Upper Middle Class NIMBY in Phoenix: The Community Dynamics of the Development Process in the Arcadia Neighborhood

This article highlights the role that neighborhood activism plays in the development process. The article particularly highlights the Arcadia Camelback Neighborhood Association's (ACMNA) fight against, and collaboration with, developers at the intersection of 44th Street and Camelback Road in Phoenix, AZ, where issues of place, community empowerment, and attitudes of not-in-my-back- yard (NIMBYism) played out. The role of neighborhood activism is evaluated using interview, survey, and archival data, including news media reports and meeting minutes, with regards to the ACMNA and struggles to stave off development. The results of the research point out that the community is essential in shaping the development process and that without community support including collaboration between communities and developers, major development projects face a difficult road to completion, this is particularly evident when wealthy neighborhood NIMBY campaigns are at the forefront of the debate over development.     

Clean diesel and dirty scandal: The echo of Volkswagen’s dieselgate in an intra-industry setting

In 2015 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency revealed that German car manufacturer Volkswagen had illegally installed software to produce fake NOx-emissions results. This study aims to analyze how the German news media framed VW’s role. Furthermore, since the scandal shifted from a single company to an industry-wide crisis, this contribution also aims to establish whether the German news media reframed the crisis as an industry-wide phenomenon in 2018. The results show that the Dieselgate was reframed in 2018 as an industry-wide scandal where the conflict, morality, and attribution of responsibility frame were most dominant. We argue that the first wrongdoer in an industry creates a crisis history, which potentially becomes an intensifying factor for competitors who are confronted with similar crises in a later stage. Findings extend the theoretical premise of an organizational reputation as postulated in SCCT, as the organizational reputation is most likely influenced by changing industry-wide perceptions as well.     

Effect of framing on cognitive processing in public relations

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of message framing on cognitive processing by employees of an internal organizational message. A between-subject factorial experimental design with random assignment was used to test the moderating role of message frames on cognitive processing. Subjects in the study produced a significantly different number of thoughts in response to messages with different frames. The different frames presented also resulted in generation of different topics of thought for participants. This difference in cognitive response to a message may point to a difference in the salience of the message for the audience. The results of this study underscore the need for public relations practitioners to understand the needs and motivations of internal audiences and to contextualize internal messages for increased effectiveness in persuasion.     

网店信息呈现的框架效应对消费者购买决策的影响研究

目前有关在线消费者购买意愿的研究,绝大多数是基于实验统计的方法,分析影响消费者购买决策的因素,网店信息呈现的框架形式往往仅作为其中的关键因素被一些研究提及并加以验证。但是,"形态各异"的信息到底如何影响消费者心理进而影响到他们的决策?商家如何从消费者心理的微观层面来设计信息呈现策略,从而增强其购买意愿?目前关于此的研究尚不多见。本研究从前景理论的决策参考点视角,以价格因素为例,一方面,通过情境实验,验证了价格信息的不同呈现框架对于消费者购买意愿的影响作用;另一方面,在利用情境实验界定了消费者心理价格参考点的基础上,通过决策模型的构建和计算,从微观层面分析了不同价格信息呈现框架下,消费者购买选择大相径庭的原因。研究结果表明:(1)在风险框架下,相对于用不确定的语言来描述商品价格信息,确定性语言描述会使消费者的心理价格参考点和购买意愿更高。(2)在属性框架下,相对于用负面的语言来描述商品信息,正面的语言描述更能提高消费者的心理价格参考点和购买意愿。(3)在目标框架下,相对于强调购买行为可能给消费者带来的收益,强调不购买该商品可能给消费者带来的损失更有助于消费者的心理价格参考点和购买意愿的提...     

Framing Child Sexual Abuse: A Longitudinal Content Analysis of Newspaper and Television Coverage, 2002–2012

ABSTRACT

The way in which the news media frame child sexual abuse can influence public perception. This content analysis of the child sexual abuse coverage of eight national news organizations in the United States from 2002 to 2012 includes the two dominant events of the Catholic Church and Pennsylvania State University child sexual abuse scandals. Census and systematic stratified sampling techniques were applied to articles obtained from the Lexis/Nexis Academic database, resulting in a sample of 503 articles. Intercoder reliability was ensured by double coding a randomly selected sample. Study findings indicate a shift in the attribution of responsibility of child sexual abuse among news organizations over the past decade from an individual-level problem with individual-level solutions to a societal-level problem with institutional culpability. Nevertheless, individual-level solutions continue to be framed as the best possible solution.     

Keynote Address: Impact of the Future on College Health

Abstract

Objective: The authors investigated the effect of gain-framed (GF) compared with loss-framed (LF) messages on exercise behaviors in normal weight and among overweight/class I obese. The authors also examined which groups would have significantly improved exercise behaviors over time. Participants: Sixty-four undergraduates were randomized to the 4 groups by message type and weight category from September 2008 to December 2011. Methods: After screening, students received messages and attended an exercise instruction session. Results: There were no significant differences between GF or LF message groups among normal weight or overweight/obese on the primary outcomes at posttest. After receiving the GF messages, the overweight/obese group was the only group to have a significant increase on all 3 primary outcomes: fitness center attendance (p = .038), combined moderate- and vigorous-intensity activity (p = .005), and strength training (p = .037). Conclusions: The exercise behaviors of undergraduate students who are overweight or obese can benefit from GF messages.     

Sociological Reflections on Security Through Surveillance

This article initiates a Sociology of Security. Such a field should analyze how conditions transpire for security—however defined—to surface as a value in individual and collective living, how this value comes to be articulated, and how different kinds of individual and collective experiences shape its meaning. In addition, a Sociology of Security should pay attention to how the kinds of individual and collective responses to particular understandings of security, institutions and policies put in place to this end (or lack thereof), and consequences of such practices are shaping the nature of our social world and the aesthetics of our physical environment. Specific focus is on the relationship between security and surveillance.     

维权情境中的自发性认知解放——以业主积极分子的权利意识的演进为例

本文旨在考察业主维权情景中行动者的认知过程。作者提出了理解主观认知的分析框架,并根据权利内容即财产权抑或自治权、权利性质即反应性抑或进取性两个维度,对业主权利意识进行类型学划分。对微博的分析呈现了近年来业主积极分子权利意识的分布和演变状况;访谈结果则显示积极分子对权利意识的认知解放是一个自发、互动的过程,而且抗争面临的阻力促进相似抗争的连结,社会化媒体为类似抗争的串联提供了平台,推动了认知解放过程。本文阐明了在中国情境下框架化和认知解放过程的自发性和互动性,同时指出未来的研究应该从以事件为中心的案例分析转向以议题为核心的抗议事件族的分析。     

养老保险政策框定与收入偏好研究——基于职工提前退休的视角

从行为经济学的角度考虑,城镇职工提前退休的决定依赖于养老保险待遇问题的"描述形式"。本文以职工个体的损失厌恶心理为逻辑起点,在有限理性与偏好理论分析范畴下做出养老保险政策框定的解释。提前退休职工对养老保险待遇的损失政策框定和收益政策框定有不同的偏好,鼓励提前退休则需要在政策设计上给予更多收益政策框定描述;若要使弹性退休得以实施,则政策描述应该更多倾向于损失类政策框定。     

“Wealthy Gay Couples Buying Babies Produced in India by Poor Womb-Women: Audience Interpretations of Transnational Surrogacy in TV News

ABSTRACT

Surrogacy is beginning to generate public debate, and the way the media approach it may have negative effects on social attitudes toward gay parenting. The news media play a key role in informing society, especially about topics such as surrogacy, of which most audiences have no direct experience. The aim of our research is to explore opinion formation of surrogacy and gay parenting by analyzing the audience interpretation of a TV news story in Spain. To do this we conducted four focus groups that were analyzed using a qualitative content analysis based on the discourse produced by the participants. The results show that the framing strategies used in the news story contribute to advocating an attitude of repudiation toward surrogacy, with an adverse sentiment also extending to homosexual couples who wish to become parents. This leads us to discuss the role of media in shaping public opinion and the resulting potential consequences in the case of surrogacy and gay parenting.