Rachel R. Mourão's research while affiliated with Michigan State University and other places
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Publications (9)
Millions of people across the world live off-grid not by choice but because they live in rural areas, have low income, and have no political clout. Delivering sustainable energy solutions to such a substantial amount of the world’s population requires more than a technological fix; it requires leveraging the knowledge of underserved populations wor...
This study employed a 2 × 3 × 2 experiment in the United States to understand how headlines trigger willingness to verify information, manipulating partisan leaning, source credibility, and factuality. Based on evolutionary psychology, we also explored how perceived importance and information familiarity influence willingness to verify information...
Despite massive environmental impacts and socioeconomic risks, hydropower dams continue to be widely adopted and unquestioned in developing countries. This study analyzes two decades of mainstream media coverage of dams in Brazil, where two-thirds of energy consumption comes from hydropower. Through a content analysis of news articles published by...
After the 2020 murder of George Floyd, a flood of protest activity against racial injustice ensued around the world, and a significant uptick in support for Black Lives Matter followed. This study investigated the narratives produced in news coverage of Black Lives Matter protests and how media consumption and individual predispositions help us und...
This study focuses on the relationship between the mainstream press and right-wing protests in Brazil. Guided by the “protest paradigm” literature, my goal was to understand how reporters in the Global South cover conservative demonstrations. Protest paradigm scholarship found that news norms and routines lead to delegitimizing patterns of coverage...
Despite the looming crisis in journalism, a research–practice gap plagues the news industry. This volume seeks to change the research–practice gap, with timely scholarly research on the most pressing problems facing the news industry today, translated for a non-specialist audience. Contributions from academics and journalists are brought together i...
This study details the development of a public affairs reporting course for journalism schools in resource-limited communities offered at a land-grant institution surrounded by a resource-strapped community. This chapter focuses on inequalities related to opportunities for engagement, both when it comes to newsrooms and academic settings. More spec...
This article investigates the relationship between digital news coverage of protests and the audience’s willingness to engage with a story about Black Lives Matter on social media. Using a 3x2 experiment, we evaluate if news frames from the protest paradigm literature (riot, confrontation, and legitimizing) and the presence of an accompanying visua...
This article details a case study testing the effectiveness of a new curriculum for undergraduate public affairs reporting. Our intervention focused on restructuring an undergraduate reporting class to focus on a single issue (schools) and introduce mapping and video, whereas control groups used the old curriculum that was print-heavy and had no sp...
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... Our content analysis found that most stories carried by the media focused on the process of approval and construction of hydropower projects and on the benefits that hydropower brought to national economic development (60). Despite significant opposition to some hydropower projects, few stories covered these critical views, relying instead on voices from official sources and construction companies. ...
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... Finally, these differences in political ideology were also found in perceptions of current, high-profile police events. For example, Brown and Mourão (2022) surveyed U.S. adults about their perceptions of protest behaviors and government responses that occurred in the summer of 2020 following the police murder of George Floyd. They found that conservatives were much less supportive of protest behaviors than liberals were. ...
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... In 2019 alone, the FBI logged 7,314 hate crimes (FBI Press Office 2020). Research in news coverage of hate has revealed that journalists have struggled in coverage of hate and hostility (Mourão 2021;Perreault, Johnson, and Klein 2020). While scholars have researched how national journalists approach such topics, they have not thoroughly analyzed how journalists in rural areas cover them. ...
... We analyze the news coverage of this specific social movement for two reasons. First, the BLM movement gained a considerable amount of media attention that "delegitimized and racialized the movement by accentuating conflict and violence" [22], which aligns with an established line of research that stresses that media coverage often focuses on violent and disruptive aspects of a movement's protest rather than its goals and social criticism [22][23][24][25]. Since public opinion and support of a social movement depend highly on how that movement is portrayed in news reporting [26][27][28], especially when violence is involved [23], it is particularly interesting to analyze the news portrayal of the BLM movement, as both protestors and police have committed acts of violence [29]. ...
