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3 Jul 2025 • Journal Article • The International Journal of Press/Politics
Projecting Tomorrow's Challenges: Toward a Temporally Nuanced Framework for Studying Agenda Setting
AbstractTraditional agenda-setting research often focuses on the most urgent problems that dominate present public agendas. Challenging the prevalent conflation of importance with urgency in agenda-setting research, this article proposes a shift from a singular to a layered temporal conceptualization of public agendas. The suggested framework distinguishes between the immediate
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10 Dec 2024 • Preprint • MediArXiv Preprints
Journalists as Reluctant Political Prophets
AbstractThis article examines the journalistic production of mediated political projections, defined as media narratives about uncertain futures in the political arena, such as anticipated outcomes and implications of elections. Despite the significance of prospective coverage in political journalism and its impact on political decision-making, there is limited understanding
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9 Oct 2024 • Journal Article • Digital Journalism
An Ecosystem of Collective Futures: How Journalists and Experts Co-Construct Projections in Hybrid Media Environments
AbstractJournalists and experts play a pivotal role in communicating risks and helping the public navigate uncertain futures. This study examines the co-construction of projections by journalists and experts across news and social media during the Covid-19 pandemic. Unlike traditional news production, where journalists exercise agency by transforming expert knowledge into news
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28 Aug 2024 • Journal Article • Communication Research
Re-assessing the Dynamics of News Use and Trust: A Multi-Outlet Perspective
AbstractCommunication research has long explored the association between media trust and news consumption. However, the strength and direction of this relationship have remained elusive. This study suggests a new approach for investigating these complex relations, differentiating between usage and trust associated with different sources over time. Focusing on the 2022 French
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Jun 2024 • Journal Article • New Media & Society
Trust-oriented affordances: A five-country study of news trustworthiness and its socio-technical articulations
AbstractResearch on trust has come to the forefront of communication studies. Beyond the dominant focus on informational trust and its country-specific articulations, trustworthiness evaluations can relate to the materiality of news and its global manifestations. Especially in digital algorithmic environments, understanding news trustworthiness requires a holistic approach
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25 Mar 2024 • Journal Article • International Journal of Public Opinion Research
Divining Elections: Religious Citizens’ Political Projections and Electoral Turnout in Israel and France
AbstractHow do religious citizens’ election projections influence voter turnout? While previous studies have demonstrated the significant impact of religious orientation on individuals’ general future outlook, little is known about the influence of religion on voters’ electoral expectations and how these expectations affect voter turnout. In this paper, we employ a nuanced
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29 Dec 2023 • Journal Article • Journalism Studies
“I Hope my Partner Will Keep me up-to-date”: How Couples Navigate News Consumption and Avoidance
AbstractIn an era of information overload, understanding individuals’ news consumption and avoidance necessitates an examination of the specific contexts in which these practices occur. While research in journalism studies has mainly underscored consumption habits at the individual level, limited scholarly attention has been given to news avoidance within the structure of dyadic
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14 Dec 2023 • Journal Article • Journal of Communication
Navigating the seas of inclusivity: a collaborative voyage at the helm of a communication flagship journal
AbstractOne of us (dre) is a fan of The Who. Part of the refrain from one of their hits is “Well, who are you? I really wanna know. Tell me, who are you?” Long hours were spent during adolescence pondering this question. Now this question is being pondered again regarding the discipline. The question of “who are you?” is a question that has historically plagued our discipline
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2 Dec 2023 • Journal Article • Communication Methods and Measures
Beyond sentiment: an algorithmic strategy for identifying evaluations within large text corpora
AbstractIn this paper, we propose a new strategy for classifying evaluations in large text corpora, using supervised machine learning (SML). Departing from a conceptual and methodological critique of the use of sentiment measures to recognize object-specific evaluations, we argue that a key challenge consists in determining whether a semantic relationship exists between evaluative
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29 Jul 2023 • Journal Article • Journalism Studies
“You’d be Right to Indulge Some Skepticism”: Trust-building Strategies in Future-oriented News Discourse
AbstractThis paper explores trust-building strategies in future-oriented news discourse, marked by a high degree of uncertainty. While current research mainly focuses on audiences’ perceptions of news credibility, this study addresses news trust from a production standpoint. We examine the trust-building efforts of media actors, focusing on their discursive labor within the
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