Media MOSAIC Lab

  • Selected Publications

    Our lab explores the dynamics of both traditional and new media by focusing on key issues such as marginalization, online hate, social identity, audience perception, intergroup relations, and collective action. We seek to understand how media shapes and reflects social attitudes, influences group behaviors, and impacts the collective experiences of marginalized communities in hopes of fostering a deeper understanding of mass media and how it may be utilized in addressing social inequalities and promoting positive social change.

    See our selected publications below, sorted by our key foci:

    Marginalization

    1. Saleem, M., Mastro, D., & Docherty, M. (2023). Motivations underlying Latino Americans’ group-based social media engagement. Journal of Communication, 73(3), 198-209.
      DOI: 10.1093/joc/jqad013

    2. Molina-Rogers, N., Kam, J. A., Cornejo, M., & Mendez Murillo, R. (2024). Using the structural influence model of communication to explore U.S. Latina/o/x undocumented immigrants’ COVID-19 information acquisition, perceptions, and prevention behaviors. Health Communication. Advanced online publication. 1-15. DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2024.2309808

    3. Yang, Q., Saleem, M., Dobson, E., & Grimmesey, S. (2024). The Mediating Role of Hesitancy in the Associations Between Mental Disorders and Social Support Seeking During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Behavioral Sciences, 14(11), 979. DOI: 10.3390/bs14110979

    Online Hate

    1. Van Houtven, E., Acquah, S. B., Obermaier, M., Saleem, M., & Schmuck, D. (2024). ‘You got my back?’ Severity and counter-speech in online hate speech toward minority groups. Media Psychology, 1-32. DOI: 10.1080/15213269.2023.2298684

    2. Roden, J., & Saleem, M. (2022). White apathy and allyship in uncivil racial social media comments. Mass Communication and Society, 25(3), 383-406. DOI: 10.1080/15205436.2021.1955933

    3. Obermaier, M., Schmuck, D., & Saleem, M. (2023). I’ll be there for you? Effects of Islamophobic online hate speech and counter speech on Muslim in-group bystanders’ intention to intervene. New Media & Society, 25(9), 2339-2358. DOI: 10.1177/14614448211017527

    Social Identity

    1. Bañales, J., Saleem, M., Murrar, S., Rivas-Drake, D., & Pinetta, B. J. (2024). Social identity development and religious discrimination among Muslim American youth. Developmental Psychology, 60(10), 1855. DOI: 10.1037/dev0001806

    2. Lane, D. S., Do, K., & Molina-Rogers, N. (2022). Testing inequality and identity accounts of racial gaps in political expression on social media. Political Communication, 39(1), 79-97. DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2021.1919808

    3. Saleem, M., Wojcieszak, M. E., Hawkins, I., Li, M., & Ramasubramanian, S. (2019). Social identity threats: How media and discrimination affect Muslim Americans’ identification as Americans and trust in the US government. Journal of Communication, 69(2), 214-236. DOI: 10.1093/joc/jqz001

    Audience Perception

    1. Hawkins, I., Coles, S. M., Saleem, M., Moorman, J. D., & Aqel, H. (2024). How reel Middle Easterners’ portrayals cultivate stereotypical beliefs and policy support. Mass Communication and Society, 27(1), 1-25. DOI: 10.1080/15205436.2022.2062000

    2. Lane, D. S., Saleem, M., & Noor, M. (2020). Damned if you do, damned if you don’t: Effects of empathy and responsibility in Muslim leaders’ mediated responses to extremist attacks. Media Psychology, 23(2), 184-214. DOI: 10.1080/15213269.2019.1584570

    3. Saleem, M., Prot, S., Anderson, C. A., & Lemieux, A. F. (2017). Exposure to Muslims in media and support for public policies harming Muslims. Communication Research, 44(6), 841-869. DOI: 10.1177/0093650215619214

    Intergroup Relations

    1. Lajevardi, N., Oskooii, K., Saleem, M., & Docherty, M. (2024). In the shadow of September 11: The roots and ramifications of anti‐Muslim attitudes in the United States. Political Psychology, 45, 87-118. DOI: 10.1111/pops.12943

    2. Yong, J. C., Jia, L., Ismail, I., & Lee, P. (2021). Conditional love: Threat and attitudinal perceptions of immigrants depend on their instrumentality to locals’ basic psychological needs. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47(12), 1686-1704. DOI: 10.1177/0146167220984648

    3. Saleem, M., Dubow, E., Lee, F., & Huesmann, R. (2018). Perceived discrimination and intergroup behaviors: The role of Muslim and American identity integration. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 49(4), 602-617. DOI: 10.1177/0022022118763113

    Collective Action

    1. Saleem, M., Hawkins, I., Wojcieszak, M., & Roden, J. (2021). When and How Negative Media Representations Empower Collective Action in Minorities. Communication Research, 48(2), 291-316. DOI: 10.1177/0093650219877094

    2. Nekmat, E., & Ismail, I. (2019). Issue-based micromobilization on social media: Mediated pathways linking issue involvement and self-network opinion congruity to expressive support. Computers in Human Behavior, 101, 51-59.
      DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2019.07.008

    3. Hawkins, I., & Saleem, M. (2023). Rise UP!: A content analytic study of how collective action is discussed within White nationalist videos on YouTube. New Media & Society, 25(12), 3308-3327. DOI: 10.1177/14614448211040520