scholarly journals A Window to the World: Americans' Exposure to Political News From Foreign Media Outlets

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Peterson ◽  
Emily Damm
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Media Exposure ◽  
The United States ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Subject Analysis ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Political News ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Foreign Media

Political communication research overwhelmingly focuses on domestic media. Internet access has relaxed geographic constraints on news use to create an- other possibility: exposure to political coverage from foreign media outlets. We study the frequency and form of foreign media exposure in the United States using individual-level web browsing data and a content analysis of the news this sample encountered. This reveals foreign media exposure is widespread and internationally-oriented. 85% of these individuals visited a foreign source. Foreign media accounted for 7% of all news website visits. In a within-subject analysis of over three million visits to foreign and domestic websites, individuals were substantially more likely to encounter foreign affairs coverage, and less likely to reach coverage of U.S. domestic politics, when visiting foreign news sources. These findings show how new opportunities created by a changing media landscape shape public engagement with international politics.

scholarly journals The Influence of Unknown Media on Public Opinion: Evidence from Local and Foreign News Sources

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Peterson ◽  
Maxwell B. Allamong
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Political News ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Foreign Media ◽  
Large Survey

In the Internet era people can encounter a vast array of political news outlets, many of which they are unfamiliar with. These unknown media outlets are notable because they represent potential sources of misinformation and coverage with a distinctive slant. We use a large survey experiment to consider how source familiarity influences political communication. While this demonstrates the public is averse to consuming news from unfamiliar media, we show that—conditional on exposure to them—unknown local and foreign media sources can influence public opinion to an extent similar to established mainstream news outlets on the same issues. This comparable effectiveness stems from the public’s charitable evaluations of the credibility of unfamiliar news sources and their relatively low trust in familiar mainstream media. We find avoidance of unknown news outlets, not resistance to their coverage, is the key factor limiting their political influence.

scholarly journals The Influence of Unknown Media on Public Opinion: Evidence from Local and Foreign News Sources

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
ERIK PETERSON ◽  
MAXWELL B. ALLAMONG
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Political News ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Foreign Media ◽  
Large Survey

In the Internet era, people can encounter a vast array of political news outlets, many with which they are unfamiliar. These unknown media outlets are notable because they represent potential sources of misinformation and coverage with a distinctive slant. We use two large survey experiments to consider how source familiarity influences political communication. Although this demonstrates the public is averse to consuming news from unfamiliar media, we show that—conditional on exposure to them—unknown local and foreign media sources can influence public opinion to an extent similar to established mainstream news outlets on the same issues. This comparable effectiveness stems from the public’s charitable evaluations of the credibility of unfamiliar news sources and their relatively low trust in familiar mainstream media. We find avoidance of unknown news outlets, not resistance to their coverage, is the primary factor limiting their political influence.

Online News Consumption in the United States and Ideological Extremism

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth M. Winneg ◽  
Daniel M. Butler ◽  
Saar Golde ◽  
Darwin W. Miller ◽  
Norman H. Nie
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Television News ◽  
The United States ◽  
Online News ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Political News ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Internet News ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Using Data

In an earlier study, the authors found evidence that supported a framework predicting that consumers of Internet news sources held more extreme political views and were interested in more diverse political issues than those who solely consume mainstream television news using data covering the period April 2000 to June 2007. In this essay, they test whether the same patterns hold using data from the 2008 National Annenberg Election Survey online panel conducted during the 2008 presidential election cycle. The authors combine insights from theories of selective media exposure from political communication and social psychology with economic theories of differentiated products markets to develop a theoretical framework for understanding how the Internet continues to impact the U.S. political news market. The driving force behind this framework is the dramatically lower cost of production for Internet news sources relative to traditional television news.

Online News Consumption in the United States and Ideological Extremism

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth M. Winneg ◽  
Daniel M. Butler ◽  
Saar Golde ◽  
Darwin W. Miller ◽  
Norman H. Nie
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Television News ◽  
The United States ◽  
Online News ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Political News ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Internet News ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Using Data

In an earlier study, the authors found evidence that supported a framework predicting that consumers of Internet news sources held more extreme political views and were interested in more diverse political issues than those who solely consume mainstream television news using data covering the period April 2000 to June 2007. In this essay, they test whether the same patterns hold using data from the 2008 National Annenberg Election Survey online panel conducted during the 2008 presidential election cycle. The authors combine insights from theories of selective media exposure from political communication and social psychology with economic theories of differentiated products markets to develop a theoretical framework for understanding how the Internet continues to impact the U.S. political news market. The driving force behind this framework is the dramatically lower cost of production for Internet news sources relative to traditional television news.

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.

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver and the Stewart/Colbert Impact on U.S. Political Communication in the Post-Network Era

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Alonso
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Political News ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Media

Chapter 2 analyzes Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (LWT), the political news satire show aired on HBO since 2014. While TDS satirized TV journalism’s coverage of news and TCR parodied the conservative rhetoric in the media, LWT presents investigations, generating in-depth coverage of national and international public interest issues. Chapter 2 analyzes LWT in relation to the academic debates and scholarly work generated by its successful predecessors. By contextualizing and examining the show in relation to the evolution of political infotainment in the United States, I show how LWT not only fills gaps left by mainstream media, but also takes satire to a more international, activist, and investigative level. Because U.S. political infotainment has been internationally influential, this chapter also serves to illuminate the debates about the genre to be applied to the Latin American cases, which have remained academically unexplored.

The Showdown That Wasn't: U.S.-Israeli Relations and American Domestic Politics, 1973–75

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 130-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galen Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Henry Kissinger ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Primary Documents ◽  
Domestic Constraints ◽  
Middle East Policy

How influential are domestic politics on U.S. foreign affairs? With regard to Middle East policy, how important a role do ethnic lobbies, Congress, and public opinion play in influencing U.S. strategy? Answering these questions requires the use of archival records and other primary documents, which provide an undistorted view of U.S. policymakers' motivations. The Ford administration's 1975 reassessment of its approach to Arab-Israeli statecraft offers an excellent case for the examination of these issues in light of this type of historical evidence. President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger decided, in large part because of the looming 1976 presidential election, to avoid a confrontation with Israel in the spring and summer of 1975 by choosing to negotiate a second disengagement agreement between Egypt and Israel rather than a comprehensive settlement. Nevertheless, domestic constraints on the White House's freedom of action were not insurmountable and, had they had no other option, Ford and Kissinger would have been willing to engage in a showdown with Israel over the Middle East conflict's most fundamental aspects. The administration's concern that a major clash with Israel might stoke an outbreak of anti-Semitism in the United States likely contributed to its decision to back down.

Fake news on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential election

Science ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 363 (6425) ◽  
pp. 374-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nir Grinberg ◽  
Kenneth Joseph ◽  
Lisa Friedland ◽  
Briony Swire-Thompson ◽  
David Lazer
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Election ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
Political News ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
News Sources ◽  
News Source ◽  
Political Spectrum ◽  
Registered Voters

The spread of fake news on social media became a public concern in the United States after the 2016 presidential election. We examined exposure to and sharing of fake news by registered voters on Twitter and found that engagement with fake news sources was extremely concentrated. Only 1% of individuals accounted for 80% of fake news source exposures, and 0.1% accounted for nearly 80% of fake news sources shared. Individuals most likely to engage with fake news sources were conservative leaning, older, and highly engaged with political news. A cluster of fake news sources shared overlapping audiences on the extreme right, but for people across the political spectrum, most political news exposure still came from mainstream media outlets.

Proportion of Individuals With Past-Year Suicidal Ideation Who Attempted Suicide Over the Past 10 Years in the United States, and the Influence of Age and Sex

Crisis ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Shannon Lange ◽  
Courtney Bagge ◽  
Charlotte Probst ◽  
Jürgen Rehm
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Random Effects ◽  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
The United States ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Past ◽  
Meta Analyses ◽  
Age Category

Abstract. Background: In recent years, the rate of death by suicide has been increasing disproportionately among females and young adults in the United States. Presumably this trend has been mirrored by the proportion of individuals with suicidal ideation who attempted suicide. Aim: We aimed to investigate whether the proportion of individuals in the United States with suicidal ideation who attempted suicide differed by age and/or sex, and whether this proportion has increased over time. Method: Individual-level data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 2008–2017, were used to estimate the year-, age category-, and sex-specific proportion of individuals with past-year suicidal ideation who attempted suicide. We then determined whether this proportion differed by age category, sex, and across years using random-effects meta-regression. Overall, age category- and sex-specific proportions across survey years were estimated using random-effects meta-analyses. Results: Although the proportion was found to be significantly higher among females and those aged 18–25 years, it had not significantly increased over the past 10 years. Limitations: Data were self-reported and restricted to past-year suicidal ideation and suicide attempts. Conclusion: The increase in the death by suicide rate in the United States over the past 10 years was not mirrored by the proportion of individuals with past-year suicidal ideation who attempted suicide during this period.

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