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Research paper thumbnail of The Politics of Consumption/The Consumption of Politics

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2007

As consumer culture pervades the social life of citizens in America and Europe, it becomes increa... more As consumer culture pervades the social life of citizens in America and Europe, it becomes increasingly important to clarify the relationship between consumption and citizenship. With this in mind, faculty and students at the University of Wisconsin organized a conference titled “The Politics of Consumption/The Consumption of Politics.” Held in October 2006, the meeting provided a forum for leading scholars to discuss the interplay of markets, media, politics, and the citizen-consumer. Revised and expanded versions of the papers they presented are collected in this volume with the goal of advancing this emerging area of inquiry. It is our hope that the essays and research papers we have collected here help define the next wave of theory building and research inquiry on the intersections of consumer culture, civic culture, and mass culture.

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Research paper thumbnail of The Politics of Consumption/The Consumption of Politics

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2007

As consumer culture pervades the social life of citizens in America and Europe, it becomes increa... more As consumer culture pervades the social life of citizens in America and Europe, it becomes increasingly important to clarify the relationship between consumption and citizenship. With this in mind, faculty and students at the University of Wisconsin organized a conference titled “The Politics of Consumption/The Consumption of Politics.” Held in October 2006, the meeting provided a forum for leading scholars to discuss the interplay of markets, media, politics, and the citizen-consumer. Revised and expanded versions of the papers they presented are collected in this volume with the goal of advancing this emerging area of inquiry. It is our hope that the essays and research papers we have collected here help define the next wave of theory building and research inquiry on the intersections of consumer culture, civic culture, and mass culture.

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Research paper thumbnail of Attention cycles and the H1N1 pandemic: a cross-national study of US and Korean newspaper coverage

Asian Journal of Communication, 2012

This study analyzes US and South Korean news coverage of the H1N1 pandemic to examine cross-cultu... more This study analyzes US and South Korean news coverage of the H1N1 pandemic to examine cross-cultural variations in attention cycle patterns, cited sources, and news frames. A content analysis was conducted on 630 articles from US and Korean newspapers during the period of April to October 2009. It found that attention cycle patterns, news frames, and sources varied across the

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Research paper thumbnail of Cultural Influence in Differential Normative Mechanisms: A Cross-National Study of Antismoking PSA Effectiveness

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Research paper thumbnail of Capital, Consumption, Communication

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Research paper thumbnail of Electronic Cigarette Themes on Twitter: Dissemination Patterns and Relations with Online News and Search Engine Queries in South Korea

This study examines multiple aspects of e-cigarette mentions on different online media channels d... more This study examines multiple aspects of e-cigarette mentions on different online media channels during the announcement and implementation of a cigarette tax increase policy in South Korea. It consists of three parts. First, a Naive Bayes classifier was used to sort 59,147 tweets about e-cigarettes into five pre-designated themes — promotion, health, policy, product evaluation, and price — and to determine their relative prevalence. Second, social network analysis was used to identify the themes’ dissemination patterns. Third, the themes were examined for their associations with e-cigarette mentions in two other media channels — online news articles (n = 580) and search engine queries (64 weeks of Google Trends data). Results show that the most prevalent tweet theme was product evaluation, and the theme with the largest increase during the data collection period was promotion. Promotion-themed tweets were the least connected with tweets about the other five themes, while health-them...

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Research paper thumbnail of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs), Crisis Communication Principles and the COVID-19 Response in South Korea

Journal of Creative Communications

This case study highlights several communication insights that have emerged from the South Korean... more This case study highlights several communication insights that have emerged from the South Korean national response to COVID-19. In particular, it focuses on how innovative disease control programmes and information and communications technologies (ICT) have been used in conjunction with appropriate message strategies. The South Korean government used ICTs in a variety of ways to enhance crisis communication, coordinate large-scale public health efforts and supply chains, and facilitate widespread adoption of preventive measures such as social distancing and mask wearing. The response and communication strategies were based on principles established by research in social sciences and recommended for pandemic response, including social marketing, crisis communication, and normative influence. South Korea’s COVID-19 response and communication strategies can provide useful insights for national efforts to manage COVID-19 and other possible future infectious disease outbreaks.

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Research paper thumbnail of Communicating Uncertainties during the COVID-19 Outbreak

Health Communication

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Research paper thumbnail of Removing tar information from cigarette packages may reduce South Korean smokers' misconceptions about low-tar cigarettes

Tobacco Induced Diseases

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Research paper thumbnail of Persuasion Knowledge and the Effectiveness of Media Advocacy in Debunking Korean Tobacco Company Corporate Social Responsibility Programs

Asian Communication Research

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Research paper thumbnail of Mediating and Moderating Roles of Trust in Government in Effective Risk Rumor Management: A Test Case of Radiation‐Contaminated Seafood in South Korea

Risk Analysis

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Research paper thumbnail of Effective strategies for responding to rumors about risks: The case of radiation-contaminated food in South Korea

Public Relations Review

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Research paper thumbnail of Can Removing Tar Information From Cigarette Packages Reduce Smokers’ Misconceptions About Low-Tar Cigarettes? An Experiment From One of the World’s Lowest Tar Yield Markets, South Korea

Nicotine & Tobacco Research

Introduction Despite regulations that forbid cigarette packages from displaying messages such as ... more Introduction Despite regulations that forbid cigarette packages from displaying messages such as “mild,” “low-tar,” and “light,” many smokers still have misperceptions about “light” or “low-tar” cigarettes. One reason may be that tar amount displays continue to be permitted. This study examines whether removing tar delivery information from packaging reduces consumer misperceptions about “low-tar” cigarettes. Methods An online experiment was conducted in South Korea among 531 smokers who were randomly assigned to one of two conditions: with and without tar information on cigarette packages. Participants evaluated which type of cigarette was mildest, least harmful, easiest for nonsmokers to start smoking, and easiest for smokers to quit. Results Ten out of 12 chi-square tests showed that people judged the lowest reported tar delivery cigarette to be the mildest (p < .01), least harmful (p < .05), easiest to start (p < .05), and easiest to quit (p < .05)—less so in the “no...

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Research paper thumbnail of How the Media Effects Schema and the Persuasion Ethics Schema Affect Audience Responses to Antismoking Campaign Messages

Health Communication, 2017

This study examines the roles that the media effects and persuasion ethics schemas play in people... more This study examines the roles that the media effects and persuasion ethics schemas play in people&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#39;s responses to an antismoking ad in South Korea. An online experiment was conducted with 347 adults. The media effects schema was manipulated with news stories on an antismoking campaign&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#39;s effectiveness, while the persuasion ethics schema was measured and median-split. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) tests were performed for issue attitudes (Iatt), attitude toward the ad (Aad), and behavioral intention (BI). Results show significant main effects of the media effects schema on the three dependent variables. People in the weak media effects condition had significantly lower Iatt, Aad, and BI than those in either the strong media effects condition or the control condition. This pattern was more pronounced among smokers. While there was no significant main effect of the persuasion ethics schema on any of the dependent variables, a significant interaction effect for persuasion ethics schema and smoking status was found on behavioral intention (BI). Nonsmokers&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#39; BI was significantly higher than smokers&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#39; in the low-persuasion ethics schema condition, but it was not significant in the high-persuasion ethics schema condition.

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Research paper thumbnail of Social Cognitive Factors and Perceived Social Influences That Improve Adolescent eHealth Literacy

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While adolescents are increasingly using the Internet for health information, little research has... more While adolescents are increasingly using the Internet for health information, little research has been done to assess and improve their &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;eHealth literacy&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;-the abilities to find, evaluate, and apply online health information. This study examines the extent to which adolescents&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#39; levels of eHealth literacy can be improved by known determinants such as social cognitive factors and perceived social influences, either independently or jointly. Among 182 middle-schoolers, an eHealth literacy intervention was carried out. It involved qualitative and quantitative baseline research, three online training sessions, and a postintervention survey. According to hierarchical regression model results, social cognitive factors of outcome expectations and involvement, but not health motivation, significantly improved eHealth literacy, and all the perceived social influence variables significantly improved eHealth literacy. However, no joint effect of social cognitive factors and perceived social influences was found. In light of these findings, educators need to make eHealth literacy programs personally relevant to adolescents and reinforce local social norms about the importance of seeking health information online.

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Research paper thumbnail of Reduced Harm or Another Gateway to Smoking? Source, Message, and Information Characteristics of E-Cigarette Videos on YouTube

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 10810730 2013 821560, May 7, 2014

E-cigarettes are widely promoted on the Internet, but little is known about what kinds of informa... more E-cigarettes are widely promoted on the Internet, but little is known about what kinds of information about them are available online. This study examines message, source, and health information characteristics of e-cigarette videos on the popular online video-sharing platform YouTube. A content analysis of 365 e-cigarette videos indicates that 85% of the videos were sponsored by marketers. These videos highlight e-cigarettes&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#39; economic and social benefits, featuring a low level of fear appeal and negative message valence and a high level of marketing information about e-cigarette products. They also convey certain health claims that have been proscribed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the prevalence of which warrants ongoing monitoring and regulatory guidelines for online e-cigarette marketing.

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Research paper thumbnail of When Distant Others Matter More: Perceived Effectiveness for Self and Other in the Child Abuse PSA Context

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 15213269 2011 653002, May 18, 2012

Perceived effectiveness (PE) has been studied as an important antecedent of persuasion. But judgm... more Perceived effectiveness (PE) has been studied as an important antecedent of persuasion. But judgments of PE may vary its persuasive impact depending on whom people think about as message referents. This study explores PE judgment for both self and different others as well as their independent roles in the persuasion process. Theoretical rationales are drawn from the third-person effect and

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Research paper thumbnail of Public Relations Ethics in the Age of New Media: A Critique of Three Paradigms

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Research paper thumbnail of The Filter, the Alarm System, and the Sounding Board: Critical and Warning Functions of the Public Sphere

Communication and Critical Cultural Studies, Feb 16, 2009

... For commentary, see Thomas Hove, “Understanding and Efficiency: Habermas&amp;#x27;s Conce... more ... For commentary, see Thomas Hove, “Understanding and Efficiency: Habermas&amp;#x27;s Concept of Communication Relief,” Communication Theory 18 (2008): 240 ... In a relatively early commentary on Habermas&amp;#x27;s public sphere theory, John J. Rodger identifies these two dimensions as ...

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Research paper thumbnail of Communicative Implications of Kants Aesthetic Theory

Philosophy and Rhetoric, 2009

ABSTRACT In recent discussions of aesthetic theory, critics who raise social, cultural, and polit... more ABSTRACT In recent discussions of aesthetic theory, critics who raise social, cultural, and political concerns have issued important challenges to the Kantian legacy. Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment (1790) continues to be widely regarded as one of the founding documents of modern aesthetic theory. But the arguments he laid out in that notoriously enigmatic work remain controversial on a variety of fronts. One of those arguments concerns his distinction between pleasures that are beautiful and those that are agreeable. According to Kant’s definition, what makes experiences of the beautiful special is that they have a potentially communicable universal validity. By contrast, pleasures that are merely agreeable are incommunicable and remain confined to private sensation. Philosophers have found this distinction problematic for a variety of reasons. Their detailed commentaries have examined the intricate logical and conceptual difficulties that Kant’s theory raises (see Allison 2001; Guyer 1982, 1997, 2002; Kalar 2000; Wenzel 2005). On another front, sociologists and cultural critics—whom I will broadly refer to as “social critics”—typically raise concerns about the theory’s hidden social implications (Bourdieu 1984; Eagleton 1990; Smith 1988; Shumway 2005). Specifically, they question Kant’s proposal that judgments about the beautiful ought to have universal validity. Taking an external standpoint, they tend to regard aesthetic judgments either as the peculiar habits of specific social classes, or as badges of hierarchical distinction, or as weapons in symbolic struggles for cultural dominance. To suggest why Kant’s theory is worth revisiting in the wake of such critiques, the following analysis defends his theoretical effort to distinguish the experience of the beautiful from that of the agreeable. This feature of his aesthetic theory highlights an alternative to the cognitive and practical concerns that social critics emphasize. In particular, I indicate how Kant’s aesthetic theory offers directions for the effort to explain how aesthetic experience promotes communicative sociability. By emphasizing this theme, I hope to supplement the rival emphasis that social critics place on the Kantian legacy’s elitist undercurrents. Social critiques characteristically overlook the affective type of sociability to which aesthetic experience gives rise. This oversight occurs because those critiques tend to privilege the theoretical and practical dimensions of communication. In the process, they disregard the special types of validity claims that are unique to aesthetic discourse. Following the lead of his academic precursors Meier and Baumgarten, Kant tried to define a possible third mental “faculty” that differs from cognitive and practical reason (see Henrich 1992, 31–36). But the difficulty of defining this third faculty, much less determining its existence, continues to vex both philosophers and communication theorists. In the opening sections of the Critique of Judgment, Kant attempts to establish the independence of aesthetic judgment from theoretical and practical cognition. Those faculties are concerned with cognitive and moral concepts. By contrast, the aesthetic properties that concern taste judgments have a unique ontological and epistemological status. Kant’s argument about that status is itself enormously complex, involving as it does an intricate network of idiosyncratically defined concepts (for example, the understanding, the imagination, intuition, representations, objects, etc.). But to avoid getting lost in those intricacies, we can bracket them by simply referring to aesthetic “experience.” Also, we can concentrate on the two properties that distinguish aesthetic experience from other kinds of experience. First, aesthetic properties relate to the feelings of pleasure that are aroused by certain encounters with objects. Second, aesthetic properties are “merely subjective” (Kant 2000, 75). They do not have an objective status because we cannot associate the feelings they arouse with determinate concepts and objects. As Miles Rind puts it, “in making a cognitive judgment one requires everyone to conceptualize an object in a certain way, while in making a judgment of taste one requires others to share one’s liking for an object” (Rind 2000, 83). In sum, Kant differentiates aesthetic judgment from both theoretical and practical cognition because it is radically subjective and because its unique grounding lies in feelings of pleasure and displeasure. Social critics tend to downplay the idea that there can be a uniquely aesthetic mode of experience. One reason why has to do with...

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Research paper thumbnail of The Politics of Consumption/The Consumption of Politics

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2007

As consumer culture pervades the social life of citizens in America and Europe, it becomes increa... more As consumer culture pervades the social life of citizens in America and Europe, it becomes increasingly important to clarify the relationship between consumption and citizenship. With this in mind, faculty and students at the University of Wisconsin organized a conference titled “The Politics of Consumption/The Consumption of Politics.” Held in October 2006, the meeting provided a forum for leading scholars to discuss the interplay of markets, media, politics, and the citizen-consumer. Revised and expanded versions of the papers they presented are collected in this volume with the goal of advancing this emerging area of inquiry. It is our hope that the essays and research papers we have collected here help define the next wave of theory building and research inquiry on the intersections of consumer culture, civic culture, and mass culture.

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Research paper thumbnail of The Politics of Consumption/The Consumption of Politics

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2007

As consumer culture pervades the social life of citizens in America and Europe, it becomes increa... more As consumer culture pervades the social life of citizens in America and Europe, it becomes increasingly important to clarify the relationship between consumption and citizenship. With this in mind, faculty and students at the University of Wisconsin organized a conference titled “The Politics of Consumption/The Consumption of Politics.” Held in October 2006, the meeting provided a forum for leading scholars to discuss the interplay of markets, media, politics, and the citizen-consumer. Revised and expanded versions of the papers they presented are collected in this volume with the goal of advancing this emerging area of inquiry. It is our hope that the essays and research papers we have collected here help define the next wave of theory building and research inquiry on the intersections of consumer culture, civic culture, and mass culture.

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Research paper thumbnail of Attention cycles and the H1N1 pandemic: a cross-national study of US and Korean newspaper coverage

Asian Journal of Communication, 2012

This study analyzes US and South Korean news coverage of the H1N1 pandemic to examine cross-cultu... more This study analyzes US and South Korean news coverage of the H1N1 pandemic to examine cross-cultural variations in attention cycle patterns, cited sources, and news frames. A content analysis was conducted on 630 articles from US and Korean newspapers during the period of April to October 2009. It found that attention cycle patterns, news frames, and sources varied across the

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Research paper thumbnail of Cultural Influence in Differential Normative Mechanisms: A Cross-National Study of Antismoking PSA Effectiveness

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Research paper thumbnail of Capital, Consumption, Communication

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Research paper thumbnail of Electronic Cigarette Themes on Twitter: Dissemination Patterns and Relations with Online News and Search Engine Queries in South Korea

This study examines multiple aspects of e-cigarette mentions on different online media channels d... more This study examines multiple aspects of e-cigarette mentions on different online media channels during the announcement and implementation of a cigarette tax increase policy in South Korea. It consists of three parts. First, a Naive Bayes classifier was used to sort 59,147 tweets about e-cigarettes into five pre-designated themes — promotion, health, policy, product evaluation, and price — and to determine their relative prevalence. Second, social network analysis was used to identify the themes’ dissemination patterns. Third, the themes were examined for their associations with e-cigarette mentions in two other media channels — online news articles (n = 580) and search engine queries (64 weeks of Google Trends data). Results show that the most prevalent tweet theme was product evaluation, and the theme with the largest increase during the data collection period was promotion. Promotion-themed tweets were the least connected with tweets about the other five themes, while health-them...

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Research paper thumbnail of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs), Crisis Communication Principles and the COVID-19 Response in South Korea

Journal of Creative Communications

This case study highlights several communication insights that have emerged from the South Korean... more This case study highlights several communication insights that have emerged from the South Korean national response to COVID-19. In particular, it focuses on how innovative disease control programmes and information and communications technologies (ICT) have been used in conjunction with appropriate message strategies. The South Korean government used ICTs in a variety of ways to enhance crisis communication, coordinate large-scale public health efforts and supply chains, and facilitate widespread adoption of preventive measures such as social distancing and mask wearing. The response and communication strategies were based on principles established by research in social sciences and recommended for pandemic response, including social marketing, crisis communication, and normative influence. South Korea’s COVID-19 response and communication strategies can provide useful insights for national efforts to manage COVID-19 and other possible future infectious disease outbreaks.

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Research paper thumbnail of Communicating Uncertainties during the COVID-19 Outbreak

Health Communication

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Research paper thumbnail of Removing tar information from cigarette packages may reduce South Korean smokers' misconceptions about low-tar cigarettes

Tobacco Induced Diseases

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Research paper thumbnail of Persuasion Knowledge and the Effectiveness of Media Advocacy in Debunking Korean Tobacco Company Corporate Social Responsibility Programs

Asian Communication Research

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Research paper thumbnail of Mediating and Moderating Roles of Trust in Government in Effective Risk Rumor Management: A Test Case of Radiation‐Contaminated Seafood in South Korea

Risk Analysis

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Research paper thumbnail of Effective strategies for responding to rumors about risks: The case of radiation-contaminated food in South Korea

Public Relations Review

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Research paper thumbnail of Can Removing Tar Information From Cigarette Packages Reduce Smokers’ Misconceptions About Low-Tar Cigarettes? An Experiment From One of the World’s Lowest Tar Yield Markets, South Korea

Nicotine & Tobacco Research

Introduction Despite regulations that forbid cigarette packages from displaying messages such as ... more Introduction Despite regulations that forbid cigarette packages from displaying messages such as “mild,” “low-tar,” and “light,” many smokers still have misperceptions about “light” or “low-tar” cigarettes. One reason may be that tar amount displays continue to be permitted. This study examines whether removing tar delivery information from packaging reduces consumer misperceptions about “low-tar” cigarettes. Methods An online experiment was conducted in South Korea among 531 smokers who were randomly assigned to one of two conditions: with and without tar information on cigarette packages. Participants evaluated which type of cigarette was mildest, least harmful, easiest for nonsmokers to start smoking, and easiest for smokers to quit. Results Ten out of 12 chi-square tests showed that people judged the lowest reported tar delivery cigarette to be the mildest (p < .01), least harmful (p < .05), easiest to start (p < .05), and easiest to quit (p < .05)—less so in the “no...

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Research paper thumbnail of How the Media Effects Schema and the Persuasion Ethics Schema Affect Audience Responses to Antismoking Campaign Messages

Health Communication, 2017

This study examines the roles that the media effects and persuasion ethics schemas play in people... more This study examines the roles that the media effects and persuasion ethics schemas play in people&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#39;s responses to an antismoking ad in South Korea. An online experiment was conducted with 347 adults. The media effects schema was manipulated with news stories on an antismoking campaign&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#39;s effectiveness, while the persuasion ethics schema was measured and median-split. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) tests were performed for issue attitudes (Iatt), attitude toward the ad (Aad), and behavioral intention (BI). Results show significant main effects of the media effects schema on the three dependent variables. People in the weak media effects condition had significantly lower Iatt, Aad, and BI than those in either the strong media effects condition or the control condition. This pattern was more pronounced among smokers. While there was no significant main effect of the persuasion ethics schema on any of the dependent variables, a significant interaction effect for persuasion ethics schema and smoking status was found on behavioral intention (BI). Nonsmokers&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#39; BI was significantly higher than smokers&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#39; in the low-persuasion ethics schema condition, but it was not significant in the high-persuasion ethics schema condition.

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Research paper thumbnail of Social Cognitive Factors and Perceived Social Influences That Improve Adolescent eHealth Literacy

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 10410236 2011 616627, Mar 27, 2012

While adolescents are increasingly using the Internet for health information, little research has... more While adolescents are increasingly using the Internet for health information, little research has been done to assess and improve their &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;eHealth literacy&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;-the abilities to find, evaluate, and apply online health information. This study examines the extent to which adolescents&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#39; levels of eHealth literacy can be improved by known determinants such as social cognitive factors and perceived social influences, either independently or jointly. Among 182 middle-schoolers, an eHealth literacy intervention was carried out. It involved qualitative and quantitative baseline research, three online training sessions, and a postintervention survey. According to hierarchical regression model results, social cognitive factors of outcome expectations and involvement, but not health motivation, significantly improved eHealth literacy, and all the perceived social influence variables significantly improved eHealth literacy. However, no joint effect of social cognitive factors and perceived social influences was found. In light of these findings, educators need to make eHealth literacy programs personally relevant to adolescents and reinforce local social norms about the importance of seeking health information online.

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Research paper thumbnail of Reduced Harm or Another Gateway to Smoking? Source, Message, and Information Characteristics of E-Cigarette Videos on YouTube

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 10810730 2013 821560, May 7, 2014

E-cigarettes are widely promoted on the Internet, but little is known about what kinds of informa... more E-cigarettes are widely promoted on the Internet, but little is known about what kinds of information about them are available online. This study examines message, source, and health information characteristics of e-cigarette videos on the popular online video-sharing platform YouTube. A content analysis of 365 e-cigarette videos indicates that 85% of the videos were sponsored by marketers. These videos highlight e-cigarettes&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#39; economic and social benefits, featuring a low level of fear appeal and negative message valence and a high level of marketing information about e-cigarette products. They also convey certain health claims that have been proscribed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the prevalence of which warrants ongoing monitoring and regulatory guidelines for online e-cigarette marketing.

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Research paper thumbnail of When Distant Others Matter More: Perceived Effectiveness for Self and Other in the Child Abuse PSA Context

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 15213269 2011 653002, May 18, 2012

Perceived effectiveness (PE) has been studied as an important antecedent of persuasion. But judgm... more Perceived effectiveness (PE) has been studied as an important antecedent of persuasion. But judgments of PE may vary its persuasive impact depending on whom people think about as message referents. This study explores PE judgment for both self and different others as well as their independent roles in the persuasion process. Theoretical rationales are drawn from the third-person effect and

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Research paper thumbnail of Public Relations Ethics in the Age of New Media: A Critique of Three Paradigms

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Research paper thumbnail of The Filter, the Alarm System, and the Sounding Board: Critical and Warning Functions of the Public Sphere

Communication and Critical Cultural Studies, Feb 16, 2009

... For commentary, see Thomas Hove, “Understanding and Efficiency: Habermas&amp;#x27;s Conce... more ... For commentary, see Thomas Hove, “Understanding and Efficiency: Habermas&amp;#x27;s Concept of Communication Relief,” Communication Theory 18 (2008): 240 ... In a relatively early commentary on Habermas&amp;#x27;s public sphere theory, John J. Rodger identifies these two dimensions as ...

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Research paper thumbnail of Communicative Implications of Kants Aesthetic Theory

Philosophy and Rhetoric, 2009

ABSTRACT In recent discussions of aesthetic theory, critics who raise social, cultural, and polit... more ABSTRACT In recent discussions of aesthetic theory, critics who raise social, cultural, and political concerns have issued important challenges to the Kantian legacy. Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment (1790) continues to be widely regarded as one of the founding documents of modern aesthetic theory. But the arguments he laid out in that notoriously enigmatic work remain controversial on a variety of fronts. One of those arguments concerns his distinction between pleasures that are beautiful and those that are agreeable. According to Kant’s definition, what makes experiences of the beautiful special is that they have a potentially communicable universal validity. By contrast, pleasures that are merely agreeable are incommunicable and remain confined to private sensation. Philosophers have found this distinction problematic for a variety of reasons. Their detailed commentaries have examined the intricate logical and conceptual difficulties that Kant’s theory raises (see Allison 2001; Guyer 1982, 1997, 2002; Kalar 2000; Wenzel 2005). On another front, sociologists and cultural critics—whom I will broadly refer to as “social critics”—typically raise concerns about the theory’s hidden social implications (Bourdieu 1984; Eagleton 1990; Smith 1988; Shumway 2005). Specifically, they question Kant’s proposal that judgments about the beautiful ought to have universal validity. Taking an external standpoint, they tend to regard aesthetic judgments either as the peculiar habits of specific social classes, or as badges of hierarchical distinction, or as weapons in symbolic struggles for cultural dominance. To suggest why Kant’s theory is worth revisiting in the wake of such critiques, the following analysis defends his theoretical effort to distinguish the experience of the beautiful from that of the agreeable. This feature of his aesthetic theory highlights an alternative to the cognitive and practical concerns that social critics emphasize. In particular, I indicate how Kant’s aesthetic theory offers directions for the effort to explain how aesthetic experience promotes communicative sociability. By emphasizing this theme, I hope to supplement the rival emphasis that social critics place on the Kantian legacy’s elitist undercurrents. Social critiques characteristically overlook the affective type of sociability to which aesthetic experience gives rise. This oversight occurs because those critiques tend to privilege the theoretical and practical dimensions of communication. In the process, they disregard the special types of validity claims that are unique to aesthetic discourse. Following the lead of his academic precursors Meier and Baumgarten, Kant tried to define a possible third mental “faculty” that differs from cognitive and practical reason (see Henrich 1992, 31–36). But the difficulty of defining this third faculty, much less determining its existence, continues to vex both philosophers and communication theorists. In the opening sections of the Critique of Judgment, Kant attempts to establish the independence of aesthetic judgment from theoretical and practical cognition. Those faculties are concerned with cognitive and moral concepts. By contrast, the aesthetic properties that concern taste judgments have a unique ontological and epistemological status. Kant’s argument about that status is itself enormously complex, involving as it does an intricate network of idiosyncratically defined concepts (for example, the understanding, the imagination, intuition, representations, objects, etc.). But to avoid getting lost in those intricacies, we can bracket them by simply referring to aesthetic “experience.” Also, we can concentrate on the two properties that distinguish aesthetic experience from other kinds of experience. First, aesthetic properties relate to the feelings of pleasure that are aroused by certain encounters with objects. Second, aesthetic properties are “merely subjective” (Kant 2000, 75). They do not have an objective status because we cannot associate the feelings they arouse with determinate concepts and objects. As Miles Rind puts it, “in making a cognitive judgment one requires everyone to conceptualize an object in a certain way, while in making a judgment of taste one requires others to share one’s liking for an object” (Rind 2000, 83). In sum, Kant differentiates aesthetic judgment from both theoretical and practical cognition because it is radically subjective and because its unique grounding lies in feelings of pleasure and displeasure. Social critics tend to downplay the idea that there can be a uniquely aesthetic mode of experience. One reason why has to do with...

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