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5 results

  • Partisan media effects beyond one-shot experimental designs

  • Kathleen Searles, Joshua P. Darr, Mingxiao Sui, Nathan Kalmoe, Raymond Pingree, Brian Watson
  • Journal:
    Political Science Research and Methods / Volume 10 / Issue 1 / January 2022
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 June 2021, pp. 206-214

  • 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.

  • 5 - Election News during Wartime

  • from Part II - Ballots in a Partisan Civil War
  • Nathan P. Kalmoe, Louisiana State University
  • Book:
    With Ballots and Bullets
    Published online:
    20 October 2020
    Print publication:
    30 July 2020, pp 107-134

  • Summary

    Chapter 5’s newspaper analysis shows how partisan editors and correspondents reinforced and polarized partisan voters in how they framed the war’s progress, its racial implications, and electoral implications of the dead. For example, Democratic and Republican papers were equally likely to mention Union casualties, but anti-war Democratic papers framed deaths as senseless losses in a hopeless, misguided cause, while Republican papers framed them as heroic martyrs whose deaths required a redoubled devotion to victory. Democrats explicitly tied the dead to vote choice far more than Republicans did.

  • 3 - The Press Goes to War

  • from Part I - Mobilizing Partisan Warfare
  • Nathan P. Kalmoe, Louisiana State University
  • Book:
    With Ballots and Bullets
    Published online:
    20 October 2020
    Print publication:
    30 July 2020, pp 53-74

  • Summary

    Chapter 3 shows how polarized elites guided partisan followers on the war and its elections with nationally representative content analysis from 24 newspapers in the loyal states. I find large partisan gaps in war support, enlistment advocacy, and rhetoric that rationalized support and direct participation in the war’s violence. The newspapers also show extreme partisan vilification within the North, which helps support my claim that partisanship defined contentious Civil War politics, beyond the primary partisan violence inaugurated by the rebellion.

  • Subduing attitude polarization?: How partisan news may not affect attitude polarization for online publics

  • Eulàlia P. Abril
  • Journal:
    Politics and the Life Sciences / Volume 37 / Issue 1 / Spring 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 May 2018, pp. 68-77

  • Researchers have sought to understand the effects of like-minded versus contrary news exposure on attitude polarization, which can be a threat to democracy. The online news environment offers opportunities for exposure to both types of news, albeit unequally. This study tests the effects of exposure to heterogeneous partisan news bundles (both like-minded and contrary news) on attitude polarization. Because media exposure can lead to bias, attitude polarization is tested as a direct and indirect effect via hostile media perceptions. Data in this study are from a between-subjects experimental design about the issue of assisted suicide. Results indicate that even though the effect of the partisan news bundle on hostile media perceptions is significant, both direct and indirect effects on attitude polarization are null.