Politically Motivated Reinforcement Seeking: Reframing the Selective Exposure Debate
Politically Motivated Reinforcement Seeking: Reframing the Selective Exposure Debate
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1460-2466.2009.01452.x
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发表时间：
2009-12-01
影响因子：
7.9
通讯作者：
Garrett, R. Kelly
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作者：
Garrett, R. Kelly
这篇文章试图通过证明人们在没有系统地避免舆论挑战的情况下，表现出对强化舆论的政治信息的偏好，来重新构建选择性曝光辩论。这一结果是基于2004年美国总统大选前进行的全国随机数字拨号电话调查(n=1,510)收集的数据。分析表明，美国人利用在线信息源提供的控制权，在不牺牲与其他观点接触的情况下，增加对与自己观点一致的观点的接触。这一观察结果与通常的假设相矛盾，即强化寻求和挑战回避是选择性暴露现象的内在联系。这一区别很重要，因为回避挑战的后果比寻求强化的后果对民主审议的伤害要大得多。
This article seeks to reframe the selective exposure debate by demonstrating that people exhibit a preference for opinion-reinforcing political information without systematically avoiding opinion challenges. The results are based on data collected in a national random-digit-dial telephone survey (n = 1,510) conducted prior to the 2004 U.S. presidential election. Analyses show that Americans use the control afforded by online information sources to increase their exposure to opinions consistent with their own views without sacrificing contact with other opinions. This observation contradicts the common assumption that reinforcement seeking and challenge avoidance are intrinsically linked aspects of the selective exposure phenomenon. This distinction is important because the consequences of challenge avoidance are significantly more harmful to democratic deliberation than those of reinforcement seeking.