JMCQ Outstanding Research Article Award

JMCQ 2020 Outstanding Research Article Award Finalists

News in an Era of Content Confusion: Effects of News Use Motivations and Context on Native Advertising and Digital News Perceptions

Michelle A. Amazeen

Deciding What’s News: News-ness As an Audience Concept for the Hybrid Media Environment

Stephanie Edgerly, Emily K. Vraga

Which Bad News to Choose? The Influence of Race and Social Identity on Story Selections Within Negative News Contexts

Lanier Frush Holt, Dustin Carnahan

The Great Digital Migration: Exploring What Constitutes the Black Press Online

Miya Williams Fayne

“It’s Global Warming, Stupid”: Aggressive Communication Styles and Political Ideology in Science Blog Debates About Climate Change

Shupei Yuan, Hang Lu


JMCQ 2020 Outstanding Research Article Award Eligible Articles

Vol. 97, No. 1, March 2020

Newsgames for the Greater Good: The Effects of Graphic Realism and Geographic Proximity on Knowledge Acquisition and Willingness to Help

Jih-Hsuan Tammy Lin, Dai-Yun Wu

When Do Audiences Verify? How Perceptions About Message and Source Influence Audience Verification of News Headlines

Stephanie Edgerly, Rachel R. Mourão, Esther Thorson, Samuel M. Tham

Social Media Activism in the Digital Age: Testing an Integrative Model of Activism on Contentious Issues

Myoung-Gi Chon, Hyojung Park

Diversifying or Reinforcing Science Communication? Examining the Flow of Frame Contagion Across Media Platforms

S. Mo Jones-Jang, P. Sol Hart, Lauren Feldman, Won-Ki Moon

More Than Virality: Online Sharing of Controversial News With Activated Audience

Eun-mee Kim, Jennifer Ihm

Who Posted That Story? Processing Layered Sources in Facebook News Posts

Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch, Christina L. DeVoss

News in an Era of Content Confusion: Effects of News Use Motivations and Context on Native Advertising and Digital News Perceptions

Michelle A. Amazeen

The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Tweet: How #NotTheEnemy Twitter Discourse Defended the Journalistic Paradigm

Kelsey N. Whipple, Jeremy L. Shermak

Defining the Enemy: How Donald Trump Frames the News Media

Lindsey Meeks

News You Can’t Use: Jon Stewart’s Daily Show Media Critiques

Julia R. Fox, Edo Steinberg

Unhealthy Fun: Food and Beverage References in Comedy Series

Mira Mayrhofer, Brigitte Naderer, Alice Binder

News Values and the Ethical Dilemmas of Covering Violent Extremism

Abdullahi Tasiu Abubakar

Vol. 97, No. 2, June 2020

Practice, Interpretation, and Meaning in Today’s Digital Media Ecosystem

C. W. Anderson

From Suspicion to Wonder in Journalism and Communication Research

Tamara Witschge, Mark Deuze

News Flashpoints: Networked Journalism and Waves of Coverage of Social Problems

Silvio Waisbord, Adrienne Russell

Researching With Our Hair on Fire: Three Frameworks for Rethinking News in a Postnormative World

Perry Parks

Deciding What’s News: News-ness As an Audience Concept for the Hybrid Media Environment

Stephanie Edgerly, Emily K. Vraga

Digital Disinformation and the Imaginative Dimension of Communication

Jason Vincent A. Cabañes

Design of Communication: Two Contexts for Understanding How Design Shapes Digital Media

Krishnan Vasudevan

Post-Publication Gatekeeping: The Interplay of Publics, Platforms, Paraphernalia, and Practices in the Circulation of News

Alfred Hermida

A Spherical Rendering of Deviant Information Resilience

Toby Hopp, Patrick Ferrucci

Differentiation and De-differentiation: The Evolving Power Dynamics Between News Industry and Tech Industry

Qun Wang

Vol. 97, No. 3, September 2020

The Problem With Protests: Emotional Effects of Race-Related News Media

David Stamps, Dana Mastro

Which Bad News to Choose? The Influence of Race and Social Identity on Story Selections Within Negative News Contexts

Lanier Frush Holt, Dustin Carnahan

The Effect of Ethnicity and Number of Co-Viewers on Affective and Cognitive Identification With Media Characters

Nurit Tal-Or

Racializing Captain America: How Racial Attitudes Affect Perceptions of Affirmative Action and Diversity Initiatives in Media

S. R. Gubitz, Denzel Avant

The Great Digital Migration: Exploring What Constitutes the Black Press Online

Miya Williams Fayne

The Effect of News Peril-type on Social Inclinations: A Social Group Comparison

Julius Matthew Riles, Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz, Haejung Shin, Michelle Funk

Fear, Anger, and Political Advertisement Engagement: A Computational Case Study of Russian-Linked Facebook and Instagram Content

Chris J. Vargo, Toby Hopp 

Scandalous?! Examining the Differential Effects of News Coverage About (Non-)Severe Political Misconduct on Voting Intentions and News Source Evaluations

Christian von Sikorski

Hybrids Before Nonprofits: Key Challenges, Institutional Logics, and Normative Rules of Behavior of News Media Dedicated to Social Welfare

Sergio Sparviero

Accurate, Fast, But Not Always Cheap: Evaluating “Crowdcoding” as an Alternative Approach to Analyze Social Media Data

Lei Guo, Kate Mays, Sha Lai, Mona Jalal, Prakash Ishwar, Margrit Betke

Vol. 97, No. 4, December 2020

Agreeing to Surveillance: Digital News Privacy Policies

Paul C. Adams

Effects of Uniqueness, News Valence, and Liking on Personalization of Company News

Cong Li, Cheng Hong, Zifei Fay Chen

Voluntary Exposure to Political Fact Checks

Kyle Mattes, David P. Redlawsk

Did It Really Happen? How the Public Interprets Journalistic Disclaimers

Jacob Sohlberg, Bengt Johansson, Peter Esaiasson

Effects of Fact-Checking Political Misinformation on Perceptual Accuracy and Epistemic Political Efficacy

Chance York, James D. Ponder, Zach Humphries, Catherine Goodall, Michael Beam, Carrie Winters

The Role of Storytelling in Crisis Communication: A Test of Crisis Severity, Crisis Responsibility, and Organizational Trust

Hyunmin Lee, Mi Rosie Jahng

“It’s Global Warming, Stupid”: Aggressive Communication Styles and Political Ideology in Science Blog Debates About Climate Change

Shupei Yuan, Hang Lu

Muting or Meddling? Advocacy as a Relational Communication Strategy Affecting Organization–Public Relationships and Stakeholder Response

Nicholas Browning, Ejae Lee, Young Eun Park, Taeyoung Kim, Ryan Collins

Information Seeking and Information Sharing Related to Hurricane Harvey

Janet Z. Yang, Jun Zhuang

Journalism as an Advocacy Tool: Negotiating Boundaries of Professionalism in the 20th-Century American Environmental Movement

Suzannah Evans Comfort

Nudity of Male and Female Characters in Television Advertising Across 13 Countries

Jörg Matthes, Michael Prieler

How the Geographic Diversity of Editorial Boards Affects What Is Published in JCR-Ranked Communication Journals

Manuel Goyanes, Marton Demeter


JMCQ 2019 Outstanding Research Article Award Finalists

Libel by Algorithm? Automated Journalism and the Threat of Legal Liability

Seth C. Lewis, Amy Kristin Sanders, Casey Carmody

Can an Algorithm Reduce the Perceived Bias of News? Testing the Effect of Machine Attribution on News Readers' Evaluations of Bias, Anthropomorphism, and Credibility

Franklin Waddell 

The American Journalist in the Digital Age: Another Look at U.S. News People

David H. Weaver, Lars Willnat, G. Cleveland Wilhoit

Fearful Conservatives, Angry Liberals: Information Processing Related to the 2016 Presidential Election and Climate Change

Janet Z. Yang, Haoran Chu, LeeAnn Kahlor

Personal Choice or Political Provocation: Examining the Visual Framing and Stereotyping of the BurkiniDebate

Brian J. Bowe, Joe Gosen, and Shahira Fahmy


JMCQ 2019 Outstanding Research Article Award Eligible Articles

Vol. 96, No. 1, March 2019 

The Winner Takes It All: International Inequality in Communication and Media Studies Today

Marton Demeter

Libel by Algorithm? Automated Journalism and the Threat of Legal Liability

Seth C. Lewis, Amy Kristin Sanders, Casey Carmody

Can an Algorithm Reduce the Perceived Bias of News? Testing the Effect of Machine Attribution on News Readers' Evaluations of Bias, Anthropomorphism, and Credibility

Franklin Waddell 

The American Journalist in the Digital Age: Another Look at U.S. News People

David H. Weaver, Lars Willnat, G. Cleveland Wilhoit

The Impact of Web Metrics on Community News Decisions: A Resource Dependence Perspective

Tom Arenberg, Wilson Lowery

A Meta-Analysis of News Media's Public Agenda-Setting Effects, 1972-2015

Yunjuan Luo, Hansel Burley, Alexander Moe, Mingxiao Sui  

Reducing Harm From Media: A Meta-Analysis of Parental Mediation

Liang Chen, Jingyuan Shi

"That Was What I Had to Use": Social and Cultural Capital in the Careers of Women Broadcasters

Tracy Lucht, Kelsey Batschelet

Female Voices in the News: Structural Conditions of Gender Representations in Norwegian Newspapers

Helle Sjovaag, Truls Andre Pedersen

Information Seeking Among Women Aged 18 to 25 About the Risk of Sexual Aggression

James Pokrywczynski, Robert J. Griffin, Gregory J. Calhoun

An Examination of Antecedents to Perceived Community Resilience in Disaster Postcrisis Communication

Xiaochen Angela Zhang, Ronen Shay

The End of Ombudsmen? 21st-Century Journalism and Reader Representatives

Patrick Ferrucci 

Vol. 96, No. 2, June 2019 

Moving Closer to the Action: How Viewers’ Experiences of Eyewitness Videos in TV News Influence the Trustworthiness of the Reports

Annabelle Halfmann, Helena Dech, Jana Riemann, Leonie Schlenker, Hartmut Wessler

Looking for Efficiency: How Online News Structure and Emotional Tone Influence Processing Time and Memory

Tessa I. DeAngelo, Narine S. Yegiyan

The Effect of Preference Stability and Extremity on Personalized Advertising

Cong Li, Jiangmeng Liu, Cheng Hong

Multi-Platform News Use and Political Participation Across Age Groups: Toward a Valid Metric of Platform Diversity and Its Effects

Trevor Diehl, Matthew Barnidge, Homero Gil de Zuniga

Effects of Issue Involvement, News Attention, Perceived Knowledge, and Perceived Influence of Anti-Corruption News on Chinese Students' Political Participation

Lei Guo, Chao Su, Hao Lee

The Reciprocal Effects Between Political Interest and TV News Revisited: Evidence From Four Panel Surveys

Jesper Stromback, Adam Shehata

Parental Influence on Adolescent Preference for Television Public Affairs Content: A South Korean Panel Study

Minchul Kim

What Drives Populist Styles? Analyzing Immigration and Labor Market News in 11 Countries

Martin Wettstein, Frank Esser, Florin Buchel, Christian Schemer, Dominique S. Wirz, Anne Shulz, Nicole Ernst, Sven Engesser, Phillip Muller, Werner Wirth

Exploring the Networks of News Production: Frame Building and Source Use During the 2014 U.S. Midterm Elections

Bethany Anne Conway-Silva

The State of Journalism and Press Freedom in Postgenocide Rwanda

Meghan Sobel, Karen McIntyre

Sacred Sports: Moral Responses to Sports Media Content

Nicky Lewis, Edward R. Hirt

It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop: Sampling and the Emergence of the Market Enhancement Model in Fair Use Case Law

Brooks Fuller, Jesse Abdenour

Vol. 96, No. 3, September 2019  

How Right-Wing Extremists Use and Perceive News Media

Philip Baugut, Katharina Neumann

News Use as Amplification: Norwegian National, Regional, and Hyperpartisan Media on Facebook

Anders Olof Larsson

Fearful Conservatives, Angry Liberals: Information Processing Related to the 2016 Presidential Election and Climate Change

Janet Z. Yang, Haoran Chu, LeeAnn Kahlor

Partisan Information Sources and Affective Polarization: Panel Analysis of the Mediating Role of Anger and Fear

Yanqin Lu, Jae Kook Lee

Textbook News Values: Stable Concepts, Changing Choices

Perry Parks

Journalistic Views on Hard and Soft News: Cross-Validating a Popular Concept in a Factorial Survey

Isabella Glogger, Lukas P. Otto

Journalism, Public, Policy: An Institutional View of the Press's Legal Discourse at the End of the 19th Century

Patrick C. File

"The Rippled Perceptions": The Effects of LGBT-Inclusive TV on Own Attitudes and Perceived Attitudes of Peers Toward Lesbians and Gays

Harry Yaojun Yan

Spreading the Good News: Analyzing Socially Shared Inspirational News Content

Qihao Ji, Arthur A. Raney, Sophie H. Janicke-Bowles, Katherine R. Dale, Mary Beth Oliver, Abigail Reed, Jonmichael Seibert, Arthur A. Raney, II

The Internet and Changes in the Media Industry: A 5-Year Cross-National Examination of Media Industries for 51 Countries

Sung Wook Ji

Vol. 96, No. 4, December 2019 

What Vox Pops Say and How That Matters: Effects of Vox Pops in Television News on Perceived Public Opinion and Personal Opinion

Kathleen Beckers

The People's Voice-The People's Choice? How Vox Pop Exemplars Shape Audience Judgments as a Function of Populist Attitudes

Christina Peter

Experimental Evidence for Differences in the Prosocial Effects of Binge-Watched Versus Appointment-Viewed Television Programs

Thomas J Billard

Harnessing Digital Media in the Fight Against Prejudice: Social Contact and Exposure to Digital Media Solutions

Sabina Lissitsa and Nonna Kushnirovich

Personal Choice or Political Provocation: Examining the Visual Framing and Stereotyping of the BurkiniDebate

Brian J. Bowe, Joe Gosen, and Shahira Fahmy

Interactivity as a Double-Edged Sword: Parsing Out the Effects of Modality Interactivity on Anti-Smoking Message Processing and Persuasion

Jeeyun Oh, Jisoo Ahn, and Hayoung Sally Lim

Television News Repertoires, Exposure Diversity, and Voting Behavior in the 2016 U.S. Election

Ksiazek, Su Jung Kim, and Edward C. Malthouse

Do Ethics Matter? Investigating Donor Responses to Primary and Tertiary Ethical Violations

Nicholas Browning, Sung-Un Yang, Young Eun Park, Ejae Lee, and Taeyoung Kim