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An Agenda for Studying Credibility Perceptions of Visual Misinformation 视觉错误信息可信度认知研究议程
IF 7.5 1区 社会学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2023-02-28 DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2175398
Yilang Peng, Yingdan Lu, Cuihua Shen
ABSTRACT Today’s political misinformation has increasingly been created and consumed in visual formats, such as photographs, memes, and videos. Despite the ubiquity of visual media and the growing scholarly attention to misinformation, there is a relative dearth of research on visual misinformation. It remains unclear which specific visual formats (e.g., memes, visualizations) and features (e.g., color, human faces) contribute to visual misinformation's influence, either on their own or in combination with non-visual features and heuristics, and through what mechanisms. In response to these gaps, we identify a theoretical framework that explains the persuasive mechanisms and pathways of visual features in lending credibility (e.g., as arguments, heuristics, and attention determinants). We propose a list of relevant visual attributes to credibility perceptions and a research agenda that integrates methods including computational visual analysis, crowdsourced annotations, and experiments to advance our understanding of visual misinformation.
摘要今天的政治错误信息越来越多地以视觉形式产生和消费,如照片、表情包和视频。尽管视觉媒体无处不在,学术界也越来越关注错误信息,但对视觉错误信息的研究相对匮乏。目前尚不清楚哪些特定的视觉格式(如模因、可视化)和特征(如颜色、人脸)单独或与非视觉特征和启发式相结合,以及通过什么机制对视觉错误信息的影响做出了贡献。针对这些差距,我们确定了一个理论框架,解释视觉特征在借贷可信度中的说服机制和途径(例如,作为论据、启发法和注意力决定因素)。我们提出了一份可信度感知的相关视觉属性列表,并提出了一项研究议程,该议程整合了包括计算视觉分析、众包注释和实验在内的方法,以提高我们对视觉错误信息的理解。
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引用次数: 7
How Rally-Round-the-Flag Effects Shape Trust in the News Media: Evidence from Panel Waves before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis “团结一致”效应如何塑造新闻媒体的信任:来自2019冠状病毒病大流行危机之前和期间专家组浪潮的证据
IF 7.5 1区 社会学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2023-02-23 DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2168322
E. Knudsen, Åsta Dyrnes Nordø, M. H. Iversen
ABSTRACT In this study, we extend the literature on the rally ‘round the flag phenomenon, that is, that international crises tend to cause an increase in citizens’ approval of political institutions. We advance this literature and highlight its relevance for political communication research in three ways: 1) by theorizing and empirically testing two arguments for why rally effects should extend to trust in the news media on the institutional level, 2) by providing empirical evidence on how rally effects on trust in the media develop over time during an international crisis, and 3) by theorizing and testing the conditions under which rally effects on media trust are more likely to occur by studying heterogeneous effects. Through a panel design with a pre-crisis baseline of Norwegian citizens’ trust in news media, we find evidence to suggest that the compound effect of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis caused a long-lasting increase in trust in the news media in Norway, and that the degree of increase varied by citizens’ education and whether they belonged to a “high-risk” group. We also provide evidence to suggest that rally effects on news media trust are contingent on how important the news media is as a source of information about the crisis and the “trust nexus” between media trust and political trust. These insights extend our current understanding of how times of crisis affect trust in the news media.
在本研究中,我们扩展了有关“团结在旗帜周围”现象的文献,即国际危机倾向于导致公民对政治制度的认可增加。我们从三个方面推进这些文献,并强调其与政治传播研究的相关性:1)通过理论化和实证检验为什么集会效应应该在制度层面上扩展到对新闻媒体的信任的两个论点,2)通过提供经验证据来证明在国际危机期间,集会效应对媒体信任的影响是如何随着时间的推移而发展的,以及3)通过研究异质效应来理论化和检验集会效应对媒体信任更有可能发生的条件。通过危机前挪威公民对新闻媒体信任基线的面板设计,我们发现证据表明,COVID-19大流行危机的复合效应导致挪威对新闻媒体的信任持续增加,并且增加的程度因公民的教育程度和是否属于“高风险”群体而有所不同。我们还提供证据表明,集会对新闻媒体信任的影响取决于新闻媒体作为危机信息来源的重要性,以及媒体信任与政治信任之间的“信任关系”。这些见解扩展了我们目前对危机时刻如何影响新闻媒体信任的理解。
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引用次数: 3
What Drives Perceptions of Foreign News Coverage Credibility? A Cross-National Experiment Including Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine 是什么推动了人们对外国新闻报道可信度的认知?包括哈萨克斯坦,俄罗斯和乌克兰在内的跨国实验
IF 7.5 1区 社会学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2023-02-21 DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2172492
Kirill Bryanov, R. Kliegl, Olessia Koltsova, T. Lokot, Alexandre Miltsov, Sergei Pashakhin, A. Porshnev, Yadviga Sinyavskaya, Maksim Terpilovskii, Victoria Vziatysheva
ABSTRACT Research on news credibility and susceptibility to fake news has overwhelmingly focused on individual and message-level factors explaining why people view some news items as more credible than others. We argue that the consistency of the message’s content with the dominant mainstream narrative can have a powerful explanatory capacity as well, particularly in the domain of international news. We test this hypothesis experimentally using a sample of 8,559 social media users in three post-Soviet countries. Our analyses suggest that the consistency with the dominant narrative increases the perceived credibility of foreign affairs news independently of their veracity. We also demonstrate the moderating role of international conflict, government support, and news language in some national contexts but not others. Finally, we report how the effects of these factors on credibility vary according to whether the news items are real or fabricated and discuss the societal implications of our findings.
摘要关于新闻可信度和假新闻易感性的研究主要集中在个人和信息层面的因素上,这些因素解释了为什么人们认为某些新闻项目比其他新闻项目更可信。我们认为,信息内容与主流叙事的一致性也可以具有强大的解释能力,尤其是在国际新闻领域。我们使用三个后苏联国家的8559名社交媒体用户样本对这一假设进行了实验验证。我们的分析表明,与主流叙事的一致性提高了外交新闻的可信度,而与它们的真实性无关。我们还展示了国际冲突、政府支持和新闻语言在某些国家背景下的调节作用,但在其他国家则不然。最后,我们报告了这些因素对可信度的影响如何根据新闻项目是真实的还是捏造的而变化,并讨论了我们的研究结果的社会影响。
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引用次数: 1
The Real Problems with the Problem of News Deserts: Toward Rooting Place, Precision, and Positionality in Scholarship on Local News and Democracy 新闻荒漠问题的现实问题:地方新闻与民主学术研究的本源、精准与定位
IF 7.5 1区 社会学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2023-02-20 DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2175399
N. Usher
ABSTRACT While “news deserts” are rhetorically powerful, we argue the concept is deeply problematic due to its normative presumptions and its descriptive fuzziness. The concern over the loss of local journalism in the U.S. has become a moral panic. While US local journalism is in market failure, at least when conceptualized as a professional, commercial newspaper enterprise, current scholarship and public discourse about “news deserts” and the loss of local news has three major problems, all of which reinforce a false nostalgia for the role of local newspapers in communities and focus on saving local newspapers as they are rather than reimagining what local news could be. If scholars wish to fetishize the existence of a local news outlet in a community as essential to democratic life and civic connection, it might be helpful to think more critically about whether a local news outlet actually has content specific to that community. Similarly, declines are often unobservable in places that have already been limited in their local news provision because the starting point was already deeply problematic. The “news desert” deficit framing obscures historical news deserts, or areas that have long lacked access to professional, geographically specific news about their communities. We propose an approach that focuses on place-based specificity and argue that scholars may need to acknowledge that the availability of local news and information may play less of a role in overall political knowledge, social identity, and cultural cohesion in a hybridized, deeply polarized democracy.
虽然“新闻沙漠”在修辞上很强大,但我们认为,由于其规范性假设和描述的模糊性,这一概念存在严重问题。对美国地方新闻失去的担忧已经成为一种道德恐慌。虽然美国地方新闻处于市场失灵状态,至少当被定义为专业的商业报纸企业时,目前关于“新闻沙漠”和地方新闻的缺失的学术和公共话语有三个主要问题,所有这些都强化了对地方报纸在社区中的作用的错误怀念,并专注于拯救地方报纸,而不是重新想象地方新闻可以成为什么样子。如果学者们希望崇拜一个社区中地方新闻媒体的存在,认为它对民主生活和公民联系至关重要,那么更批判性地思考一个地方新闻媒体是否真的有针对该社区的内容,可能会有所帮助。同样,在当地新闻供应已经有限的地方,由于起点已经存在严重问题,往往无法观察到下降。“新闻沙漠”赤字框架掩盖了历史上的新闻沙漠,或长期缺乏获得有关其社区的专业、地理特定新闻的地区。我们提出了一种侧重于基于地点的特异性的方法,并认为学者可能需要承认,在一个混合的、深度两极化的民主国家中,当地新闻和信息的可获得性在整体政治知识、社会认同和文化凝聚力方面可能发挥的作用较小。
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引用次数: 13
Community Matters: Content Analysis of Children in Immigration Media Coverage, 1990-2020 社区事务:1990-2020年移民媒体报道中儿童的内容分析
IF 7.5 1区 社会学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2023-02-09 DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2172117
Guadalupe Madrigal
ABSTRACT What role do children play in media coverage of immigration, and what might this tell us about coverage of (and attitudes about) immigration more broadly? This study examines U.S. newspaper coverage of immigration from 1990 to 2020. Using multiple content analytic approaches, I find that newspaper coverage of immigration that includes mentions of children: (a) tends to be more positive in net sentiment, (b) tends not to focus on topics of politics and violence, and (c) tends to correlate with topics about family, education, religion, and community. Threat is found to be a regular feature of this news coverage; however, threat language does not vary systematically with the language of childhood or race. In all, these findings point to the salience of (positive) language about community in coverage about immigrant children. These findings are discussed as they relate to the impact of childhood representation in news coverage about immigration in the U.S., and how cueing community, such as family, when evaluating immigrants has the potential to produce more pro-immigrant attitudes amongst the American population.
摘要儿童在媒体对移民的报道中扮演着什么角色?这可以告诉我们更广泛的移民报道(以及对移民的态度)是什么?这项研究调查了1990年至2020年美国报纸对移民的报道。使用多种内容分析方法,我发现报纸对移民的报道包括对儿童的提及:(a)网络情绪往往更积极,(b)倾向于不关注政治和暴力话题,(c)倾向于与家庭、教育、宗教和社区话题相关。威胁被发现是这次新闻报道的一个经常性特点;然而,威胁语言并没有随着儿童或种族的语言而系统地变化。总之,这些发现表明,在移民儿童的报道中,关于社区的(积极)语言非常突出。讨论这些发现是因为它们涉及儿童在美国移民新闻报道中的代表性的影响,以及在评估移民时,提示社区(如家庭)如何有可能在美国人口中产生更支持移民的态度。
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引用次数: 0
Advancing Vital Research Agendas in Political Communication Research: A Forum on Visual Misinformation and the Problems of News Deserts 推进政治传播研究的重要研究议程:视觉错误信息与新闻沙漠问题论坛
IF 7.5 1区 社会学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2023-02-05 DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2175127
Michael W. Wagner
It is a pleasure to share two new exciting Forum articles that articulate clear research agendas concerning critical issues in political communication scholarship. Yingdan Lu, Yilang Peng, and Shen Cuihua’s “An Agenda for Studying Credibility Perceptions of Visual Misinformation” identifies two major limitations in contemporary scholarship studying political misinformation: 1) the comparative lack of scholarship that incorporates analyses of visual misinformation and 2) an incomplete understanding of how visual features and formats are associated with credibility judgments. Nikki Usher and Sanghoon KimLeffingwell’s “The Real Problems with the Problem of News Deserts: Toward Rooting Place, Precision, and Positionality in Scholarship on Local News and Democracy” critiques the concept of “news deserts,” arguing that the term oversimplifies our understanding of place, suffers from problems of inconsistent measurement, and over-valorizes the role of local newspapers in democracies.
很高兴与大家分享两篇令人兴奋的论坛新文章,这两篇文章阐述了关于政治传播学术中关键问题的明确研究议程。陆英丹,彭一朗,沈翠华的《视觉错误信息可信度认知研究议程》指出了当代学术界研究政治错误信息的两个主要局限性:1)相对缺乏对视觉错误信息的分析;2)对视觉特征和形式如何与可信度判断联系的理解不全。Nikki Usher和Sanghoon KimLeffingwell的《新闻沙漠问题的真正问题:在地方新闻和民主学术中扎根地点、准确性和位置》批评了“新闻沙漠”的概念,认为这个词过于简化了我们对地点的理解,存在测量不一致的问题,并高估了地方报纸在民主国家中的作用。
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引用次数: 0
Influencers as Empowering Agents? Following Political Influencers, Internal Political Efficacy and Participation among Youth 影响者作为授权代理人?追随政治影响者、内部政治效能与青年参与
IF 7.5 1区 社会学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2023-02-03 DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2166631
Darian Harff, D. Schmuck
ABSTRACT Influencers, characterized by their social-media-made fame, are known for endorsing brands, but are also producing political content, which has been shown to resonate with youth. However, research on how their political messages impact young people’s political involvement is still scarce. To address this lacuna, we conducted a two-wave panel study (N W2 = 496) among youth aged 16 to 25 years to investigate links between following political influencers, young people’s internal political efficacy, and political participation. We draw from the two-step flow of communication and opinion leadership literature to explain influencers’ impact on young people’s political behavior. Moreover, we advance the theoretical argument that influencers may not only relay political news, but also render it more comprehensible for youth. Influencers may thereby raise young people’s confidence in their political self-competence, and consequently affect their level of political participation. We find that followers’ internal political efficacy is predicted by following political influencers at moderate to high levels of perceived simplification of politics by influencers. However, there is no link between internal political efficacy and political participation, which may be explained by influencers’ direct and short-term mobilizing effect on young people. Overall, our findings have important theoretical implications for contemporary understandings of opinion leadership in mediated contexts.
摘要影响力人物以其在社交媒体上的名气而闻名,他们以代言品牌而闻名,但也在制作政治内容,这些内容已被证明能引起年轻人的共鸣。然而,关于他们的政治信息如何影响年轻人的政治参与的研究仍然很少。为了解决这一空白,我们在16至25岁的青年中进行了一项两波小组研究(N W2=496),以调查以下政治影响者、青年的内部政治效能和政治参与之间的联系。我们从传播和舆论领导力文献的两步流中得出结论,解释影响者对年轻人政治行为的影响。此外,我们提出了一个理论论点,即有影响力的人不仅可以传播政治新闻,还可以让年轻人更容易理解。因此,有影响力的人可能会提高年轻人对政治自我能力的信心,从而影响他们的政治参与水平。我们发现,追随者的内部政治效能是通过在影响者对政治的中度到高度简化程度上追随政治影响者来预测的。然而,内部政治效能和政治参与之间没有联系,这可以通过影响者对年轻人的直接和短期动员作用来解释。总的来说,我们的研究结果对当代理解中介背景下的意见领导力具有重要的理论意义。
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Correction 修正
IF 7.5 1区 社会学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2023-01-30 DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2172536
Published in Political Communication (Vol. 40, No. 2, 2023)
《政治传播》(第40卷第2期,2023年)
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Do Partisans Follow Their Leaders on Election Manipulation? 党派人士会跟随他们的领导人操纵选举吗?
IF 7.5 1区 社会学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2022-12-26 DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2022.2150728
Devin McCarthy
ABSTRACT Party elites frequently seek to change election rules for their benefit, but these changes do not always align with the democratic principles of the mass public. If party elites are able to influence what the public considers fair, the effectiveness of this public constraint would be limited. This paper tests three possible mechanisms by which this elite influence could function using survey experiments. First, elite cues favoring electoral manipulation could be effective without any appeal to principle. Second, elites could change the public’s perception of whether a given fairness principle applies to a given election rule. Third, elites could directly change which fairness principles people prioritize. I find no evidence that the public is willing to support elites’ explicit attempts at partisan manipulation or that elites are able to directly affect the democratic principles that citizens prioritize. However, elites are able to influence opinion on voting policy issues, regardless of whether the justifying principle they use applies to that policy.
政党精英经常为了自己的利益而改变选举规则,但这些改变并不总是符合大众的民主原则。如果政党精英能够影响公众对公平的看法,这种公共约束的有效性将受到限制。本文通过调查实验测试了精英影响发挥作用的三种可能机制。首先,精英们支持操纵选举的暗示可能在没有任何原则诉求的情况下有效。其次,精英们可以改变公众对特定公平原则是否适用于特定选举规则的看法。第三,精英可以直接改变人们优先考虑的公平原则。我没有发现任何证据表明公众愿意支持精英操纵党派的明确企图,也没有证据表明精英能够直接影响公民优先考虑的民主原则。然而,精英们能够影响投票政策问题上的意见,不管他们使用的辩护原则是否适用于该政策。
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引用次数: 1
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IF 7.5 1区 社会学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2022-12-22 DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2022.2155758
Regina G. Lawrence
Published in Political Communication (Vol. 40, No. 1, 2023)
发表于《政治传播》(第40卷第1期,2023年)
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