notably highest in religious newspapers, indicating that these newspapers constitute a prominent voice in Dutch abortion…
Climate-Solutions Polarization
Polarization dynamics around climate change are shifting from debates about the reality and severity of climate change to debates about climate solutions. We propose taking a value-based approach to understanding “climate-solutions polarization”. As a case study, we identified the discursive value expressions underlying the polarized biomass media discourse in the Netherlands, from 2019–2021. A discourse analysis showed how the value expressions …
Mutually Reinforcing or Excluding? How Compatibility Perceptions of Economy and Environment Link to Issue-Related Attitudes and Media Use
With growing discussions about the possible contribution of economic growth to increasingly severe environmental crises, scholars have called for greater attention to public opinion on the possible tradeoffs between continuous growths and protecting the environment. While ample research investigates public opinion on the environment-economy dilemma, so far, the role of the media environment has not been considered. Using a scale for perceived com…
How Do News Media Frame Society’s Future Problems? Investigating Distance and Scenarios in News Coverage About Climate Change and Aging Populations
Society faces several pressing challenges that demand sustained attention as they unfold. Key examples of such persistent social issues include climate change and aging populations, which are characterized by future-oriented, global considerations and uncertainties. Because of this distance, news media play a crucial role in making these issues relevant to audiences. This study illustrates how two existing concepts important for public understand…
From alarmed optimists to dismissive pessimists
Societies across the globe face the urgent need to transition to sustainable and renewable energy systems. Because the success of this transition depends in part on citizen engagement, it is important to understand how different groups of citizens perceive and engage with it. Citizen segmentation offers a useful approach for identifying meaningful differences in how citizens relate to the energy transition. While citizen segmentation approaches a…
Political science (8 works) · Media Studies and Communication (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Advertising (4 works) · Business (4 works) · Media Influence and Politics (4 works) · News media (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (3 works)