Jennifer Brundidge
Biographic Data
| ID | 4802008 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Brundidge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Brundidge |
| SIGNATURE | BRUNDIDGE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Consumers as activists: Exploring the links between political identity, corporate violence, and boycott intention
This research investigates political consumerism by exploring how consumers’ political identity interacts with corporate violence type to influence boycott intentions in the social media setting. Findings show that consumers with a liberal political identity are more likely than conservatives to boycott companies implicated in the labor exploitation news, while no significant ideological differences emerge in response to unsafe product news. Thes…
Political Participation and Ideological News Online: “Differential Gains” and “Differential Losses” in a Presidential Election Cycle
Observations of the contemporary news media environment often revolve around the topics of ideological polarization and blurred boundaries between mass and interpersonal communication. This study explores these topics through a focus on the association between ideologically oriented online news use, commenting on online news, and political participation. We hypothesize that both ideological online news use generally and proattitudinal online news…
The “Deliberative Digital Divide: Opinion Leadership and Integrative Complexity in the U.S. Political Blogosphere
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…
Does the Medium still Matter? The Influence of Gender and Political Connectedness on Contacting U.S. Public Officials Online and Offline
Encountering “Difference” in the Contemporary Public Sphere: The Contribution of the Internet to the Heterogeneity of Political Discussion Networks
This study explores the intersection of media use, political discussion, and exposure to political difference through a focus on how Internet use might affect the overall heterogeneity of people's political discussion networks. Advanced and tested herein is the inadvertency thesis, which theorizes that limitations of selective exposure processes combined with weakened social boundaries found in the online environment suggest that people may be ex…
Technological change and the shifting nature of political organization
Political engagement online - 1 - Do the information rich get richer and the like-minded more similar?
The “Deliberative Digital Divide: Opinion Leadership and Integrative Complexity in the U.S. Political Blogosphere
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…
Political Participation and Ideological News Online: “Differential Gains” and “Differential Losses” in a Presidential Election Cycle
Observations of the contemporary news media environment often revolve around the topics of ideological polarization and blurred boundaries between mass and interpersonal communication. This study explores these topics through a focus on the association between ideologically oriented online news use, commenting on online news, and political participation. We hypothesize that both ideological online news use generally and proattitudinal online news…
Does the Medium still Matter? The Influence of Gender and Political Connectedness on Contacting U.S. Public Officials Online and Offline
Technological change and the shifting nature of political organization
Political engagement online - 1 - Do the information rich get richer and the like-minded more similar?
Encountering “Difference” in the Contemporary Public Sphere: The Contribution of the Internet to the Heterogeneity of Political Discussion Networks
This study explores the intersection of media use, political discussion, and exposure to political difference through a focus on how Internet use might affect the overall heterogeneity of people's political discussion networks. Advanced and tested herein is the inadvertency thesis, which theorizes that limitations of selective exposure processes combined with weakened social boundaries found in the online environment suggest that people may be ex…
Does the Medium still Matter? The Influence of Gender and Political Connectedness on Contacting U.S. Public Officials Online and Offline
Political Participation and Ideological News Online: “Differential Gains” and “Differential Losses” in a Presidential Election Cycle
Observations of the contemporary news media environment often revolve around the topics of ideological polarization and blurred boundaries between mass and interpersonal communication. This study explores these topics through a focus on the association between ideologically oriented online news use, commenting on online news, and political participation. We hypothesize that both ideological online news use generally and proattitudinal online news…
The “Deliberative Digital Divide: Opinion Leadership and Integrative Complexity in the U.S. Political Blogosphere
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…
Consumers as activists: Exploring the links between political identity, corporate violence, and boycott intention
This research investigates political consumerism by exploring how consumers’ political identity interacts with corporate violence type to influence boycott intentions in the social media setting. Findings show that consumers with a liberal political identity are more likely than conservatives to boycott companies implicated in the labor exploitation news, while no significant ideological differences emerge in response to unsafe product news. Thes…
Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Media and Politics (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political communication (3 works)