scholarly journals (Mis)perception of bias in print media: How depth of content evaluation affects the perception of hostile bias in an objective news report

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. e0251355
Author(s):  
Yana Litovsky
Keyword(s):  
Media Bias ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Newspaper Article ◽  
Media Effect ◽  
Discrete Elements ◽  
News Report ◽  
Online Study ◽  
Contextual Elements ◽  
Content Evaluation

The hostile media effect describes the tendency for partisans to evaluate media content as relatively biased against their positions. The present study investigates what specific contextual elements of a news report contribute to this effect and how it may be mitigated by the depth of content evaluation. A online study of 102 participants revealed that less bias is perceived in a newspaper article when evaluating specific aspects of the article with the text available for reference than when evaluating the overall bias without referring to the text. Moreover, being asked to consider overall article bias increased subsequent ratings of bias in the discrete elements of the text. These results suggest that the perception of media bias may be counteracted by encouraging deep, evidence-based considerations of where the alleged bias might lie, but only if this happens before the reader has the chance to form an opinion based on a cursory assessment.

scholarly journals Hostile Media Perceptions of Friendly Media Do Reinforce Partisanship

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 276-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Kleinnijenhuis ◽  
Tilo Hartmann ◽  
Martin Tanis ◽  
Anita M. J. van Hoof
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Voting Behavior ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
Media Effect ◽  
Media Content Analysis ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Do So ◽  
Hostile Media

The hostile media effect (HME) entails that partisanship incites hostile perceptions of media content. However, other research underscores that partisans selectively turn to like-minded media, resulting in a friendly media phenomenon (FMP). The present study suggests that the HME and FMP co-exist, and, furthermore, jointly affect people’s voting behavior. More specifically, based on a media content analysis and a long-term panel survey surrounding the 2014 election for the European Parliament in the Netherlands, we find that people selectively turn to like-minded friendly media (FMP), but perceive coverage about the EU (European Union) in these media as relatively unsupportive of their own position (HME). In this context, the FMP and HME appear to jointly influence voting behavior. People cast votes in line with the objectively partisan-friendly media tone of their self-selected media. However, to a certain extent they do so, because they seem motivated to counteract the seemingly unfair or insufficient coverage about the EU.

scholarly journals Pre-Service Teachers Confronting and Examining Media Bias 

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Natasha C. Murray-Everett ◽  
Dorian L. Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Media Bias ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Current Event ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
News Groups

This paper examines how teacher candidates come to understand the role that media plays in perpetuating and reinforcing stereotypical views of marginalized groups through engagement in weekly news groups. This study sought to look at how critical media skills influenced how students interacted with media content. Findings suggest that by critically engaging in controversial current event topics that participants began to recognize the value and importance in finding multiple and reliable sources. They also began to question and interrogate the problematic ways that race and racism is portrayed in and through the media.

The multi-actor perspective of engagement on social media

2021 ◽  
pp. 147078532110244
Author(s):  
Sara Shawky ◽  
Krzysztof Kubacki ◽  
Timo Dietrich ◽  
Scott Weaven
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Marketing ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
The Social ◽  
Measurement Tools ◽  
Multiple Actors

Despite the known benefits offered by social media to create engagement in social marketing programs, scholars have highlighted the need for more evidence-based, practical, and measurable approaches to social media use in social marketing contexts. This netnographic study employed a four-level multi-actor engagement framework originally proposed by Shawky et al. to explore engagement in a single Facebook community. We identified social media measurement tools for assessing connections, interactions, and loyalty of multiple actors which will assist social marketing practitioners’ understanding of different actors’ interactions with the social media content, enabling them to maintain these actors’ levels of engagement, advance their engagement to a higher level, or attract others to expand the community.

Social Psychology of Identity and Stereotyping in the Media

2021 ◽  
pp. 168-199
Author(s):  
Catherine Lido ◽  
Ariel Swyer ◽  
Leyla De Amicis
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Media Bias ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Identity Narratives ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
Threat Theory

This chapter is focussed on how the media may influence societal attitudes and behaviours, particularly in their coverage of refugees and asylum seekers. Traditional social psychological approaches to concepts of identity, categorization, and prejudice are discussed, followed by a review of relevant current models, such as intergroup emotion theory, integrated threat theory, and the so-called BIAS map (Behaviours from Intergroup Affect and Stereotypes). It is proposed that refugees might receive greater warmth and increased perceptions of competence if they were reframed in the news not as stealing jobs but, rather, as future citizens, supporting their new countries of residence by doing necessary work and by creating new employment avenues. The chapter concludes with a proposal for five evidence-based strategies both for audiences to be more overtly aware of misleading media bias (e.g., the creation of ‘us versus them’ identity narratives) and for developing a more responsible journalism.

scholarly journals Queensland's broad-scale land-clearing policy debate, 1998–2006: An analysis of evidence-based arguments in news media content

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Laurent ◽  
Lee Duffield
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
Media Content Analysis ◽  
Technical Application ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
Land Clearing ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Broad Scale

AbstractThis article outlines the methodology and key findings of a media content analysis of news reporting in the Courier-Mail and Queensland Country Life on the issue of broad-scale land-clearing (BSLC) in Queensland during the period 1998–2006. The case study identifies and examines evidence-based arguments made by stakeholders in the public policy debate surrounding BSLC, including elected officials and judges, interest groups, government agencies, scientists, business owners and individuals, such as academics. In both newspapers, it was noted that throughout the period under review, arguments made on environmental grounds in favour of the policy goal of maximum immediate conservation tended to be concerned with establishing an accurate definition of the BSLC problem. However, reporting of arguments made on political and economic grounds reflected stark differences between the two newspapers. The findings of this study support observations that some participants in a contest over new policy may dispute (persistently, and regardless of previous developments) the validity of: (1) definitions of a problem; (2) proposed policy solutions; (3) matters of detail or technical application; and (4) the enactment and implementation of legislation.

scholarly journals Supporting informed choice in acupuncture: effects of a new person-, evidence- and theory-based website for patients with back pain

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felicity L Bishop ◽  
Maddy Greville-Harris ◽  
Jennifer Bostock ◽  
Amy Din ◽  
Cynthia A Graham ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Back Pain ◽  
Informed Choice ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Treatment Beliefs ◽  
Psychological Constructs ◽  
Knowledge Change ◽  
Online Study ◽  
Primary Care Patients ◽  
General Practices ◽  
Acupuncture Effects

Objectives: To test whether a newly developed person-, theory- and evidence-based website about acupuncture helps patients make informed decisions about whether or not to use acupuncture for back pain. Methods: A randomised online study compared a newly developed ‘enhanced website’ to a ‘standard website’. The enhanced website provided evidence-based information in a person-based manner and targeted psychological constructs. The standard website was based on a widely used patient information leaflet. In total, 350 adults with recent self-reported back pain were recruited from general practices in South West England. The two primary outcomes were knowledge change and making an informed choice about using acupuncture. Secondary outcomes were beliefs about and willingness to have acupuncture. Results: Participants who viewed the enhanced acupuncture website had a significantly greater increase in knowledge about acupuncture (M = 1.1, standard deviation (SD) = 1.7) than participants who viewed the standard website (M = 0.2, SD = 1.1; F(1, 315) = 37.93, p < 0.001, η2 = .107). Participants who viewed the enhanced acupuncture website were also 3.3 times more likely to make an informed choice about using acupuncture than those who viewed the standard website (χ2(1) = 23.46, p < 0.001). There were no significant effects on treatment beliefs or willingness to have acupuncture. Conclusion: The enhanced website improved patients’ knowledge and ability to make an informed choice about acupuncture, but did not optimise treatment beliefs or change willingness to have acupuncture. The enhanced website could be used to support informed decision-making among primary care patients and members of the general public considering using acupuncture for back pain.

scholarly journals Reducing the Noise From Scraping Social Media Content: Some Evidence-Based Recommendations

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 660-666
Author(s):  
Filip Lievens ◽  
Chad H. Van Iddekinge
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Sources Of Information

Chamorro-Premuzic, Winsborough, Sherman, and Hogan (2016) describe a variety of new selection approaches (e.g., “scraping” of social media information, gamified assessments) in the staffing domain that might provide new sources of information about people. The authors also mention advantages and downsides of these potentially “new talent signals.”

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