publications with msrg participation

MSRG Publications, Conferences 2005

Besley, J. C., & McComas, K. A. (2005). Framing Justice: Using the Concept of Procedural Justice to Advance Political Communication Research. Paper presented at the Annual conference of the International Communication Association, New York, NY.

Besley, J.C. (2005). The Role of entertainment television and its interactions with individual values in explaining political participation. Paper presented at the Annual conference of the International Communication Association, New York, NY (Top 3 Student Paper in Political Communication Division)

Hardy, B. W. (2005, May). Political discussion and democratic citizenship: Comparing heterogeneous and homogeneous political discussion as promoters of active citizenry. Paper to be presented to the 2005 annual convention of the International Communication Association. New York, NY.

Hardy, B. W., & Gonzales, A. L. (2005, May). The Internet and participatory capital: Exploring the relationships between specific uses of the Internet and involvement in social groups. Paper to be presented to the 2005 annual convention of the International Communication Association. New York, NY.

Hardy, B. W., (2004, November). Mobilizing information online: The effects of primary-source and secondary-source websites on political participation. Paper presented to the 2004 annual conference of the Midwest Association of Public Opinion research. Chicago, IL. First place, MAPOR fellows student paper competition.

Hardy, B. Scheufele, D. & Wang, Z. (May, 2005). Defining Deliberation: Key Determinants and Distinct Dimensions. Paper to be presented at the annual conference of International Communication Association (ICA), New York, NY, USA.

Moehler, D. (2005). "Africa, East Asia, New Europe, and Latin America—In That Order: Regional Patterns in Survey Response." Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL (April, 2005).

Nisbet, E.C. (May, 2004). Mass Media Use and Democratic Consolidation: The Case of Mali. Paper submitted to the Political Communication Division at the 2005 annual meeting of the International Communication Association, New York
*Top Student Paper

Nisbet, E.C. and Shanahan, J. (May, 2004). Developing Cultural Indicators of Social Change: The Case of Homosexuality. Paper submitted to the Mass
Communication Division at the 2005 annual meeting of the International Communication Association, New York

Shanahan, J., Nisbet, E. C., Diels, J., Hardy, B. W., & Besley, B. C. (2005, May). Cultural indicators: Integrating measures of meaning with economic and social indicators. Paper to be presented to the 2005 annual convention of the International Communication Association. New York, NY.

Waismel-Manor, I. & Walter Mebane. “Does It Help or Hurt Kerry if Nader Is on the Ballot?” The Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 2005.

Wang, Z. (November 2004). Personality Strength, Network Size, and Network Heterogeneity: Linking Predispositions and Structural Influences on Civic Participation. Paper presented at the annual conference of Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research (MAPOR), Chicago, IL, USA.

Wang, Z. Scheufele, D. & Brossard, D. (May, 2005). Biotechnology and Trust: What Drives Citizens to Support Biotechnology?Paper to be presented at the annual convention of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), Miami Beach, FL, USA

In Press:

Besley, J., & Shanahan, J. (forthcoming). Exploring the Relationship Between Media Attention and Exposure and Support for Agricultural Biotechnology. Science Communication.

Brossard, Lewenstein, B. V., & Bonney, R. (forthcoming). Scientific knowledge and attitude change: The impact of a Citzen Science project. International Journal of Science Education.

Hardy, B. W., & Scheufele, D. A. (forthcoming). The differential gains from Internet use: Comparing the moderating role of talk and online interactions. Journal of Communication.

Kim, S-H., & Han, M. (forthcoming). Media use and participatory democracy in South Korea: News media vs. entertainment media. Mass Communication & Society.

Kim, S-H., Scheufele, D. A., & Shanahan, J. (forthcoming). Who cares about the issues?  Issue voting and the role of news media during the 2000 presidential election. Journal of Communication.

Lewenstein, B. V., Bonney, R. & Brossard, D. (forthcoming). Measuring scientific knowledge and attitudes in citizen science. In J. Miller (Ed.) Perceptions of biotechnology: Public understanding and attitudes.

Nisbet, M.C. (forthcoming). The competition for worldviews: Values,information, & public support for stem cell research.  International Journal of Public Opinion Research.

Nisbet, M.C. & Scheufele, D.A. (forthcoming).  Political talk as a catalyst for online citizenship.  Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.

2004

Book Chapters:

Scheufele, D. A. (2004). Surveying communities: Methodological and other challenges. In S. Hornig-Priest (Ed.), Communication impact: Developing designs for research (pp. 12-31). Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.

Journal Articles:

Besley, J. C., & Shanahan, J. (2004). Skepticism about Media Effects Concerning the Environment: Examining Lomborg's Hypotheses. Society and Natural Resources, 17, 861-880.

Brossard, D., Shanahan, J. & McComas, K. (2004). Are issue-cycles culturally constructed? A comparison of French and American coverage of global climate change. Mass Communication & Society, 7(3): 359-378.

Kim, S., Han, M., Shanahan, J. & Berdayes, V. (2004). Talking on 'Sunshine' in North Korea: A test of the spiral of silence as a theory of powerful mass media. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 16: 39-62.

Nisbet, E. C., Nisbet, M. C., Scheufele, D. A., & Shanahan, J. E. (2004). Public diplomacy, television news, and Muslim opinion. The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, 9 (2), 11-37.

Nisbet, M.C. (2004). The Polls: Public opinion about stem cell
research and human cloning.  Public Opinion Quarterly, 68 (1),
132-155. 

Scheufele, D. A., Nisbet., M. C., Brossard, D., & Nisbet, E. C. (2004). Social structure and citizenship: Examining the impacts of social setting, network heterogeneity and informational variables on political participation. Political Communication, 21, 315-338.

Shanahan, J. (2004). A Return to Cultural Indicators. Communications, 29 : 277-294.

Shanahan, J., Scheufele, D. A., Yang, F., & Hizi, S. (2004). Cultivation and spiral of silence effects: The case of smoking. Mass Communication & Society, 7 (4), 413-428.

2003

Book Chapters:

Ostman, R. E. (2003). Communication and civic participation: A proposed research agenda. In J. Harper & T. Yantek (Eds.), Symposium on democracy: Media, profits, and politics (pp. 77-90). Kent, OH: Kent State University Press. 

Journal Articles:

Brossard, D., & Shanahan, J. (2003). Do they want to have their say? Media, agricultural biotechnology, and authoritarian views of democratic processes in science. Mass Communication and Society, 3, 291-312.

Cameron, K., Campo, S., & Brossard, D. (2003). Advocating for controversial issues: The effect of activism on compliance gaining strategy likelihood use. Communication Studies, 54, 265-281.

Campo, S., Brossard, D., M. Frazer, M.S., Marchall, T., Lewis, D., Talbot, J. (2003). Are social norms campaigns really magic bullets? Assessing the effects of students’ misperceptions on drinking behavior. Health Communication.

Joines, J. L., Scherer, C. W., & Scheufele, D. A. (2003). Exploring motivations for consumer Web use and their implications for e-commerce. The Journal of Consumer Marketing, 20 (2), 90-108.

Nisbet, M.C., Brossard, D., & Kroepsch, A. (2003). Framing Science: The stem cell controversy in an age of press/politics. Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, 8 (2), 36-70.

Scheufele, D. A., Nisbet, M. C., & Brossard, D. (2003). Pathways to participation? Religion, communication contexts, and mass media. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 15 (3), 300-324.

2002

Journal Articles:

Chong, M., & Scheufele, D.A. (2002). Rhetoric and
reality: Public acceptance of Golden Rice in
Thailand.
Journal of Development Communication, 13 (1), 58-69.

Foucault, B., & Scheufele, D. A. (2002). Web vs. campus store? Why students buy textbooks online. The Journal of Consumer Marketing, 19 (5), 409-423.

Nisbet, M., Scheufele, D. A., Shanahan, J. E., Moy, P., Brossard, D., & Lewenstein, B. V. (2002). Knowledge, reservations, or promise? Mass media and public perceptions of science. Communication Research, 29 (5), 584-608.

Scheufele, D. A., Shanahan, J., & Kim, S. (2002). Who cares about the issues? Media influences on issue awareness, issue stance, and issue involvement. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 79 (2), 427-444.

Scheufele, D. A., & Nisbet, M. (2002). Democracy online: New opportunities and dead ends. Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, 7 (3), 53-73.

Kim, S., Scheufele, D. A., & Shanahan, J. E. (2002). Agenda-setting, priming, framing and second-levels in local politics. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 79 (1), 7-25.

Scheufele, D. A. (2002). Differential gains from mass media and their implications for participatory behavior." Communication Research, 29 (1), 45-64.

2001

Books:

Shanahan, J. (ed.) Propaganda without propagandists? Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, (166 pp.).

Book Chapters:

Lewenstein, B. "What Kind of ‘Public Understanding of Science’ Programs Best Serve a Democracy?" in Sabine Maasen & Matthias Winterhager (eds.), Science Studies: Probing the Dynamics of Scientific Knowledge (Munich: Transcript Verlag, 2001), pp. 235-255.

Scheufele, D. A. Democracy for some? How political talk both informs and polarizes the electorate. In R. P. Hart & D. Shaw (Eds.), Communication and U.S. elections: New agendas (pp. 19-32). Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.

Journal Articles:

Hayes, A., Shanahan, J. & Glynn, C. Willingness to express one's opinion as a function of perceived support for that opinion. International Journal of Public Opinion Research. 13(1), 45-58.

Lewenstein, B. "Expertise in the Media," [in special section on U.S. presidential election of 2000] Social Studies of Science, 31(3), 441-444.

Moy, P., Scheufele, D. A., Eveland, W. P. Jr., & McLeod, J. M. Support for the death penalty and rehabilitation: Question artifact or communication effect? Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 31(11), 2230-2255.

Shanahan, J., Scheufele, D. & Lee, E. The Polls -- Trends: Attitudes about Agricultural Biotechnology and Genetically Modified Organisms. Public Opinion Quarterly, 65(2), 267-281.

Scheufele, D., Shanahan, J., & Lee, E. Real Talk: Manipulating the dependent variable in spiral of silence research. Communication Research, 28 (3), 304-324.

Scheufele, D. A., & Eveland, W. P., Jr. (2001). Perceptions of 'public opinion' and 'public' opinion expression. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 13 (1), 26-44.

Shanahan, J., McComas, K. & Butler, J. Environmental content in prime-time network TV’s non-news entertainment and fictional programs. Society and Natural Resources, 14, 533-542.