Emotion and Adaptation

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Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

The screen shows a bag of popcorn on a table. Several kernels have fallen from the bag. An adult, watching with preschool children, asks a question about the picture: "What will happen to the popcorn if I pick up the television set and turn it upside down?" A lot of kids say that the rest of the popcorn will spill out of the bag. While interesting, this mistake is not really surprising. Children often take television literally. They'll soon be older, and will be wise enough to know better.

Media Equation 研究の背景と動向

Artificial intelligence (AI) and people’s interactions with it—through virtual agents, socialbots, and language-generation software—do not fit neatly into paradigms of communication theory that hav...

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Artificial intelligence and communication: A Human–Machine Communication research agenda:

In Defense of Negativity: Attack Ads in Presidential Campaigns. By John G. Geer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 218p. $47.50 cloth, $19.00 paper. This book begins with a series of quotes from scholars and media pundits arguing that negative political advertisements are uncivil, mean-spirited, emotion-laden distortions of the truth, which not only smear their target but also mislead voters and undermine the political process itself; in short, they are the scourge of democracy. Or so the conventional wisdom goes. But John Geer asks us to reject the starting assumption that attack ads are bad. In fact, he argues that democracy requires candidates to attack each other. His argument is simple but powerful: All advertisements, by their very nature, exaggerate the truth. But this point applies equally to negative and positive ads. We cannot expect political candidates to fairly discuss their weaknesses along with their strengths. That is the role of the opposition, and it can only be done by offering criticisms of the opposing candidate or party. The real questions, then, are 1) whether negative ads perform their role effectively, or instead distort and confuse the vote choices citizens must make; and 2) whether attack ads, in performing a role that seems to be required of them, nonetheless undermine the democratic political system of which they are a crucial part.

In Defense of Negativity: Attack Ads in Presidential Campaigns

The previous chapter has convincingly demonstrated that individuals make up their minds in accordance with their issue preferences. These effects were even more pronounced when arguments matched with their ideology. We can consider these preferences to be cognition-based because the judgment is made up of arguments in favour or against a proposal. In the traditional view of political decision making and judgment, emotions are considered erratic and sometimes even dangerous responses to political life (see for an overview Marcus 2002). However, in more than three decades, political scientists (Marcus 2002; Marcus and MacKuen 1993; Marcus et al. 2000), communication scholars (Dillard and Wilson 1993; Nabi, 2002), and psychologists (Abelson et al. 1982; Isbell and Ottati 2002) have revived and rehabilitated the role of emotions for the study of political life. All these approaches state that emotions and affective reactions can have important informational functions for voters.

The Impact of Positive and Negative Affects in Direct-Democratic Campaigns

In den letzten Jahrzehnten ist das kommunikationswissenschaftliche Interesse an Emotionen stark angestiegen (Wirth, 2008, 2014a). Allerdings bleiben die empirische Erfassung von Emotionen in Kommunikationsinhalten sowie die Forschung zu deren Wirkung hinter der aktuellen Theoriebildung zuruck. Dies kann zu Missverstandnissen in Bezug auf die Verbreitung von emotionalen Kommunikations-inhalten und deren Wirkungen fuhren.

Zum Einfluss von Gruppenemotionen und kollektiven Emotionen in sozialen Medien

Communication researchers regularly conduct comparisons between populations and comparisons over time. Typically, the objects of a comparison are relationships between constructs, such as media effects, or the means of constructs, such as average media use. Importantly, comparisons of relationships and means are based on the assumption that the involved constructs are measured the same way across populations or over time. If this assumption holds, the measurements are invariant across populations or over time. However, most comparative studies do not explicitly test for measurement invariance. This is problematic because results of comparisons can be biased when invariance assumptions are violated. Measurement invariance must thus be tested in all comparative communication studies. This entry discusses the different forms of measurement invariance for continuous data and how they can be tested in multigroup confirmatory factor analyses. Furthermore, partial measurement invariance, and invariance tests for ordinal data and for formative measurement models are discussed.

Measurement Invariance (Time, Samples, Contexts)

Be it television, mobile phones or social networking sites – media technologies and applications form a substantial part of young people’s lives. It is significant that media use is one of the most prevalent daily activities during a period of life in which crucial developmental goals are pursued: During adolescence and young adulthood individuals strive to establish critical social relationships, achieve autonomy from their parents and develop a stable identity. Bearing all this in mind, this volume provides a collection of articles on the uses and effects of media among young people, and the developmental context within which these relationships are embedded. Alongside studies on the determinants of mobile phone use, social networking site use and online behaviour, studies on reality TV and news viewing patterns are included, as is research on the effects of social media use, advertising, product placements and public service announcements.

Youth and media : Current perspectives on media use and effects

With social robots entering the consumer market, there is a growing need to study child-robot interaction in a domestic environment. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore children’s beliefs that underlie their intended adoption or rejection of a social robot for use in their homes. Based on a content analysis of data from 87 children, we found that hedonic beliefs (i.e., the belief that having a robot at home is pleasurable) were the most mentioned beliefs for domestic adoption of a social robot. More specifically, companionship was an often-mentioned hedonic belief. Social beliefs were rarely mentioned. If children mentioned beliefs for rejecting the robot, they often referred to family members and family composition. The findings of this exploratory study thus suggest that children’s hedonic beliefs play a central role in their intended adoption of a social robot in a domestic environment.

Rinaldo Kühne

Papers

The Impact of Positive and Negative Affects in Direct-Democratic Campaigns

Zum Einfluss von Gruppenemotionen und kollektiven Emotionen in sozialen Medien

Measurement Invariance (Time, Samples, Contexts)

Youth and media : Current perspectives on media use and effects

Exploring Children’s Beliefs for Adoption or Rejection of Domestic Social Robots *