The impact of individual and interpersonal factors on perceived news media bias

被引:152
作者
Eveland, WP
Shah, DV
机构
[1] Ohio State Univ, Sch Journalism & Commun, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[2] Univ Wisconsin, Sch Journalism & Mass Commun, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[3] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Polit Sci, Madison, WI 53706 USA
关键词
hostile-media phenomenon; media credibility; media bias; interpersonal networks; biased sampling; spiral of silence;
D O I
10.1111/0162-895X.00318
中图分类号
D0 [政治学、政治理论];
学科分类号
0302 ; 030201 ;
摘要
A large percentage of the public believes that the news media are biased, and the majority of these individuals consider the direction of bias to be against their own viewpoints. Past research has examined how individual factors such as strength of partisanship or extent of political involvement heighten bias perceptions, but little attention has been paid to interpersonal factors such as the ideological similarity or dissimilarity of personal communication networks. Results of a national survey show that perceptions of media bias were unrelated to the overall amount of discussion but were positively related to conversations with ideologically like-minded individuals. Moreover the impact of conversations with similar others was stronger among Republicans than among Democrats, a finding consistent with recent work on news self-coverage of media bias claims.
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页码:101 / 117
页数:17
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