Stumbling upon news on the Internet: Effects of incidental news exposure and relative entertainment use on political engagement

By Yonghwan Kim, Hsuan-Ting Chen, Homero Gil de Zúñiga. Computers in Human Behavior, 2013

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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‘Checking’ and googling: Stages of news consumption among young adults (2018, background): “While national surveys with a large sample size exceeding 1000 participants prove useful in highlighting generalizable trends (Kim et al., 2013; Lee, 2013; Tewksbury et al., 2001), these studies often lack the depth that can be gained from qualitative approaches.”
The Role of Engagement in Learning From Active and Incidental News Exposure on Social Media (2018, methodology): “Incidental news exposure was measured using items adapted from Kim et al. (2013), and Tewksbury et al. (2001).”
See Something, Say Something: Correction of Global Health Misinformation on Social Media (2018, background): “…lower levels of homogeneity compared to other environments (like face-to-face networks) and thus more incidental exposure — exposure that occurs without intentional information seeking — to news and other content (Bode, 2016a; Kim Chen, & Gil de Zuñiga, 2013; Vraga, Bode, & Troller-Renfree, 2016).”
The Issue Takes It All? (2019, background): “Hence, the conclusions range between a rather pessimistic view of incidental news exposure increasing existing gaps in political participation (Y. Kim, Chen, and Gil de Zúñiga 2013) and a rather optimistic view of its ability to reduce said gaps (Valeriani and Vaccari 2016).”
In Related News, That Was Wrong: The Correction of Misinformation Through Related Stories Functionality in Social Media (2015, background): “In addition, we think the Facebook function highlighted in this research represents a new way of thinking about accidental exposure to information via social media (Bode, 2012, 2015; Kim, Chen, & Gil de Zuniga, 2013).”
Effects of the News-Finds-Me Perception in Communication: Social Media Use Implications for News Seeking and Learning About Politics (2017, methodology): “Inevitably, other users within these social networks will be exposed to this news content without any explicit effort of their own (Kim et al., 2013; Tewksbury et al., 2001).”
Are people incidentally exposed to news on social media? A comparative analysis (2018, background): “Building upon this, Kim et al. (2013) found a positive association between incidental news exposure online and political participation in the United States and also observed that those with a stronger preference for entertainment benefitted less.”
Accidental exposure to politics on social media as online participation equalizer in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom (2016, background): “However, we reached opposite conclusions to Kim et al. (2013), who tested different models in studying an American sample.”
“News comes across when I’m in a moment of leisure”: Understanding the practices of incidental news consumption on social media (2018, background): “…the effects of this type of news exposure on matters such as political competence, learning, and participation, and agenda setting and news use (Ardèvol-Abreu et al., 2017; Fletcher and Nielsen, 2018; Kim et al., 2013; Lee, 2009; Oeldorf-Hirsch, 2018; Valenzuela, 2013; Valeriani and Vaccari, 2016).”
Nudge Effect of Fact-Check Alerts: Source Influence and Media Skepticism on Sharing of News Misinformation in Social Media (2020, background): “This finding is more ecologically valid if we consider that users are typically more unlikely to share news received on social media to begin with due to the prevalence of incidental exposure to a wide spectrum of news on the platform (Karnowski et al., 2017; Y. Kim et al., 2013).”