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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

March 6, 2025

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

Social Media Engagement and Quit Intentions Among Youth With Exclusive E-cigarette…

Youth who engaged w/ e-cig related posts on social media were more likely to express an intention to quit –…

Social Media Tobacco Youth

February 6, 2025

Posted in error: Did the CDC’s retraction of aerosol guidance undercut…

How can a health organization save its reputation and retain public trust when they have to backpedal on health guidance…

Health Communication Social Media

January 29, 2025

Monitoring Hate Speech in Indonesia: An NLP-based Classification of Social Media…

Online hate speech propagation is a complex issue, deeply influenced by both the perpetrator and the target’s cultural, historical, and…

Global Communication Hate Speech Social Media

December 17, 2024

“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

Effects of Message Frames and Sources in TikTok Videos for Youth…

There is a lot of news about the negative impact of TikTok, especially on kids. But is there a way…

Health Communication Social Media Youth

November 20, 2024

Concurrent Mentions of Vaping and Alcohol on Twitter: Latent Dirichlet Allocation…

Co-use of alcohol and e-cigarettes (often called vaping) has been linked with long-term health outcomes, including increased risk for substance…

Health Communication Social Media

Predicting Health Misperceptions: The Role of eHealth Literacy and Situational Perceptions

This study sought to understand how health misperceptions develop among individuals after exposure to misinformation messages, and how eHealth literacy…

Health Communication Misinformation

October 28, 2024

Quitting on TikTok: Effects of Message Themes, Frames, and Sources on…

This research explicates the message elements of TikTok videos that can help people quit vaping. In this study we paired…

Health Communication Social Media

October 1, 2024

Romantic relationship initiation and escalation through mobile dating apps: Affordances, modality…

Like online dating sites, mobile dating applications are popular technologies for navigating the dating market, whether for seeking romantic relationships…

Human-Computer Interaction Social Media

July 23, 2024

Health Messaging Strategies for Vaping Prevention and Cessation Among Youth and…

In this systematic review, we synthesize the last 17 years of research on health messaging strategies used to prevent kids…

Health Communication Tobacco Youth

May 14, 2024

Physiological response to political advertisement: Examining the influence of partisan and…

This study investigates voters’ physiological response to real political advertisements that are issue focused and sponsored by three different political…

Advertising Political Communication

April 17, 2024