Melissa Santillana
Biographic Data
| ID | 6714985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa Santillana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Santillana |
| SIGNATURE | SANTILLANA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0482-7104 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“We Are the Final Cog in the Wheel of Democracy”
Using surveys/interviews with 142 residents of 10 rural communities and in-depth interviews with 12 editors and publishers, we mapped the community journalism ecosystem in a sparsely populated region of about 40,000 square miles. Rural residents identified social media and word of mouth as primary sources for local news, while community editors/publishers reported lacking the financial and labor resources to provide more coverage and combat audie…
Voto Latinx
In the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump captured a substantial share of the Latinx vote, renewing debates about identity, media effects, and political behavior. This study examines how nativist attitudes and hyper-conservative media consumption shape support for Trump, with particular attention to racial and national identity. Using a moderated mediation model, we find that nativism and hyper-conservative media consumption both incre…
Women journalists as targets of Bolsonaro
Introduction During the 2022 Brazilian presidential electoral campaign, Bolsonaro adopted the strategy to address sexist and misogynistic attacks on female journalists. This study examines the overall discourse that emerged from those attacks among Twitter users. Methods We analyze 579,708 tweets referencing three prominent female journalists—Vera Magalhães, Gabriela Prioli, and Amanda Klein—who were publicly attacked by Bolsonaro. We conducted a…
Toxicity of political participation and news cynicism
Framing feminist protest
From Telenovelas to Netflix
Streaming Television, Netflix, and Transverse Transnationalism
Digital inequalities
The homework gap is a term that has come to describe the 15 percent or more of American children who cannot complete their homework after the school day ends because they lack access to broadband and computers (Anderson and Perrin, 2018). This statistic encompasses different economic, socio-cultural, and geographic factors. As a result, historically underprivileged groups of children are overrepresented in the homework gap space. Children without…
Techno-capital
The increasing presence of advanced information and communication technologies (ICTs) across various fields of our lives has elevated the significance of individuals’ capability to utilize these ICTs substantially. Although scholars have underscored the importance of understanding such capabilities in terms of skills that are multidimensional, few empirical investigations are connected to sound theoretical backgrounds. Analyzing a survey administ…
Techno-capital
The increasing presence of advanced information and communication technologies (ICTs) across various fields of our lives has elevated the significance of individuals’ capability to utilize these ICTs substantially. Although scholars have underscored the importance of understanding such capabilities in terms of skills that are multidimensional, few empirical investigations are connected to sound theoretical backgrounds. Analyzing a survey administ…
Digital inequalities
The homework gap is a term that has come to describe the 15 percent or more of American children who cannot complete their homework after the school day ends because they lack access to broadband and computers (Anderson and Perrin, 2018). This statistic encompasses different economic, socio-cultural, and geographic factors. As a result, historically underprivileged groups of children are overrepresented in the homework gap space. Children without…
Techno-capital
The increasing presence of advanced information and communication technologies (ICTs) across various fields of our lives has elevated the significance of individuals’ capability to utilize these ICTs substantially. Although scholars have underscored the importance of understanding such capabilities in terms of skills that are multidimensional, few empirical investigations are connected to sound theoretical backgrounds. Analyzing a survey administ…
From Telenovelas to Netflix
Streaming Television, Netflix, and Transverse Transnationalism
Framing feminist protest
Toxicity of political participation and news cynicism
“We Are the Final Cog in the Wheel of Democracy”
Using surveys/interviews with 142 residents of 10 rural communities and in-depth interviews with 12 editors and publishers, we mapped the community journalism ecosystem in a sparsely populated region of about 40,000 square miles. Rural residents identified social media and word of mouth as primary sources for local news, while community editors/publishers reported lacking the financial and labor resources to provide more coverage and combat audie…
Voto Latinx
In the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump captured a substantial share of the Latinx vote, renewing debates about identity, media effects, and political behavior. This study examines how nativist attitudes and hyper-conservative media consumption shape support for Trump, with particular attention to racial and national identity. Using a moderated mediation model, we find that nativism and hyper-conservative media consumption both incre…
Women journalists as targets of Bolsonaro
Introduction During the 2022 Brazilian presidential electoral campaign, Bolsonaro adopted the strategy to address sexist and misogynistic attacks on female journalists. This study examines the overall discourse that emerged from those attacks among Twitter users. Methods We analyze 579,708 tweets referencing three prominent female journalists—Vera Magalhães, Gabriela Prioli, and Amanda Klein—who were publicly attacked by Bolsonaro. We conducted a…
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Media and Politics (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media Influence and Politics (3 works) · Media Studies and Communication (3 works) · Social media (3 works)