Jennifer Hoewe
Biographic Data
| ID | 653131 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Hoewe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoewe |
| SIGNATURE | HOEWE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7340-7301 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Mechanisms of Partisan News Use: The Roles of Metacognitive Effort and Enjoyment
This study considers how the metacognitive effort and enjoyment that result from partisan news consumption impact news consumers’ intentions for future news use. Participants who experienced incoherence during partisan news use exhibited increased metacognitive effort and reduced enjoyment, which then decreased their intentions to use that partisan news source in the future. Conversely, participants who experienced coherence during partisan news …
Partisanship and its effects on metacognitive effort, agreement, and misinformation detection
With recent developments in misinformation theorizing, misinformation research can now empirically examine theoretical relationships that integrate exposure to, processing of, and responses to misinformation messages. This research includes two experiments (Study 1: N = 371; Study 2: N = 402) that offer support for the effects advanced by recent misinformation theory. Using a model of moderated mediation, the individual dispositional factors of p…
Political pets: The pawsitive effect of dogs in politicians’ social media posts
Predictors of partisan news selection and political misinformation sharing
News bias perceptions as impacted by source cues, content cues, and media bias ratings
Using three experimental studies, this research considers whether exposure to source cues, content cues, and media bias ratings impacts perceptions of ideological bias in news stories. As a possible news media literacy intervention strategy, viewing a media bias ratings chart after reading a news story had limited influence on assessments of bias. Source cues consistently influenced bias perceptions. Study 1 and Study 2 revealed evidence of the r…
How nature- and humanity-based awe experiences in video games can differentially lead to hedonic and eudaimonic outcomes
The Media Use Model: A metatheoretical framework for media processes and effects
The Media Use Model (MUM) presents a metatheoretical framework that aims to unify several existing theories of media processes and effects. It uses a constraint satisfaction approach to coherence to explain the dynamic relationship between a media consumer's motivations, expectations, individual differences, and, primarily, their cognitive processing during media use. The MUM includes six propositions, which represent stages during which a media …
Selection, Trust, and the Effects of Cable News Consumption
Using two experimental studies, we examine how the selection and consumption of cable news influences news consumers’ cognitive processing, attitudes, and policy preferences. As expected, participants overwhelmingly self-selected into an ideologically aligned cable news network. Then, ideologically congruent messaging from Fox News and MSNBC was likely to prompt higher levels of agreement and lower levels of disagreement for those with mid- and h…
Using narrative media to satisfy intrinsic needs: Connecting parasocial relationships, retrospective imaginative involvement, and self-determination theory
Taking advantage of the divergent strategies for instruction at different universities during the COVID-19 pandemic, this study presents a quasi-experiment comparing narrative media use by students at an online-only university (lower social interaction) with those at an in-person university (higher social interaction). To do so, we rely on perspectives from research on parasocial relationships, retrospective imaginative involvement, and self-dete…
The roles of congruity, narrative, and identification in sustainability messaging
This study investigates how advertising-based sustainability messaging is influenced by message-source congruity, narrative engagement, and identification. Using two experimental designs, the results show that sustainability messaging improves evaluations of sources that are congruent with sustainability messaging, when compared to sources that are not. Featuring groups of people – rather than an individual – in these messages may work to further…
Using Moral Foundations to Assess Stereotypes: Americans' Perceptions of Immigrants and Refugees
This study considers the role of moral foundations in the formation and perpetuation of Americans’ stereotypes of immigrants and refugees. The results of two content analyses and an inductive thematic analysis of open-ended data show that American respondents hold different stereotypes of immigrants and refugees. Refugees were described using language relates to the care/harm moral foundation, while immigrants were described in terms of loyalty/b…
Linking Political TV Shows with Female Lead Characters to Political Engagement: The Roles of Parasocial Processes and Gender Identity
This study tests the relationship between viewing political TV shows with female lead characters and political engagement. It argues that parasocial processes provide the necessary link and gender identity is a critical moderating variable. Results of an in-lab experiment show that viewing a female lead character in a politically-driven plotline increases political self-efficacy, interest, and participation among individuals who identify as more …
Toward a theory of media priming
This manuscript puts forth a theory of media priming, where media priming occurs when information from media content is utilized outside the media consumer’s awareness. The media consumer is influenced by a specific aspect of that media content (i.e. a prime), but they are unable to mentally trace the source of said influence. Media priming operates entirely within System 1 processing (fast, automatic, and with little effort) and should only incl…
The Role and Impact of Fox News
Considering that cable news has become a primary source of political information for many Americans, this article examines the role and impact of Fox News in the United States, particularly as it compares to other news outlets. We begin by offering a historical analysis of Fox News’ formation and growth in popularity, including a review of existing scholarship on the network’s impact on news consumers. Prior research as well as an additional nati…
Hyperpartisan News Use: Relationships with Partisanship and Cognitive and Affective Involvement
This paper revisits the issue of partisan selectivity in the era of prevalent false, misleading, and biased information. We surveyed a representative sample of adults living in the United States to investigate the relationships among hyperpartisan news use, partisanship, and cognitive and affective involvement. First, we find that strong partisanship—from both Democrats and Republicans—relates to exposure to both left- and right-leaning hyperpart…
Developing contemporary factors of political participation
Drawing from research in communication and political science, this study identifies five factors of political participation that address both traditional and more contemporary forms of political engagement. To begin, a questionnaire was developed and tested with respondents from two nationwide surveys who answered questions about their political participation (N = 476 in Sample 1, N = 490 in Sample 2). Next, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was …
Who, From Where? TV Network News Coverage of Immigration Narratives during Trump’s First 100 Days
This chapter looks at some interactions that Donald J. Trump has had with African Americans, especially in context of the "hell" in which they live, an observation Trump himself made. It explores not only the results of the negative influence Trump&s;s dealing with Black people produces, and explores his and his family&s;s documented history of racism and questionable behavior. To better understand Trump&s;s contempt for Black citizens, and the o…
Coverage of a Crisis: The Effects of International News Portrayals of Refugees and Misuse of the Term “Immigrant
Given the intense debate surrounding the United States’ policies regarding admission of refugees and immigrants into the country, this study set out to determine how the news media cover refugees and how that coverage influences news consumers. This research examines how news stories informed the public about the individuals affected by the wars in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq. In particular, it explores usage of the word “refugee” as opposed to …
First-Person Effects of Emotional and Informational Messages in Strategic Environmental Communications Campaigns
This study examined the first- and third-person effects of emotional and informational messages, particularly relating to the critical issue areas of energy, the environment, and global warming. Due to intense political polarization on such issues, it also explored the role of political party identification. The results of an experiment indicated that informational messages about the environment produced third-person effects, while environmental …
The effect of explicit online comment moderation on three spiral of silence outcomes
This study investigates the effect of news sites’ explicit online comment moderation policies on spiral of silence (SOS) outcome variables. It advances the methodological understanding of SOS research by comparing the traditional willingness-to-share variable to more direct measures of attitudes. The results of two studies show that a one-sided editorial and comments generally silenced the opposition, particularly when participants were asked to …
Worldviews, Issue Knowledge, and the Pollution of a Local Science Information Environment
Research in motivated reasoning supports the notion that sociopolitical identity moderates the impact of knowledge on attitudes toward science issues. However, science knowledge and sociopolitical orientation have been measured in different ways, and the results have not been entirely consistent. In this study, 964 adults participated in an online survey-experiment examining their reactions to a message about local water quality. Results show tha…
L oving v. V irginia
Loving v. Virginia is the landmark civil rights case that abolished race‐related legal restrictions on marriage in the United States. On June 12, 1967 the US Supreme Court declared Virginia's antimiscegenation statute, the Act to Preserve Racial Integrity of 1924, unconstitutional. Richard Loving, a white man, and Mildred Jeter, an African American and Native American woman, were married in Washington, DC, in 1958, to avoid Virginia's ban on inte…
Media‐Induced Elevation as a Means of Enhancing Feelings of Intergroup Connectedness
The majority of research on media counter‐stereotyping of race/ethnicity has tended to employ positive portrayals or counter‐stereotypical exemplars as a primary strategy in eliciting positive attitudes among White participants. In contrast, this article reports the results of an experiment on the unique role of affective responses to media messages as a mechanism in inducing greater feelings of connectedness with a diversity of racial/ethnic gro…
News as a Cultural Mirror: Historically Black Newspapers Reflecting Public Views of Loving v. Virginia (1967)
This study examined seven historically Black newspapers’ coverage of the landmark Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia (1967), which overturned anti‐miscegenation laws that prevented non‐White individuals from marrying White individuals. A content analysis of frames and source usage within 31 news stories about the case indicated that about half of the stories ( N = 14) advocated for the Lovings and a small number ( N = 1) advocated for the Stat…
A Lack of Balance: An Examination of Local Detroit, Michigan, Newspaper Coverage of the 2006 War in Lebanon and the 2008–2009 War in Gaza
2012). A Lack of Balance: An Examination of Local Detroit, Michigan, Newspaper Coverage of the 2006 War in Lebanon and the 2008–2009 War in Gaza. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 483-491
Developing contemporary factors of political participation
Drawing from research in communication and political science, this study identifies five factors of political participation that address both traditional and more contemporary forms of political engagement. To begin, a questionnaire was developed and tested with respondents from two nationwide surveys who answered questions about their political participation (N = 476 in Sample 1, N = 490 in Sample 2). Next, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was …
Media‐Induced Elevation as a Means of Enhancing Feelings of Intergroup Connectedness
The majority of research on media counter‐stereotyping of race/ethnicity has tended to employ positive portrayals or counter‐stereotypical exemplars as a primary strategy in eliciting positive attitudes among White participants. In contrast, this article reports the results of an experiment on the unique role of affective responses to media messages as a mechanism in inducing greater feelings of connectedness with a diversity of racial/ethnic gro…
Coverage of a Crisis: The Effects of International News Portrayals of Refugees and Misuse of the Term “Immigrant
Given the intense debate surrounding the United States’ policies regarding admission of refugees and immigrants into the country, this study set out to determine how the news media cover refugees and how that coverage influences news consumers. This research examines how news stories informed the public about the individuals affected by the wars in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq. In particular, it explores usage of the word “refugee” as opposed to …
The Media Use Model: A metatheoretical framework for media processes and effects
The Media Use Model (MUM) presents a metatheoretical framework that aims to unify several existing theories of media processes and effects. It uses a constraint satisfaction approach to coherence to explain the dynamic relationship between a media consumer's motivations, expectations, individual differences, and, primarily, their cognitive processing during media use. The MUM includes six propositions, which represent stages during which a media …
The effect of explicit online comment moderation on three spiral of silence outcomes
This study investigates the effect of news sites’ explicit online comment moderation policies on spiral of silence (SOS) outcome variables. It advances the methodological understanding of SOS research by comparing the traditional willingness-to-share variable to more direct measures of attitudes. The results of two studies show that a one-sided editorial and comments generally silenced the opposition, particularly when participants were asked to …
Using Moral Foundations to Assess Stereotypes: Americans' Perceptions of Immigrants and Refugees
This study considers the role of moral foundations in the formation and perpetuation of Americans’ stereotypes of immigrants and refugees. The results of two content analyses and an inductive thematic analysis of open-ended data show that American respondents hold different stereotypes of immigrants and refugees. Refugees were described using language relates to the care/harm moral foundation, while immigrants were described in terms of loyalty/b…
The Role and Impact of Fox News
Considering that cable news has become a primary source of political information for many Americans, this article examines the role and impact of Fox News in the United States, particularly as it compares to other news outlets. We begin by offering a historical analysis of Fox News’ formation and growth in popularity, including a review of existing scholarship on the network’s impact on news consumers. Prior research as well as an additional nati…
Hyperpartisan News Use: Relationships with Partisanship and Cognitive and Affective Involvement
This paper revisits the issue of partisan selectivity in the era of prevalent false, misleading, and biased information. We surveyed a representative sample of adults living in the United States to investigate the relationships among hyperpartisan news use, partisanship, and cognitive and affective involvement. First, we find that strong partisanship—from both Democrats and Republicans—relates to exposure to both left- and right-leaning hyperpart…
News as a Cultural Mirror: Historically Black Newspapers Reflecting Public Views of Loving v. Virginia (1967)
This study examined seven historically Black newspapers’ coverage of the landmark Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia (1967), which overturned anti‐miscegenation laws that prevented non‐White individuals from marrying White individuals. A content analysis of frames and source usage within 31 news stories about the case indicated that about half of the stories ( N = 14) advocated for the Lovings and a small number ( N = 1) advocated for the Stat…
A Lack of Balance: An Examination of Local Detroit, Michigan, Newspaper Coverage of the 2006 War in Lebanon and the 2008–2009 War in Gaza
2012). A Lack of Balance: An Examination of Local Detroit, Michigan, Newspaper Coverage of the 2006 War in Lebanon and the 2008–2009 War in Gaza. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 483-491
Toward a theory of media priming
This manuscript puts forth a theory of media priming, where media priming occurs when information from media content is utilized outside the media consumer’s awareness. The media consumer is influenced by a specific aspect of that media content (i.e. a prime), but they are unable to mentally trace the source of said influence. Media priming operates entirely within System 1 processing (fast, automatic, and with little effort) and should only incl…
Worldviews, Issue Knowledge, and the Pollution of a Local Science Information Environment
Research in motivated reasoning supports the notion that sociopolitical identity moderates the impact of knowledge on attitudes toward science issues. However, science knowledge and sociopolitical orientation have been measured in different ways, and the results have not been entirely consistent. In this study, 964 adults participated in an online survey-experiment examining their reactions to a message about local water quality. Results show tha…
News bias perceptions as impacted by source cues, content cues, and media bias ratings
Using three experimental studies, this research considers whether exposure to source cues, content cues, and media bias ratings impacts perceptions of ideological bias in news stories. As a possible news media literacy intervention strategy, viewing a media bias ratings chart after reading a news story had limited influence on assessments of bias. Source cues consistently influenced bias perceptions. Study 1 and Study 2 revealed evidence of the r…
Reconstructing public diplomacy in the context of policy, communication, and technology: An examination of U.S. ‐ Mexico border relations
As the United States implements more stringent measures to secure its border with Mexico, the perception of the United States in Mexico has turned negative. Despite Mexico's strategic importance, public diplomacy has not been well utilized in the United States, specifically as it pertains to the U.S.‐Mexico border. Moreover, policy efforts have not effectively addressed this issue. The United States ought utilize technological resources to encour…
Overturning Anti-Miscegenation Laws: News Media Coverage of the Lovings’ Legal Case Against the State of Virginia
This study fills a gap in scholarship by exploring historical news coverage of interracial relationships. It examines coverage by The New York Times, Washington Post and Times-Herald, and Chicago Tribune of the progression of the landmark civil rights case of Loving v. Virginia, in which the Supreme Court overturned Virginia's anti-miscegenation law, which prohibited marriage between any White and non-White person. An analysis of the frames and s…
A Lack of Balance: An Examination of Local Detroit, Michigan, Newspaper Coverage of the 2006 War in Lebanon and the 2008–2009 War in Gaza
2012). A Lack of Balance: An Examination of Local Detroit, Michigan, Newspaper Coverage of the 2006 War in Lebanon and the 2008–2009 War in Gaza. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 483-491
L oving v. V irginia
Loving v. Virginia is the landmark civil rights case that abolished race‐related legal restrictions on marriage in the United States. On June 12, 1967 the US Supreme Court declared Virginia's antimiscegenation statute, the Act to Preserve Racial Integrity of 1924, unconstitutional. Richard Loving, a white man, and Mildred Jeter, an African American and Native American woman, were married in Washington, DC, in 1958, to avoid Virginia's ban on inte…
Media‐Induced Elevation as a Means of Enhancing Feelings of Intergroup Connectedness
The majority of research on media counter‐stereotyping of race/ethnicity has tended to employ positive portrayals or counter‐stereotypical exemplars as a primary strategy in eliciting positive attitudes among White participants. In contrast, this article reports the results of an experiment on the unique role of affective responses to media messages as a mechanism in inducing greater feelings of connectedness with a diversity of racial/ethnic gro…
News as a Cultural Mirror: Historically Black Newspapers Reflecting Public Views of Loving v. Virginia (1967)
This study examined seven historically Black newspapers’ coverage of the landmark Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia (1967), which overturned anti‐miscegenation laws that prevented non‐White individuals from marrying White individuals. A content analysis of frames and source usage within 31 news stories about the case indicated that about half of the stories ( N = 14) advocated for the Lovings and a small number ( N = 1) advocated for the Stat…
The effect of explicit online comment moderation on three spiral of silence outcomes
This study investigates the effect of news sites’ explicit online comment moderation policies on spiral of silence (SOS) outcome variables. It advances the methodological understanding of SOS research by comparing the traditional willingness-to-share variable to more direct measures of attitudes. The results of two studies show that a one-sided editorial and comments generally silenced the opposition, particularly when participants were asked to …
Worldviews, Issue Knowledge, and the Pollution of a Local Science Information Environment
Research in motivated reasoning supports the notion that sociopolitical identity moderates the impact of knowledge on attitudes toward science issues. However, science knowledge and sociopolitical orientation have been measured in different ways, and the results have not been entirely consistent. In this study, 964 adults participated in an online survey-experiment examining their reactions to a message about local water quality. Results show tha…
First-Person Effects of Emotional and Informational Messages in Strategic Environmental Communications Campaigns
This study examined the first- and third-person effects of emotional and informational messages, particularly relating to the critical issue areas of energy, the environment, and global warming. Due to intense political polarization on such issues, it also explored the role of political party identification. The results of an experiment indicated that informational messages about the environment produced third-person effects, while environmental …
Who, From Where? TV Network News Coverage of Immigration Narratives during Trump’s First 100 Days
This chapter looks at some interactions that Donald J. Trump has had with African Americans, especially in context of the "hell" in which they live, an observation Trump himself made. It explores not only the results of the negative influence Trump&s;s dealing with Black people produces, and explores his and his family&s;s documented history of racism and questionable behavior. To better understand Trump&s;s contempt for Black citizens, and the o…
Coverage of a Crisis: The Effects of International News Portrayals of Refugees and Misuse of the Term “Immigrant
Given the intense debate surrounding the United States’ policies regarding admission of refugees and immigrants into the country, this study set out to determine how the news media cover refugees and how that coverage influences news consumers. This research examines how news stories informed the public about the individuals affected by the wars in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq. In particular, it explores usage of the word “refugee” as opposed to …
Linking Political TV Shows with Female Lead Characters to Political Engagement: The Roles of Parasocial Processes and Gender Identity
This study tests the relationship between viewing political TV shows with female lead characters and political engagement. It argues that parasocial processes provide the necessary link and gender identity is a critical moderating variable. Results of an in-lab experiment show that viewing a female lead character in a politically-driven plotline increases political self-efficacy, interest, and participation among individuals who identify as more …
Toward a theory of media priming
This manuscript puts forth a theory of media priming, where media priming occurs when information from media content is utilized outside the media consumer’s awareness. The media consumer is influenced by a specific aspect of that media content (i.e. a prime), but they are unable to mentally trace the source of said influence. Media priming operates entirely within System 1 processing (fast, automatic, and with little effort) and should only incl…
The Role and Impact of Fox News
Considering that cable news has become a primary source of political information for many Americans, this article examines the role and impact of Fox News in the United States, particularly as it compares to other news outlets. We begin by offering a historical analysis of Fox News’ formation and growth in popularity, including a review of existing scholarship on the network’s impact on news consumers. Prior research as well as an additional nati…
Hyperpartisan News Use: Relationships with Partisanship and Cognitive and Affective Involvement
This paper revisits the issue of partisan selectivity in the era of prevalent false, misleading, and biased information. We surveyed a representative sample of adults living in the United States to investigate the relationships among hyperpartisan news use, partisanship, and cognitive and affective involvement. First, we find that strong partisanship—from both Democrats and Republicans—relates to exposure to both left- and right-leaning hyperpart…
Developing contemporary factors of political participation
Drawing from research in communication and political science, this study identifies five factors of political participation that address both traditional and more contemporary forms of political engagement. To begin, a questionnaire was developed and tested with respondents from two nationwide surveys who answered questions about their political participation (N = 476 in Sample 1, N = 490 in Sample 2). Next, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was …
Using narrative media to satisfy intrinsic needs: Connecting parasocial relationships, retrospective imaginative involvement, and self-determination theory
Taking advantage of the divergent strategies for instruction at different universities during the COVID-19 pandemic, this study presents a quasi-experiment comparing narrative media use by students at an online-only university (lower social interaction) with those at an in-person university (higher social interaction). To do so, we rely on perspectives from research on parasocial relationships, retrospective imaginative involvement, and self-dete…
The roles of congruity, narrative, and identification in sustainability messaging
This study investigates how advertising-based sustainability messaging is influenced by message-source congruity, narrative engagement, and identification. Using two experimental designs, the results show that sustainability messaging improves evaluations of sources that are congruent with sustainability messaging, when compared to sources that are not. Featuring groups of people – rather than an individual – in these messages may work to further…
Using Moral Foundations to Assess Stereotypes: Americans' Perceptions of Immigrants and Refugees
This study considers the role of moral foundations in the formation and perpetuation of Americans’ stereotypes of immigrants and refugees. The results of two content analyses and an inductive thematic analysis of open-ended data show that American respondents hold different stereotypes of immigrants and refugees. Refugees were described using language relates to the care/harm moral foundation, while immigrants were described in terms of loyalty/b…
Selection, Trust, and the Effects of Cable News Consumption
Using two experimental studies, we examine how the selection and consumption of cable news influences news consumers’ cognitive processing, attitudes, and policy preferences. As expected, participants overwhelmingly self-selected into an ideologically aligned cable news network. Then, ideologically congruent messaging from Fox News and MSNBC was likely to prompt higher levels of agreement and lower levels of disagreement for those with mid- and h…
News bias perceptions as impacted by source cues, content cues, and media bias ratings
Using three experimental studies, this research considers whether exposure to source cues, content cues, and media bias ratings impacts perceptions of ideological bias in news stories. As a possible news media literacy intervention strategy, viewing a media bias ratings chart after reading a news story had limited influence on assessments of bias. Source cues consistently influenced bias perceptions. Study 1 and Study 2 revealed evidence of the r…
How nature- and humanity-based awe experiences in video games can differentially lead to hedonic and eudaimonic outcomes
The Media Use Model: A metatheoretical framework for media processes and effects
The Media Use Model (MUM) presents a metatheoretical framework that aims to unify several existing theories of media processes and effects. It uses a constraint satisfaction approach to coherence to explain the dynamic relationship between a media consumer's motivations, expectations, individual differences, and, primarily, their cognitive processing during media use. The MUM includes six propositions, which represent stages during which a media …
Partisanship and its effects on metacognitive effort, agreement, and misinformation detection
With recent developments in misinformation theorizing, misinformation research can now empirically examine theoretical relationships that integrate exposure to, processing of, and responses to misinformation messages. This research includes two experiments (Study 1: N = 371; Study 2: N = 402) that offer support for the effects advanced by recent misinformation theory. Using a model of moderated mediation, the individual dispositional factors of p…
Political pets: The pawsitive effect of dogs in politicians’ social media posts
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