Research

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Topic modeling of video and image data: a visual semantic unsupervised…

Understanding visual narratives is essential for analyzing media representation. This paper introduces VisTopics, a computational framework for analyzing large-scale visual…
AI
August 21, 2025

A Multi-Labeled Dataset for Indonesian Discourse: Examining Toxicity, Polarization, and Demographics…

Online discourse is increasingly trapped in a vicious cycle where polarizing language fuels toxicity and vice versa. Identity, one of…
LLMs polarization toxicity
July 20, 2025

Pictures from the primaries: Black presidential hopefuls and representation differences across…

This study explored bimodal news coverage of Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, the two leading Black candidates during the Democratic…
Agenda Setting Political Communication
May 9, 2025

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

Bury Him by Radio: Early Funeral Broadcasts and the Mourning of…

Early radio publications located radio funerals (or radio-assisted funerals) somewhere between vulgar displays and quirky, if touching, tributes. By the…
Death Studies Radio Studies
March 1, 2025

Effects of Authenticity in Organizational Advocacy for Polarizing Issues

This study focuses on the impact of authenticity in organizational advocacy for polarizing sociopolitical issues. The study examined how individuals’…
Prosocial Communication
January 22, 2025

Perceived Authenticity in Corporate Social Advocacy: Conceptualization and Measurement Scale Development

This study defines what authenticity means when companies engage in social advocacy for important current issues and creates a way…
Corporate Social Advocacy Prosocial Communication
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