Echo chambers online?: Politically motivated selective exposure among Internet news users

Garrett, R. Kelly

doi:10.1111/j.1083-6101.2009.01440.x

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“…Other studies find that even if citizens are more likely to read tweets offered by like-minded others, they are also engaged with those with whom they disagree (Yardi & Boyd, 2010). Such findings show that a preference for attitude-consistent information does not equal active avoidance of attitude-discrepant information (Garrett, 2009).…”

Section: Concern 4: Towards Increasing Polarization and Fragmentationmentioning

confidence: 91%

Political communication in a high-choice media environment: a challenge for democracy?

Aelst

Strömbäck

Aalberg

et al. 2017

Annals of the International Communication Association

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During the last decennia media environments and political communication systems have changed fundamentally. These changes have major ramifications for the political information environments and the extent to which they aid people in becoming informed citizens. Against this background, the purpose of this article is to review research on key changes and trends in political information environments and assess their democratic implications. We will focus on advanced postindustrial democracies and six concerns that are all closely linked to the dissemination and acquisition of political knowledge: (1) declining supply of political information, (2) declining quality of news, (3) increasing media concentration and declining diversity of news, (4) increasing fragmentation and polarization, (5) increasing relativism and (6) increasing inequality in political knowledge. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Concern 4: Towards Increasing Polarization and Fragmentationmentioning

confidence: 91%

Political communication in a high-choice media environment: a challenge for democracy?

Aelst

Strömbäck

Aalberg

et al. 2017

Annals of the International Communication Association

637

347

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“…Indeed, in one study of internet news users, exposure to attitude-discrepant information not only did not reduce the likelihood that a news item would be read but was associated with an increase in time spent reading it (51,52). The proposed effort to contextualize is worth making in venues that attract conservatives and aspire to the journalistic norms reflected in the message structure offered here, because the audience for partisan media still consumes a substantial amount of mainstream news and public interest programming (53) and because the more credible a news source, the more likely it is to be able to prime and frame the public's agenda (54,55).…”

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Leveraging scientific credibility about Arctic sea ice trends in a polarized political environment

Jamieson

Hardy

2014

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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This work argues that, in a polarized environment, scientists can minimize the likelihood that the audience's biased processing will lead to rejection of their message if they not only eschew advocacy but also, convey that they are sharers of knowledge faithful to science's way of knowing and respectful of the audience's intelligence; the sources on which they rely are well-regarded by both conservatives and liberals; and the message explains how the scientist arrived at the offered conclusion, is conveyed in a visual form that involves the audience in drawing its own conclusions, and capsulizes key inferences in an illustrative analogy. A pilot experiment raises the possibility that such a leveraginginvolving-visualizing-analogizing message structure can increase acceptance of the scientific claims about the downward cross-decade trend in Arctic sea ice extent and elicit inferences consistent with the scientific consensus on climate change among conservatives exposed to misleadingly selective data in a partisan news source.climate communication | biased assimilation | identity protection

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“…This polarised opinion might make supporters more willing to adjust their views to their party camp, but also to be more selective in their exposure to news (Garrett 2009;Lin 2009;Slater 2007). By opting for media material and online news that confirm prior attitudes and support the party line, voters might further adjust their attitudes to immigrants in their parties' direction.…”

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Adapting to party lines: the effect of party affiliation on attitudes to immigration

Harteveld

Kokkonen

Dahlberg

2017

West European Politics

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Adapting to party lines: the effect of party affiliation on attitudes to immigration Harteveld, E.; Kokkonen, A.; Dahlberg, S. General rightsIt is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulationsIf you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: http://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. Public opinion on immigration is increasingly relevant for political behaviour. However, little is known about the way in which citizens' political allegiances in turn shape their attitudes to immigration. Abundant existing evidence suggests that voters often take cues from the parties they support. Using panel data from the Netherlands and Sweden, this article investigates the dynamic relation between attitudes to immigration and party preferences. The longitudinal nature of the data allows for making stronger claims about causal mechanisms than previous crosssectional studies. The analysis shows that voters who change their preference to the Radical Right become stricter on immigration, whereas voters changing to the Greens become less strict on immigration over time. This confirms that citizens' support for anti-and pro-immigration parties results in a 'radicalisation' of their views on immigration along party lines. A similar 'spiral' of radicalisation can be found around the issue of European integration.

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Echo chambers online?: Politically motivated selective exposure among Internet news users

Cited by 784 publications

References 18 publications

Political communication in a high-choice media environment: a challenge for democracy?

Political communication in a high-choice media environment: a challenge for democracy?

Leveraging scientific credibility about Arctic sea ice trends in a polarized political environment

Adapting to party lines: the effect of party affiliation on attitudes to immigration

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