Mediated Messages

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mediated Messages

Holding on and letting go: Memory, nostalgia, and effects of virtual possession management practices on post-breakup adjustment

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (7) ◽  
pp. 2229-2249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Brody ◽  
Leah LeFebvre ◽  
Kate Blackburn
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Memory Process ◽  
Breakup Process ◽  
Model Framework ◽  
Dissolution Model ◽  
Letting Go ◽  
Mediated Messages ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

When people end their relationships, they must choose which parts of the relationship to remember and forget as they prepare themselves for future partners. This memory process is complicated by the recordability and permanence of mediated messages because individuals must actively curate their virtual possessions—such as pictures with a previous partner or online relationship statuses. Using the relational dissolution model framework, this study investigated the behaviors people use online to manage the end of their relationships and how these choices may influence the way they adjust to the breakup. College students ( N = 234) were surveyed to examine how their keeping and deleting of virtual possessions are related to their post-breakup adjustment. Results suggest that keeping virtual possessions negatively relates to post-breakup adjustment. Participants who were more nostalgic were more likely to keep virtual possessions following a breakup, which mediated the relationship between nostalgia and post-breakup adjustment. The implications show how the persistence of mediated possessions has the potential to affect the breakup process as people struggle to manage their relational memories.

scholarly journals ‘All for One, One for All’: communicative processes of co-creation of place brands through inclusive and horizontal stakeholder collaborative networks

1970 ◽  
pp. 59-76
Author(s):  
Laura Ripoll-González ◽  
Libby Lester
Keyword(s):  
Place Branding ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
Communicative Interaction ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Place Brand ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Mediated Messages ◽  
Stakeholder Interactions ◽  
Stakeholder Communication

This paper examines stakeholder communication and interaction dynamics in place branding processes in order to inform alternative participatory place branding models. The paper draws from critical communications and branding theory to argue that place brand identities are the result of mediated messages in the public sphere. Consequently, place branding processes need to be observed as communicative exchanges. Through a case study of Australia’s southern and only island state of Tasmania, the research employs participatory action research combined with the method of sociological intervention to explore stakeholders’ communicative interaction patterns and engagement in place branding processes. Participants representing formal and informal stakeholders engaged in communicating meaning about places were invited to participate in a series of interviews and focus group discussions that allowed a unique self-reflective process and analysis of practices and power-geometries. The proposed quasi-real scenario led to an understanding of the impediments for communication and to scoping alternative modes of engagement towards effective stakeholder communication to support the development of resilient place brand identities. The findings of the exploration contribute to theoretical development of the field by providing an analysis of the nature of stakeholder interactions and communication patterns, impediments and opportunities for greater communication and collaboration towards a common purpose. On a practical level, the study can also inform the development of participatory models of place brand development. Finally, the method proposed here can serve as a practical tool to foster stakeholder engagement in processes of cocreation of place brand identities.

A Counterpoint on American Education and Media

2017 ◽  
pp. 250-255
Author(s):  
Shahla Naghiyeva
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Culture Shock ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Education ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Fulbright Scholar ◽  
Mediated Messages

Coming from Azerbaijan to America as a Fulbright Scholar, I packed as many assumptions as I did suitcases. After conducting my research, I realized that everything I learned while visiting the United States should be shared with my students, to prevent them from some culture shock and to prepare them to be globally-minded, thinking of mediated messages about foreign countries in a critical manner. This chapter is a result of this endeavor, a sort of auto-ethnographical tour through the America that I saw through my positionality as an Azerbaijani woman.

Hype Versus Substance in Network Television Coverage of Presidential Election Campaigns

2005 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia R. Fox ◽  
James R. Angelini ◽  
Christopher Goble
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Network Television ◽  
Broadcast Television ◽  
Mediated Messages ◽  
Television Coverage

Content analysis of broadcast television networks' weekday nightly newscasts during the final weeks of the 1988, 1992, 1996, and 2000 presidential election campaigns found an emphasis on hype rather than substantive coverage of the campaigns. Examination of audio and video messages separately showed this to be true for both. Further, even when the audio was substantive, the accompanying visuals often were not. The results are discussed in terms of media reliance, journalistic responsibility, and cognitive processing of mediated messages.

The spread of fake science: Lexical concreteness, proximity, misinformation sharing, and the moderating role of subjective knowledge

2020 ◽  
pp. 096366252096616
Author(s):  
Alex Williams Kirkpatrick
Keyword(s):  
Science Communication ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Source Credibility ◽  
Construal Level Theory ◽  
Perceived Threat ◽  
Construal Level ◽  
Mediation Process ◽  
Subjective Knowledge ◽  
Mediated Messages ◽  
Psychological Proximity

The spread of science misinformation harms efforts to mitigate threats like climate change or coronavirus. Construal-level theory suggests that mediated messages can prime psychological proximity to threats, having consequences for behavior. Via two MTurk experiments, I tested a serial mediation process model predicting misinformation sharing from lexical concreteness, through psychological proximity and perceived threat. In Study 1, concrete misinformation primed psychological proximity which, in turn, increased perceived threat. Perceived threat then increased the likelihood that misinformation would be shared. Source credibility was also shown to positively influence misinformation sharing. Study 2 advanced this by showing this process was moderated by subjective knowledge. Specifically, the effect of perceived threat on misinformation sharing was stronger for those with higher subjective knowledge. Furthermore, the indirect effect of lexical concreteness on misinformation sharing was stronger for those with higher subjective knowledge. Results and limitations are discussed within the lens of construal-level theory and science communication.

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