Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles) ISSN (Print) 0360-3989 - ISSN (Online) 1468-2958 Published by Oxford University Press[425 journals]
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Pages: 238 - 250 Abstract: AbstractAmerican politicians have always harnessed the group nature of politics to build political power. Yet it is unclear whether explicit appeals to dominant group identities (e.g., white identity) can help political leaders win support from dominant group members (e.g., white Americans). Four experimental studies (N = 2,279; two pre-registered) used the identity ownership perspective (Kreiss et al., 2020) to examine how a fictional candidates’ support or opposition toward renting city space to dominant group members (e.g., white Music Association) affected white Americans’ evaluations of that candidate. Support for white groups was perceived as prototypical of Republicans, but expressing such support decreased candidates’ favorability. However, findings suggested: (a) decreases were smaller for white Republican (vs. Democrat) participants (Study 2) and (b) candidates faced similar negative evaluations if they communicated opposition to policies favoring white people (Studies 3–4). Results offered some support for candidate prototypicality as a mechanism for these effects. PubDate: Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/hcr/hqad002 Issue No:Vol. 49, No. 3 (2023)
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Pages: 260 - 271 Abstract: AbstractThis study examined how increased stress during the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to relational turbulence and undermined dyadic coping. Using longitudinal data, this study also explored how enacting communal coping mitigates stress and conditions of relational turbulence over time. A sample of 151 U.S. dyads (302 individuals) completed online surveys about their relationship once per week for four weeks during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Data were analyzed using multilevel modeling. Consistent with hypotheses, stress was positively associated with the relationship conditions that give rise to relational turbulence and heightened relational turbulence was negatively associated with communal coping. Longitudinal analyses revealed that communal coping enacted in one week was associated with decreased stress and improved relationship quality in subsequent weeks. The findings are discussed in terms of their practical implications and contributions to theory. PubDate: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/hcr/hqac033 Issue No:Vol. 49, No. 3 (2023)
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Pages: 272 - 284 Abstract: AbstractPrevious research has centered on nonprofit organizations’ (NPOs’) roles in developing relationships with the public and leading collective action. However, individuals may also create posts on NPOs’ social media pages to generate relationships with audiences other than the organization, and to self-mobilize connective action to reach their own goals. Based on content analysis of 576 actual posts and survey responses about them, this study suggests that posters with high organizational identification respond to the focal organizations, while those with high issue identification use the organizational context for their own purposes, disseminating information related to the focal issue to the general population or promoting the issue to their personal networks. This study extends discussions of ramifications of multiple identifications in the social media environment and captures the transformed relationships between organizations and individuals who create posts on NPOs’ social media pages and their new roles in connective action. PubDate: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/hcr/hqac034 Issue No:Vol. 49, No. 3 (2023)
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Pages: 285 - 295 Abstract: AbstractPrevious research mainly linked smartphone use while parenting to adverse consequences. However, smartphones also offer helpful resources for parents, especially in stressful situations. We suggested that negative norms against maternal smartphone use and associated feelings of guilt may inhibit effective smartphone use for coping with stress. In a 1-week experience sampling study with mothers of young children (N = 158), we found that more negative injunctive but not more negative descriptive norms around maternal smartphone use were related to increased situational guilt around smartphone use while parenting. Increased situational guilt was, in turn, associated with decreased perceived coping efficacy but not with less stress decrease. Situational guilt—aggregated on the individual level—related to reduced satisfaction with the mother role. Our results show that positive and negative smartphone use effects are intertwined and that feelings around media use can impact media effects. PubDate: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/hcr/hqad001 Issue No:Vol. 49, No. 3 (2023)
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Pages: 296 - 309 Abstract: AbstractWe proposed a dual typology of audiences for social media communication campaigns: the participating audience, who interacts with campaign planners, and the observing audience, who observes those interactions. Situated in a context of promoting seeking counseling for depression, our online experiment (N = 570) demonstrated that the similarity of the observing and participating audiences (high vs. low), the message features of campaign planners’ replies (high person-centeredness vs. low person-centeredness vs. no reply), and the observing audience’s predispositions (with vs. without depressive symptoms) jointly affected the observing audience’s attitude toward seeking counseling. For observers with depressive symptoms, seeing a campaigner addressing a negative comment that reflects a similar concern of their own mitigated the adverse impact of the comment on the observers’ attitude. Our findings introduce a theoretical lens for understanding a communication process unique to campaigns on social media and offer insights into how the process shapes campaigns’ intended responses. PubDate: Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/hcr/hqad003 Issue No:Vol. 49, No. 3 (2023)
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Pages: 310 - 320 Abstract: AbstractSexual behavior and religious practice are fundamental social dynamics of longstanding interest to communication scholars. Drawing insights from the Reinforcing Spirals Model (RSM) and Sexual Script Acquisition, Activation, Application Model (3AM), this study examined whether (a) religiosity operated primarily as a predictor of later pornography consumption, which in turn predicted heightened sexual permissiveness, or (b) earlier pornography consumption predicted lower religiosity, which in turn predicted increased sexual permissiveness. Analyses of four subsamples from nationally representative three-wave panel data yielded some evidence for both pathways, but support for the latter pathway was more robust. These findings underscore the potential influence of media on attitudes through changes in ostensibly more stable characteristics such as religiosity, in addition to the direct attitudinal effects typically theorized in communication research. They also suggest several areas where the explanatory and predictive power of the RSM and/or 3AM might be enhanced through increased clarity, nuance, and scope. PubDate: Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/hcr/hqad005 Issue No:Vol. 49, No. 3 (2023)
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Pages: 339 - 344 Abstract: AbstractRepeated exposure to similar messages may be counterproductive, yet the majority of the extant research tends to neglect this possibility. Addressing this issue, So et al. (2017) conceptualized and operationalized the message fatigue construct within the health message context. We replicate their study in a climate change message context and extend their work by proposing and validating a shortened message fatigue scale. The results of a preregistered study (N = 620) show that the conceptual structure and correlates of message fatigue are well replicated: Climate change message fatigue retains the original factor structure, and it is positively correlated with counterargument and negatively correlated with attention and message elaboration. Moreover, their relationships with message fatigue are shown to be moderated by political ideology in a theoretically expected manner. The shortened message fatigue scale also exhibits adequate psychometric properties, offering a less cumbersome alternative to the original scale. PubDate: Thu, 11 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/hcr/hqad021 Issue No:Vol. 49, No. 3 (2023)
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Pages: 227 - 237 Abstract: AbstractWhile research has intensively studied the effects of media coverage of Islamist terror on non-Muslims, our knowledge about how it affects Muslims themselves is still limited. Following Sikorski et al. (2017), we distinguish between undifferentiated and differentiated news on Islamist terror, i.e., news reports that explicitly establish or deny a link between Muslims or Islam and Islamist terror. In a 1 × 4 randomized experiment, we exposed N = 423 German Muslims to four different news conditions (terror differentiated, terror undifferentiated, criminal act, and a control group). Our results show that Muslims infer a negative picture of public opinion toward their group from news articles about Islamist terror, with stronger effects for undifferentiated depictions. Moreover, this notion leads to an increased perceived risk for the ingroup to fall victim to xenophobic violence. A strong German national identity attenuated the effects, whereas Muslim identity had no moderating effect. PubDate: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/hcr/hqac030 Issue No:Vol. 49, No. 3 (2022)
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Pages: 251 - 259 Abstract: AbstractPolitical incivility is pervasive and still on the rise. Although empirical studies have examined the effects of exposure to political incivility in different contexts, few have attempted to investigate the expression effects of incivility on its senders. This study proposes two mechanisms—cognitive dissonance and self-perception—to explain the expression effects of political incivility on anger, perceptions of incivility, and political participation. The study conducts a population-based online survey experiment (N = 413) in Hong Kong. Participants were either forced to express uncivil or civil disagreements or did so voluntarily. The results suggest that expressing uncivil disagreement increases anger and perceptions of incivility. However, no difference is found between the forced and self-selection conditions, indicating that self-perception is more applicable than cognitive dissonance. In addition, the study finds that expressing uncivil disagreement influences political participation via both anger and perceptions of incivility, though the effects run in opposite directions. PubDate: Fri, 30 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/hcr/hqac032 Issue No:Vol. 49, No. 3 (2022)
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Pages: 321 - 338 Abstract: AbstractIn a field experiment conducted during the 2012 general elections in the U.S., Nyhan and Reifler found that the threat of fact-checking deterred state legislators from making false or misleading statements. The current study presents a conceptual replication and extension of this influential study by utilizing a similar treatment that leverages a recent partnership between local media outlets and fact-checking organizations, assessing the effects of the treatment on the accuracy of legislators’ statements on Twitter around the first impeachment trial of Donald Trump. Results provide limited evidence of the effects of our treatment on the accuracy of legislators’ posts, even among legislators within media markets directly affected by this partnership. We conclude with a discussion of the theoretical and practical relevance of these results and avenues for future research. PubDate: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/hcr/hqac031 Issue No:Vol. 49, No. 3 (2022)
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