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Echo chambers online?: Politically motivated selective exposure among Internet news users
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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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“Homophily in communication, the tendency of people to communicate with others having similar beliefs, is understood to lead to the formation of echo chambers which reinforce individual beliefs and fuel further increase in polarization.”
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“For example, homophily among liberals and conservatives in political blogs links (Adamic and Glance, 2005), i.e., the tendency of liberal and conservative blogs to link primarily within their separate communities, leads to echo chambers (Jasny et al., 2015;Garrett, 2009;Flaxman et al., 2016), and hence beliefs can be polarized due to such exposure to selective information (Bakshy et al., 2015).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Garrett, R. K.
- Affiliations
- The Ohio State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Garrett, R. Kelly
- ORCID
- Garrett, R. Kelly
- Venue
- Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2009-01
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 265-285
- ISSN
- 1083-6101 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2137809006
- Cited by
- 1,040
- References
- 27
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- FWCI
- 45.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Media Influence and Politics
- Social Sciences › Communication › Social Media and Politics
- Social Sciences › Communication › News Media Framing and Political Communication
- Keywords
- selective exposure, echo chambers, online news, political information, political polarization, news avoidance
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