Who Let the (Attack) Dogs Out? New Evidence for Partisan Media Effects

Smith, Glen; Searles, Kathleen

doi:10.1093/poq/nft082

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“…Those in the control group saw a tweet from the “CNN Breaking News” handle, intended to be neutral in terms of the source and the content. The neutral tweet, displayed in Figure , was attributed to a CNN program as the network’s coverage is (at least perceived as) much more evenhanded (or was, in the context of early 2015), compared with the Fox News Channel and MSNBC (Coe et al, ; Smith & Searles, ). In this tweet, the transportation policies are not tied to any specific party or ideology.…”

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Rousing the Partisan Combatant: Elite Incivility, Anger, and Antideliberative Attitudes

Gervais

2018

Political Psychology

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The claim that elite political incivility can rouse partisan, antideliberative attitudes has many adherents, but the empirical record demonstrating a relationship is surprisingly limited. Yet the extant research suggests that incivility can stimulate aversive feelings, of the sort that discrete and dimensional theories of emotion predict should induce a partisan, antideliberative mode of citizenship among those exposed. Leveraging two online experiments, I address the questions of whether elite incivility provokes anger, rather than enthusiasm and anxiety, and whether the affective reactions induced by incivility yield the changes in deliberative attitudes that theories of emotion predict. I find that elite incivility, when counterattitudinal, rouses anger, which in turn can provoke an active and combative form of partisan citizenship. Despite claims to the contrary, the link between proattitudinal incivility, anger, and antideliberative attitudes is less clear. The results provide insight into the dynamics of discourse in the digital age, when affective polarization is the norm and elites commonly employ uncivil rhetoric.

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Rousing the Partisan Combatant: Elite Incivility, Anger, and Antideliberative Attitudes

Gervais

2018

Political Psychology

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“…Much of this research has focused on the ways in which the media cover political parties and individuals who are either aligned or stand in opposition to their own political agenda. Some of these studies reported that clearly aligned conservative and liberal media were more sympathetic to politicians who shared their political orientations, presenting them as more competent, warm, and agreeable and downplaying their failures (Aday, ; Barrett and Barrington, ; Baum and Groeling, ; Smith and Searles, ). Others, however, found only a weak relationship, or none at all, between the political leaning of a given media outlet and its depiction of ideologically aligned politicians (Niven, ; Soroka, ; Waldman and Devitt, ).…”

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Political Leaning and Coverage Sentiment: Are Conservative Newspapers More Negative Toward Women?*

Shor

2018

Social Science Quarterly

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Objectives. This article examines whether newspapers' political leaning affects coverage tone for individuals in the news and whether the gender of the person covered affects this relationship. Methods. I analyze sentiment data on millions of person-names from more than 200 major American newspapers between the years 2004 and 2009, juxtaposing them with various measurements for the political leaning of these newspapers. Results. Results show mixed support for the idea that political leaning in the media affects coverage patterns for individuals in the news. While newspapers located in states that are more likely to vote for Republicans cover women in a more negative way, I find no relationship between political leaning scores and coverage sentiment for men. Conclusions. The study shows mild support for the proposition that relatively liberal newspapers are more likely to cover women and women's issues in a positive way.

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“…The result is often "profound" biases in estimated effects, with a greater than 600% difference from the truth (22,23) given common levels of endogeneity, measurement error, and self-selection [see also (24)]. These biases have been addressed in some of social science's most creative observational studies, although these approaches are well suited to answering certain questions (such as those for which instruments are available) but not others [e.g., (25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32)]. The biases are also addressed via elegant experiments and quasi-experiments, often made possible by studying different quantities of interest, such as individual-level effects or occasionally the effects on aspects of the national conversation (26,(33)(34)(35)(36)(37)(38)(39)(40)(41)(42).…”

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How the news media activate public expression and influence national agendas

King

Schneer

White

2017

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We demonstrate that exposure to the news media causes Americans to take public stands on specific issues, join national policy conversations, and express themselves publicly-all key components of democratic politics-more often than they would otherwise. After recruiting 48 mostly small media outlets, we chose groups of these outlets to write and publish articles on subjects we approved, on dates we randomly assigned. We estimated the causal effect on proximal measures, such as website pageviews and Twitter discussion of the articles' specific subjects, and distal ones, such as national Twitter conversation in broad policy areas. Our intervention increased discussion in each broad policy area by ~62.7% (relative to a day's volume), accounting for 13,166 additional posts over the treatment week, with similar effects across population subgroups.

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Who Let the (Attack) Dogs Out? New Evidence for Partisan Media Effects

Cited by 76 publications

References 38 publications

Rousing the Partisan Combatant: Elite Incivility, Anger, and Antideliberative Attitudes

Rousing the Partisan Combatant: Elite Incivility, Anger, and Antideliberative Attitudes

Political Leaning and Coverage Sentiment: Are Conservative Newspapers More Negative Toward Women?*

How the news media activate public expression and influence national agendas

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