{"title":"Presidential Communication About Marginalized Groups: Applying a New Analytic Framework in the Context of the LGBT Community","authors":"Kevin Coe, Robert J. Bruce, Chelsea L. Ratcliff","doi":"10.1111/jcom.12335","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jcom.12335","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Scholars have long observed that presidential communication about a marginalized group can help shape that group's reality. Yet most analyses of such communication focus on a relatively small number of texts, making it difficult to identify important changes over time and analyze factors that might explain those changes. The present study proposes an analytic framework that specifies 4 measurable parameters of presidential communication about marginalized groups, as well as 4 explanatory factors. We use this framework to analyze the census of presidents' formal communications about the LGBT community. Results highlight presidents' limited communicative engagement with the LGBT community and the roles that political party, rhetorical context, public opinion, and sociocultural touchstones play in explaining presidential communication about this important group.</p>","PeriodicalId":48410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication","volume":"67 6","pages":"851-873"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2017-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/jcom.12335","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75223135","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}
Katherine R. Dale, Arthur A. Raney, Sophie H. Janicke, Meghan S. Sanders, Mary Beth Oliver
{"title":"YouTube for Good: A Content Analysis and Examination of Elicitors of Self-Transcendent Media","authors":"Katherine R. Dale, Arthur A. Raney, Sophie H. Janicke, Meghan S. Sanders, Mary Beth Oliver","doi":"10.1111/jcom.12333","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jcom.12333","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite the increased attention to eudaimonic media experiences, to date scholars have paid little attention to the specific portrayals responsible for those experiences. Study 1 of this project reports the first systematic content analysis of self-transcendent media—a particular type of eudaimonic media—using a sample of 100 “inspirational” YouTube videos. The presence of 20 specific elicitors associated with self-transcendent emotions was examined and reported. In Study 2, respondents provided real-time self-transcendent emotional reactions while viewing 3 “inspirational” videos. As expected, ratings significantly increased immediately following exposure to each specific elicitor. Thus, this project reports the first empirical evidence directly linking specific representations to content identified as “inspirational” and directly linking those representations to self-transcendent emotional reactions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication","volume":"67 6","pages":"897-919"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2017-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/jcom.12333","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76921157","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":"Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest","authors":"Molly Sauter","doi":"10.1111/jcom.12331","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jcom.12331","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication","volume":"67 6","pages":"E4-E6"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2017-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/jcom.12331","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83644366","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":"Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom","authors":"Kent Alan Ono","doi":"10.1111/jcom.12330","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jcom.12330","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication","volume":"67 5","pages":"E9-E11"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2017-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/jcom.12330","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89194476","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":"Wild Public Networks and Affective Movements in China: Environmental Activism, Social Media, and Protest in Maoming","authors":"Elizabeth Brunner","doi":"10.1111/jcom.12323","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jcom.12323","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the following essay, I offer and explain the concept of <i>wild public networks</i> as a tool for social movement scholars interested in taking a network approach to contemporary protests via poststructuralism. <i>Wild public networks</i> offer scholars a means of approaching social movements that moves past binaries to productively incorporate affect. In so doing, the concept of <i>wild public networks</i> advances an ontological shift for social movement scholars that also alters <i>what</i> we examine and <i>how. Wild public networks</i> consider how the movement of the social can be witnessed in changes to relationships between actants and the configurations of networks. To explicate this new concept, I turn to contemporary environmental protests in Maoming, China.</p>","PeriodicalId":48410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication","volume":"67 5","pages":"665-677"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2017-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/jcom.12323","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77189323","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":"Toward an Interaction-Centered Approach to Media Events: Mediated Public Intimacy on the Reality TV Show Big Brother","authors":"Danny Kaplan, Yoni Kupper","doi":"10.1111/jcom.12322","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jcom.12322","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Scholarship on media events has rarely considered how interpersonal interactions between participants mobilize collective feelings of solidarity. Drawing on a study of <i>Big Brother Israel</i>, we demonstrate how several structural-interactional features of the show encourage viewers to shift from a position of bystanders to one of confidants and companions of the contestants. We analyze this shift through the lens of mediated “public intimacy”—the staging of exclusive interactions in front of a third party. The emergent sense of collective complicity affects everyday interactions between viewers and public discourse on social media. We conclude that beyond the public staging of self, it is the staging and concretization of social relations in media events that serves to reaffirm the collective's solidarity.</p>","PeriodicalId":48410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication","volume":"67 5","pages":"758-780"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2017-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/jcom.12322","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74948872","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":"Still an Agenda Setter: Traditional News Media and Public Opinion During the Transition From Low to High Choice Media Environments","authors":"Monika Djerf-Pierre, Adam Shehata","doi":"10.1111/jcom.12327","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jcom.12327","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study analyzes whether the agenda-setting influence of traditional news media has become weaker over time—a key argument in the “new era of minimal effects” controversy. Based on media content and public opinion data collected in Sweden over a period of 23 years (1992–2014), we analyze both aggregate and individual-level agenda-setting effects on public opinion concerning 12 different political issues. Taken together, we find very little evidence that the traditional news media has become less influential as agenda setters. Rather, citizens appear as responsive to issue signals from the collective media agenda today as during the low-choice era. We discuss these findings in terms of cross-national differences in media systems and opportunity structures for selective exposure.</p>","PeriodicalId":48410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication","volume":"67 5","pages":"733-757"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2017-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/jcom.12327","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82779809","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}
Sebastián Valenzuela, Martina Piña, Josefina Ramírez
{"title":"Behavioral Effects of Framing on Social Media Users: How Conflict, Economic, Human Interest, and Morality Frames Drive News Sharing","authors":"Sebastián Valenzuela, Martina Piña, Josefina Ramírez","doi":"10.1111/jcom.12325","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jcom.12325","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We hypothesize that generic frames influence what news people share on Facebook and Twitter through three different routes: emotions, motivations, and psychological engagement. Using a mixed-methods design, a content analysis of a representative sample of articles published in six Chilean outlets was combined with in-depth interviews with digital journalists. After controlling for issue, newsworthiness, informational utility, valence, and other confounds, results show that—across platforms—a morality frame increases news sharing, whereas a conflict frame decreases it. Emphasizing economic consequences also decreases sharing, but only on Facebook. Surprisingly, the human interest angle has no noticeable effects. These results show that news frames can have behavioral consequences, and confirm the existence of a gap between preferred frames of journalists and users.</p>","PeriodicalId":48410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication","volume":"67 5","pages":"803-826"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2017-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/jcom.12325","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78128565","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}