Effects of the News-Finds-Me Perception in Communication: Social Media Use Implications for News Seeking and Learning About Politics

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Experiencing Algorithms: How Young People Understand, Feel About, and Engage With Algorithmic News Selection on Social Media (2021, background): “This aligns with the prevalent news-finds-me attitude among this age cohort (Gil de Zúñiga et al., 2017; Toff & Nielsen, 2018) and highlights the significance of algorithmic and social curation for young people’s contemporary news use.”
Are people incidentally exposed to news on social media? A comparative analysis (2018, background): “This, in turn, could have a positive impact on outcomes like political participation and civic engagement, given previous findings (e.g. Gil de Zúñiga et al., 2017; Valeriani and Vaccari, 2016).”
Facebook news and (de)polarization: reinforcing spirals in the 2016 US election (2018, background): “There is a growing literature indicating that many social media users are likely to stumble upon news incidentally rather than intentionally seeking it out (Gil de Zúñiga et al., 2017; Weeks, Lane, Kim, Lee, & Kwak, 2017).”
The Issue Takes It All? (2019, background): “…Belfrage 2018), and has implications both for general news-seeking behaviors (as reflected in the rise of perceptions like the news-finds-me perception , see Gil de Zúñiga, Weeks, and Ardèvol-Abreu 2017) and democratically desirable outcomes like political knowledge or participation (see below).”