Seeing Media as Group Members: An Evaluation of Partisan Bias Perceptions

Stroud, Natalie Jomini; Muddiman, Ashley; Lee, Jae Kook

doi:10.1111/jcom.12110

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“…But how do their thoughts about the coviewer and their consequences change as a result of the film? As documented in previous research, people tend to perceive outgroups as more homogeneous than ingroups (e.g., Stroud, Muddiman, & Lee, ). When the outgroup is presented positively on the screen, we may find it easier to empathize with a coviewer who belongs to the outgroup.…”

Section: Contact Between Groups As a Cure For Prejudicesupporting

confidence: 57%

When Arabs and Jews Watch TV Together: The Joint Effect of the Content and Context of Communication on Reducing Prejudice

Tal‐Or

Tsfati

2016

J Commun

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While previous research has examined the effect of the content and context of communication on the communication experience and effect, this study explored their interactive effect with an eye to reducing stereotypes and prejudice. In an experiment, Israeli Jews watched a movie about the Israeli‐Palestinian conflict that was edited to be either pro‐Palestinian or pro‐Israeli in the company of either a Jew or an Arab confederate coviewer. We then measured their attitudes toward Arabs. We found an effect of both movie type and the coviewer's ethnicity on stereotypes as well as an interactive effect of these variables, mediated by the identification of the participants with the Arab protagonist.

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Section: Contact Between Groups As a Cure For Prejudicesupporting

confidence: 57%

When Arabs and Jews Watch TV Together: The Joint Effect of the Content and Context of Communication on Reducing Prejudice

Tal‐Or

Tsfati

2016

J Commun

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“…Also, MTurk participants were found to mirror the psychological characteristics of the general population including psychological divisions between liberals and conservatives [72,74]. Various studies on social media behaviors [43,44,78] and political behaviors based on cognitive bias [66,79–81] have also utilized MTurk. MTurk was deemed especially appropriate for the present study in which the participants were involved in real-time online social interactions, and MTurk has been widely used for this type of experimental settings [80,82,83].…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Directionality of information flow and echoes without chambers

Kim

2019

PLoS ONE

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How do echo chambers operate? Why does social propagation of information become trapped within the boundaries of social groups? Previous studies of these questions have identified informational and structural factors which hinder information exchange across group boundaries; these factors constitute “chambers” in which information flows are confined and transformed into “echoes.” However, empirical evidence has indicated that these factors may not sufficiently explain the mechanism of echo chambers. Hence, the present study investigated whether the insular flow of information emerges and endures without the chambers. A randomized controlled experiment was conducted in which participants, who were classified into two political groups, exchanged randomly selected articles with the same number of ingroup and outgroup neighbors. The experiment manipulated the directionality of incoming information flow by varying the number of articles sent from ingroup neighbors across two conditions. Analyses revealed that the ingroup-slanted inflow induced ingroup-slanted outflow, suppressing transmission toward neighbors in a different social group. The biased inflow also promoted positive reactions to information exchanges and reduced negative evaluations on the exchanged information. Furthermore, the ingroup-slanted inflow increased false perceptions of ingroup majority, which is known to encourage information dissemination by a social group. The present study suggests two self-reinforcing mechanisms of ingroup-biased flows that generate echoes even without the chambers. These mechanisms may enable a small group of strategic actors to exacerbate polarization within a large population by manipulating directions of information flow.

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“…These newspapers are the largest in the United States by circulation: USA Today (4,139,380), the Wall Street Journal (2,276,207), and the New York Times (2,134,150) (as summarized by Beaujon, ). The New York Times traditionally endorse democratic candidates and is generally viewed as a liberal newspaper, USA Today is a newspaper with a mixed audience and is considered centrist, and the Wall Street Journal is generally viewed as a conservative newspaper that leans to the political right (Gerhard, ; Stroud, Muddiman, & Lee, ; Xu, ).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

National Media Coverage of Hydraulic Fracturing in the United States: Evaluation Using Human and Automated Coding Techniques

Blair¹,

Heikkila²,

Weible³

2016

Risk Hazard & Crisis Pub Pol

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This article offers an analysis of the national level news media coverage of the risks and benefits surrounding hydraulic fracturing, using two different content analysis methods. First, we complete a manual content analysis on 150 articles by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. We examine differences across these newspapers in reporting on environmental, public health, and economic risks and benefits, including the actors who the newspapers cite and whether these actors convey risks and benefits with certainty or uncertainty. Second, we use a semi‐automated coding technique to examine coverage of environmental, environmental damage, public health, and economic topics in 15 nationally distributed newspapers. Overall, we conclude that the two approaches to studying national media content offer some similar insights into how the political leaning of newspapers may result in different coverage of hydraulic fracturing, but manual and automated codings each present distinct strengths and weaknesses in understanding media coverage of this contentious issue.

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Seeing Media as Group Members: An Evaluation of Partisan Bias Perceptions

Cited by 82 publications

References 52 publications

When Arabs and Jews Watch TV Together: The Joint Effect of the Content and Context of Communication on Reducing Prejudice

When Arabs and Jews Watch TV Together: The Joint Effect of the Content and Context of Communication on Reducing Prejudice

Directionality of information flow and echoes without chambers

National Media Coverage of Hydraulic Fracturing in the United States: Evaluation Using Human and Automated Coding Techniques

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