Gut or game? The influence of moral intuitions on decisions in video games

S Joeckel, ND Bowman, L Dogruel - Media psychology, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Recent theorizing on the role of morality in media entertainment suggests morality serves as
a guiding force in audience reactions to content. Using moral foundations theory as a base …

“You're still worth it”: The moral and relational context of politically motivated unfriending decisions in online networks

G Neubaum, M Cargnino, S Winter, S Dvir-Gvirsman - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Political disagreements in social media can result in removing (ie,“unfriending”) a person
from one's online network. Given that such actions could lead to the (ideological) …

Gendered morality and backlash effects in online discussions: An experimental study on how users respond to hate speech comments against women and sexual …

C Wilhelm, S Joeckel - Sex Roles, 2019 - Springer
Hate speech in online users' comments is often targeted toward underprivileged social
groups such as immigrants, sexual minorities, and women. Besides the general severity of …

A Graph-Learning Approach for Detecting Moral Conflict in Movie Scripts.

FR Hopp, JT Fisher, R Weber - Media & Communication, 2020 - search.ebscohost.com
Moral conflict is central to appealing narratives, but no methodology exists for
computationally extracting moral conflict from narratives at scale. In this article, we present …

Entertainment-oriented gratifications of sports media: Contributors to suspense, hedonic enjoyment, and appreciation

AE Hall - Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
This survey study investigated contributors to viewers' hedonic enjoyment, appreciation, and
emotional responses to a televised baseball game. There was an indirect relationship …

Investigating neutralization strategies in digital piracy: The role of content preferences and social norms

C Wilhelm - Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Digital piracy is perceived as a victimless crime and therefore still challenges media
industries. According to the neutralization theory, criminal behavior is more likely if …

[HTML][HTML] Media choice in times of uncertainty—Media richness theory in context of media choice in times of political and economic crisis

R Mammadov - Advances in Journalism and Communication, 2022 - scirp.org
What drives the audience's choice of media is one of the most studied topics in mass
communication research. Both academia and field professionals benefit from the studies that …

Uses and consumption of cinema by European adolescents: a cross-cultural study

MT Soto-Sanfiel, I Villegas-Simón… - Studies in European …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This cross-cultural descriptive empirical research observes the relationship of 937 high-
school students from eight countries of the European Union with cinema. A survey was …

I like what you like: Social norms and media enjoyment

K Kryston, A Eden - Mass Communication and Society, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
People consume and enjoy similar media entertainment as their friends and close others do.
Yet the underlying psychological processes driving selection and consumption of …

The influence of adolescents' moral salience on actions and entertainment experience in interactive media

S Joeckel, ND Bowman, L Dogruel - Journal of children and media, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The current study examines the role of US and German adolescents' innate morality in
influencing decisions in and subsequent enjoyment of an interactive media environment …