All Stories

  1. Exploring how online political quizzes boost interest in politics, political news, and political engagement

    Article • Journal of Information Technology & Politics, October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Gina M Chen

  2. Shut down or turn off? The interplay between news overload and consumption

    Article • Atlantic Journal of Communication, May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Gina M Chen

  3. Can We Talk About Race? Exploring Online Comments about Race-Related Shootings

    Article • Howard Journal of Communications, April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Gina M Chen

  4. Breakdown of Democratic Norms? Understanding the 2016 US Presidential Election Through Online Comments

    Article • Social Media + Society, April 2019, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Gina M Chen

  5. ‘A chance for me to do good, make a real difference’: how citizen journalists in India view their role in social transformation

    Article • Media Practice and Education, March 2019, Taylor & Francis

    PAROMITA PAIN, Dr. Gina M Chen

  6. Offline political engagement leads to online political voice among Kyrgyzstan bloggers

    Article • Media Asia, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Gina M Chen

  7. ‘You really have to have a thick skin’: A cross-cultural perspective on how online harassment influences female journalists

    Article • Journalism, April 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Gina M Chen

  8. News video quality affects online sites’ credibility

    Article • Newspaper Research Journal, March 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Gina M Chen

  9. Learning multimedia Journalism

    Article • Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, July 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Gina M Chen

  10. Normalizing Online Comments

    Article • Journalism Practice, July 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Gina M Chen, PAROMITA PAIN

  11. Scandal-suffering politicians, scorned wives and salacious news: Examining public response to the scandal press conference

    Article • Interactions Studies in Communication & Culture, April 2016, Intellect

    Dr. Gina M Chen

  12. Third-person perception of online comments: Civil ones persuade you more than me

    Article • Computers in Human Behavior, February 2016, Elsevier

    Dr. Gina M Chen

  13. Scandal in a Digital Age

    Article • January 2016, Nature

    Dr. Gina M Chen

  14. Introduction: Scandal in an Age of Likes, Selfies, Retweets, and Sexts

    Article • January 2016, Nature

    Dr. Gina M Chen

  15. Over-Sharing in a Political Sex Scandal

    Article • January 2016, Nature

    Dr. Gina M Chen, PAROMITA PAIN

  16. Conclusion: Predicting a New Scandal Environment in the Twenty-First Century

    Article • January 2016, Nature

    Dr. Gina M Chen

  17. A Psychophysiological Study of Processing HIV/AIDS Public Service Announcements: The Effects of Novelty Appeals, Sexual Appeals, Narrative Versus Statistical Evidence, and Viewer’s Sex

    Article • Health Communication, December 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Gina M Chen

  18. Why do we tag photographs on Facebook? Proposing a new gratifications scale

    Article • New Media & Society, October 2015, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Gina M Chen

  19. Persuasiveness of Hiv/aids Public Service Announcements as a Function of Argument Quality, Personal Relevance, and Evidence Form

    Article • Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal, November 2014, Scientific Journal Publishers Ltd

    Dr. Gina M Chen

  20. Revisiting the social enhancement hypothesis: Extroversion indirectly predicts number of Facebook friends operating through Facebook usage

    Article • Computers in Human Behavior, October 2014, Elsevier

    Dr. Gina M Chen

  21. Exploring differences in how men and women respond to threats to positive face on social media

    Article • Computers in Human Behavior, September 2014, Elsevier

    Dr. Gina M Chen

  22. College students’ disclosure of location-related information on Facebook

    Article • Computers in Human Behavior, June 2014, Elsevier

    Dr. Gina M Chen

  23. Losing Face on Social Media: Threats to Positive Face Lead to an Indirect Effect on Retaliatory Aggression Through Negative Affect

    Article • Communication Research, November 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Gina M Chen

  24. Why do women bloggers use social media? Recreation and information motivations outweigh engagement motivations

    Article • New Media & Society, September 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Gina M Chen

  25. Don't Call Me That: A Techno-Feminist Critique of the TermMommy Blogger

    Article • Mass Communication & Society, July 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Gina M Chen

  26. Male Mammies: A Social-Comparison Perspective on How Exaggeratedly Overweight Media Portrayals of Madea, Rasputia, and Big Momma Affect How Black Women Feel About Themselves

    Article • Mass Communication & Society, January 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Gina M Chen

  27. Why do women write personal blogs? Satisfying needs for self-disclosure and affiliation tell part of the story

    Article • Computers in Human Behavior, January 2012, Elsevier

    Dr. Gina M Chen

  28. Tweet this: A uses and gratifications perspective on how active Twitter use gratifies a need to connect with others

    Article • Computers in Human Behavior, March 2011, Elsevier

    Dr. Gina M Chen