María E Len‐río
Biographic Data
| ID | 4890888 |
|---|---|
| NAME | María E Len‐río |
| GIVEN NAMES | María E |
| FAMILY NAME | Len‐río |
| SIGNATURE | RÍO M E L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1893-2079 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Care-Based Practices in Health News: Why and How U.S. Health Journalists Include Exemplars in Their Reporting
How health journalists gatecheck public figures who share misinformation
This study investigates how health journalists report handling misinformation shared by a public figure. Survey results from 629 U.S. journalists show that nearly 70% said they would gatecheck the information or make an explicit reference that the information was incorrect. Using the gatekeeping theory and the Hierarchy of Influences model, we examined the individual and organizational influences on information correction and found that women and…
Latinx adolescents' perspectives on romantic relationships and sexuality: Exploring the roles of parents and siblings
Parents and siblings are critical sources of influence on adolescents' ideas about and experiences with romantic relationships and sex. Using focus group data from 44 Latinx adolescents in the U.S. Midwest, we explored how family relationships shaped how Latinx teens learned about cultural norms and expectations concerning their romantic relationships and involvement in sexual behaviors. Parents expressed more protective behaviors toward their da…
Child Immigrant Detention: Spokesperson Key Messages, Engineered Frames, and Cultural Rules
Public relations professionals engineer acceptability for policy, such as child immigrant detention, through key messages. Agenda building, engineered frames, and rules theories guide study of spokesperson attributions from 221 articles from January 2017 to October 2019. Findings show attributions to U.S. government spokespersons appeared most in stories. Journalist inquiries were declined at times by spokespersons citing legal and privacy argume…
Challenging Politicians on Race in Interviews: Social Dominance Orientation, Perceived Journalistic Credibility, Bias, and Appropriateness
This study uses a randomized posttest-only between-subjects experiment (N = 148) to investigate the communication rules participants perceive after a journalist interviews a politician about race-related housing policies. Perceived question appropriateness, journalistic bias, and perceived credibility (journalist and politician) were examined depending on the journalist’s varying adversarial stances (no challenge, simple challenge, contextualized…
A Discourse Analysis of the South Korean Embassy’s Facebook Page and Communicating Its Role in Strategic Relationships
This study explores the discourse on the Facebook page of the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the United States and discusses how the ROK Embassy constructs its public diplomacy by highlighting its international role and its ROK-U.S. relationship. This research conducted a simple content analysis and a discourse analysis to study 182 posts published on the Embassy’s Facebook page in Korean, English or both between October 25, 2019, and Octobe…
Understanding and Increasing Influenza Vaccination Acceptance: Insights from a 2016 National Survey of U.S. Adults
Background : The percentage of adults in the U.S. getting seasonal influenza vaccination has not changed significantly since 2013 and remains far below the federal government's 70% target. Objective : This study assessed and identified characteristics, experiences, and beliefs associated with influenza vaccination using a nationally representative survey of 1005 U.S. adults 19 years old and older. Methods : The sample was drawn from the National …
US Latino adolescents’ use of mass media and mediated communication in romantic relationships
The present study uses uncertainty reduction theory to analyze how Latino adolescents perceive that mass media influence their conceptions of romantic relationships. In addition, we explore how these adolescents use social media in their romantic relationships. Data are from five focus groups with 44 Latino adolescents (M = 16.39 years old; 59% female) in the US Midwest. Findings indicate that Latino adolescents believe media portray unrealistic …
Image Repair Campaign Strategies Addressing Race: Paula Deen, Social Media, and Defiance
This multi-method study examines how the use of social media in a crisis campaign involving race-related issues may affect a public figure’s credibility and perceived response appropriateness. First, image repair theory is used to analyze Paula Deen’s image repair campaign in the wake of the National Enquirer’s revelation that she admitted to using the “N-word” during a lawsuit deposition. Our analysis shows her response strategies were unsuccess…
Deliberation of the Scientific Evidence for Breastfeeding: Online Comments as Social Representations
This mixed-methods study examines online comments ( The Atlantic online, N = 326; NYTimes.com , N = 596) generated by two widely read articles challenging the scientific basis for U.S. government breastfeeding recommendations. The analysis focuses on commenter evaluations of the scientific evidence for breastfeeding. Results demonstrate that commenters socially represented breastfeeding science as a means for manufacturing convenience and also as…
Reporters' Gender Affects Views on Health Reporting
A survey of a large national sample suggests that female health journalists feel more strongly than do their male counterparts about the importance of serving as health advocates. The study also finds that female journalists pay more attention to representing women in health news
Journalistic Use of Exemplars to Humanize Health News
Health journalists often use personal stories to put a "face" on a health issue. This research uses a sociology-of-news approach, based on data collected from 42 in-depth interviews and three surveys with health journalists and editors [national (N = 774), state (N = 55), and purposive (N = 180)], to provide a first look at how important journalists think exemplars are to their stories. Results show journalists select exemplars to inform, inspire…
Understanding ethnic media: Producers, consumers and societies
Understanding Ethnic Media: Producers, Consumers and Societies addresses important media outlets that are often absent from academic and professional discussions of mass media. In light of the momentous changes within today's societies, and with the many challenges faced by governments unsure of multiculturalism, the need for this text at this time could not be greater. A major strength of this text is that it draws examples from a variety of reg…
Image Repair Strategies, Local News Portrayals and Crisis Stage: A Case Study of Duke University's Lacrosse Team Crisis
The case analysis presented here studies Duke University's strategic use of communication to defend its image during the scandal involving its men's lacrosse team. Benoit's (1995 Benoit, W. L. 1995. Accounts, excuses, and apologies: A theory of image restoration strategies, Albany: State University of New York. [Google Scholar], 1997 Benoit, W. L. 1997. Image repair discourse and crisis communication. Public Relations Review, 23(2): 177[Crossref]…
Health News Agenda Building: Journalists' Perceptions of the Role of Public Relations
This study uses a nationwide survey of health journalists (N = 774) to explore the agenda-building process in health news, examining how journalists develop story ideas, value expert source characteristics, and perceive the acceptability of using public relations materials. Results indicate that intermedia agenda setting may be a stronger influence on agenda building than are information subsidies, and that journalists rate characteristics associ…
Tacit Understandings of Health Literacy: Interview and Survey Research With Health Journalists
This research offers both qualitative and quantitative data about how health journalists approach health literacy practically and conceptually. Using interviews with 20 writers and editors for magazines and newspapers coupled with a national survey ( N = 396), this analysis uncovers journalistic techniques and tacit theories for making information understandable. The journalists evince a basic understanding of how health literacy can be enhanced …
Representation of Women in News and Photos: Comparing Content to Perceptions
This study uses a feminist framework of masculine cultural hegemony to examine the representation of women in two newspapers—a medium-sized newspaper (Study 1) and a larger newspaper (Study 2). Surveys gauged news staff and news reader perceptions of female representation in news content to determine if perceptions matched content-analysis findings. Content-analysis results revealed a greater proportion of males than females in both content and p…
Health News Agenda Building: Journalists' Perceptions of the Role of Public Relations
This study uses a nationwide survey of health journalists (N = 774) to explore the agenda-building process in health news, examining how journalists develop story ideas, value expert source characteristics, and perceive the acceptability of using public relations materials. Results indicate that intermedia agenda setting may be a stronger influence on agenda building than are information subsidies, and that journalists rate characteristics associ…
Journalistic Use of Exemplars to Humanize Health News
Health journalists often use personal stories to put a "face" on a health issue. This research uses a sociology-of-news approach, based on data collected from 42 in-depth interviews and three surveys with health journalists and editors [national (N = 774), state (N = 55), and purposive (N = 180)], to provide a first look at how important journalists think exemplars are to their stories. Results show journalists select exemplars to inform, inspire…
Image Repair Strategies, Local News Portrayals and Crisis Stage: A Case Study of Duke University's Lacrosse Team Crisis
The case analysis presented here studies Duke University's strategic use of communication to defend its image during the scandal involving its men's lacrosse team. Benoit's (1995 Benoit, W. L. 1995. Accounts, excuses, and apologies: A theory of image restoration strategies, Albany: State University of New York. [Google Scholar], 1997 Benoit, W. L. 1997. Image repair discourse and crisis communication. Public Relations Review, 23(2): 177[Crossref]…
Latinx adolescents' perspectives on romantic relationships and sexuality: Exploring the roles of parents and siblings
Parents and siblings are critical sources of influence on adolescents' ideas about and experiences with romantic relationships and sex. Using focus group data from 44 Latinx adolescents in the U.S. Midwest, we explored how family relationships shaped how Latinx teens learned about cultural norms and expectations concerning their romantic relationships and involvement in sexual behaviors. Parents expressed more protective behaviors toward their da…
Understanding ethnic media: Producers, consumers and societies
Understanding Ethnic Media: Producers, Consumers and Societies addresses important media outlets that are often absent from academic and professional discussions of mass media. In light of the momentous changes within today's societies, and with the many challenges faced by governments unsure of multiculturalism, the need for this text at this time could not be greater. A major strength of this text is that it draws examples from a variety of reg…
Image Repair Campaign Strategies Addressing Race: Paula Deen, Social Media, and Defiance
This multi-method study examines how the use of social media in a crisis campaign involving race-related issues may affect a public figure’s credibility and perceived response appropriateness. First, image repair theory is used to analyze Paula Deen’s image repair campaign in the wake of the National Enquirer’s revelation that she admitted to using the “N-word” during a lawsuit deposition. Our analysis shows her response strategies were unsuccess…
Tacit Understandings of Health Literacy: Interview and Survey Research With Health Journalists
This research offers both qualitative and quantitative data about how health journalists approach health literacy practically and conceptually. Using interviews with 20 writers and editors for magazines and newspapers coupled with a national survey ( N = 396), this analysis uncovers journalistic techniques and tacit theories for making information understandable. The journalists evince a basic understanding of how health literacy can be enhanced …
Deliberation of the Scientific Evidence for Breastfeeding: Online Comments as Social Representations
This mixed-methods study examines online comments ( The Atlantic online, N = 326; NYTimes.com , N = 596) generated by two widely read articles challenging the scientific basis for U.S. government breastfeeding recommendations. The analysis focuses on commenter evaluations of the scientific evidence for breastfeeding. Results demonstrate that commenters socially represented breastfeeding science as a means for manufacturing convenience and also as…
Challenging Politicians on Race in Interviews: Social Dominance Orientation, Perceived Journalistic Credibility, Bias, and Appropriateness
This study uses a randomized posttest-only between-subjects experiment (N = 148) to investigate the communication rules participants perceive after a journalist interviews a politician about race-related housing policies. Perceived question appropriateness, journalistic bias, and perceived credibility (journalist and politician) were examined depending on the journalist’s varying adversarial stances (no challenge, simple challenge, contextualized…
A Discourse Analysis of the South Korean Embassy’s Facebook Page and Communicating Its Role in Strategic Relationships
This study explores the discourse on the Facebook page of the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the United States and discusses how the ROK Embassy constructs its public diplomacy by highlighting its international role and its ROK-U.S. relationship. This research conducted a simple content analysis and a discourse analysis to study 182 posts published on the Embassy’s Facebook page in Korean, English or both between October 25, 2019, and Octobe…
Representation of Women in News and Photos: Comparing Content to Perceptions
This study uses a feminist framework of masculine cultural hegemony to examine the representation of women in two newspapers—a medium-sized newspaper (Study 1) and a larger newspaper (Study 2). Surveys gauged news staff and news reader perceptions of female representation in news content to determine if perceptions matched content-analysis findings. Content-analysis results revealed a greater proportion of males than females in both content and p…
Health News Agenda Building: Journalists' Perceptions of the Role of Public Relations
This study uses a nationwide survey of health journalists (N = 774) to explore the agenda-building process in health news, examining how journalists develop story ideas, value expert source characteristics, and perceive the acceptability of using public relations materials. Results indicate that intermedia agenda setting may be a stronger influence on agenda building than are information subsidies, and that journalists rate characteristics associ…
Tacit Understandings of Health Literacy: Interview and Survey Research With Health Journalists
This research offers both qualitative and quantitative data about how health journalists approach health literacy practically and conceptually. Using interviews with 20 writers and editors for magazines and newspapers coupled with a national survey ( N = 396), this analysis uncovers journalistic techniques and tacit theories for making information understandable. The journalists evince a basic understanding of how health literacy can be enhanced …
Image Repair Strategies, Local News Portrayals and Crisis Stage: A Case Study of Duke University's Lacrosse Team Crisis
The case analysis presented here studies Duke University's strategic use of communication to defend its image during the scandal involving its men's lacrosse team. Benoit's (1995 Benoit, W. L. 1995. Accounts, excuses, and apologies: A theory of image restoration strategies, Albany: State University of New York. [Google Scholar], 1997 Benoit, W. L. 1997. Image repair discourse and crisis communication. Public Relations Review, 23(2): 177[Crossref]…
Understanding ethnic media: Producers, consumers and societies
Understanding Ethnic Media: Producers, Consumers and Societies addresses important media outlets that are often absent from academic and professional discussions of mass media. In light of the momentous changes within today's societies, and with the many challenges faced by governments unsure of multiculturalism, the need for this text at this time could not be greater. A major strength of this text is that it draws examples from a variety of reg…
Reporters' Gender Affects Views on Health Reporting
A survey of a large national sample suggests that female health journalists feel more strongly than do their male counterparts about the importance of serving as health advocates. The study also finds that female journalists pay more attention to representing women in health news
Journalistic Use of Exemplars to Humanize Health News
Health journalists often use personal stories to put a "face" on a health issue. This research uses a sociology-of-news approach, based on data collected from 42 in-depth interviews and three surveys with health journalists and editors [national (N = 774), state (N = 55), and purposive (N = 180)], to provide a first look at how important journalists think exemplars are to their stories. Results show journalists select exemplars to inform, inspire…
Deliberation of the Scientific Evidence for Breastfeeding: Online Comments as Social Representations
This mixed-methods study examines online comments ( The Atlantic online, N = 326; NYTimes.com , N = 596) generated by two widely read articles challenging the scientific basis for U.S. government breastfeeding recommendations. The analysis focuses on commenter evaluations of the scientific evidence for breastfeeding. Results demonstrate that commenters socially represented breastfeeding science as a means for manufacturing convenience and also as…
Image Repair Campaign Strategies Addressing Race: Paula Deen, Social Media, and Defiance
This multi-method study examines how the use of social media in a crisis campaign involving race-related issues may affect a public figure’s credibility and perceived response appropriateness. First, image repair theory is used to analyze Paula Deen’s image repair campaign in the wake of the National Enquirer’s revelation that she admitted to using the “N-word” during a lawsuit deposition. Our analysis shows her response strategies were unsuccess…
US Latino adolescents’ use of mass media and mediated communication in romantic relationships
The present study uses uncertainty reduction theory to analyze how Latino adolescents perceive that mass media influence their conceptions of romantic relationships. In addition, we explore how these adolescents use social media in their romantic relationships. Data are from five focus groups with 44 Latino adolescents (M = 16.39 years old; 59% female) in the US Midwest. Findings indicate that Latino adolescents believe media portray unrealistic …
Understanding and Increasing Influenza Vaccination Acceptance: Insights from a 2016 National Survey of U.S. Adults
Background : The percentage of adults in the U.S. getting seasonal influenza vaccination has not changed significantly since 2013 and remains far below the federal government's 70% target. Objective : This study assessed and identified characteristics, experiences, and beliefs associated with influenza vaccination using a nationally representative survey of 1005 U.S. adults 19 years old and older. Methods : The sample was drawn from the National …
Child Immigrant Detention: Spokesperson Key Messages, Engineered Frames, and Cultural Rules
Public relations professionals engineer acceptability for policy, such as child immigrant detention, through key messages. Agenda building, engineered frames, and rules theories guide study of spokesperson attributions from 221 articles from January 2017 to October 2019. Findings show attributions to U.S. government spokespersons appeared most in stories. Journalist inquiries were declined at times by spokespersons citing legal and privacy argume…
Challenging Politicians on Race in Interviews: Social Dominance Orientation, Perceived Journalistic Credibility, Bias, and Appropriateness
This study uses a randomized posttest-only between-subjects experiment (N = 148) to investigate the communication rules participants perceive after a journalist interviews a politician about race-related housing policies. Perceived question appropriateness, journalistic bias, and perceived credibility (journalist and politician) were examined depending on the journalist’s varying adversarial stances (no challenge, simple challenge, contextualized…
A Discourse Analysis of the South Korean Embassy’s Facebook Page and Communicating Its Role in Strategic Relationships
This study explores the discourse on the Facebook page of the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the United States and discusses how the ROK Embassy constructs its public diplomacy by highlighting its international role and its ROK-U.S. relationship. This research conducted a simple content analysis and a discourse analysis to study 182 posts published on the Embassy’s Facebook page in Korean, English or both between October 25, 2019, and Octobe…
Latinx adolescents' perspectives on romantic relationships and sexuality: Exploring the roles of parents and siblings
Parents and siblings are critical sources of influence on adolescents' ideas about and experiences with romantic relationships and sex. Using focus group data from 44 Latinx adolescents in the U.S. Midwest, we explored how family relationships shaped how Latinx teens learned about cultural norms and expectations concerning their romantic relationships and involvement in sexual behaviors. Parents expressed more protective behaviors toward their da…
How health journalists gatecheck public figures who share misinformation
This study investigates how health journalists report handling misinformation shared by a public figure. Survey results from 629 U.S. journalists show that nearly 70% said they would gatecheck the information or make an explicit reference that the information was incorrect. Using the gatekeeping theory and the Hierarchy of Influences model, we examined the individual and organizational influences on information correction and found that women and…
Care-Based Practices in Health News: Why and How U.S. Health Journalists Include Exemplars in Their Reporting
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