Selective Exposure to Campaign Communication: The Role of Anticipated Agreement and Issue Public Membership

2008 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 186-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shanto Iyengar ◽  
Kyu S. Hahn ◽  
Jon A. Krosnick ◽  
John Walker
Keyword(s):  
Selective Exposure ◽  
Campaign Communication ◽  
Issue Public

The role of affect and mood management in selective exposure to media messages

2021 ◽  
pp. 69-84
Author(s):  
Melissa J. Robinson ◽  
Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick
Keyword(s):  
Selective Exposure ◽  
Mood Management ◽  
Media Messages

scholarly journals Digital Technologies and Selective Exposure: How Choice and Filter Bubbles Shape News Media Exposure

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 465-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana S. Cardenal ◽  
Carlos Aguilar-Paredes ◽  
Carol Galais ◽  
Mario Pérez-Montoro
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Media Exposure ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Selective Exposure ◽  
Political Interest ◽  
Complex Picture ◽  
Filter Bubbles ◽  
Different Origins ◽  
The Relationship

This paper analyzes the role of different origins to news media in selective exposure. We rely on a unique web-tracking online dataset from Spain to identify points of access to news outlets and study the influence of direct navigation and news-referred platforms (i.e., from Facebook and Google) on selective exposure. We also explore cross-level interactions between origins to news and political interest and ideology. We find that direct navigation increases selective exposure while Google reduces it. We also find that the relationship between origins to news and selective exposure is strongly moderated by ideology, suggesting that search engines and social media are not content neutral. Our findings suggest a rather complex picture regarding selective exposure online.

scholarly journals Digital Media and Perceptions of Source Credibility in Political Communication

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Flanagin ◽  
Miriam J. Metzger
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Source Credibility ◽  
Selective Exposure ◽  
Political Information ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Information Consumers

The rich research heritage on source credibility is fundamentally linked to processes of political communication and the provision of political information. Networked digital technologies, however, have recently complicated the assessment of source credibility by modifying people’s ability to determine source expertise and trustworthiness, which are the foundations upon which credibility evaluations have traditionally rested. This chapter explores source credibility in online contexts by examining the credibility of digital versus traditional channels, the nature of political information conveyed by social media, and the dynamics of political information online. In addition, this chapter considers related research concerns, including the link between credibility and selective exposure, the potential for group polarization, and the role of social media in seeking and delivering credible political information. These concerns suggest challenges and opportunities as information consumers navigate the contemporary information environment in search of the knowledge to make them informed members of a politically engaged citizenry.

scholarly journals Selective Exposure to Health Information: The Role of Headline Features in the Choice of Health Newsletter Articles

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 614-637 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyun Suk Kim ◽  
Heather Forquer ◽  
Joseph Rusko ◽  
Robert C. Hornik ◽  
Joseph N. Cappella
Keyword(s):  
Health Information ◽  
Selective Exposure

scholarly journals Partisan selective exposure: The role of party, ideology and ideological extremity over time.

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 254-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristian G. Rodriguez ◽  
Jake P. Moskowitz ◽  
Rammy M. Salem ◽  
Peter H. Ditto
Keyword(s):  
Selective Exposure ◽  
Party Ideology ◽  
Over Time

scholarly journals We're a Good Match: Selective Political Friending on Social Networking Sites

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Cargnino ◽  
German Neubaum ◽  
Stephan Winter
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
User Behavior ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Selective Exposure ◽  
Cognitive Closure ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Shared Reality ◽  
Social Affiliations

Political social media use has become the topic of a growing amount of scholarship. In this regard, the role of user behavior in the formation of politically homogeneous environments (so-called echo chambers) is not fully understood. Building on the concept of selective exposure, we introduce the notion of selective political friending, i.e., the preference for political like-mindedness in social affiliations on social networking sites. In a pre-registered laboratory experiment (N = 199), we find that users preferably build connections to those who share opinions toward controversial political issues. Political like-mindedness outperforms advantages based on the popularity of another user or the career-related fit with another user. Political friending is particularly pronounced when individuals’ pre-existing opinions are strong, while tendencies toward cognitive closure and the desire for shared reality do not impact like-minded friending. The present study unravels psychological patterns in the process of tie-building on SNS and points to the necessity to take motivational complexity into account when studying phenomena linked to political homogeneity. Being the first study to systematically address politically motivated contact choices on social networking sites jointly with their psychological antecedents, this study sheds new light on the debate about like-mindedness in online communication.

scholarly journals Selective Exposure

Communication ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans-Bernd Brosius ◽  
Christina Peter
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Selective Exposure ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
Selection Processes ◽  
The Individual ◽  
External Stimuli

The basic assumption in the study of selective exposure is that people expose themselves to external stimuli in a selective way. When referred to the area of mass communication, this means that people choose certain types of media content and avoid other types. Although this fact may sound rather trivial, it is important in understanding the effects of mass communication because it is our common understanding that people can only be influenced by media messages to which they actually expose themselves. Therefore, the selective exposure concept emphasizes the active role of the individual in the selection of media content. Research into this phenomenon is undertaken in the fields of both psychology and communication studies. Basically, there are two major trends in this research. Most studies focus on factors that lead to selective exposure or that mediate this process, whereas other studies deal with the consequences of selective exposure to information processing. The selection processes have also been examined in different contexts, such as in political or online communication.

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