Toward a Person × Situation Model of Selective Exposure

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinhee Kim ◽  
Jung-Hyun Kim ◽  
Mihye Seo
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Situation Model ◽  
Selective Exposure ◽  
Online News ◽  
Perceived Threat ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
Selection Behavior ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
News Selection ◽  
Selection Of

The present study attempted to predict selective exposure to media messages as a function of personality and situation, which has rarely been examined in prior relevant research. Employing a quasi-experimental method, the interplay between prevailing perceived threat from the economic crisis that started in 2008 and each of the two personality types when dealing with threat – repression and sensitization – was examined to predict online news selection behavior, as unobtrusively recorded. A significant interaction between perceived threat and sensitization tendency was obtained for both the selection of financial crisis-related news and avoidance of financial crisis-unrelated news. The implications of this exclusive pattern of online news selection behavior are discussed.

scholarly journals Why do we click? Investigating reasons for user selection on a news aggregator website

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabrina Heike Kessler ◽  
Ines Engelmann
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Online News ◽  
User Selection ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
News Values ◽  
Cognitive Elaboration ◽  
News Selection ◽  
Multi Method Approach ◽  
Method Approach ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract The aim of this study is to analyze the reasons behind users’ selection of news results on the news aggregator website, Google News, and the role that news factors play in this selection. We assume that user’s cognitive elaboration of users influences their news selection. In this study, a multi-method approach is used to obtain a complete picture of the users’ news selection reasoning: an open survey, a closed survey, and a content analysis of screen recording data. The results were determined from online news selection of 90 news results from 47 users on Google News. Different news values could be identified as relevant for selection: time-referenced news factors and news factors of social significance were shown to be more important than the news factors of deviance. News cues (presence of a picture, position of a news result, source) were identified as selection reasons regardless of the level of cognitive elaboration during the online browsing process.

scholarly journals What drives selection of online children’s news articles?

Journalism ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146488492110101
Author(s):  
Jonathan van’t Riet ◽  
Mariska Kleemans
Keyword(s):  
Positive Affect ◽  
Selective Exposure ◽  
Television Program ◽  
News Article ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Self Selection ◽  
News Selection ◽  
Selection Of

Individual news consumers’ decisions to select specific news articles online are an important part of the present journalistic landscape, spurring scholars’ interest in ‘selective exposure’ and the factors that influence news selection. In the present study, we investigated predictors of young news consumers’ self-selection of individual news articles. We used a dataset containing information on upwards of 18,000 news articles that were published in the smartphone and tablet application of the Dutch children’s news television program. The dataset contained the headline of each published news article and the number of views that the article generated in the application. This made it possible to investigate which characteristics of the headlines were predictive of children’s selection of the article, that is, number of views. In particular, we investigated the effects of emotion and exemplification on selection. The results showed that anxiety-related information and the use of exemplars significantly increased an article’s likelihood of being selected by young news consumers. Information related to anger, sadness and positive affect did not significantly predict selection.

Selection of Entertainment Media

2021 ◽  
pp. 157-180
Author(s):  
Kate T. Luong ◽  
Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Selective Exposure ◽  
Recent Model ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Entertainment Media ◽  
Mood Management ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
Sad Music ◽  
Selection Of

The current chapter first reviews the theoretical propositions of and empirical evidence for mood management theory (MMT, Zillmann, 1988a), which proposes that media users select media messages in order to hedonically optimize their mood; namely, to increase the valence and regulate the arousal of their moods, and to avoid content relevant to negative moods. However, media users do sometimes select messages (e.g., tragedy movies or sad music) contrary to the predictions of MMT. Thus, we complement this perspective by reviewing a more recent model, the selective exposure self- and affect-management (SESAM) model (Knobloch-Westerwick, 2015), which shares methodological roots with MMT and focuses on how media users select messages not only to improve their moods but also to manage their self-concepts and fulfill their self-related motivations. Finally, future directions for selective exposure research are discussed.

scholarly journals Exploring the Impact of Social and Source Cues on News Selection

Plaridel ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-160
Author(s):  
Ayodeji O. Awobamise ◽  
Yosra Jarrar
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Selective Exposure ◽  
Online News ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Information Utility ◽  
News Selection ◽  
Social Endorsement ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Source Cues ◽  
Current Reality

The current reality in Nigeria is that media houses choose news and the way events are covered based on their ideological or political leanings. At the same time, audience members appear to also choose news contents that reinforce their pre-existing perceptions or views while avoiding those that go against these views. Based on Sears and Freedman’s (1967) review of selective exposure or information utility, this experimental study set out to examine the possible influence of online news social endorsements on news selectivity in Nigeria. Findings reveal that the selective choices news consumers make with regard to consuming and disseminating news on the Internet are significantly influenced by online social endorsements such as Likes and recommendations. Findings also show that the effect of social endorsement is stronger among partisan respondents selecting articles from an ideologically misaligned source and that the presence of social endorsements significantly reduce partisan selectivity.

scholarly journals Picture Power? The Contribution of Visuals and Text to Partisan Selective Exposure

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 12-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Powell ◽  
Toni G. L. A. Van der Meer ◽  
Carlos Brenes Peralta
Keyword(s):  
Selective Exposure ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Political Preferences ◽  
Selection Behavior ◽  
News Selection ◽  
Additional Influence ◽  
Source Cues ◽  
The U.S

Today’s high-choice media environment allows citizens to select news in line with their political preferences and avoid content counter to their priors. So far, however, selective exposure research has exclusively studied news selection based on textual cues, ignoring the recent proliferation of visual media. This study aimed to identify the contribution of visuals alongside text in selective exposure to pro-attitudinal, counter-attitudinal and balanced content. Using two experiments, we created a social media-style newsfeed with news items comprising matching and non-matching images and headlines about the contested issues of immigration and gun control in the U.S. By comparing selection behavior of participants with opposing prior attitudes on these topics, we pulled apart the contribution of images and headlines to selective exposure. Findings show that headlines play a far greater role in guiding selection, with the influence of images being minimal. The additional influence of partisan source cues is also considered.

scholarly journals The effectiveness of integrating existing digital learning resources into classroom teaching – an evaluation of the learning achievement

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-161
Author(s):  
Svava Pétursdóttir
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Science ◽  
Learning Resources ◽  
Teacher Competence ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Science Classrooms ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Digital Learning Resources ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Better Than

This paper presents the results of an intervention study exploring the effectiveness of an implementation of a selection of digital learning resources (DLR) in lower secondary science classrooms. Eight teachers participated in a quasi-experimental intervention, teaching three different subjects with and without DLRs. The data presented are from pupil tests before and after the teaching combined with observation of lessons and interviews with both pupils and teachers. In two of the three subjects the groups using DLRs did slightly better than the comparison group. The results indicate that successful ICT based learning is just as dependent on teacher competence as the quality and features of the resources.

scholarly journals The Practicality of Learning Module Based on Jigsaw-Cooperative Learning Model in Media Education Course

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zonny Amanda Putra ◽  
Arwizet K ◽  
Bulkia Rahim ◽  
Rahmat Azis Nabawi
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Research ◽  
Learning Outcome ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Learning Module ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Education Model ◽  
Educational Factors ◽  
Selection Of

Educational factors that are less appropriate in the delivery of materials and the selection of instructional media causes lesson objectives are perfectly acceptable by students. The educational factors here are defined as the facilities needed in the learning process such as learning media used by lecturers. Based on the problems and goals to be achieved, this type of research is a quasi-experimental research (quasi experiment). Quasi experimental research is a research method used to look for certain influences against others in controlled conditions. In general, the approaches taken in this research were investigative and survey. Results test practicality module Theory of Media Education model of cooperative type of jigsaw according to the lecturer was 97,50%, so it can be concluded the module fell into the category of "Very Practical". Students responded positively to the use of Jigsaw Education Model in the implementation of learning withaverage response of 83.65% belonged to very practicalcategory. Of the thirteen statement items in the questionnaire, all statements were answered very practically by the students. This further strengthened the average of all the items by 83.65%. There was an increase in learning outcome on pretest to post-test of 31.82%.

scholarly journals Why is right-wing media consumption associated with lower compliance with COVID-19 measures?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Ponizovskiy ◽  
Lusine Grigoryan ◽  
Wilhelm Hofmann
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Perceived Threat ◽  
Media Consumption ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
Prophylactic Measures ◽  
Perceived Consequences ◽  
The Relationship

Exposure to right-wing media has been shown to relate to lower perceived threat from COVID-19, lower compliance with prophylactic measures against it, and higher incidence of infection and death. What features of right-wing media messages account for these effects? In a preregistered cross-sectional study (N = 554) we test a model that differentiates perceived consequences of two CDC recommendations—washing hands and staying home—for basic human values. People who consumed more right-wing media perceived these behaviors as less beneficial for their personal security, for the well-being of close ones, and the well-being of society at large. Perceived consequences of following the CDC recommendations mediated the relationship between media consumption and compliance with recommendations. Implications for public health messaging are discussed.

scholarly journals Subliminal Cueing of Selection Behavior in a Virtual Environment

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabor Aranyi ◽  
Sid Kouider ◽  
Alan Lindsay ◽  
Hielke Prins ◽  
Imtiaj Ahmed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Previous Literature ◽  
Intelligent Interfaces ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Virtual Scene ◽  
Selection Behavior ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Rendering Engine ◽  
Selection Of

The performance of current graphics engines makes it possible to incorporate subliminal cues within virtual environments (VEs), providing an additional way of communication, fully integrated with the exploration of a virtual scene. In order to advance the application of subliminal information in this area, it is necessary to explore in the psychological literature how techniques previously reported as rendering information subliminal can be successfully implemented in VEs. Previous literature has also described the effects of subliminal cues as quantitatively modest, which raises the issue of their inclusion in practical tasks. We used a 3D rendering engine (Unity3D) to implement a masking paradigm within the context of a realistic scene and a familiar (kitchen) environment. We report significant effects of subliminal cueing on the selection of objects in a virtual scene, demonstrating the feasibility of subliminal cueing in VEs. Furthermore, we show that multiple iterations of masked objects within a trial, as well as the speeding of selection choices, can substantially reinforce the impact of subliminal cues. This is consistent with previous findings suggesting that the effect of subliminal stimuli fades rapidly. We conclude by proposing, as part of further work, possible mechanisms for the inclusion of subliminal cueing in intelligent interfaces to maximize their effects.

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
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