Reinforcement of the Political Self Through Selective Exposure to Political Messages

By Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick, Jingbo Meng. 2011

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Political Online Information Searching in Germany and the United States: Confirmation Bias, Source Credibility, and Attitude Impacts (2015, background): “…or attitude-discrepant messages has an impact not only on their strength of partisanship but also on their likelihood of political participation (e.g., Knobloch-Westerwick & Johnson, 2014; Knobloch-Westerwick & Meng, 2011), both of which ultimately can affect voting decisions and election outcomes.”
The Impact of Climate Change–Related Imagery and Text on Public Opinion and Behavior Change (2016, background): “…predict how individuals selectively expose themselves to different media channels (Garrett, 2009; Knobloch-Westerwick, Carpentier, & Zillmann, 2003; Knobloch-Westerwick & Meng, 2011; Vidmar & Rokeach, 1974) and selectively perceive and respond to the information to which they attend (Borah, 2011;…”
Bursting your (filter) bubble: strategies for promoting diverse exposure (2013, background): “Selective Exposure Media policy in the United States has long had a focus on promoting audiences exposure to diverse infor-mation.”
Partisan Provocation: The Role of Partisan News Use and Emotional Responses in Political Information Sharing in Social Media (2016, background): “…or make salient political identities (Iyengar, Sood, & Lelkes, 2012; Human Communication Research 42 (2016) 641–661 © 2016 International Communication Association 643 Knobloch-Westerwick & Meng, 2011; Levendusky, 2013a), which can evoke anger when that identity is threatened (Arpan & Nabi, 2011).”
Confirmation Bias, Ingroup Bias, and Negativity Bias in Selective Exposure to Political Information (2020, result): “More recently, bolstering one’s social identity defined per partisanship has also been suggested as an explanation for the confirmation bias (e.g., Knobloch-Westerwick & Meng, 2011; Stroud et al., 2014).”
Revising the Communication Mediation Model for a New Political Communication Ecology (2017, background): “The avoidance of conventional news consumption and erosion of social and political trust is likely amplified by a communication ecology that supports and encourages selective exposure and processing (Knobloch-Westerwick & Meng, 2011).”
The Mutual Reinforcement of Media Selectivity and Effects: Testing the Reinforcing Spirals Framework in the Context of Global Warming (2014, unknown): “Toward this end, contemporary political communication research has begun to consider the consequences of exposure to like-minded media (e.g., Jamieson & Cappella, 2008; Knobloch-Westerwick, 2012; Knobloch-Westerwick & Meng, 2011; Stroud, 2011).”
A Transformer-based Framework for Neutralizing and Reversing the Political Polarity of News Articles (2021, background): “manufacture narrow, ideological viewpoints so as to cater to audience appetite [60, 71, 79].”
Partisan News and Political Participation: Exploring Mediated Relationships (2016, background): “…counter-attitudinal content has the potential to diminish attitude strength and lead to attitudes that are less readily accessible (Feldman, 2011; Knobloch-Westerwick & Meng, 2011).5 In turn, reinforced priors should promote participation while weaker attitudes should be associated with lower…”