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Open research questions in Media Influence and Politics

35 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 1,985 Media Influence and Politics papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • Perhaps more importantly, the micro-level foundations of what we have observed at the macro-level in the US remain to be seen. There, we can see very mixed results, and the model performance is not clearly better than what we see in Table 1, e.

    Benchmarking in public updating of economic perceptions · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research could examine the effects of concrete political campaigns and political policies on individual enterprises within the sectors and give more comprehensive views of the market dynamics (Durnev, 2012).

    Election waves and market ripples: decoding stock market reactions to India’s 2024 assembly elections · 2026 · DOI

  • This argues that overlooking local elections could result in a gap in the literature, thus it focused on the effect of the 2021 local elections on the stock market in the Republic of North Macedonia.

    Do Local Political Elections Affect Daily Stock Returns? Evidence from the Republic of North Macedonia's MBI10 Index · 2024 · DOI

  • What remains to be seen, however, is whether high-NFM individuals are in fact less likely to expose themselves to news once they do encounter it online.

    Tuning Out (Political and Science) News? A Selective Exposure Study of the News Finds Me Perception · 2023 · DOI

  • The main reason is that public opinion surveys, the standard approach to measuring public demand, are expensive, difficult to implement simultaneously for different countries for purposes of crossnational comparison and impossible to implement ex post for purposes of longitudinal analysis if survey data for past time periods are lacking.

    How to measure public demand for policies when there is no appropriate survey data? · 2016 · DOI

  • Further into the book he explores the details of the research involved and analyzes bias by type of medium, identifying ninety-nine media-based studies of presidential elections from 1948 through 2008 that met specific criteria and could be replicated.

    D'Alessio, Dave. Media Bias in Presidential Election Coverage, 1948-2008: Evaluation Via Formal Measurement · 2013

  • 4 Campaigns underreported contributions, evidenced by the spending reported by Congressional candidates jumping by more than ten-fold from the 1968 election (before Congress again tackled campaign finance law in 1971) to the 1972 race.

    Citizens United and Political Advertisements: Corporations' Lucky Loophole to the Unregulated Internet · 2012

  • Although the popularity of Super Bowl commercials is well-documented (1, 4, 16, 22), there is limited evidence to suggest whether a return on investment (ROI) is realized by the companies producing such commercials.

    Super bowl commercial and game consumption for the college demographic. · 2011

  • If communications policy research does not concern itself with the issue of which social groups control the system and the communications apparatus inside the system, and if matters of national sovereignty of natural resources and cultural independence are also brushed aside, what remains to be considered? - only how to keep the existing ar- rangements intact with this or that gimmicky modification of technique and instrumentation.

    Waiting for Orders — Some Current Trends in Mass Communications Research in the United States · 1974 · DOI

  • He had, despite the conflicting reports, been Kennedy's final choice as Vice- President, and the combination of the death, the funeral, the televised transition, and the quiet confidence of Johnson reawakening a stunned nation all shown on television was so effective that anything any Republican in 1964 could have done was doomed to failure.

    The effect of television on presidential campaigns · 1970 · DOI

  • Further investigation of these variables should provide a more complete understanding of the factors that are relevant to the construct of source credibility. the speaker prior Since the present study is only a be- ginning step, it is felt that further at- tention to the physical and vocal cues affecting audience reaction to a speaker is warranted.

    The effect of variations in Nonfluency on audience ratings of source credibility · 1964 · DOI

  • emotion Roosevelt's pattern of arrangement, though it varied widely in extent and specific form according to the purpose, seemed to comprise these three steps: first, centering attention on the problem in ways such as showing its universality, or pointing out its importance; second, explaining and supporting the thesis; third, placing the immediate problem or solution in its relation to larger purposes or systems of thought.

    Franklin D. Roosevelt's audience persuasion in the 1936 campaign∗ · 1950 · DOI

  • What explains media coverage of state supreme court candidates? While the scholarly literature thoroughly examines media coverage of judicial decision-making, little is known about how members of the press cover candidates for the bench.

    Local Media Coverage of Candidates for State Supreme Courts · 2022 · DOI

  • The impact of television news teases has not been explored from the standpoint of response to political positions featured in the tease taken by religious and business elites.

    Teasing Influence: News Teases, Elite Cues, and Information Use · 2021 · DOI

  • Despite its prevalence as a policy argument, there has been limited research about the crowding out concept – and almost no research that is independent, comparative, and considers broadcasting as well as online markets.

    Crowding out: Is there evidence that public service media harm markets? A cross-national comparative analysis of commercial television and online news providers · 2020 · DOI

  • Results revealed that especially brand-unspecific and repetitive disclosures are under-investigated forms of disclosures although commonly used in practice.

    Disclosing product placement in audiovisual media services: a practical and scientific perspective on the implementation of disclosures across the European Union · 2020 · DOI

  • Though this so-called hostile media effect – the idea that news content is biased against one’s own ideas or party – is often studied with citizens, it has rarely been examined among politicians.

    The hostile media: politicians’ perceptions of coverage bias · 2020 · DOI

  • We further demonstrate that while there has been a cross-national attempt to diffuse this model, it has produced mixed results owing to a number of factors, including the superficial commitment of local officials and media professionals.

    Digital Media Experiments in China: “Revolutionizing” Persuasion under Xi Jinping · 2019 · DOI

  • Specifically, when these concerns are higher, the Fed is more likely to focus on issues related to areas where its reputation is weak or not yet established—that is, issues related to credit easing and systemic financial regulation.

    Central banks’ communication as reputation management: How the Fed talks under uncertainty · 2018 · DOI

  • This article investigates reasons for these trends and establishes a baseline for future research on the heretofore understudied topic of digital political advertising.

    Digital Advertising Expenditures in the 2016 Presidential Election · 2017 · DOI

  • Second, we show that the extent of audience costs varies, and at times substantially, along with features of the crisis situation that have not been examined empirically in this context before.

    Audience Costs among the British Public: The Impact of Escalation, Crisis Type, and Prime Ministerial Rhetoric · 2013 · DOI

  • ABSTRACT Drawing on critical cultural theory, the industry trade press, and an exploratory content analysis of prime-time television, this article examines the under-researched phenomenon of “internal network promotions.

    Promotional Prime Time: “Advertainment,” Internal Network Promotion, and the Future of Canadian Television · 2012 · DOI

  • In Experiment 2, increasing participants' cognizance of their limited knowledge of popular entertainers led to less positive evaluations and diminished credibility of the celebrities as spokespersons.

    The Less the Public Knows the Better? The Effects of Increased Knowledge on Celebrity Evaluations · 2012 · DOI

  • Despite the country's population base of 240 million, Indonesian television has not been widely explored in academic and professional venues.

    Competition and the decline in Western television program popularity in Indonesia during the 1990s · 2012 · DOI

  • Although party leaders are now assumed to play a more important role in parliamentary elections, little is known about how voters form opinions about leaders.

    Leadership Traits and Media Influence in Britain · 2012 · DOI

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