Discipline: Media Science

115 Items

Empathy With Muslim Victims of Discrimination: Can Personalization and Emotionalization in…

Hate crimes against Muslims in the United States have been on the rise since 2016 (FBI, 2022), discouraging this group’s…
Empathy
March 6, 2025

Mitigating Information Insecurity: An African Perspective on Satisfaction With Democracy

While Africans are committed to democracy, governments across the continent have failed to deliver on the democratic aspirations of the…
Misinformation

Multinational and Multimodal Character Framing of Political Candidates in Online News:…

An emerging body of research generally referred to as visual politics have brought the heavy research focus on linguistic modalities…
Political Communication

The Future of Energy? Building resilience to ExxonMobil’s disinformation through disclosures…

Disinformation campaigns can significantly impact beliefs about climate change. This study involved an online experiment with 1045 U.S. participants, exposing…
Climate Misinformation Sponsored Content
March 4, 2025

“There Was Blood Coming Out of Her Eyes . . .”:…

This study tracks the affective agendas in the media’s portrayals of the nonverbal behavior of the 2016 presidential candidates, and…
Political Communication
December 4, 2024

The Emotional Power of Partisan Media: A Computer Vision Analysis of…

Building on theories of emotional contagion and affective priming, the study assesses the emotional impact of the U.S. partisan media’s…
Political Communication

Enjoyment and Appreciation of Political Advertisements: How Voters’ Issue Involvement and…

This study investigates how voters derive pleasure and meaning from political advertisements by conducting a 3 (sponsorship) × 2 (issue)…
Political Communication
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