Polarized Political Communication, Oppositional Media Hostility, and Selective Exposure

Arceneaux, Kevin; Johnson, Martin; Murphy, Chad

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“…Findings point toward a "relative hostile media effect": Perceptions of bias in opinionated news are strongest among those with incongruent political preferences, whereas those who hold views in line with the source, perceive less bias in such opinionated news or fail to see a bias at all (Arceneaux et al, 2012;Coe et al, 2008;Feldman, 2011b;Gunther, Edgerly, Akin, & Broesch, 2012). Hence, we expect the following: H 2a : Opinionated news evokes stronger bias perceptions than objective news, especially among people with incongruent political preferences.…”

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“…Arceneaux, Johnson and Murphy (2012), for example, showed that people evaluate opinionated news programs that are incongruent with one's attitudes worse on aspects of hostility, fairness, and quarrelsomeness. Exposure to disliked news has also been shown to raise cortisol levels among audiences, indicates evoked psychological stress (Blanton, Strauts, & Perez, 2012).…”

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“…Previous work, however, has yielded ambiguous findings with regard to this (Arceneaux, Johnson, & Murphy, 2012;Prior, 2013;Stroud, 2010). Furthermore, there are concerns about the internal and external validity of these findings, as well as a lack of knowledge about the mechanisms underlying these effects.…”

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“…Thereby, we shed light on the "black box" between cause and effect, which remained largely in the dark in previous work on the effects of opinionated news. Moreover, whereas previous studies have utilized already-aired original materials, which casts doubt about the ability to disentangle effects of source cues from those of news coverage styles (Arceneaux et al, 2012;Feldman, 2011b), we utilize carefully crafted experimental television news stimuli. Finally, this was done in a European context, which is less politically polarized than found in the United States.…”

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

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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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“…Selv om denne formen for selektiv eksponering er naturlig adferd, kan den ha store konsekvenser for nyhetsmedienes samlende kraft og kritiske funksjon dersom den får sterke utslag. Forskningen viser også at folk har en tendens til å vurdere medier de er ideologisk uenige med som mindre objektive (Vallone, Ross & Lepper, 1985), og at de derfor har lavere tillit til dem (Arceneaux, Johnson & Murphy, 2012).…”

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Selective Exposure

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2017

The International Encyclopedia of Media Effects

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Breaking from the dominant hypodermic needle tradition of media effects research that populated the early twentieth century, mass media scholars recognized as early as the 1940s that media selection and exposure was a decidedly purposeful process-that media audiences were active agents in the messages they chose to expose themselves to rather than passive recipients of symbolic bullets of mass information. In the 1940s, noted sociologist Harold Lasswell recognized that mass media plays several discrete functions, including surveillance (to keep audiences informed), correlation (to interpret events), and transmission (to reflect larger cultural values), with entertainment, mobilization, and socialization functions recommended by later scholars who adopted a less prescriptive perspective. This functional perspective of the mass media-that media are tools used by people to achieve particular goals-was a key notion to scholars such Joseph Klapper and Wilbur Schramm, who argued that media effects can hardly be understood in terms of mere exposure given that media consumption is largely a purposeful endeavor: that is, we actively choose (with or without conscious awareness) the media we consume. This entry outlines basic explicit and implicit selective exposure processes before recommending areas of extension in hopes of better understanding media effects-broadly and in relation to emerging interactive media technologies. Explicit selective exposure processesOne way of understanding media selection is to quantify the espoused (or conscious) reasons why audiences actively and purposefully choose media content. These can be referred to as explicit selective exposure processes. Common examples might include a TV viewer watching the evening news in order to catch up on the day's events, or a college student playing video games in order to enjoy a few minutes of distraction from their homework. These choices might be purely functional (for cognitive or escape reasons) or they could be the result of being familiar with the content or finding it agreeable. Each of these three approaches is discussed below.One of the more prominent examples of research from this perspective is the uses and gratifications approach. Rubin (2002) presented a contemporary view of uses and gratifications that outlined basic tenets, namely that communication behavior (such as media usage) is goal directed; that media audiences are active communicators; that social and psychological factors serve to bias media selection; that media compete with other functional alternatives (both mediated and nonmediated); and that individuals

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Polarized Political Communication, Oppositional Media Hostility, and Selective Exposure

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