Journal of CommunicationPub Date : 2021-03-29eCollection Date: 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1093/joc/jqab012
Miriam Brinberg, Nilam Ram
{"title":"Do New Romantic Couples Use More Similar Language Over Time? Evidence from Intensive Longitudinal Text Messages.","authors":"Miriam Brinberg, Nilam Ram","doi":"10.1093/joc/jqab012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqab012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The digital text traces left by computer-mediated communication (CMC) provide a new opportunity to test theories of relational processes that were originally developed through observation of face-to-face interactions. Communication accommodation theory, for example, suggests that conversation partners' verbal (and non-verbal) behaviors become more similar as relationships develop. Using a corpus of 1+ million text messages that 41 college-age romantic couples sent to each other during their first year of dating, this study examines how linguistic alignment of new romantic couples' CMC changes during relationship formation. Results from nonlinear growth models indicate that three aspects of daily linguistic alignment (syntactic-language style matching, semantic-latent semantic analysis, overall-cosine similarity) all exhibit exponential growth to an asymptote as romantic relationships form. Beyond providing empirical support that communication accommodation theory also applies in romantic partners' CMC, this study demonstrates how relational processes can be examined using digital trace data.</p>","PeriodicalId":48410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2021-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8315721/pdf/jqab012.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39272377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elissa C Kranzler, Ralf Schmälzle, Rui Pei, Robert C Hornik, Emily B Falk
{"title":"Message-Elicited Brain Response Moderates the Relationship Between Opportunities for Exposure to Anti-Smoking Messages and Message Recall.","authors":"Elissa C Kranzler, Ralf Schmälzle, Rui Pei, Robert C Hornik, Emily B Falk","doi":"10.1093/joc/jqz035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqz035","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Campaign success is contingent on adequate exposure; however, exposure opportunities (e.g., ad reach/frequency) are imperfect predictors of message recall. We hypothesized that the exposure-recall relationship would be contingent on message processing. We tested moderation hypotheses using 3 data sets pertinent to \"The Real Cost\" anti-smoking campaign: past 30-day ad recall from a rolling national survey of adolescents aged 13-17 (</i>n <i>= 5,110); ad-specific target rating points (TRPs), measuring ad reach and frequency; and ad-elicited response in brain regions implicated in social processing and memory encoding, from a separate adolescent sample aged 14-17 (</i>n <i>= 40). Average ad-level brain activation in these regions moderates the relationship between national TRPs and large-scale recall (</i>p <i>< .001), such that the positive exposure-recall relationship is more strongly observed for ads that elicit high levels of social processing and memory encoding in the brain. Findings advance communication theory by demonstrating conditional exposure effects, contingent on social and memory processes in the brain.</i></p>","PeriodicalId":48410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/joc/jqz035","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37602800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jiaying Liu, Leeann Siegel, Laura A Gibson, Yoonsang Kim, Steven Binns, Sherry Emery, Robert C Hornik
{"title":"Toward an Aggregate, Implicit, and Dynamic Model of Norm Formation: Capturing Large-Scale Media Representations of Dynamic Descriptive Norms Through Automated and Crowdsourced Content Analysis.","authors":"Jiaying Liu, Leeann Siegel, Laura A Gibson, Yoonsang Kim, Steven Binns, Sherry Emery, Robert C Hornik","doi":"10.1093/joc/jqz033","DOIUrl":"10.1093/joc/jqz033","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Media content can shape people's descriptive norm perceptions by presenting either population-level prevalence information or descriptions of individuals' behaviors. Supervised machine learning and crowdsourcing can be combined to answer new, theoretical questions about the ways in which normative perceptions form and evolve through repeated, incidental exposure to normative mentions emanating from the media environment. Applying these methods, this study describes tobacco and e-cigarette norm prevalence and trends over 37 months through an examination of a census of 135,764 long-form media texts, 12,262 popular YouTube videos, and 75,322,911 tweets. Long-form texts mentioned tobacco population norms (4-5%) proportionately less often than e-cigarette population norms (20%). Individual use norms were common across sources, particularly YouTube (tobacco long-form: 34%; Twitter: 33%; YouTube: 88%; e-cigarette long form: 17%; Twitter: 16%; YouTube: 96%). The capacity to capture aggregated prevalence and temporal dynamics of normative media content permits asking population-level media effects questions that would otherwise be infeasible to address.</p>","PeriodicalId":48410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6954383/pdf/jqz033.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37559236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Angeline Sangalang, Yotam Ophir, Joseph N Cappella
{"title":"The Potential for Narrative Correctives to Combat Misinformation<sup>†</sup>.","authors":"Angeline Sangalang, Yotam Ophir, Joseph N Cappella","doi":"10.1093/joc/jqz014","DOIUrl":"10.1093/joc/jqz014","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Misinformation can influence personal and societal decisions in detrimental ways. Not only is misinformation challenging to correct, but even when individuals accept corrective information, misinformation can continue to influence attitudes: a phenomenon known as belief echoes, affective perseverance, or the continued influence effect. Two controlled experiments tested the efficacy of narrative-based correctives to reduce this affective residual in the context of misinformation about organic tobacco. Study 1 (<i>N</i> = 385) tested within-narrative corrective endings, embedded in four discrete emotions (happiness, anger, sadness, and fear). Study 2 (<i>N</i> = 586) tested the utility of a narrative with a negative, emotional corrective ending (fear and anger). Results provide some evidence that narrative correctives, with or without emotional endings, can be effective at reducing misinformed beliefs and intentions, but narratives consisting of emotional corrective endings are better at correcting attitudes than a simple corrective. Implications for misinformation scholarship and corrective message design are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/joc/jqz014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37336884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perceived Message Effectiveness Meets the Requirements of a Reliable, Valid, and Efficient Measure of Persuasiveness.","authors":"Joseph N Cappella","doi":"10.1093/joc/jqy044","DOIUrl":"10.1093/joc/jqy044","url":null,"abstract":"In every science, the measurement of core quantities requires valid tools: usually a set of procedures or operations. Measurement procedures may vary considerably for assessing the same core attribute. For example, the attribute of physical distance (or length) can be measured in many ways, including the familiar micrometer, ruler, and tape measure, but also the less familiar infrared Helium–Xenon laser interferometry, X-raying opaque materials, Gunter’s chain for surveying (circa 1620), radio navigation using transponders, and rangefinders (as deployed in World War II), among many other techniques. All these tools measure the distance between two points in space comparing the measured distance to some established standard to obtain length. Some procedures are very precise; some expensive; some cheap and easy; and some are designed for specific applications and are necessarily inappropriate for other applications. All of them need to meet core criteria that we might identify as reliability and validity. Using a ruler to measure very large or very small distances will show the ruler to be imprecise. Using laser-based optical techniques to carry out simple measurements of a person’s height will be very precise, but very expensive and resource intensive. The bottom line is obvious: we need measurement tools (i.e., procedures) that are reliable (consistent), valid (accurate), and efficient (precise enough) for the task at hand. Denying that a ruler is a good measure of distance because it cannot determine the diameter of the nucleus of uranium 238 is silly, because it is very useful in a wide variety of other tasks where its reliability, validity, and low resource consumption are clear. So it is with perceived message effectiveness (PME) and its close cousins, such as perceived argument strength (PAS).","PeriodicalId":48410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/joc/jqy044","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36719665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measurement and Design Heterogeneity in Perceived Message Effectiveness Studies: A Call for Research.","authors":"Seth M Noar, Joshua Barker, Marco Yzer","doi":"10.1093/joc/jqy047","DOIUrl":"10.1093/joc/jqy047","url":null,"abstract":"Ratings of perceived message effectiveness (PME) are commonly used during message testing and selection, operating under the assumption that messages scoring higher on PME are more likely to affect actual message effectiveness (AME)—for instance, intentions and behaviors. Such a practice has clear utility, particularly when selecting from a large pool of messages. Recently, O’Keefe (2018) argued against the validity of PME as a basis for message selection. He conducted a meta-analysis of mean ratings of PME and AME, testing how often two messages that differ on PME similarly differ on AME, as tested in separate samples. Comparing 151 message pairs derived from 35 studies, he found that use of PME would only result in choosing a more effective message 58% of the time, which is little better than chance. On that basis, O’Keefe concluded that “message designers might dispense with questions about expected or perceived persuasiveness (PME), and instead pretest messages for actual effectiveness” (p. 135). We do not believe that the meta-analysis supports this conclusion, given the measurement and design issues in the set of studies O’Keefe analyzed.","PeriodicalId":48410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/joc/jqy047","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36719664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychological, Relational, and Emotional Effects of Self-Disclosure After Conversations With a Chatbot.","authors":"Annabell Ho, Jeff Hancock, Adam S Miner","doi":"10.1093/joc/jqy026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqy026","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Disclosing personal information to another person has beneficial emotional, relational, and psychological outcomes. When disclosers believe they are interacting with a computer instead of another person, such as a chatbot that can simulate human-to-human conversation, outcomes may be undermined, enhanced, or equivalent. Our experiment examined downstream effects after emotional versus factual disclosures in conversations with a supposed chatbot or person. The effects of emotional disclosure were equivalent whether participants thought they were disclosing to a chatbot or to a person. This study advances current understanding of disclosure and whether its impact is altered by technology, providing support for media equivalency as a primary mechanism for the consequences of disclosing to a chatbot.</p>","PeriodicalId":48410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/joc/jqy026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36392204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Digital Difference: Media Technology and the Theory of Communication Effects","authors":"Stephen Coleman","doi":"10.1111/jcom.12342","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jcom.12342","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2017-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/jcom.12342","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80291126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"#Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media","authors":"Alvin Y. Zhou","doi":"10.1111/jcom.12344","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jcom.12344","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2017-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/jcom.12344","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84321908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Communicative Resurrection: Letters to the Dead in the Israeli Newspaper","authors":"Carolin Aronis","doi":"10.1111/jcom.12334","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jcom.12334","url":null,"abstract":"<p>By studying letters written to the dead published in the popular Israeli press between 1997 and 2014, this paper examines the practices that constitute communicative acts toward a deceased person using interpersonal and mass media, in order to embody the recipiency of the dead. Using an analytical framework that draws on media ecology, communication theory, and discourse analysis, the paper demonstrates how the epistolary and mass media rhetoric operate to reconstruct the performance of the dead as an addressee. By exploring this understudied phenomenon and revisiting core notions of communication in light of written technologies, distance, and death, the paper argues that this communicative constellation, as a whole, is a performative act that offers a “communicative resurrection” to the dead.</p>","PeriodicalId":48410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2017-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/jcom.12334","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73370061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}