Arthur D Santana
Biographic Data
| ID | 4908041 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arthur D Santana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arthur D |
| FAMILY NAME | Santana |
| SIGNATURE | SANTANA A D |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Diego State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2626-3971 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 138 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
TikTok Usage Effects on Attention to News Reading: An Eye-Tracking Study
This research examines how the use of the social media TikTok correlates with users’ attention to news reading. In a quasi-experimental laboratory setting, 242 U.S. college-age participants read 10 news and opinion pieces on a computer. Before reading, half of the sample browsed TikTok. Using eye tracking metrics, we found that those who browsed TikTok before reading were less likely to sustain their attention on the articles. Those who reported …
Seeing red: Reading uncivil news comments guided by personality characteristics
Whether on a news or a social networking site, comments following news stories are often beset with incivility. Assailed as diminishing constructive dialogue in a digital public sphere, uncivil comments nevertheless require deeper scrutiny to better understand their pervasiveness and, among some, popularity. This article uses a Uses and Gratifications framework to understand why certain people are more drawn to uncivil comments than civil ones. U…
Podcasting the Pandemic: Exploring Storytelling Formats and Shifting Journalistic Norms in News Podcasts Related to the Coronavirus
The coronavirus pandemic dominated headlines at the same time that mainstream news organizations began adding more podcasts to their digital storytelling platforms. This popular form of audio journalism appears to be unrestricted by traditional journalism practices and constraints of deadlines and space. Few academic studies thus far have examined the characteristics of news podcasts (i.e., shows created by professional news organizations) and wh…
Blink and You Miss it: Measuring News Readers’ Attention to Interpretative Journalism Cues
Studies have shown that newsreaders often have a difficult time distinguishing between different article types and, anecdotally, were oblivious to the text cues that news organizations offered to help make the distinctions. Inquiry into how news readers come to conclusions regarding news content is critical in light of the apparent emergence of so-called interpretative journalism stories—pieces that depart from a straightforward objective approac…
Mobile Devices Offer Little In-depth News: Sensational, Breaking and Entertainment News Dominate Mobile News Sites
The smartphone is now an indispensable part of everyday life. Such mobile devices are increasingly used to consume news. Newspapers have embraced the mobile devices to augment their print and online versions. Newspapers, however, appear to offer different news content to mobile newsreaders when compared to their own print and online content. Mobile newsreaders are provided significantly more sensational, breaking, and entertainment-oriented news.…
Tapping Into a New Stream of (Personal) Data: Assessing Journalists’ Different Use of Social Media
This research seeks to quantify social media’s value as a reporting tool for journalists by understanding it as an instrument for accessing personal data. A national survey of reporters at all large and midsize U.S. newspapers shows that journalists place more value on Twitter than Facebook as it relates to professional practice. Evaluation of the various practice-based functions relative to individual journalists’ value perceptions suggests that…
Political Deliberation on Facebook during Electoral Campaigns: Exploring the Relevance of Moderator’s Technical Role and Political Ideology
This study examines the potential of Facebook to provide a channel of political deliberation during electoral campaigns. Through a comparative content analysis of user-generated political commentary on candidates’ Facebook pages during the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, it explores the technical role of moderators and moderators’ political ideology for online deliberation. Results show that social networking sites (SNSs) can represent spac…
Controlling the Conversation: The availability of commenting forums in online newspapers
Reader commenting forums of online newspaper sites allow newsreaders the opportunity to participate in an online conversation about the news topic at hand. By providing the forums, journalists diffuse part of their gatekeeping responsibilities to non-journalist commenters, empowering them as secondary gatekeepers to decide what content appears alongside the news. To encourage constructive dialogue, however, virtually all comment-hosting newspaper…
Virtuous or Vitriolic: The effect of anonymity on civility in online newspaper reader comment boards
In an effort to encourage community dialogue while also building reader loyalty, online newspapers have offered a way for readers to become engaged in the news process, most popularly with online reader comment boards. It is here that readers post their opinion following an online news story, and however much community interaction taking place therein, one thing appears evident: sometimes the comments are civil; sometimes they are not. Indeed, on…
Photojournalists' Role Expands at Most Daily U.S. Newspapers
A majority of photo editors from U.S. newspapers of more than 30,000 report photo staff members now shoot and edit video as well as provide photo galleries and slideshows; yet most have accepted their expanded role
Online Readers' Comments Represent New Opinion Pipeline
Reporters at the country's largest U. S. daily newspapers generally take a dim view of the online reader comments. Many are troubled by their content and express dismay over their newspaper's providing a forum for anonymous discussion where emotions can run high
Virtuous or Vitriolic: The effect of anonymity on civility in online newspaper reader comment boards
In an effort to encourage community dialogue while also building reader loyalty, online newspapers have offered a way for readers to become engaged in the news process, most popularly with online reader comment boards. It is here that readers post their opinion following an online news story, and however much community interaction taking place therein, one thing appears evident: sometimes the comments are civil; sometimes they are not. Indeed, on…
Online Readers' Comments Represent New Opinion Pipeline
Reporters at the country's largest U. S. daily newspapers generally take a dim view of the online reader comments. Many are troubled by their content and express dismay over their newspaper's providing a forum for anonymous discussion where emotions can run high
Tapping Into a New Stream of (Personal) Data: Assessing Journalists’ Different Use of Social Media
This research seeks to quantify social media’s value as a reporting tool for journalists by understanding it as an instrument for accessing personal data. A national survey of reporters at all large and midsize U.S. newspapers shows that journalists place more value on Twitter than Facebook as it relates to professional practice. Evaluation of the various practice-based functions relative to individual journalists’ value perceptions suggests that…
Podcasting the Pandemic: Exploring Storytelling Formats and Shifting Journalistic Norms in News Podcasts Related to the Coronavirus
The coronavirus pandemic dominated headlines at the same time that mainstream news organizations began adding more podcasts to their digital storytelling platforms. This popular form of audio journalism appears to be unrestricted by traditional journalism practices and constraints of deadlines and space. Few academic studies thus far have examined the characteristics of news podcasts (i.e., shows created by professional news organizations) and wh…
Controlling the Conversation: The availability of commenting forums in online newspapers
Reader commenting forums of online newspaper sites allow newsreaders the opportunity to participate in an online conversation about the news topic at hand. By providing the forums, journalists diffuse part of their gatekeeping responsibilities to non-journalist commenters, empowering them as secondary gatekeepers to decide what content appears alongside the news. To encourage constructive dialogue, however, virtually all comment-hosting newspaper…
Mobile Devices Offer Little In-depth News: Sensational, Breaking and Entertainment News Dominate Mobile News Sites
The smartphone is now an indispensable part of everyday life. Such mobile devices are increasingly used to consume news. Newspapers have embraced the mobile devices to augment their print and online versions. Newspapers, however, appear to offer different news content to mobile newsreaders when compared to their own print and online content. Mobile newsreaders are provided significantly more sensational, breaking, and entertainment-oriented news.…
Political Deliberation on Facebook during Electoral Campaigns: Exploring the Relevance of Moderator’s Technical Role and Political Ideology
This study examines the potential of Facebook to provide a channel of political deliberation during electoral campaigns. Through a comparative content analysis of user-generated political commentary on candidates’ Facebook pages during the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, it explores the technical role of moderators and moderators’ political ideology for online deliberation. Results show that social networking sites (SNSs) can represent spac…
Photojournalists' Role Expands at Most Daily U.S. Newspapers
A majority of photo editors from U.S. newspapers of more than 30,000 report photo staff members now shoot and edit video as well as provide photo galleries and slideshows; yet most have accepted their expanded role
Online Readers' Comments Represent New Opinion Pipeline
Reporters at the country's largest U. S. daily newspapers generally take a dim view of the online reader comments. Many are troubled by their content and express dismay over their newspaper's providing a forum for anonymous discussion where emotions can run high
Virtuous or Vitriolic: The effect of anonymity on civility in online newspaper reader comment boards
In an effort to encourage community dialogue while also building reader loyalty, online newspapers have offered a way for readers to become engaged in the news process, most popularly with online reader comment boards. It is here that readers post their opinion following an online news story, and however much community interaction taking place therein, one thing appears evident: sometimes the comments are civil; sometimes they are not. Indeed, on…
Photojournalists' Role Expands at Most Daily U.S. Newspapers
A majority of photo editors from U.S. newspapers of more than 30,000 report photo staff members now shoot and edit video as well as provide photo galleries and slideshows; yet most have accepted their expanded role
Controlling the Conversation: The availability of commenting forums in online newspapers
Reader commenting forums of online newspaper sites allow newsreaders the opportunity to participate in an online conversation about the news topic at hand. By providing the forums, journalists diffuse part of their gatekeeping responsibilities to non-journalist commenters, empowering them as secondary gatekeepers to decide what content appears alongside the news. To encourage constructive dialogue, however, virtually all comment-hosting newspaper…
Political Deliberation on Facebook during Electoral Campaigns: Exploring the Relevance of Moderator’s Technical Role and Political Ideology
This study examines the potential of Facebook to provide a channel of political deliberation during electoral campaigns. Through a comparative content analysis of user-generated political commentary on candidates’ Facebook pages during the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, it explores the technical role of moderators and moderators’ political ideology for online deliberation. Results show that social networking sites (SNSs) can represent spac…
Tapping Into a New Stream of (Personal) Data: Assessing Journalists’ Different Use of Social Media
This research seeks to quantify social media’s value as a reporting tool for journalists by understanding it as an instrument for accessing personal data. A national survey of reporters at all large and midsize U.S. newspapers shows that journalists place more value on Twitter than Facebook as it relates to professional practice. Evaluation of the various practice-based functions relative to individual journalists’ value perceptions suggests that…
Mobile Devices Offer Little In-depth News: Sensational, Breaking and Entertainment News Dominate Mobile News Sites
The smartphone is now an indispensable part of everyday life. Such mobile devices are increasingly used to consume news. Newspapers have embraced the mobile devices to augment their print and online versions. Newspapers, however, appear to offer different news content to mobile newsreaders when compared to their own print and online content. Mobile newsreaders are provided significantly more sensational, breaking, and entertainment-oriented news.…
Blink and You Miss it: Measuring News Readers’ Attention to Interpretative Journalism Cues
Studies have shown that newsreaders often have a difficult time distinguishing between different article types and, anecdotally, were oblivious to the text cues that news organizations offered to help make the distinctions. Inquiry into how news readers come to conclusions regarding news content is critical in light of the apparent emergence of so-called interpretative journalism stories—pieces that depart from a straightforward objective approac…
Podcasting the Pandemic: Exploring Storytelling Formats and Shifting Journalistic Norms in News Podcasts Related to the Coronavirus
The coronavirus pandemic dominated headlines at the same time that mainstream news organizations began adding more podcasts to their digital storytelling platforms. This popular form of audio journalism appears to be unrestricted by traditional journalism practices and constraints of deadlines and space. Few academic studies thus far have examined the characteristics of news podcasts (i.e., shows created by professional news organizations) and wh…
Seeing red: Reading uncivil news comments guided by personality characteristics
Whether on a news or a social networking site, comments following news stories are often beset with incivility. Assailed as diminishing constructive dialogue in a digital public sphere, uncivil comments nevertheless require deeper scrutiny to better understand their pervasiveness and, among some, popularity. This article uses a Uses and Gratifications framework to understand why certain people are more drawn to uncivil comments than civil ones. U…
TikTok Usage Effects on Attention to News Reading: An Eye-Tracking Study
This research examines how the use of the social media TikTok correlates with users’ attention to news reading. In a quasi-experimental laboratory setting, 242 U.S. college-age participants read 10 news and opinion pieces on a computer. Before reading, half of the sample browsed TikTok. Using eye tracking metrics, we found that those who browsed TikTok before reading were less likely to sustain their attention on the articles. Those who reported …
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