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A Virtual Foot in the Door: How Avatar Similarity Impacts Group Identity in Computer-Mediated Communication
(2016-05-16)
Communication researchers continue to explore the promise and the
impact of the Internet and computer-mediated communication. While much
research has shown that the effects have been distancing, polarizing and negative ...
The butterfly effect of deceptive science: How media influence may have spread the illusory link between vaccines and autism
(2016-05-10)
Delaying or refusing childhood vaccinations can increase a community’s risk of vaccine-preventable diseases. Agenda setting theory demonstrates that media can influence people's attitudes and opinions. One study in 1998 ...
The Right Stuff? Selective Exposure and Political Misinformation on Facebook
(2016-12-20)
For a democracy to function optimally, its citizens must arrive at election booths armed with factual and complete information. If the voting public is equipped with misinformation, it is just as detrimental as if they ...
NEWS NARRATIVES ABOUT THE HPV VACCINE FOR ADOLESCENT MALES
(2016-12-08)
The goal of this research was to examine portrayals of gender roles and
expectations related to the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for men and boys in U.S. newspapers within the theoretical framework of feminist theory, ...
Towards Epistolary Dialogue
(Institute for Critical Education Studies, 2016-08-15)
In this essay, we investigate the potential of letters as a communicative genre that embodies dialogue, and thus, disrupts power relations. To do so, we first outline a theoretical framework that draws upon feminist and ...
Terror from the Skies: The Propaganda of Aerial Warfare in the Emerging Mass Media of the First World War
(2016)
Aerial warfare was developed and used in the First World War to terrorize soldiers and population centers, and modern mass media played a dominant role in spreading the fear of the new innovation of war to a global audience. ...