Cory L Armstrong
Biographic Data
| ID | 4908259 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cory L Armstrong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cory L |
| FAMILY NAME | Armstrong |
| SIGNATURE | ARMSTRONG C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4730-9665 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 144 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Expertise or Experience: Comparing Discussion of Drought between Audiences and Agencies in Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, and Missouri
Significant portions of the states in FEMA region 7 (Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, and Iowa) were in drought in 2022–23. Culling data gathered from a prominent social media platform and from focus group discussions, this research examines how drought information was communicated between the public officials and the general public. Through the lens of the two-step flow of communication theory, the central research question explored the differences b…
Verify, Accept, or Ignore: The Complexities of Media Trust Along Southeastern U.S. Coastal Communities During Severe Weather Events
This study examines how coastal community residents in Mississippi and Alabama gather information during severe weather events, focusing on the role of media, alternative information sources, and barriers to effective preparedness. The theoretical framework came from media trust and information sources among socially vulnerable populations. While media play a critical role, participants reported they relied on social media, local officials, and i…
Twisted up about potential tornados? Examining factors that amplify one’s need for information
Do You See What I See? How Media Choice and Visual Tornado Cues Influence Individual Storm Preparation
When a tornado hits, there is little time to think through mental checklists for needed items. This study attempted to understand what information sources those in the path of tornados utilized for preparation and how those sources influence people to act. Results from the study indicate that television and radio are the top two information sources, and that some visual graphics—gauged via heat maps to understand higher levels of severe weather p…
Person or PC? A Comparison of Human and Computer Coding as Content Analyses Tools Evaluating Severe Weather
Computer-aided content analyses programs have been deployed for social science research in recent years; however, few studies have evaluated their effectiveness, compared to human coding. This study uses open-ended responses from respondents seeking information in preparation for Hurricane Michael to compare human- and computer-coding. In particular, the comparison involves the use of Excel as a common and relatively simple coding instrument. Res…
Metoo in practice: Revisiting social media’s influence in individual willingness to mobilize against sexual assault
The topic of sexual violence has received significant attention in recent years through both the public and media agendas. This study replicates a 2014 study by Armstrong and Mahone using the backdrop of the #Metoo movement to examine the role of social media, views of rape culture and bystander intervention in predicting one’s willingness to engage in collective action against sexual violence. A survey of young adults conducted in Fall 2019 foun…
Somebody Google a Doctor! Urgent Health Information Seeking Habits of Young Adults
Introduction: While much scholarship has been done on health information-seeking habits, comparatively little has been done on these habits among young adults. Objective: The primary objective of this study was to determine to which media young adults turn during an urgent health crisis, which factors correspond to their choice, and if information-seeking corresponded to visiting a health professional. Method: A survey method was used, sampling s…
How risk decision-makers interpret and use flood forecast information: Assessing the Mississippi River Outlook email product
While the National Weather Service and its River Forecast Centers and Weather Forecast Offices produce visuals, graphics, and outreach designed to support weather forecasts and warnings and inform decisions about natural resource management and emergency services, opportunities exist for risk communication scholarship to refine theory and promote best practices for communicating such information to the various stakeholders who need it. In Septemb…
Putting Myself Out There: Factors Predicting One’s Willingness to Share Information Online
The pervasiveness of social media use has prompted extensive research examining the motivations of interactivity using this medium. The factors that contribute to one’s willingness to share information are garnering greater attention in current scholarship. This study focuses primarily on factors of privacy, personal disclosure, use of the social web, gender and the information sharing habits of others on individual’s behaviors. Findings of two o…
It’s On Us.” The Role of Social Media and Rape Culture in Individual Willingness to Mobilize Against Sexual Assault
Stopping sexual violence has become a key issue in the public and media agenda. This study examines the role of social media and bystander intervention in predicting an individual’s willingness to engage in collective action against sexual violence. Two surveys were conducted in fall 2014 and early 2015 examining young adults’ views of social networking sites, rape culture, and collective action. Results indicated that gender and bystander interv…
Media Disparity: A Gender Battleground
For decades, scholars have repeatedly found the inequity of gender representations in informational and entertainment media. Beginning with the seminal work by Gaye Tuchman and colleagues, we have repeatedly seen a systemic underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women in media. Examining the latest research in discourse and content analyses trending in both domestic and international circles, Media Disparity: A Gender Battleground highlight…
Adherence to the Protest Paradigm: The Influence of Protest Goals and Tactics on News Coverage in U.S. and International Newspapers
Research shows that news coverage of protest groups that challenge the status quo treats them relatively critically. To develop a more precise understanding of such coverage, this study content analyzes an international set of newspapers ( N = 220) to explore the relationships between a protest group’s goals and tactics on resulting news coverage. The findings indicate that a group’s tactics—more than its goals—play a substantial role in affectin…
Views from the Margins: News Coverage of Women in Abortion Protests, 1960–2006
This study links two traditionally marginalized groups in media coverage: women and protesters. Both have generally been found to be underrepresented and misrepresented in mainstream news coverage. Employing a content analysis of abortion protest coverage over 46 years, this study assesses the impact of protesters' goals and tactics on the proportion of women in news coverage. Results indicate that female mentions were more likely to appear when …
Structural Pluralism in Journalism and Media Studies: A Concept Explication and Theory Construction
This article critically reviews scholarship on structural pluralism (Tichenor, Donohue, & Olien, Citation1973, Citation1980) in journalism and media studies. Relying partly on a concept explication and theory construction process (McLeod & Pan, Citation2004), the article explicates structural pluralism as a multifaceted concept with multiple dimensions and indicators. While reviewing relationships or hypotheses between structural pluralism and va…
A Global Trend: How news coverage of protests reinforces gender stereotypes
Social protest is truly a global phenomenon with recent examples including protests in Asia, North America, and the Middle East. This study investigates how gender representations in protest coverage differ not only based on characteristics of the protests but also location and other factors. Examining 220 newspaper stories from four global regions, a content analysis revealed that gender portrayals differ in part by the region of the world. Furt…
Providing a clearer view: An examination of transparency on local government websites
Gender, Twitter and News Content: An examination across platforms and coverage areas
With the continuing disparity between male and female mentions in news content, this study seeks to compare how news organizations employ men and women in Twitter feeds and how that connects to portrayals in news stories. In particular, the research examined how mentions of men and women in tweets may influence mentions in news stories that were linked to tweets. The study employed a content analysis of national, regional and local newspaper and …
Blogs of Information: How Gender Cues and Individual Motivations Influence Perceptions of Credibility
This study examines how gender cues influence perceptions of credibility of informational blogs. Using 2 experiments for data collection, this study manipulated the gender descriptors of a Weblog authors and had participants rate the overall perceived credibility of 1 of 3 blog posts. Male authors were deemed more credible than female authors, and main effects were found for information seekers, who found the blogs more credible than noninformati…
Expressive Responses to News Stories About Extremist Groups: A Framing Experiment
With the tension between national security and civil liberties as a backdrop, this study examines responses to news coverage of activist groups. This 2 × 2 experiment presented participants with news stories about government efforts to restrict the civil liberties of an “extremist” individual or group (news frame) advocating for a cause supported or opposed by the respondent (cause predisposition). Willingness to take expressive action was greate…
Writing About Women: An Examination of How Content for Women Is Determined in Newspapers
This study examines how news producers determine content that particularly interests women readers, along with how community- and organizational-level factors may influence those depictions. A Web survey of 145 newspaper editors and reporters found that newspapers that focus on enterprise reporting also subscribe to the importance of content for women, as do newspapers with editors who believe that women's topics are important to readers. Implica…
Revisiting Structural Pluralism: A Two-Dimensional Conception of Community Power
This study suggests a revision of the community pluralism model used in mass communication to include a dimension of leadership diversity, which would examine the influence of ethnic leaders within communities, along with the traditional structural indicators. Using confirmatory factor analysis, results indicated that a 2-dimensional model was more appropriate for capturing the dissemination of power within a community. Findings and implications …
Story Genre Influences Whether Women are Sources
When male professionals and public officials appear in news stories, female sources of the same genre are more likely to appear. Overall, however, male sources are still more likely to appear
Female News Professionals in Local and National Broadcast News During the Buildup to the Iraq War
This study examines gender representation of news professionals within broadcast news. Using a gender model, the development of female news professionals is examined by looking at their relative representation across local and national news according to story length and type. Results show that the proportion of females is higher in local news segments of both "hard" (including war) and "soft" news than within national news segments. Further, an i…
How Newspaper Sources Trigger Gender Stereotypes
News stories rely on sources to convey information. Official sources are often titled and typically male. This study outlines how such source cues can trigger gender stereotypes to varying degrees in two experimental studies. When the unofficial source cue offered ambiguous gender information, individual differences in propensity to stereotype were shown. Those people who score high on an ethic of caring were less likely to attribute a gender to …
The Influence of Reporter Gender on Source Selection in Newspaper Stories
This study analyzed the frequency and placement given to male and female sources and story subjects in news-paper coverage and their relationship to the gender of the reporter, A content analysis of 889 stories found that male sources and subjects received more mentions and were placed more prominently in the stories. Controlling for structural and editorial influences, results indicated that the presence of females in the byline is a significant…
Adherence to the Protest Paradigm: The Influence of Protest Goals and Tactics on News Coverage in U.S. and International Newspapers
Research shows that news coverage of protest groups that challenge the status quo treats them relatively critically. To develop a more precise understanding of such coverage, this study content analyzes an international set of newspapers ( N = 220) to explore the relationships between a protest group’s goals and tactics on resulting news coverage. The findings indicate that a group’s tactics—more than its goals—play a substantial role in affectin…
Providing a clearer view: An examination of transparency on local government websites
Gender, Twitter and News Content: An examination across platforms and coverage areas
With the continuing disparity between male and female mentions in news content, this study seeks to compare how news organizations employ men and women in Twitter feeds and how that connects to portrayals in news stories. In particular, the research examined how mentions of men and women in tweets may influence mentions in news stories that were linked to tweets. The study employed a content analysis of national, regional and local newspaper and …
How Newspaper Sources Trigger Gender Stereotypes
News stories rely on sources to convey information. Official sources are often titled and typically male. This study outlines how such source cues can trigger gender stereotypes to varying degrees in two experimental studies. When the unofficial source cue offered ambiguous gender information, individual differences in propensity to stereotype were shown. Those people who score high on an ethic of caring were less likely to attribute a gender to …
Story Genre Influences Whether Women are Sources
When male professionals and public officials appear in news stories, female sources of the same genre are more likely to appear. Overall, however, male sources are still more likely to appear
Structural Pluralism in Journalism and Media Studies: A Concept Explication and Theory Construction
This article critically reviews scholarship on structural pluralism (Tichenor, Donohue, & Olien, Citation1973, Citation1980) in journalism and media studies. Relying partly on a concept explication and theory construction process (McLeod & Pan, Citation2004), the article explicates structural pluralism as a multifaceted concept with multiple dimensions and indicators. While reviewing relationships or hypotheses between structural pluralism and va…
Blogs of Information: How Gender Cues and Individual Motivations Influence Perceptions of Credibility
This study examines how gender cues influence perceptions of credibility of informational blogs. Using 2 experiments for data collection, this study manipulated the gender descriptors of a Weblog authors and had participants rate the overall perceived credibility of 1 of 3 blog posts. Male authors were deemed more credible than female authors, and main effects were found for information seekers, who found the blogs more credible than noninformati…
Papers Give Women More Attention in Ethnically Diverse Communities
This study looks at how community structure affects the portrayal of women as sources and subjects in contemporary newspapers. Women and men have been unequally represented in contemporary newspaper coverage, a pattern that may contribute to differences in public perceptions of males and females. (1) Through their coverage patterns, newspapers help create a social reality that can contribute to gender stereotyping or categorization. These portray…
Views from the Margins: News Coverage of Women in Abortion Protests, 1960–2006
This study links two traditionally marginalized groups in media coverage: women and protesters. Both have generally been found to be underrepresented and misrepresented in mainstream news coverage. Employing a content analysis of abortion protest coverage over 46 years, this study assesses the impact of protesters' goals and tactics on the proportion of women in news coverage. Results indicate that female mentions were more likely to appear when …
Female News Professionals in Local and National Broadcast News During the Buildup to the Iraq War
This study examines gender representation of news professionals within broadcast news. Using a gender model, the development of female news professionals is examined by looking at their relative representation across local and national news according to story length and type. Results show that the proportion of females is higher in local news segments of both "hard" (including war) and "soft" news than within national news segments. Further, an i…
Revisiting Structural Pluralism: A Two-Dimensional Conception of Community Power
This study suggests a revision of the community pluralism model used in mass communication to include a dimension of leadership diversity, which would examine the influence of ethnic leaders within communities, along with the traditional structural indicators. Using confirmatory factor analysis, results indicated that a 2-dimensional model was more appropriate for capturing the dissemination of power within a community. Findings and implications …
It’s On Us.” The Role of Social Media and Rape Culture in Individual Willingness to Mobilize Against Sexual Assault
Stopping sexual violence has become a key issue in the public and media agenda. This study examines the role of social media and bystander intervention in predicting an individual’s willingness to engage in collective action against sexual violence. Two surveys were conducted in fall 2014 and early 2015 examining young adults’ views of social networking sites, rape culture, and collective action. Results indicated that gender and bystander interv…
A Global Trend: How news coverage of protests reinforces gender stereotypes
Social protest is truly a global phenomenon with recent examples including protests in Asia, North America, and the Middle East. This study investigates how gender representations in protest coverage differ not only based on characteristics of the protests but also location and other factors. Examining 220 newspaper stories from four global regions, a content analysis revealed that gender portrayals differ in part by the region of the world. Furt…
Metoo in practice: Revisiting social media’s influence in individual willingness to mobilize against sexual assault
The topic of sexual violence has received significant attention in recent years through both the public and media agendas. This study replicates a 2014 study by Armstrong and Mahone using the backdrop of the #Metoo movement to examine the role of social media, views of rape culture and bystander intervention in predicting one’s willingness to engage in collective action against sexual violence. A survey of young adults conducted in Fall 2019 foun…
Papers Give Women More Attention in Ethnically Diverse Communities
This study looks at how community structure affects the portrayal of women as sources and subjects in contemporary newspapers. Women and men have been unequally represented in contemporary newspaper coverage, a pattern that may contribute to differences in public perceptions of males and females. (1) Through their coverage patterns, newspapers help create a social reality that can contribute to gender stereotyping or categorization. These portray…
The Influence of Reporter Gender on Source Selection in Newspaper Stories
This study analyzed the frequency and placement given to male and female sources and story subjects in news-paper coverage and their relationship to the gender of the reporter, A content analysis of 889 stories found that male sources and subjects received more mentions and were placed more prominently in the stories. Controlling for structural and editorial influences, results indicated that the presence of females in the byline is a significant…
How Newspaper Sources Trigger Gender Stereotypes
News stories rely on sources to convey information. Official sources are often titled and typically male. This study outlines how such source cues can trigger gender stereotypes to varying degrees in two experimental studies. When the unofficial source cue offered ambiguous gender information, individual differences in propensity to stereotype were shown. Those people who score high on an ethic of caring were less likely to attribute a gender to …
Expressive Responses to News Stories About Extremist Groups: A Framing Experiment
With the tension between national security and civil liberties as a backdrop, this study examines responses to news coverage of activist groups. This 2 × 2 experiment presented participants with news stories about government efforts to restrict the civil liberties of an “extremist” individual or group (news frame) advocating for a cause supported or opposed by the respondent (cause predisposition). Willingness to take expressive action was greate…
Writing About Women: An Examination of How Content for Women Is Determined in Newspapers
This study examines how news producers determine content that particularly interests women readers, along with how community- and organizational-level factors may influence those depictions. A Web survey of 145 newspaper editors and reporters found that newspapers that focus on enterprise reporting also subscribe to the importance of content for women, as do newspapers with editors who believe that women's topics are important to readers. Implica…
Revisiting Structural Pluralism: A Two-Dimensional Conception of Community Power
This study suggests a revision of the community pluralism model used in mass communication to include a dimension of leadership diversity, which would examine the influence of ethnic leaders within communities, along with the traditional structural indicators. Using confirmatory factor analysis, results indicated that a 2-dimensional model was more appropriate for capturing the dissemination of power within a community. Findings and implications …
Story Genre Influences Whether Women are Sources
When male professionals and public officials appear in news stories, female sources of the same genre are more likely to appear. Overall, however, male sources are still more likely to appear
Female News Professionals in Local and National Broadcast News During the Buildup to the Iraq War
This study examines gender representation of news professionals within broadcast news. Using a gender model, the development of female news professionals is examined by looking at their relative representation across local and national news according to story length and type. Results show that the proportion of females is higher in local news segments of both "hard" (including war) and "soft" news than within national news segments. Further, an i…
Blogs of Information: How Gender Cues and Individual Motivations Influence Perceptions of Credibility
This study examines how gender cues influence perceptions of credibility of informational blogs. Using 2 experiments for data collection, this study manipulated the gender descriptors of a Weblog authors and had participants rate the overall perceived credibility of 1 of 3 blog posts. Male authors were deemed more credible than female authors, and main effects were found for information seekers, who found the blogs more credible than noninformati…
Providing a clearer view: An examination of transparency on local government websites
Gender, Twitter and News Content: An examination across platforms and coverage areas
With the continuing disparity between male and female mentions in news content, this study seeks to compare how news organizations employ men and women in Twitter feeds and how that connects to portrayals in news stories. In particular, the research examined how mentions of men and women in tweets may influence mentions in news stories that were linked to tweets. The study employed a content analysis of national, regional and local newspaper and …
Views from the Margins: News Coverage of Women in Abortion Protests, 1960–2006
This study links two traditionally marginalized groups in media coverage: women and protesters. Both have generally been found to be underrepresented and misrepresented in mainstream news coverage. Employing a content analysis of abortion protest coverage over 46 years, this study assesses the impact of protesters' goals and tactics on the proportion of women in news coverage. Results indicate that female mentions were more likely to appear when …
Structural Pluralism in Journalism and Media Studies: A Concept Explication and Theory Construction
This article critically reviews scholarship on structural pluralism (Tichenor, Donohue, & Olien, Citation1973, Citation1980) in journalism and media studies. Relying partly on a concept explication and theory construction process (McLeod & Pan, Citation2004), the article explicates structural pluralism as a multifaceted concept with multiple dimensions and indicators. While reviewing relationships or hypotheses between structural pluralism and va…
A Global Trend: How news coverage of protests reinforces gender stereotypes
Social protest is truly a global phenomenon with recent examples including protests in Asia, North America, and the Middle East. This study investigates how gender representations in protest coverage differ not only based on characteristics of the protests but also location and other factors. Examining 220 newspaper stories from four global regions, a content analysis revealed that gender portrayals differ in part by the region of the world. Furt…
Adherence to the Protest Paradigm: The Influence of Protest Goals and Tactics on News Coverage in U.S. and International Newspapers
Research shows that news coverage of protest groups that challenge the status quo treats them relatively critically. To develop a more precise understanding of such coverage, this study content analyzes an international set of newspapers ( N = 220) to explore the relationships between a protest group’s goals and tactics on resulting news coverage. The findings indicate that a group’s tactics—more than its goals—play a substantial role in affectin…
Media Disparity: A Gender Battleground
For decades, scholars have repeatedly found the inequity of gender representations in informational and entertainment media. Beginning with the seminal work by Gaye Tuchman and colleagues, we have repeatedly seen a systemic underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women in media. Examining the latest research in discourse and content analyses trending in both domestic and international circles, Media Disparity: A Gender Battleground highlight…
It’s On Us.” The Role of Social Media and Rape Culture in Individual Willingness to Mobilize Against Sexual Assault
Stopping sexual violence has become a key issue in the public and media agenda. This study examines the role of social media and bystander intervention in predicting an individual’s willingness to engage in collective action against sexual violence. Two surveys were conducted in fall 2014 and early 2015 examining young adults’ views of social networking sites, rape culture, and collective action. Results indicated that gender and bystander interv…
Putting Myself Out There: Factors Predicting One’s Willingness to Share Information Online
The pervasiveness of social media use has prompted extensive research examining the motivations of interactivity using this medium. The factors that contribute to one’s willingness to share information are garnering greater attention in current scholarship. This study focuses primarily on factors of privacy, personal disclosure, use of the social web, gender and the information sharing habits of others on individual’s behaviors. Findings of two o…
Somebody Google a Doctor! Urgent Health Information Seeking Habits of Young Adults
Introduction: While much scholarship has been done on health information-seeking habits, comparatively little has been done on these habits among young adults. Objective: The primary objective of this study was to determine to which media young adults turn during an urgent health crisis, which factors correspond to their choice, and if information-seeking corresponded to visiting a health professional. Method: A survey method was used, sampling s…
How risk decision-makers interpret and use flood forecast information: Assessing the Mississippi River Outlook email product
While the National Weather Service and its River Forecast Centers and Weather Forecast Offices produce visuals, graphics, and outreach designed to support weather forecasts and warnings and inform decisions about natural resource management and emergency services, opportunities exist for risk communication scholarship to refine theory and promote best practices for communicating such information to the various stakeholders who need it. In Septemb…
Metoo in practice: Revisiting social media’s influence in individual willingness to mobilize against sexual assault
The topic of sexual violence has received significant attention in recent years through both the public and media agendas. This study replicates a 2014 study by Armstrong and Mahone using the backdrop of the #Metoo movement to examine the role of social media, views of rape culture and bystander intervention in predicting one’s willingness to engage in collective action against sexual violence. A survey of young adults conducted in Fall 2019 foun…
Do You See What I See? How Media Choice and Visual Tornado Cues Influence Individual Storm Preparation
When a tornado hits, there is little time to think through mental checklists for needed items. This study attempted to understand what information sources those in the path of tornados utilized for preparation and how those sources influence people to act. Results from the study indicate that television and radio are the top two information sources, and that some visual graphics—gauged via heat maps to understand higher levels of severe weather p…
Person or PC? A Comparison of Human and Computer Coding as Content Analyses Tools Evaluating Severe Weather
Computer-aided content analyses programs have been deployed for social science research in recent years; however, few studies have evaluated their effectiveness, compared to human coding. This study uses open-ended responses from respondents seeking information in preparation for Hurricane Michael to compare human- and computer-coding. In particular, the comparison involves the use of Excel as a common and relatively simple coding instrument. Res…
Expertise or Experience: Comparing Discussion of Drought between Audiences and Agencies in Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, and Missouri
Significant portions of the states in FEMA region 7 (Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, and Iowa) were in drought in 2022–23. Culling data gathered from a prominent social media platform and from focus group discussions, this research examines how drought information was communicated between the public officials and the general public. Through the lens of the two-step flow of communication theory, the central research question explored the differences b…
Verify, Accept, or Ignore: The Complexities of Media Trust Along Southeastern U.S. Coastal Communities During Severe Weather Events
This study examines how coastal community residents in Mississippi and Alabama gather information during severe weather events, focusing on the role of media, alternative information sources, and barriers to effective preparedness. The theoretical framework came from media trust and information sources among socially vulnerable populations. While media play a critical role, participants reported they relied on social media, local officials, and i…
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