Publications

Hoewe, J., Jett, J., Lusvardi, A., & Wiemer, E. C. (2022). Selection, trust, and the effects of cable news consumption. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990221142877

Wiemer, E. C., Riles, J. M., & Tewksbury, D. (2022). Artists and attributions: How music platform implementation affects parasocial experiences and support intentions. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 66, 300-319. https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2022.2086550

Atkeson, L. R., Hansen, W. L., Oliver, M. T., Maestas, C. D., & Wiemer, E. C. (2022). Should I vote-by-mail or in person? The impact of COVID-19 risk factors and partisanship on vote mode decisions in the 2020 presidential election. PLoS ONE, 17, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274357

Wiemer, E. C., Scacco, J. M., & Berkelaar, B. (2022). Democratic disarray: Organizational messaging coherence and the local echoing press during the 2020 Iowa Democratic caucus. American Behavioral Scientist, 66, 118-139. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764221992808

Eise, J., Lambert, N. J., & Wiemer, E. C. (2021). Leveraging communities’ network strengths to support climate change adaptation information-sharing: A study with coffee farmers in Risaralda, Colombia. Climatic Change, 168. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-021-03206-w

Hoewe, J., Brownell, K. C., & Wiemer, E. C. (2021). The role and impact of Fox News. The Forum, 18, 367-388. https://doi.org/10.1515/for-2020-2014

Scacco, J. M., Weaver, D. A., & Wiemer, E. C. (2021). Conservatives and the tea party. In S. E. Jarvis (Ed.), Conservative political communication: How right wing media and messaging (re)made American politics (pp. 66-88). Routledge.

Wiemer, E. C., & Scacco, J. M. (2021). [Review of Jill A. Edy & Patrick C. Meirick, A nation fragmented: The public agenda in the information age]. Mass Communication & Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2021.1894812

Hoewe, J., Wiemer, E. C., Adekunle, T., Barton, R. M., Jett, J., & Pijanowski, A. J. (2020). Linking political TV shows with female lead characters to political engagement: The roles of parasocial relationships and gender identity. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 64, 672-692. https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2020.1849703

Scacco, J. M., & Wiemer, E. C. (2019). The president tweets the press: President-press relations and the politics of media degradation. In R. Davis & D. Taras (Eds.), Power Shift? Political Leadership and Social Media (pp. 17-32). Routledge.

Scacco, J. M., & Wiemer, E. C. (2019). Press conferences. In T. P. Vos & F. Hanusch (Eds.), The international encyclopedia of journalism studies. Wiley.

Wiemer, E. C., & Scacco, J. M. (2018). Disruptor-in-chief? The networked influence of president Trump in building and setting the agenda. The Agenda Setting Journal, 2, 191-219. https://doi.org/10.1075/asj.18020.wie

Recent Conference Presentations

Wiemer, E. C., Scacco, J. M., & Berkelaar, B. (2021). Democratic disarray: Organizational messaging coherence and the local echoing press during the 2020 Iowa Democratic caucus. Presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, November 2021.

Scacco, J. M., & Wiemer, E. C. (2021). Platforms and the presidency: Public preferences for digital and socially-mediated presidential communication. Presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, November 2021.

Wiemer, E. C. (2020). The semantic saturation of labor strikes: Network agenda-building and the internal organizing processes of West Virginia public school teachers on strike. Presented virtually at the Agenda Setting Journal Conference, October 2020. [Top Young Scholar Award]

Hoppin, S., Sarapin, S., Wiemer, E. C., Lusvardi, A., Zulli, D., & Morris, P. (2020). Compromising positions: One word's relationship to Congressional performance and public opinion of Congress. Presented virtually at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, May 2020.

Hoewe, J., Lusvardi, A. N., Wiemer, E. C., & Jett, J. (2020). The influence of Fox News: Decreased counter-arguing and increased persuasive effects. Presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 2020.

Scacco, J. M., & Wiemer, E. C. (2019). The president tweets the press: President-press relations and the politics of media degradation. Presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Baltimore, MD, November 2019.

Scacco, J. M., Coe, K., & Wiemer, E. C. (2019). Trumpian echoes: Presidential language repetition on twitter. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington D.C., August 2019.

 Wiemer, E. C. (2019). The semantics of striking in West Virginia: A semantic network analysis of the press-public relationship. Presented at the annual meeting of the Sunbelt Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 2019.

Lambert, N. J., Rawat, M., & Wiemer, E. C. (2019). Evaluation of Indiana public health departments' use of Facebook to meet community health information needs using semantic network analysis. Presented at the annual meeting of the Sunbelt Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 2019.

Eise, J. & Wiemer, E. C. (2019). Localized climate change information networks: Agricultural producers in the Andean region. Presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Washington D.C., May 2019. [Top Student Poster Award]

Wiemer, E. C. & Scacco, J. M. (2019). Elite Influence and the Echoing Public: The Role of Semantic Saturation. Presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Washington D.C., May 2019.

Jett, J., Lusvardi, A., & Wiemer, E. C. (2019). “Believe Survivors” or “Enough Already”?: How elite discourse shapes public understanding of focusing events. Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2019.