Selective exposure to populist communication
| Autor: | Linda Bos, Michael Hameleers, C.H. de Vreese |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Political Communication & Journalism (ASCoR, FMG) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
Linguistics and Language
Communication media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050801 communication & media studies medicine.disease_cause Language and Linguistics 0506 political science Populism Blame 0508 media and communications Feeling Extant taxon 050602 political science & public administration medicine Attribution Relative deprivation Psychology Social psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Communication, 68(1), 51-74. Wiley-Blackwell |
| ISSN: | 0021-9916 |
| Popis: | Although it has been argued that populist communication only appeals to a specific audience, extant research has exclusively studied the effects of populist communication in forced-exposure media environments. Responding to this discrepancy, we conducted two experiments (N = 562 and N = 558) in which we manipulated the core idea of populist messages—attributing blame—in forced and selective exposure media environments. Our results demonstrate that citizens higher in relative deprivation are most likely to select populist messages. Irrespective of selective exposure, citizens’ populist attitudes are only positively affected if the populist message is congruent with their prior feelings of relative deprivation. These results provide important insights for the polarizing potential of media populism in a fragmented media environment. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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