All Outputs (30)

The interplay between religious orientations, state secularism, and gay rights issues (2014)
Journal Article
Hichy, Z., Coen, S., & Di Marco, G. (2014). The interplay between religious orientations, state secularism, and gay rights issues. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 11(1), 82-101. https://doi.org/10.1080/1550428X.2014.914005

The aim of this study was to test the effects of religious orientations (intrinsic, extrinsic, and quest) and secularism of state on attitude towards both same-sex marriage and adoption by same-sex couples. Moreover, the mediating effects of seculari... Read More about The interplay between religious orientations, state secularism, and gay rights issues.

Reconsidering ‘virtuous circle’and ‘media malaise’theories of the media : an 11-nation study (2014)
Journal Article

This study, based on a content analysis of television news and survey in eleven nations,
explores the split between those who see the media as politically alienating and others
who see the media as encouraging greater political involvement. Here, w... Read More about Reconsidering ‘virtuous circle’and ‘media malaise’theories of the media : an 11-nation study.

Auntie knows best? public broadcasters and current affairs knowledge (2013)
Journal Article

Public service broadcasters (PSBs) are a central part of national news media landscapes. In many countries, PSBs are the first choice of citizens when it comes to news providers. And in perhaps more countries still, PSBs are thought of as specialists... Read More about Auntie knows best? public broadcasters and current affairs knowledge.

A matter of law and order : reporting the Salford riots in local news webpages (2013)
Journal Article
Coen, S., & Jones, C. (2014). A matter of law and order : reporting the Salford riots in local news webpages. Contemporary Social Science, 9(1), 63-78. https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2013.851407

On 9 August 2011, hundreds of citizens gathered in the streets of Salford, predominately in the precinct area. Violence escalated as commercial and domestic properties were set on fire and rioters engaged in widespread looting. Simultaneously, riots... Read More about A matter of law and order : reporting the Salford riots in local news webpages.

Sources in the news (2013)
Journal Article

In analysing the news media's role in serving the functions associated with democratic citizenship, the number, diversity and range of news sources are central. Research conducted on sources has overwhelmingly focused on individual national systems.... Read More about Sources in the news.

Online threat, but television is still dominant (2013)
Journal Article

As news media change, so media news consumption changes with them. This paper, part of a larger international research project involving 11 countries in four continents (Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia), is focused on news consumption. As the ra... Read More about Online threat, but television is still dominant.

Crime, foreigners and hard news: A cross-national comparison of reporting and public perception (2010)
Journal Article
Curran, J., Salovaara-Moring, I., Coen, S., & Iyengar, S. (2010). Crime, foreigners and hard news: A cross-national comparison of reporting and public perception. Journalism, 11(1), 3-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884909350640

The Finnish media devote more attention to hard news than the British media, yet Finns are less interested in politics than the British. The principal reason for this difference in news values is that Finnish TV is more subject to public service infl... Read More about Crime, foreigners and hard news: A cross-national comparison of reporting and public perception.

Cross‐National versus individual‐level differences in political information: a media systems perspective (2010)
Journal Article
Iyengar, S., Curran, J., Lund, A., Salovaara‐Moring, I., Hahn, K., & Coen, S. (2010). Cross‐National versus individual‐level differences in political information: a media systems perspective. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 20(3), 291-309. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457289.2010.490707

We propose a context-dependent approach to the study of political information. Combining a content analysis of broadcast news with a national survey measuring public
awareness of various events, issues, and individuals in the news, we show that prop... Read More about Cross‐National versus individual‐level differences in political information: a media systems perspective.

Technology adoption and journalistic role conceptions : a conceptual review and operational model
Journal Article
Oni, O., & Coen, S. (in press). Technology adoption and journalistic role conceptions : a conceptual review and operational model

The transformative potential of new interactive technology in journalism and specifically in broadcasting, where it touches on participatory programming is widely acknowledged in recent scholarship. Yet, there is no consensus on the implications of i... Read More about Technology adoption and journalistic role conceptions : a conceptual review and operational model.

The use of religious metaphors by UK newspapers to describe and denigrate climate change
Journal Article
Woods, R., Fernandez, A., & Coen, S. The use of religious metaphors by UK newspapers to describe and denigrate climate change. Public Understanding of Science, 21(3), 323-339. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662510385061

British newspapers have denigrated anthropogenic climate change by misrepresenting scientific consensus and/or framing climate change within unsympathetic discourses. One aspect of the latter that has not been studied is the use of metaphor to dispar... Read More about The use of religious metaphors by UK newspapers to describe and denigrate climate change.