Effects of Unresolved Factual Disputes in the News on Epistemic Political Efficacy

Pingree, Raymond J.

doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.2010.01525.x

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“…The former two item wordings are taken from the NES and are frequently used. The latter two items were developed by Pingree (2011) to replace two NES internal efficacy items with a strong epistemic dimension (e.g., "I feel that I have a pretty good understanding of the important political issues facing our country"). Self-efficacy constructs can be measured at varying levels of specificity but should match the level of specificity of the behaviors they aim to predict (Bandura, 1982;Brockner, 1988).…”

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Distinguishing Effects of Game Framing and Journalistic Adjudication on Cynicism and Epistemic Political Efficacy

Pingree

Hill

McLeod

2012

Communication Research

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An online experiment tested the influence of "he said/she said" coverage versus active adjudication of factual disputes, as well as strategy versus policy framing in postdebate news coverage. Adjudication in policy-framed stories increased epistemic political efficacy (EPE), a measure of confidence in one's own ability to determine the truth in politics. However, adjudicated policy stories also elicited greater cynicism than passive policy framing. This suggests a caveat for the spiral of cynicism, calling into question its assumption that all policy framing behaves similarly in reducing cynicism. Results also provide several forms of evidence that effects of adjudication on EPE differ from spiral of cynicism effects while further validating the EPE construct as distinct from the reverse of political cynicism. Adjudication also positively affected evaluations of the coverage as interesting and informative.

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Distinguishing Effects of Game Framing and Journalistic Adjudication on Cynicism and Epistemic Political Efficacy

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2012

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“…It may also contribute, as one recent study suggests, to declining 'epistemic political efficacy' (Pingree, 2011), a diminished confidence among citizens in their ability to separate truth from fiction.…”

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Debunking Sarah Palin: Mainstream news coverage of ‘death panels’

Lawrence

Schafer

2011

Journalism

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On 7 August 2009, Sarah Palin posted two words to her Facebook page that would come to define a summer of discord around health care reform. This study examines how traditional media reported on the 'death panels' claim that was immediately debunked by several fact-checking organizations. Our content analysis of over 700 newspaper and television stories shows that, to a significant degree, journalists stepped outside the bounds of procedural objectivity to label the 'death panels' claim as false, often without attribution. Many stories, however, simultaneously covered the claim in typical 'he said/she said' fashion, thus perhaps extending some legitimacy to the claim. Our study illustrates the challenges to fact-based public deliberation in the contemporary media environment, and suggests that competing practices of objectivity undercut the ability of mainstream media to help the public separate truth from fiction.

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“…En los últimos años, los investigadores han empezado a analizar eficacia en el contexto del periodismo o los medios de comunicación. Por ejemplo, Pingree (2011) introdujo el término eficacia epistémica como un constructo que refleja el nivel de confianza de la gente al evaluar su propia capacidad para identificar reclamos políticos específicos en los medios de comunicación. Basado en el diseño experimental del estudio, el autor argumenta que la eficacia epistémica puede ser influyente en los resultados relacionados con ambos, comprensión política y formación de opinión.…”

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El uso de los medios de comunicación y la elaboración cognitiva: El papel mediador de la eficacia mediática

Kim

Chadha

Zúñiga³

2018

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Abstracts [ES]Este articulo presenta los resultados de un estudio sobre la relación entre el uso de los medios de comunicación y la elaboración de noticias mientras se introduce el papel mediador de la percepción que el público tiene de la utilidad de los diferentes medios de comunicación para ayudarles a comprender problemas complejos. El término eficacia mediática se conceptualiza como la percepción que un individuo tiene de la utilidad de un medio noticioso en la comprensión de temas complejos. El análisis de un estudio de panel de dos olas demostró que la relación entre el uso de los medios de comunicación y la elaboración era totalmente mediada por la eficacia mediática. Esta investigación contribuye al desarrollo de los estudios sobre el modelo de mediación cognitiva al introducir una nueva variable mediadora, la eficacia mediática, y analizar su relación con la elaboración.[EN] This study examines the relationship between news use and elaboration while introducing the mediating role of people's perception of how different media helps them understand complex issues. The construct-media efficacy-is conceptualized as an individual's perception of helpfulness of a news medium in understanding complex issues. Analysis from a two-wave panel study showed the relationship between news media use and elaboration was fully mediated by media efficacy. This research advances the Cognitive Mediation Model scholarship by introducing a new mediating variable, media efficacy, and examining its relationship with cognitive elaboration. Keywords[ES] Uso de medios de comunicación, elaboración de noticias, eficacia de los medios, mediación, análisis de datos de panel.RLCS, Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, 73 -Páginas 168 a 183 [Investigación]

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Effects of Unresolved Factual Disputes in the News on Epistemic Political Efficacy

Cited by 58 publications

References 41 publications

Distinguishing Effects of Game Framing and Journalistic Adjudication on Cynicism and Epistemic Political Efficacy

Distinguishing Effects of Game Framing and Journalistic Adjudication on Cynicism and Epistemic Political Efficacy

Debunking Sarah Palin: Mainstream news coverage of ‘death panels’

El uso de los medios de comunicación y la elaboración cognitiva: El papel mediador de la eficacia mediática

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