Trump could shake up US conservative media post-office

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Political News ◽  
Fox News ◽  
Direct To Consumer ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Streaming Services ◽  
Conservative Media

Significance Conservative broadcast news media in the United States will be reshaped after January 20 by a combination of Trump’s departure; a backlash from his supporters against Fox News for ‘betraying’ him; the television industry’s transition from cable distribution to direct-to-consumer streaming services and digital video platforms; and convergence with radio. Impacts Pro-Trump insurgents will loosen Fox’s dominance in right-of-centre television, but Fox will survive. Surveys show most Republicans believe media cover Trump unfairly, implying a receptive audience for pro-Trump outlets. Energised partisanship may prevent the decline in advertising on political news sites usually seen after an election year. Far-right voices will congregate further from the mainstream on social media platforms, such as Parler.

Understanding Trump Supporters’ News Use: Beyond the Fox News Bubble

The Forum ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-346
Author(s):  
Sadie Dempsey ◽  
Jiyoun Suk ◽  
Katherine J. Cramer ◽  
Lewis A. Friedland ◽  
Michael W. Wagner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Fox News ◽  
2016 Election ◽  
Heterogeneous Consumption ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Habits ◽  
Conservative Media ◽  
Methods Analytical ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Since the 2016 election, the relationship between Trump supporters and Fox News has gained considerable attention. Drawing on interviews with more than 200 people and a representative survey conducted in the state of Wisconsin, we dive deeper into the media habits of Trump supporters using a mixed methods analytical approach. While we do not refute the importance of Fox News in the conservative media ecology, we find that characterizing Trump supporters as isolated in Fox News bubbles obscures the fact that many are news omnivores, or people who consume a wide variety of news. In fact, we find that Trump supporters may have more politically heterogeneous consumption habits than Trump non-supporters. We find that 17% of our survey respondents who support Trump in Wisconsin are regularly exposed to ideologically heterogeneous news media. We also find that like other voters, Trump supporters are disenchanted with the divisive nature of contemporary media and politics. Finally, we analyze the media use of young Trump supporters and find an especially high level of news omnivorousness among them.

Bypassing the press gallery: from Howard to Hanson

2018 ◽  
Vol 167 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Fisher ◽  
David Marshall ◽  
Kerry McCallum
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Political News ◽  
The Public ◽  
Theoretical Position ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The Press ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Media Logic

Traditionally politicians have been dependent on political news media to get their message across to the public. The rise of social media means that politicians can bypass the Press Gallery and publish directly to their target audiences via Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms. This article argues that Prime Minister John Howard’s (1996–2007) use of talk back radio and early forays on YouTube were pivotal in the trend towards ‘disintermediation’ in Australian politics. It draws on two studies. One involving interviews with 87 key media actors from the Howard era including journalists, broadcasters, politicians and media advisers; and a second, which includes fresh interviews with contemporary press secretaries. This article examines the shift from a ‘mass media logic’ to a ‘hybrid logic’, considered from a mediatization theoretical position. We also ask important questions about the press gallery’s ongoing relevance in the digital era, when politicians preside over their own social media empires.

The royal Saudi visit may change long-term US views

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
News Media ◽  
Close Association ◽  
The United States ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Building Relationships ◽  
Crown Prince

Significance The crown prince (colloquially known across Western news media as ‘MBS’), this month visited the United States, building relationships, announcing business deals and seeking to soften the image of Saudi Arabia. His seven-city tour included meetings with politicians from both parties, high-tech business leaders and Hollywood stars. Impacts The close association with Washington may play well to MBS’s youth base, but could further antagonise Saudi conservatives. Relationships built on the trip will likely boost US investment in Saudi Arabia, despite concerns about a fickle business environment. The Saudi charm offensive could provoke an adverse US domestic reaction if civilian casualties in Yemen spike and hit the news cycle.

The Impact of the Gulf War on the Ingredients of Presidential Evaluations: Multidimensional Effects of Political Involvement

1993 ◽  
Vol 87 (4) ◽  
pp. 963-975 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon A. Krosnick ◽  
Laura A. Brannon
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Involvement ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
Political News ◽  
Gulf Crisis ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
Multidimensional Effects ◽  
The Impact

When the United States began its overt military conflict with Iraq in January 1991, the news media focused unceasingly on the Gulf crisis. Using national survey data, we show that this emphasis altered the ingredients of Americans' assessments of George Bush's performance. After the war, assessments were based more on beliefs about Bush's effectiveness in managing the conflict and less on confidence in his handling of other foreign relations matters or the domestic economy. Consequently, Bush's overall performance ratings increased dramatically following the war. We also show that the media's impact on political judgments was regulated by citizens' levels of political knowledge, exposure to political news, and interest in the war. Greater impact was associated with higher levels of knowledge and lower levels of exposure and interest. These findings challenge traditional views of these dimensions of political involvement and support a view derived from contemporary psychological theories of information processing.

Facebook will probably avoid US regulation

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Data Protection ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Debate ◽  
Content Type ◽  
European Legislation ◽  
Congressional Committees ◽  
Social Media Platforms

Subject Facebook regulation prospects. Significance Facebook’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg spent ten hours before Congressional committees on April 10 and 11, fielding questions from concerns that Facebook’s byzantine privacy practices allowed information on 87 million people to be collected by political consultancy Cambridge Analytica to enabling Russian interference in elections in the United States. Zuckerberg signalled that the era of social media self-governance was over with an admission that the regulation of Facebook and other platforms was “inevitable”. Less clear is what such regulation will look like. Impacts The scandal is likely to set off an international debate on what governments should do to rein in platform overreach. Facebook’s practices will come under more severe scrutiny in Europe. US social media platforms will be vulnerable to European legislation on data protection, privacy, antitrust, content and taxes. Europe and the United States will diverge further on the regulation of 'Big Tech'.

Mistrust in media will fuel US populism

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Consumer Trust ◽  
Corporate Ownership ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Alternative Facts ◽  
National Media ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Media ◽  
Critical Coverage

Subject 'Fake news' and US politics. Significance Throughout his presidency and the campaign that preceded it, Donald Trump has attacked news media that broadcast or write critical coverage of him and his circle. His habitual denial of unfavourable reports has established ‘fake news’, ‘alternative facts’ and ‘post-truth’ in the political lexicon. In contrast to Trump’s shifting positions on policy questions, the president’s animus for the media has been one of the constant aspects of his presidency. Impacts Trump’s central focus on his personal legitimacy will see him increase attacks on the media as difficulties mount. Deregulation will concentrate corporate ownership of local and national media, exacerbating the polarisation of news. Increased regulation of social media platforms is unlikely to restore consumer trust. The traditional media will probably cater to concentrated pockets of affluent and educated consumers.

US political battle over social media will grow

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Structural Reform ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Direct To Consumer ◽  
Legal Challenge ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Political Battle

Significance The boycott is the most coordinated yet against Facebook over hate speech and misinformation on its platforms. Facebook and Twitter have become lightning rods for challenges to social media platforms and their Section 230 exemption from liability for content they carry. Impacts Revision of Section 230 protections is likely, although not without legal challenge. Social media’s pervasiveness and profitability make structural reform or extensive regulation unlikely. Many small direct-to-consumer businesses built on Facebook will have to stay loyal, risking consumer backlash. Influencer advertising will come under stricter scrutiny from brands and regulators. US regulation of social media will not diminish Washington’s opposition to international digital taxes on US tech companies.

scholarly journals Selection in a Snapshot? The Contribution of Visuals to the Selection and Avoidance of Political News in Information-Rich Media Settings

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-68
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Powell ◽  
Michael Hameleers ◽  
Toni G. L. A. van der Meer
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
News Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Selective Exposure ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Political News ◽  
Rich Media ◽  
Multimodal Text ◽  
Media Environments ◽  
Attitudinal Response

The psychological bases of the selection and attitudinal response to news media have received ample attention in political communication research. However, the interplay between three crucial factors in today’s online, high-choice news media settings remains understudied: (1) textual versus multimodal (text-plus-visual) communication; (2) attitude congruent versus attitude incongruent versus balanced content; and (3) political versus nonpolitical genres. Relying on an experimental study of refugee and gun control news in the United States ( N = 1,159), this paper investigates how people select and avoid, and also the extent to which they agree with, congenial, uncongenial, and balanced political news in a realistic multimodal selective-exposure setting in which political news is presented alongside sports and entertainment news. Although the findings partially depend on the issue, we find that the presence of multimodal (compared to textual) entertainment and sport items can increase avoidance of political news. Multimodal (compared to textual) political news augments attitude congruent selective exposure instead of encouraging cross-cutting selective exposure. Once selected, multimodal political news articles evoke stronger emotions and lead to higher issue agreement than textual news, regardless of an article’s attitude congruence. By linking research on text-alone to multimodal selective exposure, this study shows that visuals in high-choice media environments can contribute to the selective avoidance of political news generally and cross-cutting political news more specifically.

Analyzing Zoombombing as a new communication tool of cyberhate in the COVID-19 era

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Seungeun Lee
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Media Content Analysis ◽  
Content Type ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
Identity Recognition ◽  
Working Environments ◽  
Jewish Americans

PurposeThe aims of this paper are to explore the rise of cyberhate on the Zoom video conferencing platform at the outset of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and to examine victimized cases of Zoombombing where it was used as a cyberhate tool. The COVID-19 pandemic has not only impacted our lives and modes of working and studying, but also created new environments for cybercriminals to engage in cybercrime, cyberhate and hacking by exploiting tools such as Zoom. This new phenomenon called “Zoombombing” was first reported in mid-March 2020, when the social distancing and stay-at-home policies in the United States were nationally introduced.Design/methodology/approachThis research conducted a news media content analysis on cases of Zoombombing. To conduct this analysis empirically, a dataset with all of the reported Zoombombing cases from March to April 2020 was created. Google Trends, news media and tweets were used to analyze Zoombombing as a form of cyberhate, particularly digital racism.FindingsThe results reveal prevalent Zoom-mediated racism toward Asian Americans, African Americans and Jewish Americans. This study understands Zoombombing from a sociopolitical/cultural perspective through news reporting of victimized cases and explores various ways that Zoombombing shapes, mediates, transforms and escalates racism.Originality/valueThis study is one of the very first studies to analyze Zoombombing in a way that builds upon an emerging body of literature on cyberhate. This paper considers Zoom as a space where curious young people, cybercriminals, extremists and hackers impose their ideologies and beliefs upon newly established online learning and working environments and engage in a struggle for identity recognition in the midst of increasingly accessible vulnerable software and cyberspace.

scholarly journals The effects of modality, English language proficiency, and length of stay on immigrants' learning from American news about politics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Yulia Medvedeva
Keyword(s):  
Length Of Stay ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
News Media ◽  
English Language ◽  
Television News ◽  
The United States ◽  
Symbol Systems ◽  
Political News ◽  
Print News ◽  
The U.S

This dissertation explored how well immigrants in the United States learn from American political news. Predictions in this online experiment were based on a 1990 survey in which Korean Americans with lower language proficiency and shorter length of stay in the U.S. demonstrated higher political knowledge scores when they reported relying on television news instead of print news. To test the findings of the 1990 study, news media were operationalized through modality as two symbol systems: words, which need to be learned to be understood, and pictures, which need to be recognized. One-hundred-forty-six individuals born in 52 countries completed the study in which each participant was exposed to one of the three conditions representing either television or radio or print news. Data demonstrated that immigrants with lower self-reported language proficiency correctly recognized more multiple-choice answers to questions about stories from television news in comparison to print news. This finding establishes a causal relationship between the presence of pictures in television's two-channel stream and better outcomes of memory about news for immigrants with weaker English language skills. Years of education in the U.S. emerged as the only reliable predictor of comprehension. Furthermore, in the television condition, immigrants with higher language proficiency correctly recognized about half-an-answer fewer than did immigrants with lower language proficiency. Findings suggest that television news is indeed beneficial for immigrants' learning about American politics, yet it becomes less beneficial once immigrants' competence increase.

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