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This preregistered project examines news exposure effects on desirable outcomes (political knowledge, participation, support for compromise) and detrimental outcomes (attitude and affective polarization, negative system perceptions, worsened well-being). Two over-time experiments combining survey self-reports and behavioral browsing data were conducted: one incentivizing a 'news vacation' (N=803) in the US, the other 'news binging' (N=939) in Poland. Results show that reducing or increasing news exposure has no impact on the tested outcomes, irrespective of participants' prior news consumption and compliance levels. These null effects are argued to reflect the limited news exposure in the real world, averaging roughly 3% of citizens' online information diet.
Publisher
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Published On
Nov 18, 2022
Authors
Magdalena Wojcieszak, Bernhard Clemm von Hohenberg, Andreu Casas, Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Sjifra de Leeuw, Alexandre Gonçalves, Miriam Boon
Tags
news exposure
political knowledge
participation
affective polarization
well-being
experiment
behavioral browsing

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