Conceptualizing different forms of news processing following incidental news contact

A triple-path model

Bibliographic Data

ID7477229
AuthorsMareike Wieland (0000-0002-3269-2318, Universität Hamburg, corresponding author), Katharina Kleinen-Von Königslöw (Universität Hamburg), Katharina Kleinen‐von Königslöw (0000-0001-7700-9829, Universität Hamburg)
Year2020
Volume21
Issue8
Pages1049-1066
Publication date2020-04-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournalism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-8849 • E-ISSN: 1741-3001
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1464884920915353
OpenAlexW3020629000
LanguageEN
Citations received34
References cited51

Research on incidental news exposure in the context of social media focuses on ‘successful’ incidental news exposure – when unintended news contacts result in active engagement and knowledge gains. However, we lack both theoretical and empirical approaches to the far more likely case that people keep on scrolling through their newsfeed without any post triggering active engagement. To fill this gap, the article conceptualizes a triple-path model of incidental news exposure on social media as a process. Building upon the Cognitive Mediation Model, dual system theories on information processing and recent empirical findings, three different pathways of incidental news processing are identified: automatic, incidental and active. The triple-path model thus allows to theorize the learning potentials that can plausibly be expected from each incidental news exposure path as a starting point for future research

Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Context (archaeology · Mediation · Path (computing · Scrolling · Social media · Sociology · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Artificial Intelligence · Social Psychology

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