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Selective exposure shapes the Facebook news diet. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2020
PLOS One Published: March 13 ...
Cinelli M, Brugnoli E, Schmidt AL, Zollo F, Quattrociocchi W, Scala A.   +5 more
europepmc   +7 more sources

Incidental Exposure to Non-Like-Minded News through Social Media: Opposing Voices in Echo-Chambers’ News Feeds

Media and Communication, 2020
Debates about post-truth need to take into account how news re-disseminates in a hybrid media system in which social networks and audience participation play a central role.
Pere Masip, Jaume Suau, Carlos Ruiz-Caballero   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social media behavior during uprisings: selective sharing and avoidance in the China (Hong Kong), Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon protests

Online Media and Global Communication, 2022
This study examines the use of social media by individuals during protests in China (Hong Kong), Iraq, Iran, and Lebanon.
Kozman Claudia, So Clement Y. K., Salim Sahar Khalifa, Movahedian Mostafa, El Amin Jana, Melki Jad   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘Fake News’ in Science Communication: Emotions and Strategies of Coping with Dissonance Online

Media and Communication, 2020
In view of events such as the public denial of climate change research by well-known politicians, the effects of postfactual disinformation and emotionalisation are discussed for science. Here, so-called ‘fake news’ are of focus.
Monika Taddicken, Laura Wolff
doaj   +1 more source

Picture Power? The Contribution of Visuals and Text to Partisan Selective Exposure

Media and Communication, 2019
Today’s high-choice media environment allows citizens to select news in line with their political preferences and avoid content counter to their priors. So far, however, selective exposure research has exclusively studied news selection based on textual ...
Thomas E. Powell, Toni G. L. A. van der Meer, Carlos Brenes Peralta   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Partisan Selective Exposure in Times of Political and Technological Upheaval: A Social Media Field Experiment

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
doaj   +1 more source

Echo Chambers, Cognitive Thinking Styles, and Mistrust? Examining the Roles Information Sources and Information Processing Play in Conspiracist Ideation

International Journal of Communication, 2023
Researchers have proposed that conspiracy theory beliefs are fueled by isolation from counter-conspiracy theory information, reliance on intuitive thinking, and/or institutional mistrust.
Brian McKernan, Patrícia Rossini, Jennifer Stromer-Galley   +2 more
doaj  

What Should I Trust? Individual Differences in Attitudes to Conflicting Information and Misinformation on COVID-19

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic constitutes a novel threat and traditional and new media provide people with an abundance of information and misinformation on the topic. In the current study, we investigated who tends to trust what type of mis/information.
Petra Filkuková, Peter Ayton, Kim Rand, Johannes Langguth   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Selective exposure in action: Do visitors of product evaluation portals select reviews in a biased manner?

Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberpspace, 2023
Most people in industrialized countries regularly purchase products online. Consumers often rely on previous customers’ reviews to make purchasing decisions.
Kevin Winter, Birka Zapf, Mandy Hütter, Nicolas Tichy, Kai Sassenberg   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Are you always ignoring attitude-challenging messages? Eye-tracking selective exposure on Chinese’ lowly involved news consumption

Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberpspace
This study employs a pre-post-test design to investigate the selective exposure behaviors while consuming news with low involvement. The experiment incorporates eye-tracking and self-report measures to explore participants’ preferences for attitude ...
Qinqin Tian, Shuhua Zhou, Shuyi Gan, Guangyao Chen, Xin Luo, Tingrong Zhi   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source