A New Era of Minimal Effects? The Changing Foundations of Political Communication

Bennett, W. Lance; Iyengar, Shanto

doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.2008.00410.x

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“…This study helps to understand how this popular new news genre affects public opinion formation and has demonstrated two indirect ways via which opinionated news may cause effects on political attitudes. Thereby, it provides evidence against the claim (Bennett & Iyengar, 2008) that a widened range of media choice would cause a return to a "minimal effects" era (Klapper, 1960). After all, even when those uninterested in politics and without stable political preferences abandon the traditional news media, they may still be attracted to entertaining types of political media that cater other needs (Holbert, Garrett, & Gleason, 2010).…”

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confidence: 91%

News With an Attitude: Assessing the Mechanisms Underlying the Effects of Opinionated News

Boukes

Boomgaarden

Moorman

et al. 2014

Mass Communication and Society

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News with an attitude: assessing the mechanisms underlying the effects of opinionated news Boukes, M.; Boomgaarden, H.; Moorman, M.; de Vreese, C.H. General rightsIt is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulationsIf you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: http://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. AbstractOpinionated news targets communities of likeminded viewers, relies on dramaturgical storytelling techniques, and shares characteristics with political satire. Accordingly, opinionated news should be understood as a specific form of political entertainment. We have investigated the mechanisms underlying the effects of opinionated news on political attitudes using an experimental design that employed manipulated television news items. Findings confirm that opinionated news positively affects policy attitudes via its presumed influence on others and subsequent perceptions of the opinion climate. However, opinionated news also negatively affects attitudes via hostile media perceptions and evoked anger, especially for people with incongruent political preferences. Due to these opposing processes, we found no total effect of opinionated news on policy attitudes. Conditions are discussed under which either the positive or the negative indirect effect is likely to dominate.

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confidence: 91%

News With an Attitude: Assessing the Mechanisms Underlying the Effects of Opinionated News

Boukes

Boomgaarden

Moorman

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Mass Communication and Society

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“…Teaching approach also moderated the impact of political affiliation on responsibility. In general, political partisanship and polarization cause selective adoption of information and entrenchment, thwarting the effect of engagement with new information or with challenging perspectives (Bar-Tal and Halperin 2011;Bennett and Iyengar 2008). However, looking at the effect of political affiliation on in-group responsibility within each teaching approach, we find wide variations.…”

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The Official, The Empathetic and The Critical: Three Approaches to History Teaching and Reconciliation in Israel

Goldberg

2017

History Education and Conflict Transformation

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“…As these services are shifting the social and communication infrastructure of our society, having proper tools and techniques to study these platforms becomes ever more critical for understanding social activities (Naaman, Boase, & Lai 2010), public opinion (Bennett & Iyengar, 2008;Castells, 2009), political action (Parsons, 2010;Siegel, 2009) and more. At the same time, the ubiquity of new social media has stupefied some of the best students of social change, with the prominent exceptions of marketing, advertising, and information science researchers (Blythe & Cairns, 2009;Xenos, 2010).…”

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InfoExtractor—A Tool for Social Media Data Mining

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Shah

2012

Journal of Information Technology & Politics

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A New Era of Minimal Effects? The Changing Foundations of Political Communication

Cited by 1,016 publications

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News With an Attitude: Assessing the Mechanisms Underlying the Effects of Opinionated News

News With an Attitude: Assessing the Mechanisms Underlying the Effects of Opinionated News

The Official, The Empathetic and The Critical: Three Approaches to History Teaching and Reconciliation in Israel

InfoExtractor—A Tool for Social Media Data Mining

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