Selective exposure shapes the Facebook news diet. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2020 The social brain hypothesis fixes to 150 the number of social relationships we are able to maintain. Similar cognitive constraints emerge in several aspects of our daily life, from our mobility up to the way we communicate, and might even affect the way ...
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Selective exposure in different political information environments - How media fragmentation and polarization shape congruent news use. [PDF]
Eur J Commun, 2022 Previous research posits that individual predispositions play an essential role in explaining patterns of selective exposure to political information. Yet the contextual factors in the political information environment have received far less attention ...
Steppat D, Castro Herrero L, Esser F.
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A systematic comparison of community detection algorithms for measuring selective exposure in co-exposure networks. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2021 The use of community detection techniques for understanding audience fragmentation and selective exposure to information has received substantial scholarly attention in recent years.
Mukerjee S.
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When freedom of choice leads to bias: How threat fosters selective exposure to health information [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Selective exposure to online health information can be ascribed to two related defense motives: the motivation to confirm one’s subjective perceptions and the motivation to protect relevant parts of the self-image, such as physical integrity. Our aim was
Oliver Wedderhoff +2 more
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Selective exposure in political communication [PDF]
Megatrend Revija, 2022 People exhibit preferences, or seek out information that is consistent with their political beliefs and opinions, when they engage in selective exposure in politics. The theory of motivated reasoning states that people's pursuit of knowledge is driven by
Baltezarević Radoslav +1 more
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Political Polarization and Selective Exposure of Social Media Users in Indonesia
JSP: Jurnal Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik, 2021 This study is intended to answer the question of how political polarization is related to social media users’ posts about Covid-19. The researchers chose health cases related to Covid-19 instead of political issues (e.g.
Denny Januar Ali, Eriyanto Eriyanto
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Conspiratorial thinking, selective exposure to conservative media, and response to COVID-19 in the US. [PDF]
Soc Sci Med, 2021 Romer D, Jamieson KH.
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Media and Communication, 2019 Contemporary democracies are increasingly shaped by a surge of populism, posing serious threats to the idea of liberal democracy. Particularly in the run-up to elections, knowledge of such threats is essential for citizens to cast an informed vote ...
Cornelia Mothes, Jakob Ohme
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Media and Communication, 2019 Hyperpartisan news on social media presents new challenges for selective exposure theory. These challenges are substantial enough to usher in a new era—a third wave—of selective exposure research.
Matthew Barnidge, Cynthia Peacock
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From Selective Exposure to Selective Information Processing: A Motivated Reasoning Approach
Media and Communication, 2019 Literature suggests that while without doubt people engage in selective exposure to information, this does not entail that they also engage in selective avoidance of opinion-challenging information. However, cross-cutting exposure does not always lead to
Lindita Camaj
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