Freddie J. Jennings
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Assistant Professor of Communication and Technology
Also affiliated: University of Missouri System (2017); University of Missouri (2016–2019)
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Biography and Research Information
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Freddie J. Jennings' research interests encompass media studies and communication, with a focus on how individuals engage with information and political discourse online. Jennings has investigated the role of civility and metacommunication in online discussions, particularly on platforms like Facebook, and examined how these factors influence attitudes toward health information, such as vaccines. Their work also explores the impact of partisanship and identity-motivated reasoning on political learning and persuasion, including the effects of political comedy. Jennings has published 42 works with 625 citations and an h-index of 14. Collaborations include shared publications with Dani B. Jackson, Marco Dehnert, Nicholas Purintun, and Brandon C. Bouchillon, all from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
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- h-index: 11
- Publications: 39
- Citations: 453
Positions
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University of Arkansas at Fayetteville publications 2018–2026Communication ORCID
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Assistant Professor of Communication and Technology publications 2018–2026University of Arkansas at Fayetteville Institution web page
Selected Publications
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Partisan Social Identity in the 2024 Presidential Election: Motivated Elaboration on the Criminal Convictions of Donald Trump and Hunter Biden (2026)
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Fostering response efficacy: The democratic implications of virtual reality (2026)
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Issue and Image Learning in Debates: Evidence from the Two Televised Presidential Debates in 2024 (2026)
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Political knowledge is political power: gendered political elaboration and inequitable debate learning outcomes (2026)
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Comparing how brand and product appeals influence consumer attitudes, preferences and visual processing (2025)
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The Depolarizing Effect of AI Chatbots: Effects of Interactive News on Belief Perseverance and Information Seeking (2025)
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Partisan Cues, Anger, and Attitude Formation: Experiments on Partisan Motivated Reasoning (2025)
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Testing Partisan Elaborative Responses to Political Campaign Image Repair Strategies (2024)
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Narrative or Facts: Two Paths to Vaccine Advocacy (2024)
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From Fringe to Mainstream: How Celebrity Endorsement on Social Media Contributes to the Spread of Conspiracy Theories (2024)
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Visual overload: The influence of broadcast social media visuals on televised debate viewing outcomes (2023)
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Intergroup Bias in Political Decision Making (2023)
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Enhancing Visual Learning with Keyword Captioned Video (2022)
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Delineating Antecedents and Outcomes of Information Seeking Upon Exposure to an Environmental Video Opposing Single-Use Plastics (2022)
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Presidential debate learning as a gateway to opinion articulation, communication intentions, and information seeking (2021)
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- Reconsidering partisanship as a constraint on the persuasive effects of debates
- Tweeting Along Partisan Lines: Identity-Motivated Elaboration and Presidential Debates
- Learning from Presidential Debates: Who Learns the Most and Why?
- Presidential debate learning as a gateway to opinion articulation, communication intentions, and information seeking
- Visual overload: The influence of broadcast social media visuals on televised debate viewing outcomes
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
- Reconsidering partisanship as a constraint on the persuasive effects of debates
- Tweeting Along Partisan Lines: Identity-Motivated Elaboration and Presidential Debates
- Learning from Presidential Debates: Who Learns the Most and Why?
- Closing the Knowledge Gap: How Issue Priming Before Presidential Debate Viewing Encourages Learning and Opinion Articulation
- Issue and Image Learning in Debates: Evidence from the Two Televised Presidential Debates in 2024
- Reconsidering partisanship as a constraint on the persuasive effects of debates
- Learning from Presidential Debates: Who Learns the Most and Why?
- Intergroup Bias in Political Decision Making
- Partisan Cues, Anger, and Attitude Formation: Experiments on Partisan Motivated Reasoning
- Delineating Antecedents and Outcomes of Information Seeking Upon Exposure to an Environmental Video Opposing Single-Use Plastics
- Presidential debate learning as a gateway to opinion articulation, communication intentions, and information seeking
- Comparing how brand and product appeals influence consumer attitudes, preferences and visual processing
- Reconsidering partisanship as a constraint on the persuasive effects of debates
- Learning from Presidential Debates: Who Learns the Most and Why?
- Presidential debate learning as a gateway to opinion articulation, communication intentions, and information seeking
- Closing the Knowledge Gap: How Issue Priming Before Presidential Debate Viewing Encourages Learning and Opinion Articulation
- Delineating Antecedents and Outcomes of Information Seeking Upon Exposure to an Environmental Video Opposing Single-Use Plastics
- From Fringe to Mainstream: How Celebrity Endorsement on Social Media Contributes to the Spread of Conspiracy Theories
- The Depolarizing Effect of AI Chatbots: Effects of Interactive News on Belief Perseverance and Information Seeking
- Partisan Social Identity in the 2024 Presidential Election: Motivated Elaboration on the Criminal Convictions of Donald Trump and Hunter Biden
- ‘I just don’t think she has a presidential look:’ the influence of sexism on candidate image
- Civility, credibility, and health information: The impact of uncivil comments and source credibility on attitudes about vaccines
- Learning from Presidential Debates: Who Learns the Most and Why?
- Tweeting Along Partisan Lines: Identity-Motivated Elaboration and Presidential Debates
- More Plastic than Fish: Partisan Responses to an Advocacy Video Opposing Single-Use Plastics
- More Plastic than Fish: Partisan Responses to an Advocacy Video Opposing Single-Use Plastics
- Closing the Knowledge Gap: How Issue Priming Before Presidential Debate Viewing Encourages Learning and Opinion Articulation
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