When Science Journalism is Awesome
Measuring Audiences’ Experiences of awe from Reading Science Stories
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12909169 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Asheley R Landrum (0000-0002-3074-804X, Texas Tech University, corresponding author), Kristina Janét (0000-0002-4529-0430, Texas Tech University), Kelsi Opat (0000-0002-6385-5175, Missouri State University), Heather Akin (0000-0003-1215-6347, University of Nebraska–Lincoln) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1722-1738 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journalism Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-2786 • E-ISSN: 1751-2794 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17512786.2022.2116724 |
| OpenAlex | W4294376268 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
In collaboration with professional science journalists, we conducted a national online survey (N = 2,088) to explore facets of awe as potential response states to science journalism and how audiences’ dispositional science curiosity may influence these response states. Our science journalist collaborators identified several “awe-inducing” articles as well as a “business-as-usual” article to use in the survey, and we measured participants’ experiences of awe using the Awe Experience Scale (AWE-S). We replicated the factor structure of the AWE-S and found that participants’ generally experienced greater awe from reading the “awe-inducing” science articles compared to the “business-as-usual” one. Only partial support for the Differential Susceptibility to Media Effects model was found. Although we found that greater science curiosity predicted greater awe reactions to science journalism, science curiosity did not moderate the relationship between type of article read and experiences of awe. Together, these results demonstrate that audiences can experience awe from reading science journalism and the AWE-S is a good way to capture this emotion for media psychology research
Curiosity · Journalism · Media studies · Political science · Reading (process · Sociology · Digital Marketing and Social Media · Media Influence and Health · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology · Social Psychology
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The Turn to Affect and Emotion in Media Studies
The Differential Susceptibility to Media Effects Model
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Awe & Memories of Learning in Science and Art Museums
Evolving considerations and empirical approaches to construct validity in communication science
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Journalists as Knowledge Brokers
Science Curiosity and Political Information Processing
Approaching awe, a moral, spiritual, and aesthetic emotion
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |