Mapping Boundaries of the Hostile Media Effect

By Albert C. Gunther, Kathleen M. Schmitt. 2004

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Is the Media Biased Against Me? A Meta-Analysis of the Hostile Media Effect Research (2011, methodology): “Even a ‘‘neutral’’ news report, which is considered fair and impartial by a neutral observer, is seen as biased toward the opposite side in partisans’ eyes (Christen, Kannaovakun, & Gunther, 2002; Gunther & Schmitt, 2004; Schmitt, Gunther, & Liebhart, 2004).”
Influence of Hostile Media Perception on Willingness to Engage in Discursive Activities: An Examination of Mediating Role of Media Indignation (2008, background): “…ideological standing perceive the same media content as being biased against their own view, has been observed across different issues (e.g., Gunther, 1992; Gunther & Liebhart, 2006; Gunther & Schmitt, 2004; Vallone et al., 1985) and political contexts (e.g., Chia, Yong, Wong, & Koh, 2007).”
Cognitive Dissonance or Credibility? A Comparison of Two Theoretical Explanations for Selective Exposure to Partisan News (2020, background): “Studies of bias perception in media coverage find that while people notice and devote greater attention to information that is antagonistic to their point of view, they perceive biased but attitude-congruent information as fair-minded (Gunther & Schmitt, 2004).”
Nudge Effect of Fact-Check Alerts: Source Influence and Media Skepticism on Sharing of News Misinformation in Social Media (2020, background): “In this evaluation, news produced by mainstream press as a “collective referent” is perceived to be biased, particularly against one’s own point of view (for discussion of hostile media perception (see Gunther & Schmitt, 2004; Vallone et al., 1985).”
When Corrections Fail: The Persistence of Political Misperceptions (2010, unknown): “There is an extensive literature showing that partisans and ideologues tend to view identical content as biased against them (Arpan and Raney 2003; Baum and Gussin 2007; Christen et al. 2002; Günther and Chia 2001; Günther and Schmitt 2004; Gussin and Baum 2004, 2005; Lee 2005; Vallone et al. 1985).”
Partisan Differences in Opinionated News Perceptions: A Test of the Hostile Media Effect (2011, methodology): “Moreover, a focus on issue partisanship has been the approach taken in much of the research on the hostile media perception (e.g., Gunther and Schmitt 2004; Vallone et al. 1985).”
A Three-Decade Retrospective on the Hostile Media Effect (2015, unknown): “A number of experiments have offered consistent support for this notion (Gunther & Liebhart, 2006; Gunther et al., 2012; Gunther et al., 2009; Gunther & Schmitt, 2004; Schmitt, Gunther, & Liebhart, 2004).”
The great divide: understanding the role of media and other drivers of the partisan divide in public concern over climate change in the USA, 2001–2014 (2017, background): “The latter effect is commonly referred to as the Bhostile media^ effect (Sellers 2010; Stroud 2011, Gunther and Schmitt 2004).”
Authoritarianism, Threat, and Prejudice: An Analysis of Mediation and Moderation (2009, background): “Furthermore, Gunther and Schmitt ( 2004 ) suggest that it may only apply to messages appearing in the mass media but not to other forms of communication.”