Holli A Semetko
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1322693 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Holli A Semetko |
| PRENOMES | Holli A |
| SOBRENOME | Semetko |
| ASSINATURA | SEMETKO H A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8383-7919 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 55 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1308 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1987 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 16 |
Types of pandemic-induced psychological distress, clarity of responsibility, and support for incumbents
Will voters punish incumbents for psychological distress associated with public policy during external shocks? This study examines this question in the empirical context of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India, utilizing three novel cross-sectional surveys conducted in the first three weeks of June 2020, immediately after the national lockdown policy was officially revoked. We find that propensity to vote for the nationally incumbent …
Covid‐19, Employment Disruptions, and the Gendering of Mental Health
Objective We examine the effect of changes in the work status of men on the gendering of mental health in the empirical context of the strict national lockdown imposed in late March 2020 amidst the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic in India. Methods We utilize a novel nationally representative cross‐sectional survey conducted in the second week of June 2020, after the national lockdown was officially revoked. Result We report three main finding…
Contesting in the policy sphere
We advance a framework for analysis of democratic contestation in the policy and media spheres, in the context of the interest group theory and the stages of public policy evolution, to assess whether the contestation process favors some stakeholders over others in India, with a model that predicts pro- or anti-dam policy discourses in the news. There is evidence from participation in environmental movements, especially in the case of anti-dam pr…
Political communication and campaigning in India
This concluding essay begins with a discussion of how the evolution of communication technologies has shaped perceptions of professionalism in political campaigning in India and elsewhere. Highlights from the empirical case studies in this volume are discussed, setting the thematic case studies on political campaigning in the comparative cross-national context of research on political marketing within the field of political communication. Researc…
Political campaigning in India
This volume focuses on the dynamic, distinctive and diverse aspects of political campaigning in India's varied information ecosystems during the 2019 Lok Sabha election. This introductory essay reviews important research in the field of political communication and campaigning, and distinctive forms of campaigning in historically important Indian elections, before discussing innovations and technologies in political campaigning in India since the …
The Covid‐19–Social Identity–Digital Media Nexus in India
Drawing on social identity theory and research on digital media and polarization, this study uses a quasi‐experimental design with a random sample (n = 3304) to provide causal evidence on perceptions of who is to blame for the initial spread of COVID‐19 in India. According blame to three different social and political entities—Tablighi Jamaat (a Muslim group), the Modi government, and migrant workers (a heterogeneous group)—are the dependent vari…
Introduction
In keeping with the wise and ever-optimistic personality of our dear friend and mentor Doris A. Graber, also known as DAG to her family and inner circle, we are delighted to bring together in this
The Media, Journalism and Democracy
Media and democracy - key debates: fourth branch of fourth rate? - the press's failure to live up the founders' expectations, T. Patterson on evaluating news media performance, Jack M. McLeod a guard dog perspective on the role of the media, George A. Donohue, Phillip J. Tichenor and Clarice N. Olien the US media - supermarket or assembly line?, B.H. Bagdikian structural transformations of the public sphere, John Keane public service broadcasting…
Political Science
This entry provides an overview of how political science approaches the study of communication. Starting with the premise that for most people politics is a mediated experience, political science asks: mediated how, by whom, and with what consequences for individuals and for political systems?
Campaigns, Digital Media, and Mobilization in India
Early research in western contexts finds evidence of online participation leading to political engagement. We test this hypothesis in a nonwestern campaign context. We discuss India’s complex “hybrid media system,” political parties, leaders, and issues in the 2014 national election that saw more use of digital information channels by all parties, and more so by the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the young Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) than …
Ka Zeng and Joshua Eastin, Greening China
American Journalism and International Relations
The Sage Handbook of Political Communication
Introduction: The Expanding Field of Political Communication in the Era of Continuous Connectivity - Holli A. Semetko and Margaret Scammell PART ONE Entertainment Media and the Political Engagement of Citizens - Michael X. Delli Carpini Do Cosmopolitan Communications Threaten Traditional Moral Values? - Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart Political Communication in a Changing Media Environment - Fred Fletcher and Mary Lynn Young Blogging and the Fu…
Sage Handbook of Political Communication
Media Use and Political Engagement in Three New Democracies
Political communications literature has long been concerned with the question of whether media exposure results in symptoms of “malaise”—disaffection and withdrawal from politics—or, alternatively, whether it can mobilize people for political activity. Thus far, the results of research into this question have been inconclusive and at times contradictory in nature. However, nearly all such studies have been conducted in the context of the United S…
(In)direct Framing Effects
News framing can exert a strong influence on public opinion. Following a media content analysis, this article investigates the effects of news framing on support for membership of Turkey in the European Union. A first experimental study ( n = 304) showed a significant difference in the level of support for Turkish membership between respondents who were exposed to a positively valenced news frame and respondents who had received a negative frame.…
Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy
In the wake of the Cold War, democracy has gained the status of a mantra. Yet there is no consensus about how to conceptualize and measure regimes such that meaningful comparisons can be made through time and across countries. In this prescriptive article, we argue for a new approach to conceptualization and measurement. We first review some of the weaknesses among traditional approaches. We then lay out our approach, which may be characterized a…
Media Uses and Effects in New Democracies
To what extent are established democracies and new democracies moving closer together in terms of the impact of media messages in electoral campaigns? Drawing on a content analysis of main evening television news on flagship programs over two months during the Polish National Election Study’s two-wave panel study ( N = 1,200) spanning parliamentary and presidential elections in September and October 2005, the authors identify the impact of media …
International Television News
In contrast to the United States, Germany has a strong public service broadcasting system that reaches all parts of the country and is mandated to deliver news from around the world each day. We discuss the key characteristics of the German public service broadcasting system and compare the quantity of foreign affairs news in evening news programs on the flagship public service (ARD and ZDF) and private channels (RTL and SAT.1) from 2001 to 2007.…
Framing the Iraq War
Some of the key findings are reported from a cross-national comparative content analysis of the flagship main evening TV news programs in five countries, as well as of the flagship Arab-language TV news on the Al-Jazeera network, during March and April 2003, the "official" 3-4-week period of the war in Iraq, to investigate the similarities and differences in the framing of the war in TV news. Despite some differences among networks within countri…
Media and Public Diplomacy in Times of War and Crisis
Hard and Soft
Support for European integration is a function no longer only of `hard' economic and utilitarian predictors but also of `soft' predictors such as feelings of identity and attitudes towards immigrants. Focusing on the issue of the potential membership of Turkey in the European Union (EU), this study demonstrates that the importance of `soft' predictors outweighs the role of `hard' predictors in understanding public opinion about Turkish membership…
Reporting Germany's 2005 Bundestag Election Campaign
Research conducted in the United States and Canada shows that female candidates for political office are covered differently in the news than their male counterparts: Female candidates receive less coverage, their electoral prospects are more negatively assessed, and the focus of reporting is often on “soft” issues compared with coverage of male candidates. We examine reporting during the 2005 Bundestag election campaign to assess the degree to w…
Media Priming in a Multi-Party Context
The News Coverage of the 2004 European Parliamentary Election Campaign in 25 Countries
This article analyses the news coverage of the 2004 European parliamentary elections in all 25 member states of the European Union (EU). It provides a unique pan-European overview of the campaign coverage based on an analysis of three national newspapers and two television newscasts in the two weeks leading up to the elections. On average, the elections were more visible in the 10 new member states than in the 15 old EU member states. The politic…
Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy
In the wake of the Cold War, democracy has gained the status of a mantra. Yet there is no consensus about how to conceptualize and measure regimes such that meaningful comparisons can be made through time and across countries. In this prescriptive article, we argue for a new approach to conceptualization and measurement. We first review some of the weaknesses among traditional approaches. We then lay out our approach, which may be characterized a…
Framing Politics at the Launch of the Euro
This study of the main evening television news programs in four European countries focuses on the framing of news surrounding a major European event, the January 1, 1999, introduction of the common European currency, the euro. We investigated the visibility of political and economic news in general and of the launch of the euro in particular. We found variations across countries in the emphasis on political and economic news, with the proportion …
The Effects of News Frames on Readers' Thoughts and Recall
This study investigated whether and how journalistic news frames affect readers' thoughts about and recall of two issues. A sample of 187 participants was randomly assigned to one of four experimental framing conditions, which included (a) conflict, (b) human interest, (c) attribution of responsibility, and (d) economic consequences, as well as a control condition. Each participant was presented with two newspaper stories that dealt with two soci…
The News Coverage of the 2004 European Parliamentary Election Campaign in 25 Countries
This article analyses the news coverage of the 2004 European parliamentary elections in all 25 member states of the European Union (EU). It provides a unique pan-European overview of the campaign coverage based on an analysis of three national newspapers and two television newscasts in the two weeks leading up to the elections. On average, the elections were more visible in the 10 new member states than in the 15 old EU member states. The politic…
The Divided Electorate
Research examining media effects on political attitudes has put forth broadly conflicting explanations: media use diminishes knowledge and involvement and contributes to political cynicism and declining turnout; media use contributes to learning, political involvement, trust, efficacy, and mobilization. We address these explanations with detailed measures for the Netherlands in 1998. A dual effects hypothesis is supported: regularly watching tele…
News matters
This study investigates how the information environment in the Danish 2000 euro referendum campaign served to crystallize opinion on the issue within the context of a number of other hypothesized influences on the vote, based on previous studies of referendum voting. Our data include a nationally representative two‐wave panel survey and a content analysis of news coverage during the referendum campaign. We develop a weighted measure of exposure t…
Hard and Soft
Support for European integration is a function no longer only of `hard' economic and utilitarian predictors but also of `soft' predictors such as feelings of identity and attitudes towards immigrants. Focusing on the issue of the potential membership of Turkey in the European Union (EU), this study demonstrates that the importance of `soft' predictors outweighs the role of `hard' predictors in understanding public opinion about Turkish membership…
Political Balance on Television
This article compares news making on television during recent national election campaigns in the United States, Britain, and Germany and focuses on one of the most interesting problems confronting news professionals in modern democracies at election time: the concept of balance. The principle of balance conflicts with the principle of objectivity. Television news professionals are thus faced with a dilemma at election time: how to report the camp…
EU Politics on Television News
Previous research tells us little about the ways in which the European Union is portrayed on main evening television news. We therefore content analyzed 11,722 stories broadcast in main evening television news in five EU countries over an 11-month period in 2000. There was an invisible importance to EU news: although the share of the news devoted to EU affairs was low, when EU news did appear it tended to be more prominent than other political ne…
The Political Role of the Internet in Societies in Transition
Our research investigates the opportunities provided by the Internet for political parties to communicate to the electorate, and the extent to which party websites are used versus other information sources on the Web. We find that parties in Parliament, major parties and newly created parties are more prominent online than others, and, based on standard quality indicators, that parliamentary parties and new parties have better quality websites. T…
Europeanised politics – Europeanised media? European integration and political communication
2000). Europeanised politics – Europeanised media? European integration and political communication. West European Politics: Vol. 23, Europeanised Politics? European Integration and National Political Systems, pp. 121-141
Tv News and U.S. Public Opinion About Foreign Countries
This article assesses the potential for US news coverage of foreign affairs to influence US public opinion about foreign countries during the latter part of 1989 and early 1990, a time of dramatic changes in central Europe. The study draws on two sources of data: content analysis of US network news and wire service coverage of nine countries (West Germany, East Germany, the Soviet Union, Hungary, Poland, Great Britain, France, Japan, and Israel) …
The Influence of Political Events on Attitudes Towards the European Union
This two-wave panel study was designed to investigate the effects of the media coverage leading up to and including an important European Union event (a summit meeting of EU leaders) on citizens’ attitudes towards the EU and European integration. A random sample of 817 citizens in the Netherlands was surveyed one month before the Amsterdam Summit in June 1997 and three days after it had ended. Two types of attitudes towards Europe were distinguis…
The Impact of Attentiveness on Political Efficacy
This study established the longitudinal relationships between attentiveness to political news and an individual's sense of internal political efficacy. Respondents were surveyed at one-year intervals in 1992, 1993, and 1994, resulting in N = 1,268 in West Germany and N = 1,001 in East Germany. Structural equation modeling (EQS) was used to investigate the longitudinal relationship between attentiveness and internal political efficacy. Our results…
News and Elections
This article looks at how political reporting has changed over time in the Bild, Germany's most widely read newspaper. The authors content analyzed the political coverage during the seven weeks prior to the federal elections in 1990, 1994, 1998, and 2002. They found increasing emphasis on the campaign in the news from one election to the next, which can be explained by the fact that the elections themselves became more competitive and thus had mo…
Television Coverage of the 1999 European Parliamentary Elections
European parliamentary elections are the defining event for political participation in the European Union (EU). Little, however, is known about how recent European parliamentary election campaigns are covered in television news, the most important source of information for most Europeans. We analyzed the main evening television news in 14 EU countries over the last 2 weeks before the 1999 European parliamentary elections (5,477 stories in total).…
Reporting Germany's 2005 Bundestag Election Campaign
Research conducted in the United States and Canada shows that female candidates for political office are covered differently in the news than their male counterparts: Female candidates receive less coverage, their electoral prospects are more negatively assessed, and the focus of reporting is often on “soft” issues compared with coverage of male candidates. We examine reporting during the 2005 Bundestag election campaign to assess the degree to w…
Campaigns, Digital Media, and Mobilization in India
Early research in western contexts finds evidence of online participation leading to political engagement. We test this hypothesis in a nonwestern campaign context. We discuss India’s complex “hybrid media system,” political parties, leaders, and issues in the 2014 national election that saw more use of digital information channels by all parties, and more so by the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the young Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) than …
Agenda-Senders versus Agenda-Setters
The Media, Journalism and Democracy
Media and democracy - key debates: fourth branch of fourth rate? - the press's failure to live up the founders' expectations, T. Patterson on evaluating news media performance, Jack M. McLeod a guard dog perspective on the role of the media, George A. Donohue, Phillip J. Tichenor and Clarice N. Olien the US media - supermarket or assembly line?, B.H. Bagdikian structural transformations of the public sphere, John Keane public service broadcasting…
Framing the Iraq War
Some of the key findings are reported from a cross-national comparative content analysis of the flagship main evening TV news programs in five countries, as well as of the flagship Arab-language TV news on the Al-Jazeera network, during March and April 2003, the "official" 3-4-week period of the war in Iraq, to investigate the similarities and differences in the framing of the war in TV news. Despite some differences among networks within countri…
Research Note
This study investigates the effects of live and non-live reporting on recall and appreciation of political television news. A sample of 161 randomly selected adults participated in an experiment testing the effects of format difference (a live cross-talk between reporters vs a canned field report). Using an authentic experimental news bulletin produced in cooperation with the national Dutch public broadcaster, NOS, the findings did not support th…
The Covid‐19–Social Identity–Digital Media Nexus in India
Drawing on social identity theory and research on digital media and polarization, this study uses a quasi‐experimental design with a random sample (n = 3304) to provide causal evidence on perceptions of who is to blame for the initial spread of COVID‐19 in India. According blame to three different social and political entities—Tablighi Jamaat (a Muslim group), the Modi government, and migrant workers (a heterogeneous group)—are the dependent vari…
Media Use and Political Engagement in Three New Democracies
Political communications literature has long been concerned with the question of whether media exposure results in symptoms of “malaise”—disaffection and withdrawal from politics—or, alternatively, whether it can mobilize people for political activity. Thus far, the results of research into this question have been inconclusive and at times contradictory in nature. However, nearly all such studies have been conducted in the context of the United S…
International Television News
In contrast to the United States, Germany has a strong public service broadcasting system that reaches all parts of the country and is mandated to deliver news from around the world each day. We discuss the key characteristics of the German public service broadcasting system and compare the quantity of foreign affairs news in evening news programs on the flagship public service (ARD and ZDF) and private channels (RTL and SAT.1) from 2001 to 2007.…
A Study Guide to the Social Democratic Party (SDP)
Mass Media and Legislative Campaigns in a Unitary Parliamentary Democracy
In the British parliamentary system, legislative campaigns are short, intense affairs with a strongly national cast. The media system is highly centralized, and its content emphasizes national parties and leaders. Campaign expenditures at the constituency level are minimal, although central party expenditures are more substantial. Access to political broadcasting is based on centrally determined policies for allocating free time to national parti…
Television News and the `Third Force' in British Politics
Small or new political parties may be specially dependent upon media attention and a country's election communication arrangements may have an important impact on a new party's recognition-gaining chances. This article focuses on the response of Britain's broadcast media to the SDP-Liberal Alliance, drawing on a content analysis of television news coverage of the 1983 general election campaign. A number of variables are used to assess the coverag…
Parties, leaders, and issues
This article compares election campaign news on Britain's flagship main evening news programs in the 1983 and 1987 general election campaigns, to assess how election news changed in response to developments in Britain's political communication system. Content analysis shows that British election campaign news in 1987 remains heavily focused on the substantive issues, such as the economy and social welfare, while paying much less attention to the …
Tv News and U.S. Public Opinion About Foreign Countries
This article assesses the potential for US news coverage of foreign affairs to influence US public opinion about foreign countries during the latter part of 1989 and early 1990, a time of dramatic changes in central Europe. The study draws on two sources of data: content analysis of US network news and wire service coverage of nine countries (West Germany, East Germany, the Soviet Union, Hungary, Poland, Great Britain, France, Japan, and Israel) …
The Role of the Alternative Press in the Agenda‐building Process
Rainer Mathes and Barbara Pfetsch. (1991). “The Role of the Alternative Press in the Agenda‐building Process: Spill‐over Effects and Media Opinion Leadership.” European Journal of Communication, 6, 1, 33–63.
Guest editors' introduction
Political Balance on Television
This article compares news making on television during recent national election campaigns in the United States, Britain, and Germany and focuses on one of the most interesting problems confronting news professionals in modern democracies at election time: the concept of balance. The principle of balance conflicts with the principle of objectivity. Television news professionals are thus faced with a dilemma at election time: how to report the camp…
Agenda-Senders versus Agenda-Setters
Television
Journal Article Television Get access HOLLI A. SEMETKO, HOLLI A. SEMETKO Professor of Communications *University of Amsterdam Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MARGARET SCAMMELL, MARGARET SCAMMELL Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies †Liverpool University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar PETER GODDARD PETER GODDARD Research Assistant in Communication Studies ‡Liver…
Media and Politics in the Netherlands, Introduction
Introduction
The Impact of Attentiveness on Political Efficacy
This study established the longitudinal relationships between attentiveness to political news and an individual's sense of internal political efficacy. Respondents were surveyed at one-year intervals in 1992, 1993, and 1994, resulting in N = 1,268 in West Germany and N = 1,001 in East Germany. Structural equation modeling (EQS) was used to investigate the longitudinal relationship between attentiveness and internal political efficacy. Our results…
On Message
Drawing together contemporary research on elections and political communication, this text aims to explore the role of the news media in British voting behaviour
The Effects of News Frames on Readers' Thoughts and Recall
This study investigated whether and how journalistic news frames affect readers' thoughts about and recall of two issues. A sample of 187 participants was randomly assigned to one of four experimental framing conditions, which included (a) conflict, (b) human interest, (c) attribution of responsibility, and (d) economic consequences, as well as a control condition. Each participant was presented with two newspaper stories that dealt with two soci…
Parties, leaders and issues in the news
Framing European politics
We investigated the prevalence of 5 news frames identified in earlier studies on framing and framing effects: attribution of responsibility, conflict, human interest, economic consequences, and morality. We content analyzed 2,601 newspaper stories and 1,522 television news stories in the period surrounding the Amsterdam meetings of European heads of state in 1997. Our results showed that, overall, the attribution of responsibility frame was most …
Framing European politics
We investigated the prevalence of 5 news frames identified in earlier studies on framing and framing effects: attribution of responsibility, conflict, human interest, economic consequences, and morality. We content analyzed 2,601 newspaper stories and 1,522 television news stories in the period surrounding the Amsterdam meetings of European heads of state in 1997. Our results showed that, overall, the attribution of responsibility frame was most …
Europeanised politics – Europeanised media? European integration and political communication
2000). Europeanised politics – Europeanised media? European integration and political communication. West European Politics: Vol. 23, Europeanised Politics? European Integration and National Political Systems, pp. 121-141
Framing Politics at the Launch of the Euro
This study of the main evening television news programs in four European countries focuses on the framing of news surrounding a major European event, the January 1, 1999, introduction of the common European currency, the euro. We investigated the visibility of political and economic news in general and of the launch of the euro in particular. We found variations across countries in the emphasis on political and economic news, with the proportion …
Cynical and Engaged
This study investigates the effects of exposure to strategic news coverage on political cynicism and campaign evaluations using a nationally representative two-wave panel study and a content analysis of the national news media coverage of the 2000 Danish referendum campaign on the introduction of the euro. The study shows (a) voters were generally cynical about the referendum campaign, (b) the level of political cynicism and negativity about the …
Research Note
This study investigates the effects of live and non-live reporting on recall and appreciation of political television news. A sample of 161 randomly selected adults participated in an experiment testing the effects of format difference (a live cross-talk between reporters vs a canned field report). Using an authentic experimental news bulletin produced in cooperation with the national Dutch public broadcaster, NOS, the findings did not support th…
The Influence of Political Events on Attitudes Towards the European Union
This two-wave panel study was designed to investigate the effects of the media coverage leading up to and including an important European Union event (a summit meeting of EU leaders) on citizens’ attitudes towards the EU and European integration. A random sample of 817 citizens in the Netherlands was surveyed one month before the Amsterdam Summit in June 1997 and three days after it had ended. Two types of attitudes towards Europe were distinguis…
News and Elections
This article looks at how political reporting has changed over time in the Bild, Germany's most widely read newspaper. The authors content analyzed the political coverage during the seven weeks prior to the federal elections in 1990, 1994, 1998, and 2002. They found increasing emphasis on the campaign in the news from one election to the next, which can be explained by the fact that the elections themselves became more competitive and thus had mo…
The Divided Electorate
Research examining media effects on political attitudes has put forth broadly conflicting explanations: media use diminishes knowledge and involvement and contributes to political cynicism and declining turnout; media use contributes to learning, political involvement, trust, efficacy, and mobilization. We address these explanations with detailed measures for the Netherlands in 1998. A dual effects hypothesis is supported: regularly watching tele…
Political science (49 obras) · Politics (42 obras) · Law (39 obras) · Law (37 obras) · Media Studies and Communication (35 obras) · Sociology (34 obras) · Social Media and Politics (30 obras) · Media studies (20 obras) · Political economy (16 obras) · Psychology (16 obras)