Pub Date : 2022-11-16DOI: 10.1080/08838151.2022.2146692
Chingching Chang
ABSTRACT This article seeks to explain the mood repair process that sad viewers undergo and the mood enhancement process that happy viewers adopt when they watch drama series with varying levels of likability and familiarity. Building on the idea that drama enjoyment can regulate moods, the authors test three possible processes: transportation path (involving transportation and enjoyment), meaning path (involving transportation, moved feelings, thought reflections, and enjoyment), and parasocial support path (involving transportation, parasocial interactions, identification with drama characters, and enjoyment). The findings identify likability as crucial and also show that the processes vary for happy versus sad viewers.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-10DOI: 10.1080/08838151.2022.2140806
Justin Grandinetti, Jeffrey Bruinsma
ABSTRACT The initial optimism about the embedded and everyday integration of social media has, over time, given way to pessimism via the acknowledgment of these platforms’ role in the spread of mis(dis)information and the erosion of democratic ideals. Inspired by emergent accounts of how users encounter, experience, and make sense of algorithms in their everyday lives, we offer an ethnographic investigation into Conspiracy TikTok, tracing the affective flows of mis(dis)information on the platform. Specifically, we highlight our observations on reverse engineering TikTok’s algorithm, the affective pull of conspiracy content, and the critical element of algorithmic personalization.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-20DOI: 10.1080/08838151.2022.2138888
Ethan Morrow
ABSTRACT Prior content analyses have shown privacy news to be primarily negatively valenced. However, the effects of such news have gone unexplored. Using priming theory, this analysis examines the role of privacy news on trust in data institutions, privacy attitudes, and privacy literacy. Findings show that privacy news consumption is positively associated with privacy concern and literacy, which were negatively associated with trust in data institutions, fully mediating the effect of privacy news consumption on trust. These conclusions suggest a benefit of integrating privacy news consumption into relevant theories and models and have societal implications for consumption of privacy news.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-20DOI: 10.1080/08838151.2022.2138390
Holger Schramm, N. Liebers, Priska Breves
ABSTRACT Television programs with an emphasis on regional and familiar aspects related to individuals’ cultural social identity can evoke Heimat associations and convey a sense of Heimat. Following a preliminary study (N = 100) to develop an instrument to measure the sense of Heimat, a first experiment (N = 169) found significant effects of Heimat associations in a television program on television viewers’ Heimat-related social identity and, in turn, their sense of Heimat and eudaimonic entertainment experience. A second experiment in another region with a different sample (N = 147) replicated these findings.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-20DOI: 10.1080/08838151.2022.2141242
Ashley M. Peterson, Andrew C. High, Raven Maragh-Lloyd, Ryan Stoldt, Brian Ekdale
ABSTRACT Drawing from the layer model of trust, this study examines what factors influence the perceived quality of search results. Participants (N = 256) conducted searches about current events and evaluated the quality of the results they received along with their trust in technology and attitudes toward the search topic. Consistent with the layer model of trust, people’s propensity to trust technology corresponded with greater perceptions of search quality, though the effect through people’s belief in Google’s search algorithm was stronger. Overall, increasingly specific assessments of layers of technology help explain why people evaluate search results to vary in quality.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-21DOI: 10.1080/08838151.2022.2120879
Lindsay S. Hahn, Melinda R. Aley, Alexandra Frank, C. Lawrence, Tahleen A. Lattimer
ABSTRACT Guided by the model of intuitive-motivation and exemplars, we content analyzed the population of N = 734 Walt Disney Studio film synopses to determine whether Disney’s heroes and villains were motivated by altruistic or egoistic values, and if these values were associated with films’ audience ratings, box-office performance, or the future production of similar value-laden films. Results revealed that heroes were most likely to be motivated by altruism, villains were most likely to be motivated by egoism, and films’ emphasis on altruism was associated with more positive audience ratings and greater box-office earnings. No clear relationship between motivations and future film production emerged. We discuss how the present results can inform future work investigating the relationship between audiences and Disney content.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-14DOI: 10.1080/08838151.2022.2121834
R. Richardson
ABSTRACT Research has shown that minority newscasters can increase media interest and trust among minority viewers, while also finding people of color are underrepresented as members of the media. This study collected race and gender data of 4,317 newscasters from 64 U.S. television markets, as well as their news directors and general managers. It examines relationships between diversity of on-air staffs and race and gender of management, market size, and location. The study found news teams are significantly more diverse at stations with minorities in leadership positions. It considers the implications of these findings using representation theory.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-08DOI: 10.1080/08838151.2022.2154095
Shuhua Zhou
One of the first initiatives when I took on the JoBEM editorship was to edit a special issue on syntheses, integrating knowledge based on extensive research on particular bodies of research. My observation is that journals, especially communication journals, rarely publish collections of syntheses. One of the reasons is that communication is still a young discipline, and many theories or topics of research have not yet accumulated a critical mass of findings to draw reasonable conclusions, as divergent perspectives and measures, and research focuses may exist. In addition, journals typically want special issues to be thematic, focusing on one area of research that may be controversial, emergent, and beckoning for attention. With syntheses, different authors may focus on different topics, and the editor faces a set of different choices. As a result, such a special issue may not have the coherence of a thematic special issue. Of course it is also very challenging to do syntheses. It is even more daunting to assemble a number of established scholars to engage in such exercises. However, as a journal, we do see each single issue covers a multitude of research projects, with various topical areas, and a variety of methodologies. Unlike a book, a journal issue is a amalgam of research papers with different insights and findings. So there is no inherent disadvantage to doing a special issue on syntheses. As researchers, our ultimate goal is to accumulate and contribute knowledge. When a body of literature has gained substance, it is time to look at commonalities and differences, and if possible, identify, negotiate and reconcile the differences. I am convinced that the benefits far outgain its drawbacks. To me, a synthesis should be a state-of-the-discipline literature review or essay that advances knowledge and understanding of communication systems, practices, processes, and impacts. The paper should provide a rigorous assessment of the status, critical issues and needed directions of a theory or a body of research; it should also offer new theory or insight; and expand the boundaries of the discipline. In all cases, the paper should be comprehensive and thoughtful in its synthesis and analyses, and situates a body of scholarship within a larger intellectual context. A synthesis is an intense intellectual exercise. I truly appreciate all the authors who contributed to this issue, as well as those who did not make it. JOURNAL OF BROADCASTING & ELECTRONIC MEDIA 2022, VOL. 66, NO. 4, 511–514 https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2022.2154095
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