{"title":"News Media Use and Crime Perceptions: The Dual Role of Ideology.","authors":"Dennis Andersson","doi":"10.1080/15205436.2025.2471866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2025.2471866","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study employs a three-wave panel survey in Sweden to test the Differential Susceptibility to Media Effects Model (DSMM) regarding crime perceptions. It assesses DSMM using political ideology as a susceptibility variable, revealing ideology's role as a predictor of news media use and in shaping citizens' perceptions. This paper investigates how this process depends on socio-economic and socio-cultural dimensions. Results lend partial support for assumptions made by the DSMM, indicating that individuals rely on their ideological predispositions in news selection. This work highlights ideology's role in selective exposure and its role in evolving crime perceptions, emphasizing the importance of individualized modeling in understanding media effects in an expanding media landscape.</p>","PeriodicalId":47869,"journal":{"name":"Mass Communication and Society","volume":"28 3","pages":"511-529"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12011023/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144041100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multiple Identities as Buffer or Catalyst? An Investigation of Psycho-Behavioral Effects of Sports Fans’ Exposure to Abusive Social Media Content","authors":"Yangkun Huang, Jiayu Yang, Yuan Gao","doi":"10.1080/15205436.2024.2390618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2024.2390618","url":null,"abstract":"Sports, traditionally pregnant with aggression and violence, are now a breeding ground for online abuse, where toxicity and malicious campaigns on social media have even afflicted national sports r...","PeriodicalId":47869,"journal":{"name":"Mass Communication and Society","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142183148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sarah Geber, Benjamin Fretwurst, Daniel Vogler, Dario Siegen, Mark Eisenegger, Thomas Friemel
{"title":"Norm Setting in Times of Crisis: A Time-Series Analysis of the Dynamics Between Media Reporting and Perceived Norms in the Context of the COVID-19 Vaccination Roll-Out","authors":"Sarah Geber, Benjamin Fretwurst, Daniel Vogler, Dario Siegen, Mark Eisenegger, Thomas Friemel","doi":"10.1080/15205436.2024.2389833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2024.2389833","url":null,"abstract":"Social norms have great potential for mitigating crisis as people align their prevention behavior with the norms they perceive. However, there is insufficient knowledge of how normative perceptions...","PeriodicalId":47869,"journal":{"name":"Mass Communication and Society","volume":"125 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142183161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Life in Media. A Global Introduction to Media Studies","authors":"Reviewed by Carlos A. Scolari","doi":"10.1080/15205436.2024.2377043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2024.2377043","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Mass Communication and Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":47869,"journal":{"name":"Mass Communication and Society","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142183149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unequal Framing in Times of Hardship? How Newspapers from Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and Switzerland Portray Syrian and Ukrainian Refugees – Evidence from a Deductive and Inductive Automated Content Analysis","authors":"Lukas Benedikt Hoffmann, Michael Hameleers","doi":"10.1080/15205436.2024.2376598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2024.2376598","url":null,"abstract":"The mostly welcoming attitudes toward refugees from Ukraine stand in stark contrast to restrictive policies and often negative attitudes toward refugees from Syria in Europe. By emphasizing certain...","PeriodicalId":47869,"journal":{"name":"Mass Communication and Society","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141969322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sacha Altay, Benjamin A. Lyons, Ariana Modirrousta-Galian
{"title":"Exposure to Higher Rates of False News Erodes Media Trust and Fuels Overconfidence","authors":"Sacha Altay, Benjamin A. Lyons, Ariana Modirrousta-Galian","doi":"10.1080/15205436.2024.2382776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2024.2382776","url":null,"abstract":"In two online experiments (N = 2,735), we investigated whether forced exposure to high proportions of false news could have deleterious effects by sowing confusion and fueling distrust in news. In ...","PeriodicalId":47869,"journal":{"name":"Mass Communication and Society","volume":"2012 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141945068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"News Literacy and Critical Thinking in the Pacific: Evidence from Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands","authors":"Francis S. Dalisay, Masahiro Yamamoto","doi":"10.1080/15205436.2024.2380833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2024.2380833","url":null,"abstract":"This study analyzes data from surveys conducted in two Pacific Island communities—Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands—to assess relationships among news literacy, news literac...","PeriodicalId":47869,"journal":{"name":"Mass Communication and Society","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141945069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When the Right Riots: How Ideology, Protest Tolerance, Authoritarianism and News Consumption Affect Perceptions of the US Capitol Insurrection","authors":"Rachel R. Mourão, Danielle K. Brown","doi":"10.1080/15205436.2024.2384932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2024.2384932","url":null,"abstract":"After the 2020 presidential election, sustained efforts to overturn outcomes culminated in the invasion of the United States Capitol. While scholars have long investigated the impact of news on sup...","PeriodicalId":47869,"journal":{"name":"Mass Communication and Society","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141945028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Unholy Alliance? The Influence of Negative Emotions Elicited by Media Reports on the Persuasiveness of Populist Communication","authors":"Dominique S. Wirz, Werner Wirth","doi":"10.1080/15205436.2024.2349909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2024.2349909","url":null,"abstract":"Emotions play a crucial role in the success of populist actors and movements. The present study investigates whether populist actors can profit from emotions elicited by media content. We assume th...","PeriodicalId":47869,"journal":{"name":"Mass Communication and Society","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141774546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bartosz G. Żerebecki, Suzanna J. Opree, Joep Hofhuis, Susanne Janssen
{"title":"Beyond Perceived Similarity: Development and Validation of the Character Recognizability Scale (CRS)","authors":"Bartosz G. Żerebecki, Suzanna J. Opree, Joep Hofhuis, Susanne Janssen","doi":"10.1080/15205436.2024.2366224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2024.2366224","url":null,"abstract":"Current understandings of similarity with media characters often focus on visible attributes including gender and race, yet overlook deep-level characteristics such as personality, attitudes, and e...","PeriodicalId":47869,"journal":{"name":"Mass Communication and Society","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141774545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}