Kelsey N Whipple
Biographic Data
| ID | 4900200 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kelsey N Whipple |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kelsey N |
| FAMILY NAME | Whipple |
| SIGNATURE | WHIPPLE K N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4188-2623 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Contextualizing the Art and the Artist
Through a series of in-depth interviews with 66 U.S. arts and culture journalists conducted in 2020, this study documents how these journalists perceive the influence of cancel culture practices and discourses in modern arts and culture journalism. Interviewees found positive power in calling out bad cultural actors and trends, protecting their audiences from harmful cultural content, contextualizing politics within popular culture and gatekeepin…
Facing the music
This study updates and expands the application of stereotyping and professional socialization to music journalism in a way that is generalizable to the United States music journalism industry, and seeks to understand the role women journalists play in counteracting or perpetuating stereotyping of women musicians. A content analysis of 936 articles finds significant stereotyping of women musicians in major US music publications during 2016. The st…
Antecedents of support for social media content moderation and platform regulation
This study examines support for regulation of and by platforms and provides insights into public perceptions of platform governance. While much of the public discourse surrounding platforms evolves at a policy level between think tanks, journalists, academics and political actors, little attention is paid to how people think about regulation of and by platforms. Through a representative survey study of US internet users (N = 1,022), we explore an…
We F—ing Got Osuna”
Elite professional athletes in the NBA, NHL, NFL and MLB have all been accused of domestic violence. This occurs in a cultural arena already predicated on patriarchy and capitalism and rife with toxic masculinity, which combine to create traumatic, gendered realities for women sports journalists and violent and exploitative labor norms for athletes. Through a critical discourse analysis of 76 articles from U.S. newspapers, magazines, and online n…
Affective Affordances
Heloisa Sturm Wilkersona* , Martin J. Riedlbc & Kelsey N. Whippled a Department of Communication, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN, USAb School of Journalism and Media, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USAc Digital Media Research Program, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USAd Journalism Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
The Story Behind the Story
This three-study project sought to test how news organizations can boost perceptions of credibility of their news outlet by improving journalistic transparency. Three experiments (Study 1: n = 753; Study 2: n = 599; Study 3: n = 321) tested whether adding a transparency box to news stories that explained why and how journalists covered each story would improve credibility perceptions. Study 1 used a mock news site, and the box did not increase cr…
When Everyone’s a Critic
Cultural criticism is a struggle for audience attention, cultural authority, and the power to curate cultural consumption and extend cultural capital. And the authority of cultural critics, whose subjective work evaluates the taste and merit of cultural products including music and film, is complicated by an explosion in cultural production, increased competition for audience attention and the ready availability of amateur culture opinions online…
The downsides of digital labor
Yes to bezique, no to aqueduct
College sororities in the United States recently have spent lavishly to produce professional-level recruitment videos in an effort to attract new members. The videos feature mostly white, blonde, and scantily clad women sunning by swimming pools, dancing on yachts, and blowing kisses to the camera. These young women were performing what Connell called emphasized femininity, an exaggerated feminine behavior in which women are rewarded for emphasiz…
The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Tweet
When U.S. President Donald Trump called the press the “enemy of the American people” and “FAKE NEWS” in a February 2017 tweet, his statement inspired a robust debate about the credibility, institutional norms, and national significance of the press, which were debated on social media by both journalists and non-journalists using the popular hashtag #NotTheEnemy. Because previous research suggests that elite discourse of “fake news” decreases publ…
Nasty Women and Bad Hombres
A look at how Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and American voters invoked ideas of gender and race in the fiercely contested 2016 US presidential election.
The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Tweet
When U.S. President Donald Trump called the press the “enemy of the American people” and “FAKE NEWS” in a February 2017 tweet, his statement inspired a robust debate about the credibility, institutional norms, and national significance of the press, which were debated on social media by both journalists and non-journalists using the popular hashtag #NotTheEnemy. Because previous research suggests that elite discourse of “fake news” decreases publ…
The Story Behind the Story
This three-study project sought to test how news organizations can boost perceptions of credibility of their news outlet by improving journalistic transparency. Three experiments (Study 1: n = 753; Study 2: n = 599; Study 3: n = 321) tested whether adding a transparency box to news stories that explained why and how journalists covered each story would improve credibility perceptions. Study 1 used a mock news site, and the box did not increase cr…
When Everyone’s a Critic
Cultural criticism is a struggle for audience attention, cultural authority, and the power to curate cultural consumption and extend cultural capital. And the authority of cultural critics, whose subjective work evaluates the taste and merit of cultural products including music and film, is complicated by an explosion in cultural production, increased competition for audience attention and the ready availability of amateur culture opinions online…
Contextualizing the Art and the Artist
Through a series of in-depth interviews with 66 U.S. arts and culture journalists conducted in 2020, this study documents how these journalists perceive the influence of cancel culture practices and discourses in modern arts and culture journalism. Interviewees found positive power in calling out bad cultural actors and trends, protecting their audiences from harmful cultural content, contextualizing politics within popular culture and gatekeepin…
We F—ing Got Osuna”
Elite professional athletes in the NBA, NHL, NFL and MLB have all been accused of domestic violence. This occurs in a cultural arena already predicated on patriarchy and capitalism and rife with toxic masculinity, which combine to create traumatic, gendered realities for women sports journalists and violent and exploitative labor norms for athletes. Through a critical discourse analysis of 76 articles from U.S. newspapers, magazines, and online n…
Yes to bezique, no to aqueduct
College sororities in the United States recently have spent lavishly to produce professional-level recruitment videos in an effort to attract new members. The videos feature mostly white, blonde, and scantily clad women sunning by swimming pools, dancing on yachts, and blowing kisses to the camera. These young women were performing what Connell called emphasized femininity, an exaggerated feminine behavior in which women are rewarded for emphasiz…
Nasty Women and Bad Hombres
A look at how Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and American voters invoked ideas of gender and race in the fiercely contested 2016 US presidential election.
Yes to bezique, no to aqueduct
College sororities in the United States recently have spent lavishly to produce professional-level recruitment videos in an effort to attract new members. The videos feature mostly white, blonde, and scantily clad women sunning by swimming pools, dancing on yachts, and blowing kisses to the camera. These young women were performing what Connell called emphasized femininity, an exaggerated feminine behavior in which women are rewarded for emphasiz…
The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Tweet
When U.S. President Donald Trump called the press the “enemy of the American people” and “FAKE NEWS” in a February 2017 tweet, his statement inspired a robust debate about the credibility, institutional norms, and national significance of the press, which were debated on social media by both journalists and non-journalists using the popular hashtag #NotTheEnemy. Because previous research suggests that elite discourse of “fake news” decreases publ…
The downsides of digital labor
Affective Affordances
Heloisa Sturm Wilkersona* , Martin J. Riedlbc & Kelsey N. Whippled a Department of Communication, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN, USAb School of Journalism and Media, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USAc Digital Media Research Program, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USAd Journalism Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
The Story Behind the Story
This three-study project sought to test how news organizations can boost perceptions of credibility of their news outlet by improving journalistic transparency. Three experiments (Study 1: n = 753; Study 2: n = 599; Study 3: n = 321) tested whether adding a transparency box to news stories that explained why and how journalists covered each story would improve credibility perceptions. Study 1 used a mock news site, and the box did not increase cr…
When Everyone’s a Critic
Cultural criticism is a struggle for audience attention, cultural authority, and the power to curate cultural consumption and extend cultural capital. And the authority of cultural critics, whose subjective work evaluates the taste and merit of cultural products including music and film, is complicated by an explosion in cultural production, increased competition for audience attention and the ready availability of amateur culture opinions online…
Facing the music
This study updates and expands the application of stereotyping and professional socialization to music journalism in a way that is generalizable to the United States music journalism industry, and seeks to understand the role women journalists play in counteracting or perpetuating stereotyping of women musicians. A content analysis of 936 articles finds significant stereotyping of women musicians in major US music publications during 2016. The st…
Antecedents of support for social media content moderation and platform regulation
This study examines support for regulation of and by platforms and provides insights into public perceptions of platform governance. While much of the public discourse surrounding platforms evolves at a policy level between think tanks, journalists, academics and political actors, little attention is paid to how people think about regulation of and by platforms. Through a representative survey study of US internet users (N = 1,022), we explore an…
We F—ing Got Osuna”
Elite professional athletes in the NBA, NHL, NFL and MLB have all been accused of domestic violence. This occurs in a cultural arena already predicated on patriarchy and capitalism and rife with toxic masculinity, which combine to create traumatic, gendered realities for women sports journalists and violent and exploitative labor norms for athletes. Through a critical discourse analysis of 76 articles from U.S. newspapers, magazines, and online n…
Contextualizing the Art and the Artist
Through a series of in-depth interviews with 66 U.S. arts and culture journalists conducted in 2020, this study documents how these journalists perceive the influence of cancel culture practices and discourses in modern arts and culture journalism. Interviewees found positive power in calling out bad cultural actors and trends, protecting their audiences from harmful cultural content, contextualizing politics within popular culture and gatekeepin…
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