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This study explores Finnish media users’ emotional and affective experiences of being exposed to news and communication regarding COVID-19 during the pandemic. To identify their emotions and subsequent affective news […]
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Recent advances demonstrate that individuals think and act differently depending upon the political views of their discussion partners. However, issues of both conceptualization and measurement remain. We argue that some […]
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Political communication literature reveals an ongoing scholarly interest in issues surrounding the credibility of news media. Despite scientific evidence to the contrary, many consumers continue to believe U.S. news media […]
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The changes in how people consume news and the emergence of digital and distributed news sources call for a reexamination of the relationship between news use and trust in news. […]
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Building off of literatures in the areas of network heterogeneity, oppositional networks, cross-cutting exposure, incidental information exposure, and trust, we suggested that Facebook networks characterized by inclusion of people different […]
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Despite signs of declining press trust in many western countries, we know little about trends in press trust across the world. Based on comparative survey data from the World Values […]
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Although scholars have learned much about the online information environment in recent years, there is scant evidence on the relationship between pre-existing political network diversity and trust in political content […]
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While surveys on public understandings of science are common, little is known about how science and its processes are perceived and reported by journalists. However, knowledge about processual aspects of […]
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Public health organizations increasingly use social media advertising campaigns in pursuit of public health goals. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of about $40 million of social media advertisements […]
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Even though health-promotion campaigns can elicit behavioral change among constituents, these initiatives are generally implemented through expensive, centralized, unsystematic, and time-consuming efforts led by creatives and officials in federal and […]