{"title":"Real-World Developments Predict Immigration News in Right-Wing Media: Evidence from Germany","authors":"Christian S. Czymara","doi":"10.1080/15205436.2023.2240307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2023.2240307","url":null,"abstract":"Exclusionist positions on immigration have become a key component of right-wing ideology in most countries around the world. Combining group threat and news values theory, this study sheds light on the emergence of right-wing discourses on immigration based on one of Germany’s most influential right-wing print outlets. I employ supervised and unsupervised machine-learning methods on almost 54,000 articles published between 1998 and 2019 to test whether real-world conditions shape immigration news. Results show that reporting on immigration generally increased over time and peaked during the refugee inflow in 2015/16. Immigration numbers, foreigner crime rates, and Jihadist terror attacks predict the salience of the immigration issue in the overall news as well as discursive shifts within immigration news. During times of high immigration, articles were more likely to address topics related to deportation and closing borders or the criminalization of immigration. Terrorism was more present in immigration news after attacks, especially after attacks in Germany. Foreigner crime did not significantly increase reporting on crime in immigration news. In short, right-wing immigration discourses seem responsive to real-world developments and events that enable exclusionary rhetoric and a threatening portrayal of immigrants.","PeriodicalId":47869,"journal":{"name":"Mass Communication and Society","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88507416","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":"Share to Stop the Harm: How Social Media Metrics Drive Sharing of Fact-Checking Messages via First-Person Perception","authors":"Myojung Chung","doi":"10.1080/15205436.2023.2240302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2023.2240302","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47869,"journal":{"name":"Mass Communication and Society","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80965094","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":"Sharing Behavior of Brand Crisis Information on Social Media: A Case Study of Chinese Weibo","authors":"Galung Reviewed by Triko","doi":"10.1080/15205436.2022.2101319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2022.2101319","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47869,"journal":{"name":"Mass Communication and Society","volume":"43 1","pages":"720 - 721"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80071070","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":"Minding Children’s Media Morals: Parents’ Moral Foundation Salience Differentially Relates to Attitudes and Motivations Toward Children’s Educational Media","authors":"Drew P. Cingel, Allyson L. Snyder, Samantha Vigil","doi":"10.1080/15205436.2023.2226645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2023.2226645","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47869,"journal":{"name":"Mass Communication and Society","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82347411","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 Appearance Social Comparison Benefits Women’s Body Satisfaction: Examining the Effects of Viewing Lean Sports","authors":"Y. Yang, Zizhuo Yin","doi":"10.1080/15205436.2023.2227620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2023.2227620","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While media representations of female athletes in lean sports often lead to negative body image perceptions in female audiences, media images depicting athletes playing sports may generate positive responses with respect to body image. Derived from the two lines of scholarship in sports media effects, this between-subjects, online experiment tests the effects of viewing images of female athletes playing lean sports (gymnastics, diving, artistic swimming, figure skating, and cheerleading). Results showed that female viewers (N = 625) engaged in greater appearance social comparison after viewing the images of female athletes playing lean sports (versus the control images), which in turn, was positively associated with their body satisfaction. Different levels of thinness and muscularity of female athletes in the media images did not significantly affect female viewers’ appearance social comparison or body satisfaction. Notably, post hoc analyses revealed several different findings across three age groups of women audiences (young adults, middle-aged adults, and older adults). Overall, this study sheds light on the positive impact of appearance social comparison after viewing lean sports. Furthermore, the findings indicate the importance of focusing on athlete performance in media practice in relation to lean sports.","PeriodicalId":47869,"journal":{"name":"Mass Communication and Society","volume":"10 1","pages":"1062 - 1083"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89649720","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":"The Handbook on Religion and Communication","authors":"Cylor Spaulding","doi":"10.1080/15205436.2023.2228676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2023.2228676","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47869,"journal":{"name":"Mass Communication and Society","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86410612","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":"A Direct and Indirect Effect of Third-Person Perception of COVID-19 Fake News on Support for Fake News Regulation on Social Media: Investigating the Role of Negative Emotions and Political Views","authors":"Mihee Kim","doi":"10.1080/15205436.2023.2227601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2023.2227601","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47869,"journal":{"name":"Mass Communication and Society","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79904262","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":"Politics of Disinformation: The Influence of Fake News on the Public Sphere","authors":"Yongjin Wang","doi":"10.1080/15205436.2023.2217081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2023.2217081","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47869,"journal":{"name":"Mass Communication and Society","volume":"76 1","pages":"1090 - 1091"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83852488","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}
N. Liebers, Achim Vogel, Priska Breves, Holger Schramm
{"title":"The Impact of Familiarity with a Communicator on the Persuasive Effectiveness of Pandemic-Related Fear Appeals Explained Through Parasocial Relationships","authors":"N. Liebers, Achim Vogel, Priska Breves, Holger Schramm","doi":"10.1080/15205436.2023.2216688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2023.2216688","url":null,"abstract":"Parasocial relationships can improve the effectiveness of persuasive messages such as advertising. However, little is known about the role of parasocial relationships in the processing of fear appeals—a communication strategy that, despite its popularity, often evokes unwanted responses such as reactance. Perceived self-efficacy is one key variable that determines whether a fear appeal improves attitudes/behavior or has unwanted boomerang effects. In a two-level between-subjects experiment (N = 91), we show that a COVID-19-related fear appeal promoting anti-coronavirus measures from a familiar communicator (compared to an unfamiliar communicator) evokes more perceived self-efficacy explained by media users' parasocial relationship with the familiar communicator. A second two-level between-subjects experiment (N = 239) replicates these findings and shows that perceived self-efficacy inhibits reactance responses (message derogation and perceived threat to freedom) and fosters positive attitudes and behavioral intentions toward anti-coronavirus measures. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Mass Communication & Society is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)","PeriodicalId":47869,"journal":{"name":"Mass Communication and Society","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81181300","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":"COVID-19 in International Media: Global Pandemic Perspectives","authors":"Raluca Cozma","doi":"10.1080/15205436.2023.2206767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2023.2206767","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47869,"journal":{"name":"Mass Communication and Society","volume":"99 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86724934","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}