Commentary: Online News and the Demise of Political Disagreement
Commentary: Online News and the Demise of Political Disagreement
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评论：网络新闻与政治分歧的消亡
DOI：
10.1080/23808985.2013.11679125
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发表时间：
2013
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通讯作者：
Matthew C. Nisbet
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作者：
Dietram A. Scheufele;Matthew C. Nisbet
Information processing is never free of partisan biases. We know from decades of research in social psychology, political science, sociology, and communication that our values and ideological predispositions infl uence how much bias we see in media reports (Vallone, Ross, & Lepper, 1985), how willing or likely we are to attend to particular stories (Donsbach, 1991), and, maybe most importantly, how we interpret seemingly objective pieces of information differentially, depending on our personal value systems (Brossard, Scheufele, Kim, & Lewenstein, 2009; Ho, Brossard, & Scheufele, 2008; Kunda, 1990; Nisbet, 2005). But why are we concerned about selectivity? In many ways, selectively attending to some messages over others, based on perceptions of source credibility, ideological congruence, or issue-specifi c interest, is what enables us to effi ciently sift through large amounts of information. But as Donsbach and Mothes outline in their chapter, the notion of selectively attending to or discounting information, based on ideological or value-based predispositions, is also directly at odds with normative views of democratic citizenship.
