The third speaker in this ICA 2024 conference session is Jisoo Kim, whose focus is on perceived polarisation in the United States. Such perceived polarisation refers to perceptions of other political groups’ positioning in comparison to one’s own, and may be moderated by political communication across political boundaries.
Patterns may further depend on the specific issues being discussed, and the focus of this paper is especially on foreign policy debates in the US, which may or may not be less politicised – at the moment, for instance, Democrats and Republicans are drifting apart in their attitudes about military aid to …
The next speaker in this ICA 2024 conference session is Isabella Glogger, whose interest is in reinforcing relationships between political identities and alternative news consumption. The focus here is especially on Sweden, where alternative media use has been on the rise especially on the right wing of politics, and has been connected with more pessimistic viewpoints on a variety of societal issues, especially also on climate change. Selective exposure tendencies have also been observed here, potentially generating more societal polarisation.
This is captured in the Reinforcing Spiral Model, which assumes that media effects and selective exposure are interconnected processes that …
It’s Friday morning and I’m in a casino on the Gold Coast of Queensland, so this must be the start of the ICA 2024 conference. I’m in a session on polarisation, and we start with a paper by Minchul Kim on the prediction of partisan media exposure through attitudes towards news brands. The interest here is in the United States, where the assumption is that partisan exposure might result in widely diverging worldviews.
Conventional approaches expect partisans to see certain news brands as ideologically aligned or counter to their own views, and to choose to engage or avoid news brands …
