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1754
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843

Overview

David H. Weaver is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States and focuses their research primarily within the social sciences. The subfields of their work include communication, sociology and political science, literature and literary theory, political science and international relations, as well as strategy and management.

The main topics that characterize Weaver's research encompass media studies and communication, media influence and health, media influence and politics, misinformation and its impacts, social and intergroup psychology, policy transfer and learning, and political influence and corporate strategies.

Throughout their career, Weaver has published extensively in several venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
  • Mass Communication & Society
  • Journalism & Communication Monographs
  • Journalism Studies
  • Communication and Change

Some of the recent publications authored or co-authored by Weaver include:

  • "Taking the Long View: The Role of Replication in Research," 2023, Journalism & Communication Monographs
  • "The American Journalist Under Attack: An Institution at Risk," 2024, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
  • "Navigating the Coronavirus Infodemic: Exploring the Impact of Need for Orientation, Epistemic Beliefs and Type of Media Use on Knowledge and Misperception about COVID-19," 2022, Mass Communication & Society
  • "Reflections on a Legacy: Thoughts from Scholars about Agenda-Setting Past and Future," 2022, Mass Communication & Society
  • "Book Review: The U.S.-China Trade War: Global News Framing and Public Opinion in the Digital Age, by Louisa Ha and Lars Willnat (Eds.)," 2022, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

Weaver has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Lars Willnat
  • Cleve Wilhoit
  • Taeyoung Lee
  • Thomas J. Johnson
  • Mike Schmierbach

Best Publications

  • Thoughts on Agenda Setting, Framing, and Priming

    David H. Weaver

  • Communication and Democracy : Exploring the intellectual Frontiers in Agenda-setting theory

    Maxwell E. McCombs;Donald Lewis Shaw;David H. Weaver

  • The global journalist : news people around the world

    David H. Weaver;Wei Wu

  • Media agenda-setting in a Presidential election : issues, images, and interest

    David H. Weaver

  • The Global Journalist in the 21st Century

    David H. Weaver;Lars Willnat

  • New Directions in Agenda-Setting Theory and Research

    Maxwell E. McCombs;Donald L. Shaw;David H. Weaver

  • The Formation of campaign agendas : a comparative analysis of party and media roles in recent American and British elections

    Holli A. Semetko;Jay G. Blumler;Michael Gurevitch;David H. Weaver

  • The American journalist: A portrait of U.S. news people and their work

    David H. Weaver;G. Cleveland Wilhoit

  • Agenda-Setting Research: Issues, Attributes, and Influences

    David Weaver;Maxwell McCombs;Donald L. Shaw

  • The American Journalist in the 21st Century : U.S. News People at the Dawn of a New Millennium

    David H. Weaver;Randal A. Beam;Bonnie J. Brownlee;Paul S. Voakes

  • Audience Need for Orientation and Media Effects

    David H. Weaver

  • Different Questions, Different Answers? Media Use and Media Credibility

    Tony Rimmer;David Weaver

  • Voter Learning in the 2004 Presidential Election: Did the Media Matter?

    Dan Drew;David Weaver

  • The American journalist in the 1990s : U.S. news people at the end of an era

    David H. Weaver;G. Cleveland Wilhoit

  • Mass Communication Research Trends from 1980 to 1999

    Rasha Kamhawi;David Weaver

  • Individuals, groups, and agenda melding: A theory of social dissonance

    Donald L. Shaw;Maxwell McCombs;David H. Weaver;Bradley J. Hamm

  • Who Sets the Agenda for the Media? A Study of Local Agenda-Building.

    David Weaver;Swanzy Nimley Elliott

  • Individual, Organizational, and Societal Influences on Media Role Perceptions: A Comparative Study of Journalists in China, Taiwan, and the United States:

    Jian-Hua Zhu;David Weaver;Ven-Hwei Lo;Chongshan Chen

  • The American Journalist in the 1990s

    David Weaver;G. Cleveland Wilhoit

  • Voter Learning and Interest in the 2000 Presidential Election: Did the Media Matter?

    David Weaver;Dan Drew

  • Global journalism research : theories, methods, findings, future

    Martin Löffelholz;David H. Weaver;Andreas Schwarz

Frequent Co-Authors

Maxwell McCombs
Maxwell McCombs The University of Texas at Austin
Thomas Hanitzsch
Thomas Hanitzsch Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Thorsten Quandt
Thorsten Quandt University of Münster

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