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Effects of Lead Framing on Selective Exposure to Internet News Reports
Abstract
With headlines and texts held constant, the subheads of articles embedded in an Internet newsmagazine were manipulated in an overview from which articles could be selected. In a control condition, the lead, indicating deplorable happenings,was framed in a factual manner.In the other conditions,the leads were framed either in terms of conflict between feuding parties, the unfolding of disastrous occurrences, the emotional upheaval and agony suffered by the victims of these occurrences, or the economic implications of the incidents. Selective exposure to the articles was accumulated in minute intervals and automatically recorded. Leads projecting aggravated conflict or the agony over suffered misfortunes were found to foster increased reading times of the associated articles. The effects of highlighting misfortunes by themselves or of emphasizing the misfortunes’ economic implications proved to be negligible, however.
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- Authors
- Zillmann, D., Chen, L., Knobloch, S., & Callison, C.
- Affiliations
- University of Alabama (US)
- University of Michigan (US)
- Texas Tech University (US)
- ORCID
- Callison, Coy
- Venue
- Communication Research
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2004-02
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 58-81
- ISSN
- 0093-6502 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-3810
- OpenAlex
- W2149701905
- Cited by
- 144
- References
- 36
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 14.39
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Communication Research (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Communication › News Media Framing and Political Communication
- Social Sciences › Communication › Journalism and Media Studies
- Social Sciences › Communication › Media Influence and Health
- Keywords
- news framing, selective exposure, online news, news magazines, article selection, reading time, conflict framing, emotional framing, economic framing, disaster news
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