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- Title
Partisan media effects beyond one-shot experimental designs.
- Authors
Searles, Kathleen; Darr, Joshua P.; Sui, Mingxiao; Kalmoe, Nathan; Pingree, Raymond; Watson, Brian
- Abstract
Previous study demonstrates that partisans perceive in-party news outlets as fair, and out-party news outlets as unfair. However, much of this study relies on one-shot designs. We create an ecologically valid design that randomly assigns participants to news feeds within a week-long online news portal where the balance of in-party and out-party news outlets has been manipulated. We find that sustained exposure to a feed that features out-party news media attenuates Democrats' beliefs that Fox News is unfair, but the same is not true for Republican's perceptions of MSNBC's fairness. Unexpectedly, repeated exposure to in-party news did increase Republicans' beliefs that Fox News is unfair. This study updates our understanding of partisan news effects in a fragmented online news environment.
- Subjects
EXPERIMENTAL design; FOX News
- Publication
Political Science Research & Methods, 2022, Vol 10, Issue 1, p206
- ISSN
2049-8470
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/psrm.2021.21