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Cory L. Armstrong
Researcher at University of Alabama
Publications - 40
Citations - 1355
Cory L. Armstrong is an academic researcher from University of Alabama. The author has contributed to research in topics: Newspaper & Credibility. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 39 publications receiving 1205 citations. Previous affiliations of Cory L. Armstrong include University of North Texas & University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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The Influence of Reporter Gender on Source Selection in Newspaper Stories
TL;DR: This article analyzed the frequency and placement given to male and female sources and story subjects in news-paper coverage and their relationship to the gender of the reporter, and found that female sources were more likely to be female than male sources.
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Now Tweet This How News Organizations Use Twitter
Cory L. Armstrong,Fangfang Gao +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined how Twitter is used as a content dissemination tool within the news industry and found that regional media tended to differ in Twitter usage from both local and national media and that broadcast news agencies were more likely to tweet multimedia packages than were print-based organizations.
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Blogs of Information: How Gender Cues and Individual Motivations Influence Perceptions of Credibility
TL;DR: This article examined how gender cues influence perceptions of credibility of informational blogs and found that male authors were deemed more credible than female authors, and main effects were found for information seekers who found the blogs more credible.
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Information Seeking and Emotional Reactions to the September 11 Terrorist Attacks
Michael P. Boyle,Mike Schmierbach,Cory L. Armstrong,Douglas M. McLeod,Dhavan V. Shah,Zhongdang Pan +5 more
TL;DR: Based on uncertainty reduction theory, this article argued that individuals were motivated to seek information and learn about the September 11 terrorist attacks to reduce uncertainty about what happened and found that negative emotional response was a strong predictor of efforts to learn.
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Providing a clearer view: An examination of transparency on local government websites
TL;DR: A content analysis of 134 local government websites reveals that school boards had a higher level of transparency than counties in Florida, while websites with a more professional look and those located in communities with a high Republican proportion had greater transparency than others.