Hostile Media Perceptions in the Age of Social Media: Following Politicians, Emotions, and Perceptions of Media Bias

News outlets rely on social media to freely distribute content, offering a venue for users to comment on news. This exposes individuals to user comments prior to reading news articles, which can influence perceptions of news content. A 2 × 2 between-subject experiment (N = 690) tested the hostile media bias theory via the influence of comments seen before viewing a news story on perceptions of bias and credibility. Results show that user comments induce hostile media perceptions.

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Hostile media bias on social media: Testing the effect of user comments on perceptions of news bias and credibility

Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies ◽

10.1002/hbe2.185 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 140-148

Author(s):

Sherice Gearhart ◽

Alexander Moe ◽

Bingbing Zhang

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Media Bias ◽

User Comments ◽

News Bias ◽

Hostile Media

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The Role of Political Identity and Media Selection on Perceptions of Hostile Media Bias During the 2012 Presidential Campaign

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media ◽

10.1080/08838151.2016.1203316 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 60 (3) ◽

pp. 425-447 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Mei-Chen Lin ◽

Paul M. Haridakis ◽

Gary Hanson

Keyword(s):

Political Identity ◽

Media Bias ◽

Presidential Campaign ◽

Media Selection ◽

Hostile Media

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Social Media Bias Using Centrality Measures and Machine Learning

Advances in Automation, Signal Processing, Instrumentation, and Control - Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ◽

10.1007/978-981-15-8221-9_227 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 2431-2440

Author(s):

Rachana Reddy ◽

Yash Bhojwani ◽

Anushree Karajgi ◽

V. Vijayasherly

Keyword(s):

Machine Learning ◽

Social Media ◽

Media Bias ◽

Centrality Measures

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Collective mass media bias, social media, and non-partisans

Economics Letters ◽

10.1016/j.econlet.2017.04.015 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 156 ◽

pp. 78-81 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Xiaoyi Luo

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Mass Media ◽

Media Bias

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Perceived Social Media Bias, Social Identity Threat, and Conspiracy Theory Ideation During the COVID-19 Pandemic

10.24251/hicss.2022.726 ◽

2022 ◽

Author(s):

Kevin Craig ◽

Valeria Sadovykh

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Social Identity ◽

Media Bias ◽

Conspiracy Theory ◽

Identity Threat ◽

Social Identity Threat

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Whose media are hostile? The spillover effect of interpersonal discussions on media bias perceptions

Communications ◽

10.1515/commun-2019-0140 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 0 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Laia Castro ◽

David Nicolas Hopmann ◽

Lilach Nir

Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

Survey Data ◽

Spillover Effect ◽

Media Bias ◽

The Us ◽

The Impact ◽

Hostile Media

AbstractSince Eveland and Shah (2003) published their seminal study on the impact of social networks on media bias perceptions in the US, little has been researched about the interpersonal antecedents of hostile media perceptions. In this study we address this gap by investigating the role of safe, or like-minded, political discussions on individuals’ likelihood to perceive media as hostile. We use survey data from more than 5,000 individuals in Germany. Our findings reveal that like-minded discussions increase one’s likelihood to perceive media as hostile; yet, only among those more politically engaged and ideologically on the left. The significance and theoretical implications of the results are discussed in the concluding section.

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