An Nguyen - News, Numbers and Public Opinion in a Data-Driven World

News, Numbers and Public Opinion in a Data-Driven World

News, Numbers and Public Opinion in a Data-Driven World

Edited by
An Nguyen

Bloomsbury Academic

An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

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Numbers and Public Opinion in a Data-Driven World

An Nguyen

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Fabienne Crettaz von Roten

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Stephen Cushion , and Justin Lewis

Rethinking impartiality: Challenging statistical claims

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Charles R. Berger

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Yael de Haan, Sanne Kruikemeier, Sophie Lecheler, Gerard Smit, Renee van der Nat

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Appendix

Oscar Westlund and Seth C. Lewis

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Muhammad Idrees Ahmad , PhD, is lecturer in digital journalism at the University of Stirling, UK, and the author of The Road to Iraq: The Making of a Neoconservative War (2014). He writes for many international media outlets and has appeared as an on-air analyst on Al Jazeera, the BBC, RAI TV, Radio Open Source and several Pacifica Radio channels.

Stuart Allan is professor and head of the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University, UK. His current science-related research examines the evolving interconnections between citizen science and citizen journalism.

Charles R. Berger is professor emeritus in the Department of Communication, University of California, Davis, USA. He is a former editor of Human Communication Research and co-editor (with Sandra Ball Rokeach) of Communication Research as well as a fellow and past president of the International Communication Association and a National Communication Association Distinguished Scholar. He has devised theories concerned with the explanation of communication under uncertainty (Uncertainty Reduction Theory), message production processes (Planning Theory) and, most recently, narrative impact (Story Appraisal Theory).

Renata Faria Brando is a postdoctoral research associate at Kings College London. She recently completed a PhD at the University of Sheffield, UK, under the Brazilian governments Science Without Borders scholarship scheme. She earned her BA cum Laude with Honours in communication with minor in international relations in 2011 and an MA in global journalism. Her research explores how statistical data are used to articulate narratives and shape news discourses of science.

Coy Callison (PhD, Alabama, 2000) is professor of public relations and associate dean of graduate studies in the Texas Tech College of Media and Communication, USA. His research focuses on using experimental methods to investigate message and source factors influencing the effects of persuasive messages and recall of information. He has published more than thirty-five peer-review articles, presented more than sixty papers, and has received research funding from various state and national agencies.

Stephen Cushion is a reader at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University, UK. He has published many journal articles on issues in journalism, news and politics, three sole-authored books, News and Politics: The Rise of Live and Interpretive Television News (2015, Routledge), The Democratic Value of News: Why Public Service Media Matter (2012, Palgrave) and Television Journalism (2012, Sage) and co-edited (with Justin Lewis) The Rise of 24-Hour News: Global Perspectives (2010, Peter Lang).

Sharon Dunwoody (PhD, Indiana University) is emeritus professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of WisconsinMadison, USA. She studies the construction of science and environmental messages, as well as the ways in which individuals use such messages to inform their judgements about science issues. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Society for Risk Analysis, and the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research.

Rhonda Gibson (PhD, Alabama, 1993) is associate professor of journalism in the School of Media and Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. Her research focuses on the effects of exemplification in journalism on issue perception and the effects of images of sexual minorities in the media. Her research has been published in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Communication Research, Newspaper Research Journal, and Journalism & Mass Communication Educator , among others. She is working on a book examining the changing communication strategies and public opinion regarding same-sex marriage.

Robert J. Griffin (PhD, University of WisconsinMadison) is emeritus professor in the Diederich College of Communication at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He has focused much of his teaching and research on communication about environment, energy, health, science and risk. He is a recipient of Marquettes Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence, awarded to the universitys top educators. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Society for Risk Analysis.

Yael de Haan (PhD, Amsterdam 2012) is senior researcher at the University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht, the Netherlands. She analyses shifts in journalism practice in a changing media environment. She has published in several books and peer-reviewed journals such as Digital Journalism , European Journal of Communication and Journal of Media Innovation .

Sanne Kruikemeier is assistant professor of political communication at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her research mainly focuses on the content and effects of online communication in a political context. She is currently co-chair of the political communication division of the Netherlands-Flanders Communication Association.

Willem Koetsenruijter is an assistant professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands, where he is a faculty member since 2000. He started his career as an editor and writer for magazines. He has published work about numbers in the news and about visual language, including Visual Language: Perspectives for both Makers and Users (co-authored), Methods of Journalism Studies (co-authored with Tom Van Hout), and Numbers in the News (sole - authored in Dutch).

Brendan Lawson is a PhD researcher at the University of Leeds, UK, where he is exploring the role of quantifiable information in humanitarian communication. He has a BA in History from the same university and a MA Media in Development from the SOAS, University of London.

Sophie Lecheler is professor of communication science with a focus on political communication at the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her work has been published in a wide range of international journals, such as Communication Research, Journal of Communication, New Media & Society, Journalism, Communication Theory, Communication Monographs, Journalism Studies, and International Journal of Press/Politics .

Justin Lewis is professor of communication and dean of research for the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK. His books, since 2000, include Constructing Public Opinion (2001, NewYork: Columbia University Press), Citizens or Consumers: What the Media Tell Us About Political Participation (2005, Open University Press), Shoot First and Ask Questions Later: Media Coverage of the War in Iraq (2006, Peter Lang), Climate Change and the Media (2009, Peter Lang) and Consumer Capitalism: Media and the Limits to Imagination (2013, Polity).