The CAMER team explored the efficacy of a community-engaged approach to developing social media campaign messages in promoting COVID-19 vaccine uptake and pro-vaccine social diffusion among rural adults.
Computational Approaches and Message Effects Research Group
New CAMER article “Emotional Appeals and Norms: How Normative Perceptions Moderate the Persuasive Impacts of Discrete Emotional Appeals within Tobacco Pictorial Warnings in China”
The CAMER team examined how contextual pro-smoking norms might influence the persuasive impacts of discrete emotional appeals within pictorial warnings on tobaccos products, especially in China, where the overall smoking rate and social acceptance remain high.
New CAMER article “Hope over fear: The interplay between threat information and hope appeal corrections in debunking early COVID-19 misinformation Author links open overlay panel”
The CAMER team examined the emotional basis for misinformation susceptibility and how emotional appeals may help reduce COVID-19-related misperceptions.
New CAMER article “Applying the Hornik & Woolf Approach to Identify Messaging Themes and Improve COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence Among Federally Qualified Health Centers’ Workforce in Wisconsin”
The CAMER team examined COVID-19 vaccine hesitancies within Wisconsin’s Federally Qualified Health Centers and how different messaging themes may boost their vaccine confidence.
New CAMER article “Effects of Moral Frames Within Vaping Prevention Messages on Current smokers’ Support for Electronic Cigarette Regulations”
The CAMER team examined the effects of moral frames on current adult smokers’ support for vape-free policies and marketing restrictions.
New CAMER article “Yet Again Conversations Matter: The Importance of Interpersonal Discussions, Educational Campaigns, and Advertising on Cannabis-Related Risk Perceptions, Attitudes, and Intentions in At-Risk Young Adults”
The CAMER team evaluated the relationships between cannabis-related communication and outcomes of interest such as cannabis-related risk perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors among young adults.
New grant for CAMER faculty lead Sijia Yang
New grant awarded by ICTR to CAMER faculty lead Sijia Yang and his team to help reduce vaccine hesitancy in rural communities in Wisconsin and beyond. Yang serves as co-investigator. Stakeholder and Patient Engaged Research …
CAMER publishes new article “How Climate Movement Actors and News Media Frame Climate Change and Strike”
In the new article “How Climate Movement Actors and News Media Frame Climate Change and Strike: Evidence from Analyzing Twitter and News Media Discourse from 2018 to 2021” in The International Journal of Press and …
New article from CAMER “Textual and pictorial enhancement of cannabis warning labels: An Online experiment among at-risk U.S. young adults”
In the new article “Textual and pictorial enhancement of cannabis warning labels: An Online experiment among at-risk U.S. young adults” in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, the Computational Approaches and Message Effects Research group …
CAMER Faculty Lead Sijia Yang Receives Exceptional Service Support Award
Sijia Yang, Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has received an Exceptional Service Support award from the Office of the Provost.