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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"News consumption"”.
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Social media sharing and online news consumption
… between social media sharing and online content consumption. The potential of this feedback loop is critical to marketers, publishers, politicians, and beyond. However, identifying causal effects in this context is very difficult. The data requirements are quite demanding, calling for data from …
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TRACING NEWS ON TWITTER: FORCES SHAPING NEWS CONSUMPTION AND PERCEPTIONS IN GULF COUNTRY MEDIA SYSTEMS
In the news media environment, the systemic relationship between the media and public is reflexive, where the media shape public life and vice versa. This dissertation centers on explaining the relationship between the media environment and news consumers in media systems in five countries that …
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A system for bridging the ideological divide by establishing a moral framework for news consumption
… to primarily homogeneous perspectives and news sources. However, diversity in news consumption is important: it creates more informed societies, healthier democracies, and more solid understandings of one's own beliefs. In this thesis, we propose Pano - a system for bridging the ideological …
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I saw it on social media: Public opinion on race, crime, and immigration in the era of social media news consumption
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 117259 Lift date: 2023-03-05T21:45:47Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system
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Understanding the Role of Emotions in Mediated Intergroup Threat: A Cultivation and Appraisal Theory Approach
… racial minorities. Overall daily television consumption was associated with experiencing anxiety-related emotions and distrust-related emotions toward Blacks. Television news consumption was associated with experiencing anger towards Blacks. Overall daily television consumption was associated …
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Algorithms vs. Human Nature: A Tale of Selective Exposure
<p>The public’s turn towards news websites and social media for news consumption has sparked anxiety over echo chambers, avoidance of opinion-challenging content, and potentially fragmentation and polarization among sociopolitical groups. Algorithms have specifically been blamed for increasing the …
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Woke : internet news and social media on recent attitudes towards police use of force
… OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] News media has long featured high-profile incidents of police use of force; however, exposure to these incidents may be increasing because of the accessibility of smartphones, social media, and Internet news. Police are concerned about the impact …
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Assessing determinants of customer loyalty in an online news service context
News consumption has become a central aspect of everyday life in modern societies and in recent years online news websites have become an increasingly popular source. This thesis examines online news consumption and customer loyalty to online news websites. Using the underlying theoretical …
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What does it all meme? : a look into gender stereotypes and traits in the 2016 presidential primary campaign.
… added to the new paradigm of American political news consumption. Along with framing theory, the researcher used feminist communications and media theories to analyze the 2016 presidential election and Democratic primary candidates, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, as well Republican primary …
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Shifting Trust: How Generation Z Canadians Determine Trust and Credibility in Online News and Information
Amidst a declining global trust in news media, this research focuses on the unique media consumption habits and skepticism of this digitally native cohort in Canada. Utilizing semi-structured, qualitative, smart device, content elicitation interviews, the study provides insight into the thought …
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Readers’ Perceptions of Newsworthiness and Bias as Factors in Participation with Digital News Content
<p>Audience participation with digital news content has become a central feature of news consumption. These participatory news behaviors – commenting on, sharing, and “liking” news stories – have implications for both newsreaders and producers of news. This dissertation tests a structural model of …
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Hyperpartisanship in Web Searched Articles
News consumption is primarily done through online news media outlets and social media. There has been a recent rise in both fake news generation, and consumption. Fake news refers to articles that deliberately contain false information to influence readers. Substantial dissemination of …
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PATHWAYS TO DEMOCRATIC CITIZENSHIP: THE MEDIATING ROLES OF DELIBERATION AND POLITICAL EFFICACY IN THE EFFECTS OF OLD AND NEW MEDIA USE ON POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN SOUTH KOREA
… such as political conversation and reflection on news played an important role in citizens' political life. This study explores how political efficacy and deliberation jointly affect the pathway that connects news consumption with political participation, drawing on prior political communication …
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Essays on Political Economy
… explaining individuals' preferences for biased news. I design and conduct a field experiment on Twitter to identify this effect and its potential mechanisms. The chapter demonstrates one mechanism through which social media can attenuate the demand for polarizing content: as these platforms …
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Experiential Journalism: Presence, Emotion, and Sharing Behaviors in News Delivered by Virtual Reality, Television, and Internet in Korea and the United States
… dissertation aimed to test VR’s capability as a news medium compared to TV and Web. Second, this research attempted to identify differences in Koreans and the U.S. respondents to VR news, TV news, and Web news. Third, this formulated a theoretical model regarding media user’s news information …
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Emerging political conflicts and the role of personality
… personality may also moderate the effects of news consumption. Finally, personality may directly drive levels of hostility. While I did not find evidence of a moderation effect, personality traits were found to both influence media selection and directly impact levels of affective polarization …
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The Production and Consumption Practices of Online Journalism in Digital Taiwan.
… study which investigates the production and consumption practices of online journalism in Taiwan. Two key questions are asked: how is online journalism practised in the domain of production and consumption and how is online news culture shaped or constituted through these practices? Distinct …
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Perceptions and Content of Traditional and Online News: an analysis of Bias in Indian Media
… a survey (analysis of their perceptions on news received from their preferred news sources) and the other, analysis of media published by the media content providers. Another research contribution of this study was that it included an analysis of the mode of media consumption, i.e., how the …
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The Social Cognition of Misinformation and Implications for Psychological Interventions
… on source effects, demonstrating that news consumers are more susceptible to misinformation from (real) politically aligned media outlets, with this effect mediated via perceived source credibility. Chapter 3 presents a two-by-two experiment that demonstrates the causal impact of both …
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Misinformation, Persuasion, and News Media on Social Networks
… media platforms have become a popular source of news and information for a large segment of society. Users can receive information, share digital content, or attend to online publishers for the latest news. However, the recent proliferation of misinformation has affected people’s perception of …
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