Echo chambers online?: Politically motivated selective exposure among Internet news users

被引：585
作者：
Garrett, R. Kelly [1 ]
机构：
[1] Ohio State Univ, Sch Commun, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
来源：
JOURNAL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION | 2009年 / 14卷 / 02期
关键词：
online news; echo chambers; selective exposure; political communication; BIASED ASSIMILATION; INFORMATION; KNOWLEDGE; MEDIA;
D O I：
10.1111/j.1083-6101.2009.01440.x
中图分类号：
G2 [信息与知识传播];
学科分类号：
05 ; 0503 ;
摘要：
A review of research suggests that the desire for opinion reinforcement may play a more important role in shaping individuals' exposure to online political information than an aversion to opinion challenge. The article tests this idea using data collected via a web-administered behavior-tracking study with subjects recruited from the readership of 2 partisan online news sites (N = 727). The results demonstrate that opinion-reinforcing information promotes news story exposure while opinion-challenging information makes exposure only marginally less likely. The influence of both factors is modest, but opinion-reinforcing information is a more important predictor. Having decided to view a news story, evidence of an aversion to opinion challenges disappears: There is no evidence that individuals abandon news stories that contain information with which they disagree. Implications and directions for future research are discussed.
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页数：21
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