- Social Media and Politics
- Media Studies and Communication
- Public Relations and Crisis Communication
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media
- Digital Marketing and Social Media
- Rhetoric and Communication Studies
- E-Government and Public Services
- Social Capital and Networks
- Computational and Text Analysis Methods
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Knowledge Management and Sharing
- Media Influence and Health
- Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Digital Storytelling and Education
- AI in Service Interactions
- Big Data and Business Intelligence
- Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies
- Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
- Web and Library Services
- Place Attachment and Urban Studies
University of Florida
2023-2024
University of Oregon
2017-2022
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
2020
Max Planck Society
2020
San Diego State University
2017
University of Missouri–St. Louis
2017
University of Kentucky
2007-2017
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2004
This study examines what drives organizational adoption and use of social media through a model built around four key factors - strategy, capacity, governance, environment. Using Twitter, Facebook, other data on 100 large US nonprofit organizations, the is employed to examine determinants three facets utilization: 1) adoption, 2) frequency use, 3) dialogue. We find that strategies, capacities, governance features, external pressures all play part in these utilization outcomes. Through its...
Journal Article Campaign Ads, Online Messaging, and Participation: Extending the Communication Mediation Model Get access Dhavan V. Shah, Shah 1School of Journalism Mass Communication, University Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jaeho Cho, Cho 2Department California, Davis, CA 95616 Seungahn Nah, Nah 3Department Community Leadership Development, Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546 Melissa R. Gotlieb, Gotlieb Hyunseo Hwang, Hwang...
Written by Michelle A. Amazeen, Fabrício Benevenuto, Nadia M. Brashier, Robert Bond, Lia C. Bozarth, Ceren Budak, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Lisa Fazio, Emilio Ferrara, Andrew J. Flanagin, Ales-sandro Flammini, Deen Freelon, Nir Grinberg, Ralph Hertwig, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Kenneth Jo-seph, Jason Jones, R. Kelly Garrett, Daniel Kreiss, Shannon McGregor, Jasmine McNealy, Drew Margolin, Alice Marwick, FiIippo Menczer, Miriam Metzger, Seungahn Nah, Stephan Lewan-dowsky, Philipp Lorenz-Spreen,...
Despite a growing body of research on AI adoption and use, the impact various psychological technological factors users' decision-making processes remains largely understudied. To bridge this gap, study examines combined influence self-efficacy, ethics, attitudes toward use technologies. Using an integrated theoretical model that combines self-efficacy theory technology acceptance model, conducted nationwide survey in U.S. (N = 1252) to test multistage process determining The results showed...
This study examines direct and indirect effects of interactive communication in an antismoking social media campaign. To that end, we pose a multitheoretical framework integrates mediation models the Theory Planned Behavior. test theorized model, conducted experiment using two-group pretest-posttest design. Participants (N = 201) were randomly assigned into two experimental conditions: "campaign message reception only" as control group "message interaction" treatment group, which...
This study investigates the ways in which localized use of social media influences civic life local communities. Specifically, explores direct and indirect effects informational motivations underlying uses on trust-building (interpersonal trust, political trust community organizations) participation online offline contexts. The findings through a nationwide survey U.S. adults indicate that resulted increase interpersonal trust. Furthermore, results show organizations played more important...
Through a web-based survey ( N = 238), this study examines how online community news readers perceive the roles of both professional and citizen journalists, predicts extent to which social capital, such as trust media credibility, contributes their perceived journalistic roles. Analyses show that while credibility was positively related role conceptions journalists only, associated with journalists. Implications are discussed for relationship between trust,
This study examines the extent to which social media prosumption, an integrated act of consumption and production, is associated with online political participation. Data from panel survey American adults reveal that prosumption has a positive relationship participation indirectly through information seeking. Social also positively related discussion heterogeneity in serial. Implications are discussed for role prosumptive use
This case study examines how traditional and Internet news use, as well face-to-face online political discussion, contributed to participation during the period leading up Iraq War. A Web-based survey of dissenters (N = 307) conducted at start U.S.-led invasion provides data used examine relationships among informational media respondents, who were recruited through blogs, discussion boards, listservs opposing war. Analyses reveal that these use both about situation in Iraq. Online mediated...
This article integrates priming and framing into a cognitive-processing model that illustrates how the effects of watching presidential debate might be influenced by message as it interacts with an individual's schema. We examine frame postdebate news analysis primes audience reflection on previously viewed segment from 2004 debates (a process we identify "primed reflection"). Results show influence is function interaction between news-analysis (policy vs. performance) individual-level...
Using a statewide, Web-based survey, this study examines the associations between online community news audiences' uses of interactive features offered in various presentations and perceived satisfaction sites. In addition, aims to identify different types presentation styles levels satisfaction. Results indicate that use is positively associated with exception forums Q&A features. also reveal customization features, such as content submissions, letter-to-the-editor, e-mail byline links, are...
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how data reuse experience, attitudinal beliefs, social norms, and resource factors influence internet researchers share with other outside their teams. Design/methodology/approach An online survey was conducted the extent which predicted researchers’ sharing intentions behaviors. theorized model tested using a structural equation modeling technique analyze total 201 responses from Association Internet Researchers mailing list. Findings Results...
This study draws upon communication infrastructure theory to investigate how networks stimulate civic participation within a community development context. According the (CIT), local resources enable citizens engage in collective action for common good. The CIT proposes neighborhood storytelling (NSNs) as core assets: interpersonal discussion, connection organizations, and media, including traditional mass media Internet. To examine relationship between NSN participation, data were collected...
This study draws on communication infrastructure theory (CIT) to examine the extent which expressive uses of Internet and mobile devices moderate relationship between integrated connectedness a storytelling network (ICSN) offline online civic participation. Data collected through Web survey U.S. national panel (N = 1201) reveal that relationships ICSN with participation are conditioned by locality-oriented media. With these findings, this discusses theoretical insights, policy implications,...
This study, derived from a differential gains model, examines how mobile-based political information seeking is associated with offline and online participation in interaction three discussion features: frequency, size, heterogeneity. Data Web survey of an panel indicate that the link between mobile greater for respondents who discuss politics others face to more frequently diversity online.
This study integrates communication mediation, and social capital, infrastructure to investigate how locality-oriented activities, including media use interpersonal communication, are associated with citizen journalism practice conceived as a form of civic participation. To test an integrative model, we collected data through web survey U.S. national online panel (N = 1,201). Results reveal that local newspaper discussion were participation both directly indirectly organizational membership...
This study advances communication infrastructure theory by testing the effects of an integrated community storytelling network (ICSN) and social media as a newly emerging agent on civic engagement. A nationwide survey in South Korea indicates that, while ICSN is robust driving force for engagement, news use expression played vital role promoting collective efficacy well neighborhood belonging online participation, respectively. In particular, moderated offline participation. These findings...
This study examines the extent to which professional journalism adopts and uses citizen journalism, such as user-generated content (UGC) user-submitted stories (USS), at individual, organizational, community levels. In doing so, a web-based survey of top U.S. news editors ( n = 142) coupled with Census Data. The reveals that experience online journalists staff size play roles in adoption use UGC. also finds structural pluralism is related written together by journalists.
In more than 60 years since the founding of artificial intelligence (AI) as a formal academic discipline, rapid advances in technology have driven an enormous increase interest field s...
Despite a growing body of scholarship on Communication Infrastructure Theory (CIT), the applicability CIT as an ecological approach in rural and suburban areas remains largely unexplored comparison with its urban counterpart. The current study advances across geographically dispersed communities (i.e., urban, suburban, rural) explores how community storytelling networks, through social media interpersonal discussion, interact diverse civic participation. A nationwide online panel survey...
News credibility as an essential democratic value has been at the forefront of scholarly endeavors over last several decades. Despite prolific research in this area, scholarship on algorithm-based and automated news yet to offer empirical findings regards causes their impacts. In line with prior studies concerning credibility, study examines driving forces predicting level artificial intelligence (AI) news. Specially, unveils effects communicative capital, such media use public discussion,...
Grounded in Communication Infrastructure Theory (CIT), this study tests the moderating roles of expressive digital media use through Internet, social, and mobile between community storytelling network civic engagement. Based on online survey data U.S. adults an ethnically homogenous metropolitan area, finds that significantly predict level In particular, serves as a necessary condition for to further promote participation collective efficacy among residents. This thus advances CIT with...