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The increasing viability of good news / Stuart Soroka, Yanna Krupnikov.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Soroka, Stuart, author.
- Krupnikov, Yanna, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge elements. Elements in politics and communication, 2633-9897
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media--Social aspects.
- Mass media.
- Mass media--Forecasting.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (55 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- In spite of what appears to be the increasingly negative tone of media coverage, this Element suggests that the prevalence of positive news is likely to increase, for three reasons: (1) valence-based asymmetries vary over time, (2) valence-based asymmetries vary across individuals, and (3) technology facilitates diverse news platforms catering to diverse preferences. Each of these claims is examined in detail here, based on analyses of prior and/or novel data on media content, psychophysiological responses, and survey-based experiments. Results are considered as they relate to our understanding of media gatekeeping, political communication, and political psychology, and also as actionable findings for producers of media content, communications platforms, and media consumers.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- The Increasing Viability of Good News
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Valence of News Coverage
- 3 The Argument
- 3.1 Valence-Based Asymmetries Vary Over Time
- 3.1.1 Outlyingness
- 3.1.2 Novelty
- 3.1.3 Adaptive Processing
- 3.3 Technology Facilitates Diverse News Platforms Catering to Diverse Preferences
- 3.3.1 An Increasing Number of Media Outlets Facilitates More Diverse Content
- 3.3.2 Online Affordances Augment Valence-Based Selectivity
- 3.3.3 Information consumption and (re-)distribution in a hybrid media environment
- 3.3.4 Deliberately Seeking Good News
- 4 Discussion
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Jun 2021).
- ISBN:
- 1-108-99317-6
- 1-108-99096-7
- 1-108-98237-9
- OCLC:
- 1257486309
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