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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 12 days
"Results indicated both news formats (narrative vs. informational) and frames (environmental vs. economic) had significant immediate effects on issue attitudes and other responses; narrative environmental news had a significantly greater impact than informational environmental news." #CommSky
Stories that Count: Influence of News Narratives on Issue Attitudes - Fuyuan Shen, Lee Ahern, Michelle Baker, 2014doi.org This paper examines the impact of using narratives to frame a political issue on individuals’ attitudes. In an experiment, we asked participants to read either ...
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 12 days
"Cultivation effects remain stable over the decades, implying an enduring relationship between television’s message system and viewers’ conceptions of social reality, despite immense changes in the institutional structure and technology of television." #CommSky
Television, Continuity, and Change: A Meta-Analysis of Five Decades of Cultivation Researchacademic.oup.com Abstract. This study is a meta-analysis of cultivation research from the 1970s to the present, based on three-level analyses of 3842 effect sizes from 406
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 12 days
"We find correlational evidence that explicit attention to stories about a particular political issue is associated with greater perceived importance of that issue, but random assignment of exposure to such stories has no causal effect on perceived importance." #CommSky
Media Effects in the Viewer’s Choice Era: Testing Revised Agenda-Setting and Priming Hypotheseswww.tandfonline.com One of the not-so-minimal effects of media exposure is the ability of the media to set the agenda for political discussion and debate, to tell voters what to think about, if not what to think. Most...
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 12 days
"Our meta-analytical findings are in support of stereotype threat theory, indicating that negative stereotypes and devaluing content in the media impair members of negatively stereotyped groups, whereas nonmembers are not affected." #CommSky
Do Mass Mediated Stereotypes Harm Members of Negatively Stereotyped Groups? A Meta-Analytical Review on Media-Generated Stereotype Threat and Stereotype Lift - Markus Appel, Silvana Weber, 2021doi.org Stereotype threat theory suggests that negative stereotypes and devaluing content in the media impair the cognitive and educational achievement of members of th...