The Dynamics of Audience Fragmentation: Public Attention in an Age of Digital Media
By James G. Webster, Thomas Ksiazek. 2012
562 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Confirmation biases in selective exposure to political online information: Source bias vs. content bias (2017, background): “This accounts for the continued relative dominance of mainstream news sources despite the proliferation of niche and partisan news outlets (Webster & Ksiazek, 2012).”
- Curated Flows: A Framework for Mapping Media Exposure in the Digital Age (2016, background): “…has offered the potential to reconsider how information sources are interconnected and how individuals as actors are situated within living social and informational networks (e.g., Adamic & Glance, 2005; Himelboim et al., 2013; Papacharissi & de Fatima Oliveira, 2012; Webster & Ksiazek, 2012).”
- Do High-Choice Media Environments Facilitate News Avoidance? A Longitudinal Study 1997–2016 (2020, background): “…and infrastructural legacies 8Importantly, behavior can also influence preferences (Ariely & Norton, 2008; Slovic, 1995). for online news could influence media choice and constrain the influence of individual preferences (Taneja et al., 2018; see also Ksiazek et al., 2010; Webster & Ksiazek, 2012).”
- Nathaniel Persily e Joshua A. Tucker (a cura di). Social Media and Democracy. The State of the Field, Prospects for Reform (2021, background): “First, despite the explosive growth in the number of sources available and the gradual erosion ofmany traditional mass audiences, empirical research suggests that the audiences of the most popular news outlets tend to overlap with one another (Webster and Ksiazek 2012; Fletcher and Nielsen 2017).”