Guilt by association: How chumbox advertising affects news readers’ perceptions
Paper presented at the 102nd Annual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Top Scholar-to-Scholar Presentation Award)
Abstract: As content referral widgets and other forms of native advertising continue to be lucrative means of subsidizing journalism, critics and industry observers have derided these “chumboxes” as damaging to the user experience and the journalism they’re adjacent to. This study theorizes mechanisms behind this proposition and tests it in two controlled experiments. Results suggest that effects of chumbox ads on perceptions of message and source credibility depend on article context, such that the presence of chumboxes damages message and source credibility in circumstances where readers are more motivated to read the article.
Getting a little too personal? Positive and negative effects of personalized advertising on online multitaskers
Abstract: Given the increasing number of personalized ads and the prevalence of media multitasking, understanding the impact of online privacy concern on ad outcomes is important. However, the interaction effects between […]
Increasing the Efficacy of Emotional Appeal Ads on Online Video Watching Platforms: The Effects of Goals and Emotional Approach Tendency on Ad-Skipping Behavior
Abstract: Using an experimental tool that tracks the viewers’ real-time ad skipping behavior, the current research tested when and why a highly arousing emotional appeal ad that induces a set of […]
