Media Use and Political Predispositions: Revisiting the Concept of Selective Exposure

Stroud, Natalie Jomini

doi:10.1007/s11109-007-9050-9

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“…While it captures overall news exposure, it does not distinguish news sources and so does not test the selective exposure thesis that has taken on greater significance as the variety of news sources has multiplied (Best, et al 2005, Mutz and Martin 2001, Mutz 2006, Stroud 2008, Taber and Lodge 2006. That is, individuals, perhaps by choice, are exposed to homogeneous, politically biased, and partisan frames that affect their interpretation of the political world, their views on issues, the labels they use, and their ideological identities.…”

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Ideological Labels in America

2014

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This paper extends Ellis and Stimson's (2012) study of the operational-symbolic paradox using issue-level measures of ideological incongruence based on respondent positions and symbolic labels for these positions across 14 issues. Like Ellis and Stimson, we find that substantial numbers-over 30 percent-of Americans experience conflicted conservatism. Our issue-level data reveal, furthermore, that conflicted conservatism is most common on the issues of education and welfare spending. In addition, we also find that 20 percent of Americans exhibit conflicted liberalism. We then replicate Ellis and Stimson's finding that conflicted conservatism is associated with low sophistication and religiosity, but also find that it is associated with being socialized in a post-1960s generation and using Fox News as a main news source. Finally, we show the important role played by identities, with both conflicted conservatism and conflicted liberalism linked with partisan and ideological identities, and conflicted liberalism additionally associated with ethnic identities.

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Ideological Labels in America

2014

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“…Nevertheless, pessimists' positions that fear an extensive fragmentation of the audience along lines of thematic interests and political viewpoints might exaggerate matters. A number of studies suggest more complex relationships (Holbert, Garrett, and Gleason 2010): While there is a long tradition of research that confirms that people seem to select information according to their political predispositions (Frey 1986;Lazarsfeld, Berelson, and Gaudet 1944;Sears and Freedman 1967;Zillmann and Bryant 1985), newer studies have nuanced this picture and provided evidence that conflicting sources are not eschewed completely (Garrett, Carnahan, and Lynch 2011;Garrett 2009aGarrett , 2009bJohnson, Zhang, and Bichard 2010;Kobayashi and Ikeda 2009;Stroud 2008;Webster 2011).…”

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Challenging Selective Exposure

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Schoenbach

2014

Digital Journalism

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“…Selective exposure theory (Zillmann and Bryant 1985), which proposes that people prefer to exposure themselves to media content that supports their positions, should be particularly insightful. For example, Stroud (2007) reported that politics as a topic is more likely to inspire selective exposure. To understand the influence of an increasingly partisan media on a divided electrorate, future research should investigate the nature and effect of selective exposure on perceptions of media bias and judgments of its impact using lab experiments to control for the different types of media polls.…”

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Perceived Poll Bias and Inference of Biased Poll Impact in the 2010 U.S. Midterm Elections: Media Performance in the Eyes of the Beholder

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2013

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This study examines the role of perceptions of opinion polls in assessing media performance in the 2010 midterm elections using data collected in a southern state. Results show strong hostile media effect in viewing the favorability of the polls and the third-person effect in assessing the impact of the polls on others and oneself. Moreover, results indicate that the influence of hostile polls on the perceived effect of these polls on oneself relative to others was mediated by poll exposure. Perception of hostile polls was found to be negatively related to poll exposure. The hotile perception indirectly affects perceived effects of polls on oneself and others, which in turn directly affects support for restrictions of election polls. The theretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.

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Media Use and Political Predispositions: Revisiting the Concept of Selective Exposure

Cited by 816 publications

References 56 publications

Ideological Labels in America

Ideological Labels in America

Challenging Selective Exposure

Perceived Poll Bias and Inference of Biased Poll Impact in the 2010 U.S. Midterm Elections: Media Performance in the Eyes of the Beholder

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