Perceptions of Bias in Political Content in Late Night Comedy Programs

Arpan, Laura M.; Bae, Beom Jun; Chen, Yen-Shen; Greene, Gary H.

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“…Here again, most of the scholarship focuses on youth. Various studies examine the "perceptions of bias" in political humor (Arpan et al, 2011), perceptions of persuasive intent in satire (Holbert et al, 2013), gratification in viewing political humor (Young, 2013) as opposed to news programming (Holbert et al, 2007), and how viewing political humor may influence selective exposure to news stories (Stroud and Muddiman, 2013).…”

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Maybe it Is More Than a Joke: Satire, Mobilization, and Political Participation*

Baumgartner

Lockerbie

2018

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between viewing late night political humor and political participation. Methods We used various measures of viewership of late night talk shows and political participation in the 2012 American National Election Studies (ANES) data set. Results We show that viewership of “Late Night with David Letterman,” a simple form of political comedy, seems to be unrelated to political participation. However, viewership of Comedy Central's “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and “The Colbert Report,” considered by most to be genuine political satire, is associated with higher levels of political participation. Conclusion The results suggest that advocates of political satire may be correct when they suggest that satire mobilizes viewers to political action.

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Maybe it Is More Than a Joke: Satire, Mobilization, and Political Participation*

Baumgartner

Lockerbie

2018

Social Science Quarterly

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“…Em palavras de Vallone, Ross, & Lepper (1985), "(...) ambos os lados concordam que a cobertura foi enviesada, mas discordam tenazmente sobre a direção de viés". O que é HORNSEY; GALLOIS, 2007;ARPAN et al, 2011;CHIA et al, 2007;GLYNN;HUGE, 2014;CHIA, 2001;LIEBHART, 2006;GUNTHER et al, 2001GUNTHER et al, , 2012HARTMANN;TANIS, 2013;MATHESON;DURSUN, 2001), inclusive por artigo de meta-análise que revisa 34 pesquisas sobre a percepção de mídia hostil (HANSEN; KIM, 2011).…”

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Por que a mídia é tão parcial e adversária da minha posição? A hipótese da "hostile media perception"

Gomes¹

2016

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O trabalho discute o muito disseminado sentimento, que afeta os membros de certos grupos e em certascircunstâncias, de que os meios de comunicação são tendenciosos contra o nosso lado e favorecem olado adversário, assim como os mecanismos que lhe são subjacentes. Este ensaio tem como foco asensação, convicção ou opinião, compartilhada por pessoas altamente envolvidas com certos temas ouassuntos, de que os conteúdos e abordagens da mídia são tendenciosos e adversários se e quandoincongruentes com o ponto de vista ideológico, político ou religioso do próprio sistema de referênciasintelectual, moral e afetivo. Para tanto, o artigo resenha os argumentos mais constantes nos quase trintaanos de literatura especializada sobre a “hostile media perception” (HMP), modelo teórico-metodológicoimportante no campo dos estudos dos efeitos da comunicação, resumindo pontos de vista e apontandodireções da pesquisa.

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“…Light formats were found to have mixed effects on political trust and cynicism (Guggenheim et al, 2011; Tsfati et al, 2009). Comedy shows in particular might lead to more biased perceptions of political information (Arpan et al, 2011).…”

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“…Whether light TV formats turn out to be a threat or an opportunity for citizens’ political awareness or knowledge, thus, also depends on actual consumption patterns. High correlations between exposure to soft and hard news formats indicate that different information formats have shared audiences (Arpan et al, 2011; Feldman and Young, 2008). So far, however, very little is known about actual consumption of serious and light programme formats by individual viewers (Young and Tisinger, 2006).…”

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How keeping up diversifies: Watching public affairs TV in the Netherlands 1988–2010

Wonneberger

Schoenbach

Meurs

2013

European Journal of Communication

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Although concerns have been raised that political infotainment programmes might increasingly substitute more serious information, empirical evidence about changes of individual viewing behaviour is scarce. The authors discuss audience specialization and diversification as two opposing patterns of audience response to a growing variety of public affairs programmes. While specialization results from selective programme choice, diversification may be furthered by the impact of situational factors. Using electronically recorded people-meter data, this study explores information viewing in the Netherlands over the last two decades. As opposed to concerns about audience fragmentation, the authors find that public affairs viewing has become more diverse on the individual level with entertaining information programmes used as an additional source of information. Dutch viewers were exposed to different public affairs information. The personal relevance of TV as a medium is one of the main drivers behind high levels of exposure.

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Perceptions of Bias in Political Content in Late Night Comedy Programs

Cited by 10 publications

References 42 publications

Maybe it Is More Than a Joke: Satire, Mobilization, and Political Participation*

Maybe it Is More Than a Joke: Satire, Mobilization, and Political Participation*

Por que a mídia é tão parcial e adversária da minha posição? A hipótese da "hostile media perception"

How keeping up diversifies: Watching public affairs TV in the Netherlands 1988–2010

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