Lillie D Williamson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 292199 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lillie D Williamson |
| PRENOMES | Lillie D |
| SOBRENOME | Williamson |
| ASSINATURA | WILLIAMSON L D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5735-1416 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Moral Framing in AI-Mediated Communication
Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is widely used in social media to offer personalized experiences and shape user engagement, but questions persist about AI’s potential. Due to the nascency of the technologies, little understanding exists about how these systems impact our societies. This study establishes an approach that integrates moral foundations theory and AI-mediated communication (AI-MC) using in-context learning to appeal to Black …
“Misinformation is Layered, Multifaceted … and Attached to Access and Power”
Misinformation has been at the forefront of concerns for health communication scholars. Scholarship on misinformation, however, has focused on defining misinformation for research purposes and examining misinformation among the general public or ideological and religious subsets of the population. Black Americans have historical and present-day lived experiences that uniquely shape their experiences with misinformation. We conducted a thematic an…
Re-examining interpersonal source credibility in collaboration with community
The perceived credibility of researchers has implications for how the public heeds scientific or public health recommendations and for whether individuals engage in research. As scholars have shifted attention to mass communication and computer-mediated communication, they have not continued to interrogate how communities conceptualize and evaluate interpersonal source credibility. We conducted a community-engaged, convergent mixed-methods study …
Dialogue on difference
The Consequence of the Cape
Background Black women face a disproportionate burden of health issues, including higher rates of aggressive breast cancer and chronic stress-related conditions. This study examines how sociocultural identity and stressors impact health outcomes among Black women. Methods Using a convergent mixed-methods design, we analyzed qualitative data from in-depth interviews with 50 Black women aged 18-49 and quantitative data from a similar subset of resp…
Uncertain and Anxiously Searching for Answers
While online sources of information, like support groups and wellness influencers, can be beneficial for those seeking additional information about their health conditions, these sources can also contain detrimental information. As misinformation and even conspiracies like QAnon proliferate in wellness discourse, particularly in online support groups and on the accounts of wellness influencers, it becomes increasingly important to understand what…
The Roles of Social Media Use and Medical Mistrust in Black Americans’ Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges to healthcare and public health messaging in the United States. One area of focus has been vaccination uptake among Black Americans, who have experienced COVID-19 deaths disproportionate to their share of the United States population, raising questions about the processes involved in vaccination perceptions and behaviors. Guided by the Risk Information Seeking and Processing model, this s…
Lived Experience, Shared Knowledge
This essay advocates for a transformative, community-centric approach to science communication, promoting inclusivity and recognizing the impact of lived experiences. We challenge the prevalent population-centric approach and underscore the importance of engaging persistently marginalized communities, notably Black Americans. Drawing from health communication literature, we unveil a comprehensive project aimed at understanding Black Americans’ ex…
‘There will be screen caps’
Digital technologies facilitate the existence of online spaces where understandings about race and racial inequality are co-created and contested as part of social networks and within the context of existing power relations and social identities. This project qualitatively explores US college students’ exposure to and experiences with content on social media that they consider to be related to race and racial discrimination. Based on analysis of …
Examining the relationships between trust in providers and information, mistrust, and Covid-19 vaccine concerns, necessity, and intentions
To facilitate maximum uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine, the roles of medical trust and mistrust of healthcare professionals must be examined. Previous work suggests that trust and mistrust may have differential impacts on vaccination intention via vaccine necessity and concerns. Multigroup structural equation modeling was utilized to test whether vaccine necessity and concerns mediated the associations between trust in providers and health informat…
Testing Vicarious Experiences as Antecedents of Medical Mistrust
In response to recent calls to examine medical mistrust antecedents, the present study investigated the influence of negative healthcare (personal, vicarious interpersonal, vicarious media) and racial discrimination (personal, vicarious interpersonal, vicarious media) experiences on medical mistrust, and whether these relationships were mediated by perceived racism and perceived financial corruption in healthcare. Multigroup structural equation m…
Beyond Personal Experiences
African Americans consistently report higher levels of medical mistrust than their White counterparts. As a result, medical mistrust is considered to be a contributor to racial health disparities. Despite calls to address medical mistrust, few studies have explicitly examined it as a phenomenon of interest; those that have, tended to focus on personal experiences while neglecting vicarious experiences. The current study a) explicitly tests the ef…
Racial discrimination, racism-specific support, and self-reported health among African American couples
Racial discrimination is a part of the lived experience for African Americans, and it is widely found to have damaging consequences to their mental and physical health; yet, we know less about how romantic partners influence the degree to which racial discrimination can impinge on health outcomes. Using a dyadic approach with heterosexual African American couples ( N = 487), the current study examined the compensatory and stress-buffering effects…
Can Social Media News Encourage Activism? The Impact of Discrimination News Frames on College Students' Activism Intentions
The marginalization of African Americans is a pervasive issue in American society. As African Americans are left on the fringes of economic, social, and political resources, social media news offers the potential for motivating action that combats the institutional policies contributing to societal disparities. Utilizing the lens of the Anger Activism Model (AAM), this experiment recruited undergraduate participants ( N = 198) and tested the effe…
Stress, Social Support, and Mental Health Among Young Adult Hispanics
National health goals include assessing and improving mental health in understudied US populations. We surveyed 274 individuals (18-35 years old) of Hispanic/Latino/Spanish origin residing in the United States. Participants reported poor general mental health compared with Healthy People goals. Stress was negatively associated and perceived supportive communication was positively associated with mental health. A 3-way interaction showed perceived…
Selective sharing on social media
Theoretical and empirical evidence suggests disparate racial impact frames may lead to selective sharing on social media and result in differential retransmission rates across racial groups. In this online study, we (1) examined reported exposure to and sharing of content about race on social media among Black, White, and “Other” race/ethnicity college students ( N = 150); (2) experimentally tested how exposure to news story previews with control…
A systematic review of medical mistrust measures
Racial discrimination, racism-specific support, and self-reported health among African American couples
Racial discrimination is a part of the lived experience for African Americans, and it is widely found to have damaging consequences to their mental and physical health; yet, we know less about how romantic partners influence the degree to which racial discrimination can impinge on health outcomes. Using a dyadic approach with heterosexual African American couples ( N = 487), the current study examined the compensatory and stress-buffering effects…
Beyond Personal Experiences
African Americans consistently report higher levels of medical mistrust than their White counterparts. As a result, medical mistrust is considered to be a contributor to racial health disparities. Despite calls to address medical mistrust, few studies have explicitly examined it as a phenomenon of interest; those that have, tended to focus on personal experiences while neglecting vicarious experiences. The current study a) explicitly tests the ef…
Can Social Media News Encourage Activism? The Impact of Discrimination News Frames on College Students' Activism Intentions
The marginalization of African Americans is a pervasive issue in American society. As African Americans are left on the fringes of economic, social, and political resources, social media news offers the potential for motivating action that combats the institutional policies contributing to societal disparities. Utilizing the lens of the Anger Activism Model (AAM), this experiment recruited undergraduate participants ( N = 198) and tested the effe…
Selective sharing on social media
Theoretical and empirical evidence suggests disparate racial impact frames may lead to selective sharing on social media and result in differential retransmission rates across racial groups. In this online study, we (1) examined reported exposure to and sharing of content about race on social media among Black, White, and “Other” race/ethnicity college students ( N = 150); (2) experimentally tested how exposure to news story previews with control…
A systematic review of medical mistrust measures
Stress, Social Support, and Mental Health Among Young Adult Hispanics
National health goals include assessing and improving mental health in understudied US populations. We surveyed 274 individuals (18-35 years old) of Hispanic/Latino/Spanish origin residing in the United States. Participants reported poor general mental health compared with Healthy People goals. Stress was negatively associated and perceived supportive communication was positively associated with mental health. A 3-way interaction showed perceived…
Selective sharing on social media
Theoretical and empirical evidence suggests disparate racial impact frames may lead to selective sharing on social media and result in differential retransmission rates across racial groups. In this online study, we (1) examined reported exposure to and sharing of content about race on social media among Black, White, and “Other” race/ethnicity college students ( N = 150); (2) experimentally tested how exposure to news story previews with control…
Racial discrimination, racism-specific support, and self-reported health among African American couples
Racial discrimination is a part of the lived experience for African Americans, and it is widely found to have damaging consequences to their mental and physical health; yet, we know less about how romantic partners influence the degree to which racial discrimination can impinge on health outcomes. Using a dyadic approach with heterosexual African American couples ( N = 487), the current study examined the compensatory and stress-buffering effects…
Can Social Media News Encourage Activism? The Impact of Discrimination News Frames on College Students' Activism Intentions
The marginalization of African Americans is a pervasive issue in American society. As African Americans are left on the fringes of economic, social, and political resources, social media news offers the potential for motivating action that combats the institutional policies contributing to societal disparities. Utilizing the lens of the Anger Activism Model (AAM), this experiment recruited undergraduate participants ( N = 198) and tested the effe…
Testing Vicarious Experiences as Antecedents of Medical Mistrust
In response to recent calls to examine medical mistrust antecedents, the present study investigated the influence of negative healthcare (personal, vicarious interpersonal, vicarious media) and racial discrimination (personal, vicarious interpersonal, vicarious media) experiences on medical mistrust, and whether these relationships were mediated by perceived racism and perceived financial corruption in healthcare. Multigroup structural equation m…
Beyond Personal Experiences
African Americans consistently report higher levels of medical mistrust than their White counterparts. As a result, medical mistrust is considered to be a contributor to racial health disparities. Despite calls to address medical mistrust, few studies have explicitly examined it as a phenomenon of interest; those that have, tended to focus on personal experiences while neglecting vicarious experiences. The current study a) explicitly tests the ef…
Examining the relationships between trust in providers and information, mistrust, and Covid-19 vaccine concerns, necessity, and intentions
To facilitate maximum uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine, the roles of medical trust and mistrust of healthcare professionals must be examined. Previous work suggests that trust and mistrust may have differential impacts on vaccination intention via vaccine necessity and concerns. Multigroup structural equation modeling was utilized to test whether vaccine necessity and concerns mediated the associations between trust in providers and health informat…
‘There will be screen caps’
Digital technologies facilitate the existence of online spaces where understandings about race and racial inequality are co-created and contested as part of social networks and within the context of existing power relations and social identities. This project qualitatively explores US college students’ exposure to and experiences with content on social media that they consider to be related to race and racial discrimination. Based on analysis of …
Uncertain and Anxiously Searching for Answers
While online sources of information, like support groups and wellness influencers, can be beneficial for those seeking additional information about their health conditions, these sources can also contain detrimental information. As misinformation and even conspiracies like QAnon proliferate in wellness discourse, particularly in online support groups and on the accounts of wellness influencers, it becomes increasingly important to understand what…
The Roles of Social Media Use and Medical Mistrust in Black Americans’ Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges to healthcare and public health messaging in the United States. One area of focus has been vaccination uptake among Black Americans, who have experienced COVID-19 deaths disproportionate to their share of the United States population, raising questions about the processes involved in vaccination perceptions and behaviors. Guided by the Risk Information Seeking and Processing model, this s…
Lived Experience, Shared Knowledge
This essay advocates for a transformative, community-centric approach to science communication, promoting inclusivity and recognizing the impact of lived experiences. We challenge the prevalent population-centric approach and underscore the importance of engaging persistently marginalized communities, notably Black Americans. Drawing from health communication literature, we unveil a comprehensive project aimed at understanding Black Americans’ ex…
Dialogue on difference
The Consequence of the Cape
Background Black women face a disproportionate burden of health issues, including higher rates of aggressive breast cancer and chronic stress-related conditions. This study examines how sociocultural identity and stressors impact health outcomes among Black women. Methods Using a convergent mixed-methods design, we analyzed qualitative data from in-depth interviews with 50 Black women aged 18-49 and quantitative data from a similar subset of resp…
Moral Framing in AI-Mediated Communication
Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is widely used in social media to offer personalized experiences and shape user engagement, but questions persist about AI’s potential. Due to the nascency of the technologies, little understanding exists about how these systems impact our societies. This study establishes an approach that integrates moral foundations theory and AI-mediated communication (AI-MC) using in-context learning to appeal to Black …
“Misinformation is Layered, Multifaceted … and Attached to Access and Power”
Misinformation has been at the forefront of concerns for health communication scholars. Scholarship on misinformation, however, has focused on defining misinformation for research purposes and examining misinformation among the general public or ideological and religious subsets of the population. Black Americans have historical and present-day lived experiences that uniquely shape their experiences with misinformation. We conducted a thematic an…
Re-examining interpersonal source credibility in collaboration with community
The perceived credibility of researchers has implications for how the public heeds scientific or public health recommendations and for whether individuals engage in research. As scholars have shifted attention to mass communication and computer-mediated communication, they have not continued to interrogate how communities conceptualize and evaluate interpersonal source credibility. We conducted a community-engaged, convergent mixed-methods study …
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