Selective exposure in different political information environments - How media fragmentation and polarization shape congruent news use.

ABSTRACT: Previous research posits that individual predispositions play an essential role in explaining patterns of selective exposure to political information. Yet the contextual factors in the political information environment have received far less attention. Using a cross-national and quasi-experimental design, this article is one of the first to investigate how political information environments shape selective exposure. We rely on a unique two-wave online survey quasi-experiment in five countries (Switzerland, Denmark, Italy, Poland and the United States) with 4349 participants to test the propositions that (a) the level of polarization and fragmentation in information environments and (b) the type of media source used affect selective exposure. Our results reveal that selective exposure is sl

SUBMITTER: Steppat D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8958559 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature