The Immensely Inflated News Audience: Assessing Bias in Self-Reported News Exposure

By Markus Prior. 2009

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Who stereotypes female candidates? Identifying individual differences in feminine stereotype reliance (2015, background): “There is some debate in the literature about the utility of news attention given the tendency of participants to overestimate how frequently they follow the news (Price and Zaller 1993; Prior 2009; Dilliplane, Goldman, and Mutz 2013).”
Personality Traits and the Consumption of Political Information (2011, background): “As Prior (2009a, 2009b) and others have noted, respondent recall of media con- sumption is often biased (i.e., respondents over report media exposure).”
The Dynamics of Audience Fragmentation: Public Attention in an Age of Digital Media (2012, unknown): “Such metered data are widely considered more accurate than techniques that depend on respondent recall (e.g., Prior, 2009).”
Civic (Re)socialisation: The Educative Effects of Deliberative Participation (2015, background): “…showed that 10 per cent of respondents reported voting when they had not (Belli, Traugott and Beckmann, 2001), and comparisons of National Annenberg Election Survey respondents and Nielson ratings suggest that study participants are also likely to over-report tuning into network news (Prior, 2009).”
The Challenge of Measuring Media Exposure: Reply to Dilliplane, Goldman, and Mutz (2013, methodology): “And analyses of convergent validity in single-member households show overreporting of news exposure at a similar rate as in multi-member households (Prior, 2009a).”
Partisan Provocation: The Role of Partisan News Use and Emotional Responses in Political Information Sharing in Social Media (2016, result): “First, this study relied on self-reported data, and may have over- or underestimated the actual news consumption of individuals or their sharing behavior (Prior, 2009).”
Anxiety, Immigration, and the Search for Information (2014, background): “Self-reports are not always reliable reflections of behavior and tend to overestimate media exposure by large magnitudes (Prior, 2009; Zaller, 2002).”
The Reliability and Temporal Stability of Self-reported Media Exposure: A Meta-analysis (2019, methodology): “The mildly regulating default priors provided by brms were used, and the results are based on 4,000 posterior draws. Following the recommendations by the Stan Development Team (2017), I report 90% credible intervals, specifically highest posterior density intervals (HDI), for the quantities of inter”
Improving Media Effects Research through Better Measurement of News Exposure (2009, background): “(For details, see note to Figure 1 and Prior, 2009.)”
Are people incidentally exposed to news on social media? A comparative analysis (2018, background): “Finally, as with all surveys of media use, reliance on recall means that the data may not always provide a completely accurate picture of people’s actual news media use (Prior, 2009).”
The Accuracy of Self-Reported Internet Use—A Validation Study Using Client Log Data (2016, background): “These findings are consistent with previous studies on self-reports of television news exposure (Prior, 2009b) or mobile phone use (Abeele et al., 2013; Boase & Ling, 2013).”
Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election (2017, background): “Our survey-based recall measure excludes stories that users saw but did not remember, and may be subject to other biases associated with survey-based estimates of media exposure (Bartels 1993; Prior 2009; Guess 2015).”