Varieties of Media Effects

Project Information

VARME

Grant agreement ID: 804662

DOI

10.3030/804662

Project closed

EC signature date 14 November 2018

Start date 1 March 2019

End date 28 February 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 495 595,00

EU contribution

€ 1 495 595,00

Coordinated by

GOETEBORGS UNIVERSITET
Sweden

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (15)

When the rally-around-the-flag effect disappears, or: when the COVID-19 pandemic becomes “normalized”

Author(s): Bengt Johansson, David Nicolas Hopmann, Adam Shehata
Published in: Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, Issue 31/sup1, 2021, Page(s) 321-334, ISSN 1745-7289
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/17457289.2021.1924742

Selective News Avoidance: Consistency and Temporality

Author(s): Kim Andersen, Adam Shehata, Morten Skovsgaard, Jesper Strömbäck
Published in: Communication Research, 2025, ISSN 0093-6502
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/00936502231221689

Success or Failure? News Framing of the COP26 Glasgow Summit and its Effects on Citizens’ Beliefs About Climate Change

Author(s): Per Oleskog Tryggvason, Adam Shehata
Published in: The International Journal of Press/Politics, Issue 29, 2025, Page(s) 689-709, ISSN 1940-1612
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/19401612231218426

How to Capture Reciprocal Communication Dynamics: Comparing Longitudinal Statistical Approaches in Order to Analyze Within- and Between-Person Effects

Author(s): Fabian Thomas, Adam Shehata, Lukas P Otto, Judith Möller, Elisabeth Prestele
Published in: Journal of Communication, Issue 71/2, 2021, Page(s) 187-219, ISSN 0021-9916
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/joc/jqab003

Selective Exposure and New Political Cleavages: Media Use and Ideological Reinforcement Over Time

Author(s): Adam Shehata; Mats Ekström; Per Oleskog Tryggvason
Published in: International Journal of Press/Politics, Issue 6, 2022, ISSN 1940-1612
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/19401612221112003

The Role of Audiovisuals in Counter-Framing Dynamics: A Longitudinal Experiment on Causal Responsibility Attribution

Author(s): Isabella Glogger
Published in: Mass Communication and Society, 2024, Page(s) 1-25, ISSN 1520-5436
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/15205436.2024.2409134

News Media Use and Crime Perceptions – The Dual Role of Ideology

Author(s): Dennis Andersson
Published in: Mass Communication and Society, 2025, Page(s) 1-19, ISSN 1520-5436
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/15205436.2025.2471866

Bridging the gap: Introducing a socio-cultural dimension to explain beliefs about man-made threats

Author(s): Isabella Glogger, Adam Shehata
Published in: Public Understanding of Science, 2022, ISSN 0963-6625
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/09636625221095723

Reinforcing Influence of Ideology on News Selection and Societal Perceptions: The COVID Pandemic in Sweden

Author(s): Dennis Andersson
Published in: Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2025, ISSN 1077-6990
Publisher: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
DOI: 10.1177/10776990241261721

Media Use and Societal Perceptions: The Dual Role of Media Trust

Author(s): Adam Shehata & Jesper Strömbäck
Published in: Media and Communication, 2022, ISSN 2183-2439
Publisher: Cogitatio
DOI: 10.17645/mac.v10i3.5449

Same News Frames, Different Issues: Issue Familiarity and Dynamic Framing Effects

Author(s): Adam Shehata, Isabella Glogger, Monika Djerf-Pierre, Maria Zuiderveld, Christina Åhrén, Fredrik Hedenus
Published in: Communication Research, Issue 51, 2025, Page(s) 1008-1032, ISSN 0093-6502
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/00936502241259690

Belief maintenance as a media effect: a conceptualization and empirical approach

Author(s): Adam Shehata, Fabian Thomas, Isabella Glogger, Kim Andersen
Published in: Human Communication Research, 2023, ISSN 1468-2958
Publisher: Oxford Academic
DOI: 10.1093/hcr/hqad033

Conceptualizing long-term media effects on societal beliefs

Author(s): Adam Shehata, Dennis Andersson, Isabella Glogger, David Nicolas Hopmann, Kim Andersen, Sanne Kruikemeier, Johannes Johansson
Published in: Annals of the International Communication Association, Issue 45/1, 2021, Page(s) 75-93, ISSN 2380-8985
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/23808985.2021.1921610

The world around us and the picture(s) in our heads: The effects of news media use on belief organization

Author(s): Isabella Glogger, Adam Shehata, David Nicolas Hopmann, Sanne Kruikemeier
Published in: Communication Monographs, 2022, ISSN 0363-7751
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/03637751.2022.2149830

News coverage and the social dimension of belief reinforcement: a longitudinal mixed-methods approach

Author(s): Adam Shehata
Published in: Human Communication Research, Issue 51, 2025, Page(s) 112-125, ISSN 0360-3989
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/hcr/hqae020

Book chapters (2)

The Swedish Way

Author(s): Adam Shehata, Isabella Glogger, Kim Andersen
Published in: Political Communication in the Time of Coronavirus, 2021, Page(s) 209-223, ISBN 9781003170051
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781003170051-16

Media effects on perceptions of societal problems: Belief formation in fragmented media environments

Author(s): Adam Shehata
Published in: The Routledge Companion to Political Journalism, 2021, Page(s) 302-311, ISBN 9780429284571
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9780429284571-28