The long-term cultivation of sociotropic beliefs

May 5, 2026 · 1 min read
Site Project period: 2017 - 2022
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A project on whether citizens who get their news from different media sources adopt and cultivate different beliefs about society. By combining a four-year panel survey with longitudinal media content analysis, the project studies long-term effects of news media use on beliefs about antibiotic resistance, climate change, integration of immigrants, and unemployment.

Selected publications

  • A. Shehata, J. Johansson, B. Johansson, K. Andersen (2022). Climate Change Frame Acceptance and Resistance: Extreme Weather, Consonant News, and Personal Media Orientations. Mass Communication and Society, 25(1), 51–76.
  • K. Andersen, J. Johansson, B. Johansson, A. Shehata (2022). Maintenance and Reformation of News Repertoires: A Latent Transition Analysis. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 99(1), 237–261.

Principal Investigator

Adam Shehata

Responsibilities

  • Analysis.
  • Research design.

Funding

Supported by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet).

Media Effects Public Opinion Selective Media Use
Johannes Johansson
Authors
Johannes Johansson
PhD Candidate in Media and Communication
I am a PhD candidate in Media and Communication at the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication (JMG), University of Gothenburg. My research re-examines established theories of media effects and audience behavior as temporally contingent processes, with a focus on public opinion, news framing, agenda-setting, and selective media use, drawing on computational, experimental, and mixed-methods approaches. I did my PhD affiliated with the Varieties of Media Effects (ERC) research programme and have also worked within projects on long-term cultivation effects and the activation and articulation of authoritarian attitudes. Before starting my PhD, I worked at the SOM Institute and the Laboratory of Opinion Research (LORE) as Deputy Chief Analyst.

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