American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us

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From organizational effectiveness to relationship indicators: Antecedents of relationships public relations strategies and relationship outcomes

Over the past few months there has been a lot of publicity given to victims of various tragedies and incidents, for example, there have been the victims of the summer floods, the disappearance of Madeleine McCann and the parents of Rhys Jones. The majority of the support and public interest shown has been very positive and helpful towards these victims. This is probably because of the nature of the events which led up to the incidents and because it was not really the victims fault for what happened. They just happened to be caught up in a chain of events that happened outside of their control.

Blaming the victim.

WhatsApp has revolutionized the way people communicate and interact. It is not only cheaper than the traditional Short Message Service (SMS) communication but it also brings a new form of mobile communication: the group chats. Such groups are great forums for collective discussions on a variety of topics. In particular, in events of great social mobilization, such as strikes and electoral campaigns, WhatsApp group chats are very attractive as they facilitate information exchange among interested people. Yet, recent events have raised concerns about the spreading of misinformation in WhatsApp. In this work, we analyze information dissemination within WhatsApp, focusing on publicly accessible political-oriented groups, collecting all shared messages during major social events in Brazil: a national truck drivers' strike and the Brazilian presidential campaign. We analyze the types of content shared within such groups as well as the network structures that emerge from user interactions within and cross-groups. We then deepen our analysis by identifying the presence of misinformation among the shared images using labels provided by journalists and by a proposed automatic procedure based on Google searches. We identify the most important sources of the fake images and analyze how they propagate across WhatsApp groups and from/to other Web platforms.

(Mis)Information Dissemination in WhatsApp: Gathering, Analyzing and Countermeasures

In light of the foreign interference in the 2016 U.S. elections, the present research asks the question of whether the digital media has become the stealth media for anonymous political campaigns. ...

The Stealth Media? Groups and Targets behind Divisive Issue Campaigns on Facebook

Controversy in science news accounts attracts audiences and draws attention to important science issues. But sometimes covering multiple sides of a science issue does the audience a disservice. Counterbalancing a truth claim backed by strong scientific support with a poorly backed argument can unnecessarily heighten audience perceptions of uncertainty. At the same time, journalistic norms often constrain reporters to "get both sides of the story" even when there is little debate in the scientific community about which truth claim is most valid. In this study, we look at whether highlighting the way in which experts are arrayed across truth claims-a strategy we label "weight-of-evidence reporting"-can attenuate heightened perceptions of uncertainty that can result from coverage of conflicting claims. The results of our study suggest weight-of-evidence strategies can indeed play a role in reducing some of the uncertainty audiences may perceive when encountering lop-sided truth claims.

The influence of weight-of-evidence strategies on audience perceptions of (un)certainty when media cover contested science.

This content analysis examines how the American news media have presented the problem of high and rising health care costs, looking particularly at the question of who is responsible. More specifically, the authors examine how often the media have discussed the 5 major causes of the problem: (a) patients, (b) health care providers, (c) insurance companies, (d) the government, and (e) pharmaceutical companies. Results revealed that patients were most often mentioned as the cause of increasing health care costs. The authors also found that the media's attribution of responsibility to patients has increased over the years. Overall, media coverage of rising health care costs peaked in 1993, 2004, and 2009, suggesting that coverage was influenced by newsworthy events (e.g., the president endorsing legislation or signing a bill into law) that draw the public's attention.

Talking about health care: news framing of who is responsible for rising health care costs in the United States.

This study offers an analysis of news framing of ethanol stories, examining several key dimensions of framing. A content analysis of six national and regional newspapers indicates that ethanol has been presented largely as a policy issue, rather than a technology or an economic issue. We also found that the environment has been the key talking point in debating the issue. Overall, the story tone has become increasingly negative over the years. Drawing upon the notion of frame building, this study also explores some of the factors that may affect the media's selective use of frames.

Talking about bio-fuel in the news: Newspaper framing of ethanol stories in the United States

This study evaluated 531 newspaper articles and television transcripts to examine how the U.S. media presented the issue of rising health care costs from 1993 to 2010. The prominence of health care...

Soo Yun Kim

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The Stealth Media? Groups and Targets behind Divisive Issue Campaigns on Facebook

The influence of weight-of-evidence strategies on audience perceptions of (un)certainty when media cover contested science.

Talking about health care: news framing of who is responsible for rising health care costs in the United States.

Talking about bio-fuel in the news: Newspaper framing of ethanol stories in the United States

National Conversations About the Costs of U.S. Health Care: A Content Analysis of Media Coverage, 1993-2010