Are people incidentally exposed to news on social media? A comparative analysis

By Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen. New Media & Society, 2018

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Filter bubble (2019, background): “…are unlikely to drive filter bubble tendencies: indeed, research using the survey data gathered for the Digital News Report has shown that “those who are incidentally exposed to news on social media use more different sources of online news than non-users” (Fletcher & Nielsen, 2018, p. 2459).”
Nathaniel Persily e Joshua A. Tucker (a cura di). Social Media and Democracy. The State of the Field, Prospects for Reform (2021, background): “…would be associated with a narrowing of news diets where people are only fed more of the same, in fact most empirical research finds use of social media and search engines associated with more diverse news use (Flaxman, Goel, and Rao 2016; Dubois and Blank 2018; Fletcher and Nielsen 2018a).”
The causes and consequences of COVID-19 misperceptions: Understanding the role of news and social media (2020, background): “Even if users are not nested in networks that propagate misinformation, they are likely to be incidentally exposed to information from a variety of perspectives (Feezell, 2018; Fletcher & Nielsen, 2018; Weeks et al., 2017).”
“News comes across when I’m in a moment of leisure”: Understanding the practices of incidental news consumption on social media (2018, background): “…has triggered more interest on incidental news due to the realization of an uptake in exposure to current events information as a by-product of using these platforms (Boczkowski et al., 2017; Fletcher and Nielsen, 2018; Gil de Zúñiga et al., 2017; Oeldorf-Hirsch, 2018; Valeriani and Vaccari, 2016).”
Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2019 (2019, background): “The number of news brands used can be explained by the very high use of social media platforms for news in Greece, a behaviour that has been linked to incidental exposure to news sources (Fletcher and Nielsen 2018).”