Tuning Out (Political and Science) News? A Selective Exposure Study of the News Finds Me Perception

IF 4.9 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Communication Research Pub Date : 2023-12-05 DOI:10.1177/00936502231215528

Chris Skurka, Mengqi Liao, Homero Gil de Zúñiga

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Abstract

Individuals harboring perceptions that the “news will find me” (NFM) tend to be less active consuming traditional media, preferring news online and on social media. NFM has also been linked with lower political knowledge and political participation over time. What remains to be seen, however, is whether high-NFM individuals are in fact less likely to expose themselves to news once they do encounter it online. This preregistered study fills this gap in the literature by unobtrusively logging selection behaviors while U.S. adults browsed a mock news website featuring various hard and soft news stories. Consistent with our hypothesizing, NFM was associated with greater exposure to soft news. Additionally, we examined whether genre-specific NFM beliefs would predict less exposure to those news genres. We found support for this hypothesis in the context of science news, but for political news, this relationship depended on the news stories presented.

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屏蔽（政治和科学）新闻？新闻选择性接触研究发现我的观念

认为“新闻会找到我”(NFM)的人往往不太积极地消费传统媒体，更喜欢在线和社交媒体上的新闻。随着时间的推移，NFM还与较低的政治知识和政治参与有关。然而，还有待观察的是，高nfm个体是否真的不太可能在网上看到新闻。这项预先注册的研究填补了这一文献空白，在美国成年人浏览一个模拟新闻网站时，不引人注目地记录了选择行为，其中包括各种硬新闻和软新闻故事。与我们的假设一致，NFM与更多的软新闻曝光有关。此外，我们还研究了特定类型的NFM信念是否会减少对这些新闻类型的曝光。我们在科学新闻的背景下发现了对这一假设的支持，但对于政治新闻，这种关系取决于所呈现的新闻故事。

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Communication Research COMMUNICATION-

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期刊介绍： Empirical research in communication began in the 20th century, and there are more researchers pursuing answers to communication questions today than at any other time. The editorial goal of Communication Research is to offer a special opportunity for reflection and change in the new millennium. To qualify for publication, research should, first, be explicitly tied to some form of communication; second, be theoretically driven with results that inform theory; third, use the most rigorous empirical methods; and fourth, be directly linked to the most important problems and issues facing humankind. Critieria do not privilege any particular context; indeed, we believe that the key problems facing humankind occur in close relationships, groups, organiations, and cultures.