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Populism in the UK: An Analysis of the Rhetoric of Nigel Farage (2024)
Book Chapter
Bull, P., Weinberg, A., & Coen, S. (in press). Populism in the UK: An Analysis of the Rhetoric of Nigel Farage. In I. Íñigo-Mora, & C. Lastres-López (Eds.), Discourse approaches to an emerging age of populist politics. Springer

Theoretical and methodological approaches to activism during the COVID-19 pandemic — between continuity and change (2022)
Journal Article
Coen, S., Vezzoli, M., & Zogmaister, C. (2022). Theoretical and methodological approaches to activism during the COVID-19 pandemic — between continuity and change. Frontiers in Political Science, 4, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2022.844591

In order to understand the way in which scholars approach the study of activism at a time of crisis, a scoping review was conducted to identify the extant empirical work on activism during the COVID-19 crisis. Our search resulted in 23 published pape... Read More about Theoretical and methodological approaches to activism during the COVID-19 pandemic — between continuity and change.

Psychology, democracy and the media : are citizens learning from the news? A self regulated learning perspective (2022)
Book Chapter
Coen, S., & Maloney Yorganci, K. (2022). Psychology, democracy and the media : are citizens learning from the news? A self regulated learning perspective. In A. Weinberg (Ed.), Psychology of democracy : of the people, by the people, for the people (377-402). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108774871.021

This chapter discusses how news contributes to informed citizenship by reviewing the different approaches adopted in the literature to understanding how individuals learn from the news. After reviewing the main theoretical and empirical perspectives... Read More about Psychology, democracy and the media : are citizens learning from the news? A self regulated learning perspective.

Love, desire, and problematic behaviors : exploring young adults’ smartphone use from a uses and gratifications perspective (2021)
Journal Article
Vezzoli, M., Zogmaister, C., & Coen, S. (2021). Love, desire, and problematic behaviors : exploring young adults’ smartphone use from a uses and gratifications perspective. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000375

In light of the pervasive adoption of smartphones, scholars have explored the consequences of problematic (i.e., excessive and uncontrolled) use of this technology. Studies have often shown that individuals who spend much time using smartphones exp... Read More about Love, desire, and problematic behaviors : exploring young adults’ smartphone use from a uses and gratifications perspective.

The construction of a hegemonic social representation : climate crisis and the role of COVID-19 in defining survival (2021)
Journal Article
Magioglou, T., & Coen, S. (2021). The construction of a hegemonic social representation : climate crisis and the role of COVID-19 in defining survival. European Psychologist, 26(3), 230-240. https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000442

The present paper discusses how Climate Change and the COVID-19 pandemic can be read as two facets of a Hegemonic Social Representation under construction, the representation of Survival, reshaping other hegemonic, socially shared representations in... Read More about The construction of a hegemonic social representation : climate crisis and the role of COVID-19 in defining survival.

Identity motives : influences of multiple motives on cognitive and behavioural dimensions of Facebook identity construction (2021)
Thesis
Szeto, S. Identity motives : influences of multiple motives on cognitive and behavioural dimensions of Facebook identity construction. (Thesis). University of Salford

According to Boyd and Ellison’s (2008) definition of social media, Profiles and social connections are two major features that define these online platforms. On Facebook, Profile allows users to build a personal profile that consists of user-supplied... Read More about Identity motives : influences of multiple motives on cognitive and behavioural dimensions of Facebook identity construction.

Talk like an expert : the construction of expertise in news comments concerning Climate Change (2020)
Journal Article
Coen, S., Meredith, J., Woods, R., & Fernandez, A. (2021). Talk like an expert : the construction of expertise in news comments concerning Climate Change. Public Understanding of Science, 30(4), 400-416. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662520981729

This paper explores how readers of UK newspapers construct expertise around climate change (CC). It draws on 300 on-line readers’ comments on news items in The Guardian, Daily Mail and The Telegraph, concerning the release of the IPCC report calling... Read More about Talk like an expert : the construction of expertise in news comments concerning Climate Change.

The right place for me: a moderated mediation model to explain involvement of employees aged over 50 years (2020)
Journal Article
Manzi, C., Coen, S., Capolicchio, E., Medina, L., & Paderi, F. (2021). The right place for me: a moderated mediation model to explain involvement of employees aged over 50 years. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 51(1), 42-52. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12714

Over the past decades, employment rates of older workers in most Western countries have rapidly increased. Hence, there is a growing interest in identifying the organizational dimensions that might impact the psychosocial adjustment of workers aged o... Read More about The right place for me: a moderated mediation model to explain involvement of employees aged over 50 years.