Knowing is not loving: media effects on knowledge about and attitudes toward the EU

Marquart, Franziska; Goldberg, Andreas C.; Elsas, E.J. van; Brosius, Anna; Vreese, Claes H. de

doi:10.1080/07036337.2018.1546302

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“…For the actual expectation of a media effect on the individual level, we follow the straightforward argument by Hobolt and Tilley (2014) that news media can have effects on responsibility beyond framing, and in particular on the 'accuracy' of responsibility attributions. This argument is in line with other studies' findings of media effects on EU policy preferences (Meltzer et al 2020), but also more general findings that visibility of the EU, its institutions, and processes in the news media can influence opinions and knowledge about the EU (Clark 2014;de Vries et al 2011;Marquart et al 2019;Semetko, van der Brug, and Valkenburg 2003). In detail, we expect that higher EU media visibility in a certain policy area results in stronger citizens' attribution of policy responsibility to the EU.…”

Section: Rq1: Are Media Effects On Policy Responsibility Attribution supporting

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Policy responsibility in the multilevel EU structure – The (non-)effect of media reporting on citizens’ responsibility attribution across four policy areas

Goldberg

Brosius

Vreese

2021

Journal of European Integration

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In the EU multilevel structure, citizens differ in perceptions of who is responsible for policies and their outcomes. Policy responsibility consists of two concepts, functional and causal responsibility. While the latter has been studied in the context of 'blaming Europe' for negative outcomes, the necessary condition of functional responsibility has received only scant attention. The media plays a crucial role in providing citizens with information for attributing causal responsibility, but may be even more important for attributing functional responsibility. We test this for the case of the Netherlands for four policy areas: Immigration, social welfare, economy, and terrorism. Linking survey data to automated media content data, we predict the effect of exposure to policy-related information on the European level on policy-level attribution. Although the results show both differences in citizens' functional responsibility attributions and EU-related media coverage across policy areas, we find no effect from media consumption on responsibility attributions.

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Section: Rq1: Are Media Effects On Policy Responsibility Attribution supporting

confidence: 91%

Policy responsibility in the multilevel EU structure – The (non-)effect of media reporting on citizens’ responsibility attribution across four policy areas

Goldberg

Brosius

Vreese

2021

Journal of European Integration

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“…Sophistication might then equal variation, in the sense that detailed knowledge about the EU facilitates the formation of more crystallised (positive as well as negative) opinions. Although intuitively one might expect a better EU knowledge to be related to higher support of European integration (as shown by, e.g., Janssen 1991), several studies have shown that 'knowing' about the EU does not necessarily lead to 'loving' the EU (e.g., Karp et al 2003;Marquart et al 2019).…”

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Mismatch? Comparing elite and citizen polarisation on EU issues across four countries

Goldberg

Elsas

Vreese

2020

Journal of European Public Policy

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National politicisation of European Union issues has risen following events such as the economic crisis and the refugee influx. This has led to changes at the party (rising Eurosceptic parties) and the voter level (increasing public Euroscepticism). EU politicisation is thus assumed to influence the overall distribution of EU positions in terms of EU polarisation. This raises the question to what extent there is a (mis)match between polarisation at the party and voter level, and its dependence on structural and supply-side dynamics. Using CHES 2017 data and survey data across four EU countries (Germany, Spain, Hungary and the Netherlands) this paper compares eliteand citizen-level EU polarisation. The results show a strong association of party-and citizen-level EU polarisationfor both general and policy-specific EU positionswith higher polarisation among citizens than among parties. Country-specific patterns are due to different political competition on the supply side.

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“…This observation also extends to knowledge acquisition. In particular, there is a positive relationship between media use and knowledge about politics (Becker & Whitney, 1980;Marquart et al, 2019;McLeod & McDonald, 1985) or climate change (Stamm et al, 2000;Taddicken & Neverla, 2011;Zhao, 2009). Thus, the higher the media use, the better the actual knowledge about the given subjects.…”

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Actual and Perceived Knowledge about COVID-19: The Role of Information Behavior in Media

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Martin³

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The COVID-19 pandemic poses a global health threat that has dominated media coverage. However, not much is known about how individuals use media to acquire knowledge about COVID-19 under conditions of perceived threat. To address this, this study investigated how perceived threat affects media use (i.e., media volume and media breadth), and how media use in turn affects perceived and actual knowledge about COVID-19. In a German online survey, N = 952 participants provided information on their perceived threat and their media use to inform themselves about COVID-19. They further indicated how well they are informed about COVID-19 (perceived knowledge) and completed a COVID-19 knowledge test (actual knowledge). The results indicated that individuals who felt more threatened by COVID-19 used media more often to inform themselves (i.e., media volume), but focused on less different media channels (i.e., media breadth). Higher media volume was associated with higher perceived knowledge, but not with higher actual knowledge about COVID-19. Further, exploratory analyses revealed that perceived threat was linked to perceived knowledge, but not to actual knowledge. The association of perceived threat and perceived knowledge was mediated by increased media volume. Finally, a smaller media breadth was linked to higher perceived and actual knowledge.

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Knowing is not loving: media effects on knowledge about and attitudes toward the EU

Cited by 28 publications

References 30 publications

Policy responsibility in the multilevel EU structure – The (non-)effect of media reporting on citizens’ responsibility attribution across four policy areas

Policy responsibility in the multilevel EU structure – The (non-)effect of media reporting on citizens’ responsibility attribution across four policy areas

Mismatch? Comparing elite and citizen polarisation on EU issues across four countries

Actual and Perceived Knowledge about COVID-19: The Role of Information Behavior in Media

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