Nicole Martins
Biographic Data
| ID | 90697 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicole Martins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicole |
| FAMILY NAME | Martins |
| SIGNATURE | MARTINS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5228-5453 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 130 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Brief report
This content analysis provides an initial look at how fundamental aspects of adolescence are depicted in coming-of-age movies. The sample included 53 popular movies that had a high school-aged protagonist and were released from 2012 to 2021. We coded for physical markers of puberty in the protagonists, as well as the actual ages of the actors portraying the teenage leads. We were also interested in how teen characters were depicted to be navigati…
Media as a Locus for Family Ethnic-Racial Socialization
To examine the role of media in family discussions of race and ethnicity, we surveyed a U.S. sample of 834 Asian/Asian American, Black, Hispanic, Indigenous/Native American, and White 10- to 17-year-olds. Based on social relational theory, we conceived of media as a resource and locus for mutual influence, whereby parents and youth may mediate each other’s exposure to ethnic-racial depictions. Consistent with conceptions of race/ethnicity as vert…
News exposure, depression, and PTSD symptoms among adolescents in the US
This study investigates the impact of persistent news coverage of school shootings on adolescent mental health. We surveyed a large, national sample of U.S. adolescents aged 13–17, focusing on the Uvalde school shooting, to explore the link between news exposure and depression. Our findings reveal that such exposure is associated with both generalized depression and PTSD symptoms. Qualitative data highlight specific aspects of Uvalde news coverag…
Reconstructing the American Home
Children’s perceptions of race and ethnicity in media
In 1998, Children Now surveyed 1,200 U.S. 10- to 17-year-olds about TV racial depictions, finding white children reported the most visibility. As a 25-year update, we surveyed 834 U.S. 10- to 17-year-olds: Asian/Asian American (n = 177), Black (n = 206), Hispanic (n = 150), Indigenous/Native American (n = 86), and white (n = 215). More youth now say it’s important to see their race in media, but fewer report seeing their group, with Hispanic and …
A Importância do Design de Comunicação no Processo de Disseminação de Práticas Comunitárias em Bairros Sociais
No presente artigo pretende-se demonstrar de que modo a investigação em design de comunicação pode contribuir para a disseminação de práticas comunitárias em contextos economicamente desfavorecidos, como é o caso dos bairros sociais. Este estudo surge no âmbito do projeto de investigação ECHO, onde a principal missão é conhecer e documentar duas práticas comunitárias auto-iniciadas no bairro social do Balteiro, em Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal, com…
Design e Comunicação
Our lives are dominated by digital technologies, it influences how we socialise, we work, we play, we shop, we explore the world around us and access knowledge and services.We live in both the digital and the physical world, but the digital world has the power to change what we experience every second, this has resulted in constant enhancement.Spontaneity and reactivity assume an increasingly prominent role in this communication universe.This ine…
A Content Analysis of American Primetime Television
This article provides a 20-year, apples-to-apples update of the National Television Violence Studies. Using the same sampling procedures and codebook, we coded 765 primetime television programs and movies airing on 21 broadcast and cable networks. Results suggest the prevalence of violence has increased slightly, but the number of programs saturated with violence has experienced a more significant increase. This appears to be driven by an influx …
Reassessing the risks
This study provides a comprehensive update investigating the amount and nature of violence contained in primetime television programming that targets children aged 17 and younger. Using the same sampling procedures and codebook as the original National Television Violence Study, we coded 765 primetime television programs airing on 21 broadcast and cable networks during the 2016/2017 season. We then separated children’s programs from nonchildren’s…
Masculine Pleasures as Normalized Practices
Scholars have extensively studied video game labor practices (e.g., Bulut, E. (2015). Glamor above, precarity below: Immaterial labor in the video game industry. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 32(3), 193-207. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2015.1047880 , Bulut, E. (2020). White masculinity, creative desires, and production ideology in video game development. Games and Culture, 16, 1555412020939873; Banks, J. (2013). Co-creating videog…
La educación estética del director de arte en los grados universitarios de Publicidad en España
En el contexto de la creatividad publicitaria, el director de arte es el máximo responsable del aspecto visual de los mensajes, una tarea para la que la sensibilidad estética constituye una cualidad indispensable y, por tanto, se convierte en una competencia fundamental en su formación. Mediante una encuesta cuantitativa y cualitativa organizada en cuatro bloques (contenidos, recursos, métodos y resultados) y una muestra de 21 profesores de Direc…
An analysis of feminist graphics published on Instagram by Spanish female professionals on the subject of International Women’s Day (2019-2020)
The present scene, defined as it is by the undisputed prominence of imagery and the power of social media acting as tools for political activism and public interaction, is strongly influenced by Instagram. This is a platform with a predominantly graphic format where imagery, as a means of visual communication, acquires a special significance. In the 21st century, the term cyberfeminism has become synonymous with that part of feminist philosophy f…
If They Only Disrespect Us a Little, and the Story is Interesting, I Keep Watching
The goal of this study was to apply insights from social identity gratifications and ethnic/racial identity development frameworks to better understand how adolescents perceive, select, and avoid media content which has the potential to damage self-and group-concept. We conducted focus groups with 32 Latino adolescents aged 13 to 15. We found mixed evidence that youth prioritized the ethnicity of characters in program selection. Most referenced p…
Household War
Mixed Messages
Although the predictors of off-line relational aggression have been examined in prior work, less is known about the factors that contribute to online relational aggression perpetration and victimization. This study examined parental restrictive and active mediation of teenagers’ social media use as potential predictors of these outcomes. We were particularly interested in understanding whether parental agreement about media rules and the consiste…
Latina Teens’ Identification with and Social Comparison to Mothers on Teen Mom
A survey was conducted with low income Latina teens ( M = 13.31 years of age) to examine the ways in which exposure, identification with, and social comparison to teen mothers featured on the MTV program Teen Mom influenced attitudes toward teen pregnancy. Analyses revealed that those who identified with and looked up to the teen mothers on Teen Mom were less likely to think getting pregnant would be embarrassing, a terrible event, or prevent the…
What the Public “Knows” About Media Effects Research
News articles about media effects research were presented to 333 participants to experimentally test the effects of three independent variables on perceived credibility of both the journalist and featured scientist: whether the sources in the news story supported or contradicted the findings of the featured scientist, journalist gender, and whether the story matched or mismatched preexisting beliefs about the link between media exposure and subse…
Parental mediation of US youths’ exposure to televised relational aggression
Exposure to televised relational aggression can negatively influence youths’ well-being. Research shows that parent–child interactions about media – parental mediation – can alter children’s responses to media exposure. Therefore, this study explored the relation between US parents’ perceptions of relational aggression in the media, parental mediation, and the responses of their pre-adolescent and adolescent children to relational aggression expo…
Public Perception of Female Fertility
Are British Muslims alienated from mainstream politics by Islamophobia and British foreign policy
This paper uses the 2010 Ethnic Minority British Election Study to look at the political attitudes of Muslims in Britain. It tests the relationship between political alienation and political participation on the one hand, and Islamophobia and disapproval of British military involvement in Afghanistan on the other. The principal findings are that perceptions of Islamophobia are linked to greater political alienation, to a greater likelihood of non…
Playing by the Rules
This study examined parental mediation of children's video game play in an Internet survey of 433 parents of children aged 5 to 18 years. We assessed the valence of active mediation (i.e., positive, negative, neutral) and the relationship between parental involvement and mediation techniques. Furthermore, we explored whether parental mediation was associated with child delinquency. Our results demonstrate that active mediation is generally negati…
Sexual Socialization Messages in Television Programming Produced for Adolescents
This study examined sexual content in American prime-time programs popular among the tween (9–14 years of age) audience on broadcast networks and programs aired on the most popular adolescent TV networks—an understudied area of media research. Consistent with past research, the majority of broadcast shows contained sexual talk and behaviors, as did adolescent shows. No significant difference was observed between the two types of shows regarding t…
The Relationship Between “Teen Mom” Reality Programming and Teenagers' Beliefs About Teen Parenthood
A survey was conducted with U.S. high school students (M = 16.57 years of age) from the Midwest to examine whether exposure to “teen mom” reality programming (e.g., 16 and Pregnant, Teen Mom) was related to teens' perceptions of teen parenthood. Contrary to our hypotheses, analyses revealed that exposure to teen mom reality programming was related to an increased tendency to believe that teen mothers have an enviable quality of life, a high incom…
A Content Analysis of Print News Coverage of Media Violence and Aggression Research
We conducted a content analysis of news articles (N = 540) to examine whether news coverage of media violence accurately reflects scientific knowledge about exposure to media violence and its effects on viewer aggression. The analysis revealed that over the past 30 years, news articles generally suggested that a link between media violence and aggression exists. However, the tone shifted sharply back toward a neutral conclusion since 2000. This s…
Mean on the Screen
A content analysis was conducted to examine the portrayal of social aggression in the 50 most popular television programs among 2- to 11-year-old children. Results revealed that 92% of the programs in the sample contained some social aggression. On average, there were 14 different incidents of social aggression per hour in these shows, or one every 4 minutes. Compared to the portrayals of physical aggression, social aggression was more likely to …
The virtual census
A large-scale content analysis of characters in video games was employed to answer questions about their representations of gender, race and age in comparison to the US population. The sample included 150 games from a year across nine platforms, with the results weighted according to game sales. This innovation enabled the results to be analyzed in proportion to the games that were actually played by the public, and thus allowed the first stateme…
A Content Analysis of Female Body Imagery in Video Games
Are British Muslims alienated from mainstream politics by Islamophobia and British foreign policy
This paper uses the 2010 Ethnic Minority British Election Study to look at the political attitudes of Muslims in Britain. It tests the relationship between political alienation and political participation on the one hand, and Islamophobia and disapproval of British military involvement in Afghanistan on the other. The principal findings are that perceptions of Islamophobia are linked to greater political alienation, to a greater likelihood of non…
Children's and Parents' Fright Reactions to Kidnapping Stories in the News
We conducted a random telephone survey of 182 parents to assess their reactions as well as their children's reactions to child kidnapping stories in the news. Children below age 13 experienced more fright-related feelings and more concern for their personal safety than adolescents did. Children who were heavy viewers of TV news also were more frightened. Parents rated themselves as more upset by the stories than their children were. Parents' frig…
Social Aggression on Television and Its Relationship to Children's Aggression in the Classroom
Journal Article Social Aggression on Television and Its Relationship to Children's Aggression in the Classroom Get access Nicole Martins, Nicole Martins 1Department of Telecommunication, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA 1Corresponding author: Nicole Martins; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Barbara J. Wilson Barbara J. Wilson 2Department of Communication, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL…
Sexual Socialization Messages in Television Programming Produced for Adolescents
This study examined sexual content in American prime-time programs popular among the tween (9–14 years of age) audience on broadcast networks and programs aired on the most popular adolescent TV networks—an understudied area of media research. Consistent with past research, the majority of broadcast shows contained sexual talk and behaviors, as did adolescent shows. No significant difference was observed between the two types of shows regarding t…
Playing by the Rules
This study examined parental mediation of children's video game play in an Internet survey of 433 parents of children aged 5 to 18 years. We assessed the valence of active mediation (i.e., positive, negative, neutral) and the relationship between parental involvement and mediation techniques. Furthermore, we explored whether parental mediation was associated with child delinquency. Our results demonstrate that active mediation is generally negati…
The Relationship Between “Teen Mom” Reality Programming and Teenagers' Beliefs About Teen Parenthood
A survey was conducted with U.S. high school students (M = 16.57 years of age) from the Midwest to examine whether exposure to “teen mom” reality programming (e.g., 16 and Pregnant, Teen Mom) was related to teens' perceptions of teen parenthood. Contrary to our hypotheses, analyses revealed that exposure to teen mom reality programming was related to an increased tendency to believe that teen mothers have an enviable quality of life, a high incom…
Masculine Pleasures as Normalized Practices
Scholars have extensively studied video game labor practices (e.g., Bulut, E. (2015). Glamor above, precarity below: Immaterial labor in the video game industry. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 32(3), 193-207. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2015.1047880 , Bulut, E. (2020). White masculinity, creative desires, and production ideology in video game development. Games and Culture, 16, 1555412020939873; Banks, J. (2013). Co-creating videog…
Le programme de développement local migration au Mali, en Mauritanie et au Sénégal
Le programme de développement local migration (PDLM) entend soutenir des micro-projets économiques , afin de créer des emplois dans les pays d'émigration. Les difficultés ne manquent pourtant pas, depuis les problèmes d'infrastructures jusqu'à la méfiance des intéressés. Le projet se poursuit néanmoins, avec des résultats plus qu'encourageants
Children's and Parents' Fright Reactions to Kidnapping Stories in the News
We conducted a random telephone survey of 182 parents to assess their reactions as well as their children's reactions to child kidnapping stories in the news. Children below age 13 experienced more fright-related feelings and more concern for their personal safety than adolescents did. Children who were heavy viewers of TV news also were more frightened. Parents rated themselves as more upset by the stories than their children were. Parents' frig…
Leopards of the Cape
The leopard (Panthera pardus) is the apex predator in the Western Cape, South Africa. It has until recently been regarded as vermin by farmers and conservation officials and been highly persecuted for over 350 years. It is now restricted to the more inaccessible mountains, such as the Cederberg. We have initiated several projects to highlight conservation concerns and needs of this elusive felid. One of these, a conservation genetics study, exami…
The virtual census
A large-scale content analysis of characters in video games was employed to answer questions about their representations of gender, race and age in comparison to the US population. The sample included 150 games from a year across nine platforms, with the results weighted according to game sales. This innovation enabled the results to be analyzed in proportion to the games that were actually played by the public, and thus allowed the first stateme…
A Content Analysis of Female Body Imagery in Video Games
A abstracção na modernidade. Da origem aos efeitos objectivos
No presente artigo propomos a discussão da abstracção enquanto objecto nos diferentes discursos da Modernidade. Partimos da ideia da origem abstracta do computador, segundo a abordagem histórica de Jon Agar - o computador como reflexo da sociedade capitalista. Esta ideia poderá ser indício da natureza abstracta das instituições com maior sucesso na sociedade ocidental das últimas décadas, focando-nos no conceito de macdonaldização, proposto por G…
Parental Communication About Kidnapping Stories in the US News
We conducted a random telephone survey of 182 parents to assess how they communicate with their children about kidnapping stories featured in the news. Three different strategies emerged. Some parents warned their children, signaling to them that kidnappings are likely to occur. Other parents reassured their children, suggesting that such threats rarely take place. Several parents cautioned their children, offering specific strategies to encourag…
Mean on the Screen
A content analysis was conducted to examine the portrayal of social aggression in the 50 most popular television programs among 2- to 11-year-old children. Results revealed that 92% of the programs in the sample contained some social aggression. On average, there were 14 different incidents of social aggression per hour in these shows, or one every 4 minutes. Compared to the portrayals of physical aggression, social aggression was more likely to …
Mean on the Screen
Da Partilha à Acção Colectiva dos Cidadãos
O contributo das redes sociais na luta contra o cancro tem sido conhecida, especial- mente, pelo sucesso de movimentos de cidadãos com o objectivo de sensibilizar a sociedade portuguesa para a dádiva de medula óssea. Este tipo de campanhas solidárias, com o apoio dos Novos Media, foi um fenómeno iniciado em 2009 e tem vindo a desenvolver-se, sobretudo, no Facebook. Desde então, novos movimentos têm aparecido regularmente nesta rede social e aju- …
Contributo para a discussão sobre um novo conceito de museu através da análise de diversos casos de estudo
Neste mundo interconectado em que vivemos, em que os media digitais são cada vez mais universais, sociais, omnipresentes e baratos; em que cada indivíduo já não depende das organi- zações para estruturar a sua participação nem para comunicar com os demais; em que os consu- midores se tornaram produtores e a notoriedade dos amadores se sobrepõe, em muitos casos, à reputação dos profissionais, qual será o papel a desempenhar pelas instituições? Com…
Social Aggression on Television and Its Relationship to Children's Aggression in the Classroom
Journal Article Social Aggression on Television and Its Relationship to Children's Aggression in the Classroom Get access Nicole Martins, Nicole Martins 1Department of Telecommunication, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA 1Corresponding author: Nicole Martins; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Barbara J. Wilson Barbara J. Wilson 2Department of Communication, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL…
A Content Analysis of Print News Coverage of Media Violence and Aggression Research
We conducted a content analysis of news articles (N = 540) to examine whether news coverage of media violence accurately reflects scientific knowledge about exposure to media violence and its effects on viewer aggression. The analysis revealed that over the past 30 years, news articles generally suggested that a link between media violence and aggression exists. However, the tone shifted sharply back toward a neutral conclusion since 2000. This s…
The Relationship Between “Teen Mom” Reality Programming and Teenagers' Beliefs About Teen Parenthood
A survey was conducted with U.S. high school students (M = 16.57 years of age) from the Midwest to examine whether exposure to “teen mom” reality programming (e.g., 16 and Pregnant, Teen Mom) was related to teens' perceptions of teen parenthood. Contrary to our hypotheses, analyses revealed that exposure to teen mom reality programming was related to an increased tendency to believe that teen mothers have an enviable quality of life, a high incom…
Sexual Socialization Messages in Television Programming Produced for Adolescents
This study examined sexual content in American prime-time programs popular among the tween (9–14 years of age) audience on broadcast networks and programs aired on the most popular adolescent TV networks—an understudied area of media research. Consistent with past research, the majority of broadcast shows contained sexual talk and behaviors, as did adolescent shows. No significant difference was observed between the two types of shows regarding t…
Are British Muslims alienated from mainstream politics by Islamophobia and British foreign policy
This paper uses the 2010 Ethnic Minority British Election Study to look at the political attitudes of Muslims in Britain. It tests the relationship between political alienation and political participation on the one hand, and Islamophobia and disapproval of British military involvement in Afghanistan on the other. The principal findings are that perceptions of Islamophobia are linked to greater political alienation, to a greater likelihood of non…
Playing by the Rules
This study examined parental mediation of children's video game play in an Internet survey of 433 parents of children aged 5 to 18 years. We assessed the valence of active mediation (i.e., positive, negative, neutral) and the relationship between parental involvement and mediation techniques. Furthermore, we explored whether parental mediation was associated with child delinquency. Our results demonstrate that active mediation is generally negati…
What the Public “Knows” About Media Effects Research
News articles about media effects research were presented to 333 participants to experimentally test the effects of three independent variables on perceived credibility of both the journalist and featured scientist: whether the sources in the news story supported or contradicted the findings of the featured scientist, journalist gender, and whether the story matched or mismatched preexisting beliefs about the link between media exposure and subse…
Parental mediation of US youths’ exposure to televised relational aggression
Exposure to televised relational aggression can negatively influence youths’ well-being. Research shows that parent–child interactions about media – parental mediation – can alter children’s responses to media exposure. Therefore, this study explored the relation between US parents’ perceptions of relational aggression in the media, parental mediation, and the responses of their pre-adolescent and adolescent children to relational aggression expo…
Public Perception of Female Fertility
Mixed Messages
Although the predictors of off-line relational aggression have been examined in prior work, less is known about the factors that contribute to online relational aggression perpetration and victimization. This study examined parental restrictive and active mediation of teenagers’ social media use as potential predictors of these outcomes. We were particularly interested in understanding whether parental agreement about media rules and the consiste…
Latina Teens’ Identification with and Social Comparison to Mothers on Teen Mom
A survey was conducted with low income Latina teens ( M = 13.31 years of age) to examine the ways in which exposure, identification with, and social comparison to teen mothers featured on the MTV program Teen Mom influenced attitudes toward teen pregnancy. Analyses revealed that those who identified with and looked up to the teen mothers on Teen Mom were less likely to think getting pregnant would be embarrassing, a terrible event, or prevent the…
La educación estética del director de arte en los grados universitarios de Publicidad en España
En el contexto de la creatividad publicitaria, el director de arte es el máximo responsable del aspecto visual de los mensajes, una tarea para la que la sensibilidad estética constituye una cualidad indispensable y, por tanto, se convierte en una competencia fundamental en su formación. Mediante una encuesta cuantitativa y cualitativa organizada en cuatro bloques (contenidos, recursos, métodos y resultados) y una muestra de 21 profesores de Direc…
An analysis of feminist graphics published on Instagram by Spanish female professionals on the subject of International Women’s Day (2019-2020)
The present scene, defined as it is by the undisputed prominence of imagery and the power of social media acting as tools for political activism and public interaction, is strongly influenced by Instagram. This is a platform with a predominantly graphic format where imagery, as a means of visual communication, acquires a special significance. In the 21st century, the term cyberfeminism has become synonymous with that part of feminist philosophy f…
If They Only Disrespect Us a Little, and the Story is Interesting, I Keep Watching
The goal of this study was to apply insights from social identity gratifications and ethnic/racial identity development frameworks to better understand how adolescents perceive, select, and avoid media content which has the potential to damage self-and group-concept. We conducted focus groups with 32 Latino adolescents aged 13 to 15. We found mixed evidence that youth prioritized the ethnicity of characters in program selection. Most referenced p…
Psychology (23 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Media Influence and Health (12 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (11 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Political science (8 works)