Increased Media Choice and Political Knowledge Gaps
A Comparative Longitudinal Study of 18 Established Democracies 1995-2015
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 6335092 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Atle Haugsgjerd (0000-0002-7647-5817, Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway), Stine Hesstvedt (0000-0001-5566-2720, Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway), Rune Karlsen (0000-0002-4509-1896, University of Oslo) |
| Ano | 2021 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Fascículo | 6 |
| Páginas | 731-750 |
| Data de publicação | 2021-11-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Political Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 1058-4609 • E-ISSN: 1091-7675 |
| Editora | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10584609.2020.1868633 |
| OpenAlex | W3124486076 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 13 |
| Referências citadas | 65 |
We investigate the often-stated, but disputed claim in the political science and political communication literature that increasing media choice widens inequalities in political knowledge. The assumption is that in a high-choice media environment, the politically interested will consume more news while the uninterested will avoid such content, leading, in turn, to widening differences in political knowledge. Although previous studies show that high media choice increases political knowledge gaps in the United States, comparative longitudinal evidence is currently lacking. To fill this gap, we draw on data from four rounds of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems. Overall, we do not find general support for the high-choice knowledge gap thesis. In most countries, there is no indication that inequality in political knowledge has increased over time. Building on recent insights from political communication research, we question key assumptions of the high choice knowledge gap thesis
Demographic economics · Economics · Gender gap · Inequality · Political communication · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Public relations · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Media Influence and Politics · Social Media and Politics
The Knowledge Gap in a High-Choice Media Environment
Black issue publics online
News “Attraction” and Digital Inequalities
Inequalities in Offline and Online News Media Environments Across Six Countries
Patterns of (de)politicization in times of crisis
Election Campaigns, News Consumption Gaps, and Social Media
The power of alignment
Transitions to nowhere
Television and the Mainstreaming of Political Attitudes
Campaña electoral andaluza 2022
Polarisering og opinionsdynamikker i den digitale offentligheten
The Impact of Increased Learning Opportunities on Political Knowledge
Objective socioeconomic status, subjective social status and the digital usage divide
What Americans know about politics and why it matters
Hooked
Comparing Media Systems
How Media Inform Democracy
The Hybrid Media System
Networks, Crowds, and Markets
Fixed Effects Regression Models
Post-Broadcast Democracy
The Marketplace of Attention
Common Knowledge
News-seekers and Avoiders
Cross‐National versus Individual‐Level Differences in Political Information
Personal Influence
Do High-Choice Media Environments Facilitate News Avoidance? A Longitudinal Study 1997–2016
Beneath the Veneer of Fragmentation
How Do Global Audiences Take Shape? The Role of Institutions and Culture in Patterns of Web Use
Deconstructing the Diversity Principle
The Dynamics of Audience Fragmentation
Are News Audiences Increasingly Fragmented? A Cross-National Comparative Analysis of Cross-Platform News Audience Fragmentation and Duplication
Personal Influence. The Part Played by the People in the Flow of Mass Communication
Multilevel Analysis
Democracy for Realists
Exposure Diversity Reconsidered
Not All News Sources Are Equally Informative
Media Choice and Informed Democracy
Media Systems and the Political Information Environment
Rethinking the generational gap in online news use
Are people incidentally exposed to news on social media? A comparative analysis
Want to be on the top? Algorithmic power and the threat of invisibility on Facebook
Media consumption across platforms
The Dynamics of Political Interest and News Media Consumption
Followers are opinion leaders
Do information-rich contexts reduce knowledge inequalities? The contextual determinants of political knowledge in Europe
Sorting your way out
Cross-National Variation in the Political Sophistication of Individuals
Context and Political Knowledge
Tuning out the World of News and Current Affairs--An Empirical Study of Europe's Disconnected Citizens
The third age of political communication
Media System, Public Knowledge and Democracy
Attracting the news
Do voters learn? Evidence that voters respond accurately to changes in political parties’ policy positions
The Knowledge Gap
Mass Media Flow and Differential Growth in Knowledge
The Third Age of Political Communication
Effective” Number of Parties
The Quantity and the Quality of Party Systems
Citizens, Knowledge, and the Information Environment
Uninformed Votes
The Hostile Audience
Knowing More from Less
Auntie Knows Best? Public Broadcasters and Current Affairs Knowledge
The Origins and Consequences of Affective Polarization in the United States
Political communication in a high-choice media environment
Does the Digital Divide Matter More? Comparing the Effects of New Media and Old Media Use on the Education-Based Knowledge Gap
Explaining political sophistication
Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election
The Question(s) of Political Knowledge
| Obras citantes distintas | 13 |
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| Citações por ano | 3,25 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Velocidade de citação | current |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 12 |