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Pew Research Center examined the rise of podcasts as news and information sources in the past year. Podcasts cover a wide range of topics and attract different types of listeners. Pew Research Center highlights the reasons why Americans listen to podcasts and what these podcasts discuss. A survey of 5,132 U.S. adults was conducted from Dec. … Continue reading How Americans Use Podcasts as News and Information Sources

This summary is provided by the IPR Digital Media Research Center Dr. Xiaofan Wei and colleagues examined influencers’ role in motivating online consumers to engage with brand-focused content which entails consuming, creating, or adding to branded content. The researchers analyzed how influencers align with brands and the relationship between influencers and their followers. A survey of … Continue reading Influencers As Endorsers and Followers As Consumers

Dr. Chen and colleagues explored the role that social media influencers played an important role in driving positive outcomes of corporate social responsibility (CSR) campaigns. A survey of 967 participants was conducted in June 2019. Key findings include:1.) Social media influencers exert influence on the target consumers’ decisions to support the CSR initiative which they … Continue reading Social Media Influencers Impact Perceptions of CSR Initiatives

This blog is based on the original study in the Public Relations Journal. In early March 2022, within 10 days of each other armed domestic terrorists killed 10 people at a supermarket in Buffalo, NY and 19 children and 2 adults at an elementary school in Uvalde, TX. Organizations worldwide scrambled to halt scheduled social media content and decide how … Continue reading Organizational Social Media Mourning During Public Tragedies

This blog is based on the original study in the Public Relations Journal. Scholars have argued that social presence strategies could be a gateway to public engagement. Communicators use social presence to reflect genuine and real personalities to build relationships (Mazid, 2020; Men, Tsai, Chen, & Ji, 2018). However, social presence strategies have received limited scholarly attention from … Continue reading Political Campaign Messages on Facebook: A Study of Public Engagement, Social Presence Strategies, and the 2018 U.S. Senate Elections