Effects of News Factors on Users’ News Attention and Selective Exposure on a News Aggregator Website

Engelmann, Ines; Luebke, Simon M.; Kessler, Sabrina Heike

doi:10.1080/1461670x.2021.1889395

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“…Their role as an aggregator, particularly redistributing news content from different news outlets on a single website (Isbell, 2010; Lee and Chyi, 2015), creates an environment of intra-media competition where news outlets compete for users’ attention and news selection. Yet news aggregators’ cues are decisive factors for users’ news selection: for instance, where news items are positioned on the website affects users to pay more attention and increases click probability (Engelmann et al, 2021). Because news organizations lack data and information about which article gets prioritized—for instance, Google News only vaguely indicates that articles are ranked based on factors such as prominence, authoritativeness, and freshness—news outlets conceive different strategies to capture audience attention.…”

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Different stakes, different struggles, and different practices to survive: News organizations and the spectrum of platform dependency

Pyo

2022

New Media & Society

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As people access news via digital platforms, existing literature provides foundations for institutional approaches to news organizations’ platform dependency. Yet, platform dependency also exists on a spectrum: size, business model, and market position impact how each news organization strategizes its reliance on digital platforms. I draw on in-depth interviews with 22 South Korean news professionals to delve into different survival strategies in dealing with South Korea’s biggest search portal and news aggregator, Naver. Findings reveal that contrary to the common belief, journalists in legacy news organizations experience more pressure and compromise journalistic values with clickbait headlines. They deem their relationship with the platform more in hierarchical and inevitable terms while journalists from new, emerging organizations are relatively freer from the competition for clicks and strive for more quality journalism. However, the difference stems from the Naver platform’s news organization ranking system and its tiered visibility structure that systematically creates the difference in audience reach and news distribution.

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Different stakes, different struggles, and different practices to survive: News organizations and the spectrum of platform dependency

Pyo

2022

New Media & Society

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“… 44 , 45 For example, search engines’ rankings play an important role in viewing behavior and information selection resulting in more frequent access to big, general, and moderate websites instead of small, extreme, or very specific offerings. 44 – 46 The assumed quality of information and accessibility to information channels also play a role in information search. 47 …”

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COVID-19 misinformation on YouTube: An analysis of its impact and subsequent online information searches for verification

Kessler

Humprecht

2023

DIGITAL HEALTH

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Objectives COVID-19 vaccination misinformation on YouTube can have negative effects on users. Some, after being exposed to such misinformation, may search online for information that either debunks or confirms it. This study's objective is to examine the impact of YouTube videos spreading misinformation about COVID-19 vaccination and the influencing variables, as well as subsequent information seeking and its effect on attitudes toward vaccination. Methods In this observational and survey study, we used a three-group pre-test and post-tests design ( N = 106 participants). We examined the effects of YouTube videos containing misinformation about COVID-19 vaccination on attitudes toward vaccination via surveys, employed screen recordings with integrated eye tracks to examine subsequent online information searches, and again surveyed participants to examine the effects of the individual searches on their attitudes. Results Receiving misinformation via video tended to have negative effects, mostly on unvaccinated participants. After watching the video, they believed and trusted less in the effectiveness of the vaccines. Internet searches led to more positive attitudes toward vaccination, regardless of vaccination status or prior beliefs. The valences of search words entered and search duration were independent of the participants’ prior attitudes. Misinforming content was rarely selected and perceived (read). In general, participants were more likely to perceive supportive and mostly neutral information about vaccination. Conclusion Misinformation about COVID-19 vaccination on YouTube can have a negative impact on recipients. Unvaccinated citizens in particular are a vulnerable group to online misinformation; therefore, it is important to take action against misinformation on YouTube. One approach could be to motivate users to verify online content by doing their own information search on the internet, which led to positive results in the study.

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Climate Change-related Counter-attitudinal Fake News Exposure and its Effects on Search and Selection Behavior

Taddicken,

Wolff

2023

Environmental Communication

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Effects of News Factors on Users’ News Attention and Selective Exposure on a News Aggregator Website

Cited by 4 publications

References 41 publications

Different stakes, different struggles, and different practices to survive: News organizations and the spectrum of platform dependency

Different stakes, different struggles, and different practices to survive: News organizations and the spectrum of platform dependency

COVID-19 misinformation on YouTube: An analysis of its impact and subsequent online information searches for verification

Climate Change-related Counter-attitudinal Fake News Exposure and its Effects on Search and Selection Behavior

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