Selective Exposure Theories

By Natalie Jomini Stroud. 2014

107 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/59ece5eda49af2a8347f5e9ba44175d332479775

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In Communication

1. Andrew J. Flanagin
2. Miriam J. Metzger
3. Ethan Hartsell
4. Kari Steen-Johnsen
5. Myiah J. Hutchens
6. Jay D. Hmielowski
7. Dag Wollebæk
8. Bernard Enjolras

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Miriam J. Metzger
2. Andrew J. Flanagin
3. Ethan Hartsell
4. Kari Steen-Johnsen
5. Myiah J. Hutchens
6. Jay D. Hmielowski
7. Dag Wollebæk
8. Bernard Enjolras

Citations in the corpus

• Facebook news and (de)polarization: reinforcing spirals in the 2016 US election (2018, background): “…has shown that individuals do see counter-attitudinal views in news feeds (Bakshy et al., 2015; Beam, 2014; Flaxman et al., 2016; Garrett, 2009; Garrett & Stroud, 2014; Gentzkow & Shapiro, 2011; Messing & Westwood, 2014), this would suggest that social media news use could result in depolarization.”
• Cognitive Dissonance or Credibility? A Comparison of Two Theoretical Explanations for Selective Exposure to Partisan News (2020, background): “Some other proposed explanations for selective exposure to pro-attitudinal information include information processing theory, social identity theory, the theory of motivated reasoning, mood and emotion, and information quality or credibility (Johnson & Kaye, 2013; Knobloch-Westerwick, 2014; Stroud, ”
• Anger, Fear, and Echo Chambers: The Emotional Basis for Online Behavior (2019, background): “Hence, it rests on the premise of selective exposure (see Stroud (2017) for an overview).”