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Harnessing Distrust: News, Credibility Heuristics, and War in an Authoritarian Regime 驾驭不信任：威权政权中的新闻、可信度启发式和战争

IF 7.5 1区社会学

Political Communication Pub Date : 2023-04-09 DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2196951

Maxim Alyukov

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Destabilizing Race in Political Communication: Social Movements as Sites of Political Imagination 政治传播中的不稳定种族:作为政治想象场所的社会运动

IF 7.5 1区社会学

Political Communication Pub Date : 2023-04-07 DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2198986

Rohan Grover, Rachel Kuo

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Don’t Make My Entertainment Political! Social Media Responses to Narratives of Racial Duty on Competitive Reality Television Series 别让我的娱乐政治化!社交媒体对竞争性真人秀节目中种族责任叙事的反应

IF 7.5 1区社会学

Political Communication Pub Date : 2023-03-30 DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2195365

M. B. Harbin

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引用次数: 2

Farewell to Big Data? Studying Misinformation in Mobile Messaging Applications 告别大数据?研究移动消息应用程序中的错误信息

IF 7.5 1区社会学

Political Communication Pub Date : 2023-03-28 DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2193563

Patrícia Rossini

引用次数: 4

#politicalcommunicationsowhite: Race and Politics in Nine Communication Journals, 1991-2021 #politicalcommunicationsowhite:种族与政治在九个传播期刊，1991-2021

IF 7.5 1区社会学

Political Communication Pub Date : 2023-03-23 DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2192187

Deen Freelon, Meredith L. Pruden, Daniel Malmer

引用次数: 1

Differential Racism in the News: Using Semi-Supervised Machine Learning to Distinguish Explicit and Implicit Stigmatization of Ethnic and Religious Groups in Journalistic Discourse 新闻中的种族歧视:使用半监督机器学习来区分新闻话语中对种族和宗教群体的显性和隐性侮辱

IF 7.5 1区社会学

Political Communication Pub Date : 2023-03-21 DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2193146

Philipp Müller, Chung-hong Chan, Katharina Ludwig, Rainer Freudenthaler, Hartmut Wessler

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Making their Mark? How protest sparks, surfs, and sustains media issue attention 留下印记?抗议活动如何激发、推动并维持媒体的关注

IF 7.5 1区社会学

Political Communication Pub Date : 2023-03-11 DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2188499

R. Wouters, J. Lefevere

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The Effects of Partisan Media in the Face of Global Pandemic: How News Shaped COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy 面对全球疫情，党派媒体的影响：新闻如何塑造新冠肺炎疫苗犹豫

IF 7.5 1区社会学

Political Communication Pub Date : 2023-03-08 DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2187496

Matthew P. Motta, Dominik A. Stecuła

引用次数: 4

“No Reason[.] [I]t /Should/ Happen here”: Analyzing Flynn’s Retroactive Doublespeak During a QAnon Event “没有理由”：分析弗林在QAnon事件中的反悔双关语

IF 7.5 1区社会学

Political Communication Pub Date : 2023-03-06 DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2185332

Josephine Lukito, Jacob Gursky, Jordan M. Foley, Yunkang Yang, Katie Joseff, Porsmita Borah

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Do Voting Advice Applications Affect Party Preferences? Evidence from Field Experiments in Five European Countries 投票建议应用程序会影响政党偏好吗？来自欧洲五个国家实地实验的证据

IF 7.5 1区社会学

Political Communication Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2181896

M. Germann, Fernando Mendez, Kostas Gemenis

引用次数: 1