Kirsten A Eddy
Biographic Data
| ID | 4996253 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirsten A Eddy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirsten A |
| FAMILY NAME | Eddy |
| SIGNATURE | EDDY K A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5420-3186 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Exploring perceptions of fairness in news coverage across 45 countries
In recent years, social movements in many countries have turned public and academic attention toward the fairness of news coverage with respect to gender, age, and political identities – as well as its knock-on effects on media and political attitudes and participation. This study examines how global audiences think about how the news media cover people like them. We use 2021 online survey data in 45 countries ( N = 92,372) to investigate public …
The link between changing news use and trust
Changing levels of public trust in the news are of deep concern to both researchers and practitioners. We use data from 2015 to 2023 in 46 countries to explore how trust in news has changed, while also exploring the links with sociodemographic variables, differences by media system, and changing patterns of news use. We find that (a) there has been a small overall decline in trust in news since 2015, but also that (b) there are different trends i…
Radicals” and “Racists
This study examines how elite political and media actors strategically leverage moral claims for partisan ends, transforming political identities, issues, and campaigns into zero-sum moral contests against their opposition. Here, I develop a framework for and approach to the study of morality as a strategic and identity-based tool in political communication, in the process developing a way of studying powerful and pervasive forms of political dis…
Inequities of race, place, and gender among the communication citation elite, 2000–2019
A recent wave of studies has focused on the identities of communication scholars, quantifying the degree to which Whites, men, and Americans dominate the discipline.This study analyzes the communication citation elite (CCE)—a group of 1,675 highly cited scholars in communication research—in terms of race, gender, and country of employment over 20 years. Applying computational methods and content analysis, we find that 91.5% of first-author CCE me…
Between Trump and a Hard Place
Building upon interdisciplinary scholarship, I posit a normative role of journalistic institutions as "civil gatekeepers" articulating a society's core values and keeping figures and ideas that threaten those values from the centers of power. Through mixed-method analyses of 2016 press endorsements of U.S. presidential candidates, I investigate how American newspapers' editorial boards fulfilled this civil gatekeeping role to evaluate the threats…
(Re)writing history
This study provides an empirical and analytical look at how obituaries, as a relatively unexplored form of journalism, illuminate the long-term and conscious cultural work that journalists do. Through in-depth qualitative interviews with the elite political journalists who wrote and produced news obituaries for former US President George H. W. Bush, I offer a framework for understanding how journalists rewrite, and ‘recast’, drafts of history and…
Between Trump and a Hard Place
Building upon interdisciplinary scholarship, I posit a normative role of journalistic institutions as "civil gatekeepers" articulating a society's core values and keeping figures and ideas that threaten those values from the centers of power. Through mixed-method analyses of 2016 press endorsements of U.S. presidential candidates, I investigate how American newspapers' editorial boards fulfilled this civil gatekeeping role to evaluate the threats…
(Re)writing history
This study provides an empirical and analytical look at how obituaries, as a relatively unexplored form of journalism, illuminate the long-term and conscious cultural work that journalists do. Through in-depth qualitative interviews with the elite political journalists who wrote and produced news obituaries for former US President George H. W. Bush, I offer a framework for understanding how journalists rewrite, and ‘recast’, drafts of history and…
Between Trump and a Hard Place
Building upon interdisciplinary scholarship, I posit a normative role of journalistic institutions as "civil gatekeepers" articulating a society's core values and keeping figures and ideas that threaten those values from the centers of power. Through mixed-method analyses of 2016 press endorsements of U.S. presidential candidates, I investigate how American newspapers' editorial boards fulfilled this civil gatekeeping role to evaluate the threats…
(Re)writing history
This study provides an empirical and analytical look at how obituaries, as a relatively unexplored form of journalism, illuminate the long-term and conscious cultural work that journalists do. Through in-depth qualitative interviews with the elite political journalists who wrote and produced news obituaries for former US President George H. W. Bush, I offer a framework for understanding how journalists rewrite, and ‘recast’, drafts of history and…
Inequities of race, place, and gender among the communication citation elite, 2000–2019
A recent wave of studies has focused on the identities of communication scholars, quantifying the degree to which Whites, men, and Americans dominate the discipline.This study analyzes the communication citation elite (CCE)—a group of 1,675 highly cited scholars in communication research—in terms of race, gender, and country of employment over 20 years. Applying computational methods and content analysis, we find that 91.5% of first-author CCE me…
Radicals” and “Racists
This study examines how elite political and media actors strategically leverage moral claims for partisan ends, transforming political identities, issues, and campaigns into zero-sum moral contests against their opposition. Here, I develop a framework for and approach to the study of morality as a strategic and identity-based tool in political communication, in the process developing a way of studying powerful and pervasive forms of political dis…
The link between changing news use and trust
Changing levels of public trust in the news are of deep concern to both researchers and practitioners. We use data from 2015 to 2023 in 46 countries to explore how trust in news has changed, while also exploring the links with sociodemographic variables, differences by media system, and changing patterns of news use. We find that (a) there has been a small overall decline in trust in news since 2015, but also that (b) there are different trends i…
Exploring perceptions of fairness in news coverage across 45 countries
In recent years, social movements in many countries have turned public and academic attention toward the fairness of news coverage with respect to gender, age, and political identities – as well as its knock-on effects on media and political attitudes and participation. This study examines how global audiences think about how the news media cover people like them. We use 2021 online survey data in 45 countries ( N = 92,372) to investigate public …
Media Studies and Communication (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Social Media and Politics (4 works) · Elite (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Identity (music) (2 works)