Reinforcing Spirals: The Mutual Influence of Media Selectivity and Media Effects and Their Impact on Individual Behavior and Social Identity

By Michael D. Slater. 2007

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Subfields: Communication, Gender Studies

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Political Polarization on the Digital Sphere: A Cross-platform, Over-time Analysis of Interactional, Positional, and Affective Polarization on Social Media (2020, background): “Confirmed time and again in homophilic interactions (Slater, 2007), users’ prior beliefs may be increasingly removed from possible doubt or reservation (Lerman et al., 2016), eroding their tolerance of competing views.”
Do Mass Mediated Stereotypes Harm Members of Negatively Stereotyped Groups? A Meta-Analytical Review on Media-Generated Stereotype Threat and Stereotype Lift (2017, background): “Although our meta-analysis could not capture the complex interplay between media effects and media exposure (cf. Slater, 2007, 2015), we believe our work provides an important contribution to assessing the validity of the stereotype threat framework.”
Emotions, Partisanship, and Misperceptions: How Anger and Anxiety Moderate the Effect of Partisan Bias on Susceptibility to Political Misinformation (2015, background): “Anger therefore has the potential to create media diets in which people are primarily exposed to like-minded messages, which may further enhance anger directed at political opponents (Slater, 2007).”
Adolescents' Exposure to Sexually Explicit Internet Material and Notions of Women as Sex Objects: Assessing Causality and Underlying Processes (2009, methodology): “Although such a 3O-S-O-R model seems complex at first glance, it is supported by recent integrative accounts of media effects (e.g., Slater, 2007).”
Love me Tinder: Untangling emerging adults' motivations for using the dating application Tinder (2017, neutral): “First, theory on media use and effects highlights that in-depth knowledge on motivations for media use is necessary to truly understand why individuals choose to consume a particular medium (Nabi & Krcmar, 2004; Slater, 2007; So, 2012).”
Mass Media Effects on Youth Sexual Behavior Assessing the Claim for Causality (2011, background): “As this was a two-wave panel study and three waves of panel data are required to truly assess reciprocal causation (Slater, 2007), additional research is needed to formally test this hypothesis.”
The Reliability and Temporal Stability of Self-reported Media Exposure: A Meta-analysis (2019, background): “The stability of media exposure is an important boundary condition for many contemporary theories of media effects, most notably the reinforcing spirals model (Slater, 2007, 2015).”
Differential Susceptibility to Media Effects Model (2013, background): “theories focus predominantly on one type of indirect effects, for example on our indirect effects type I, in which media use is conceptualized as a mediator (e.g., Klapper, 1960; Slater, 2007).”
Partisan Provocation: The Role of Partisan News Use and Emotional Responses in Political Information Sharing in Social Media (2016, background): “Nonetheless, future research should attempt to track behavioral data that examines both media use and information sharing in order to better understand this relationship, or extend panel data to test for the possibility that partisan news use and emotions create a reinforcing spiral (Slater, 2007).”
Exploring the Causes and Consequences of Engaging in Fat Talk (2012, background): “Longer-term longitudinal designs will assist efforts to capture the effects of engaging in fat talk over time (Slater, 2007).”
The head and heart of news avoidance: How attitudes about the news media relate to levels of news consumption (2021, background): “Moreover, a spiral of reinforcing influence (Slater, 2007) among the relationships identified is also a possibility.”
Older and Newer Media: Patterns of Use and Effects on Adolescents' Health and Well-Being. (2011, background): “The second significant theoretical contribution of the past decade is the Model of Reinforcing Spirals (Slater, 2007).”
Implications of Pro- and Counterattitudinal Information Exposure for Affective Polarization (2014, background): “Slater (2007) has argued that selective exposure to identity-relevant media reinforces social identity (Slater, 2007); indeed, greater selective exposure to attitude-consistent messages has been shown to activate the political self-concept (Knobloch-Westerwick, 2012).”
Social Media Effects on Young Women’s Body Image Concerns: Theoretical Perspectives and an Agenda for Research (2014, background): “Contemporary theoretical perspectives emphasize that media effects involve a complex transaction between media content and what the individual brings to media, in terms of needs, personality factors, and social situational constraints (Slater 2007; Valkenburg and Peter 2013a, b).”