Abstract Google News and other newsbots have automated the process of news selection, providing Internet users with a virtually limitless array public information dynamically culled from thousands organizations all over world. In order to help cope resultant overload information, leads are typically accompanied by three cues: (a) name primary source which headline lead were borrowed, (b) time elapsed since story broke, (c) number related articles written about this tracked newsbot. This...

Journal Article Please Your Self: Social Identity Effects on Selective Exposure to News About in- and Out-Groups Get access Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick, Knobloch-Westerwick 1School of Communication, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Matthias R. Hastall 2Department Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, Germany Volume 60, Issue 3, September 2010, Pages 515–535,...

Platypus is the first system to localize and identify people by remotely passively sensing changes in their body electric potential which occur naturally during walking. While it uses three or more sensors with a maximum range of 2 m, as tag-free does not require user carry any special hardware. We describe physical principles behind changes, predictive mathematical model how this affects passive field sensor. By inverting combining data from sensors, we infer method for localizing...

Although participation in the digital world is an important means for taking part our society, people with intellectual disabilities are still largely excluded from manifold possibilities of participation. In study, we investigate attitudes both formal caregivers and Germany regarding their usage media. Our sample consisted 24 working residential or outpatient facilities Germany, 50 living those settings. Data were collected during semi-structured interviews focus group discussions...

An Internet newsmagazine was created, involving all features of online interactivity. The text available reports held constant. imagery a subset articles manipulated, however. manipulated were presented either without images, with text-related innocuous or threatening images in both their headline displays and bodies. During fixed period time, readers free to sample read as much them they pleased. Unbeknownst them, selective exposure behavior automatically recorded. It observed that the...

Three studies were conducted to investigate effects of narrative’s discourse structures and factuality on suspense, curiosity, reading enjoyment. Data collected with a questionnaire measure suspense curiosity substantiated the discriminant validity these dimensions. In Web-based study two paper-pencil studies, respondents read texts that manipulated for type structure (linear, reversal, or inverted type). To manipulate (high vs. low), presented either as news reports novel excerpts,...

This cross-cultural experiment examined the effectiveness of three health message characteristics to foster or inhibit selective exposure information. An online magazine was created with eight articles about various risks. Four were manipulated regarding (1) severity described threat (low versus high), (2) suggested efficacy avoid minimize negative consequences high) and (3) type evidence presented (statistical information exemplar information). Respondents from U.S. Germany (n = 301/298)...

Appeal of personae in news is investigated based on social comparison theory. Participants ( N = 276) two age groups browsed through online while selective exposure was unobtrusively logged. Manipulated articles focused individuals and varied along three within factors: sex group portrayed individual story valence. After browsing news, participants completed a questionnaire including self-esteem scale. Recipients preferred same-sex individuals, young readers favored about same-age...

A quasiexperiment tested competing hypotheses regarding escapist media use and alternative coping motivations in selection behavior. For 287 participants, personal satisfaction levels for five life domains were assessed. In an ostensibly unrelated study, the participants browsed through online content which some section topics corresponded to domains. Selective exposure was unobtrusively logged by software. Lower with college career situation financial associated longer information about...

Negative stereotypes about intellectually gifted individuals prevail among teachers and in society although empirical research has debunked them. They are also dominant mass media representations of such as newspaper reports. The present study investigated whether stereotypic articles contribute to the stigmatization nonstereotypic, evidence-based might help destigmatize individuals. Two randomized controlled studies with N = 431 432 university students, respectively, were conducted. In both...

Mass media shape not only public, but also healthcare professionals' attitudes towards individuals with a mental illness. This study investigates how watching movie about schizophrenia affects stigma-related of rehabilitation science students, who are likely to work affected individuals. Participants watched an entertainment portrayal schizophrenia. Stigma-related and social distance were assessed one week before the movie, directly afterwards, later. No significant differences in...

Several techniques are available to measure an individual's selective exposure online content, but only a few investigations have examined actual stimuli experimentally generated and manipulated. We discuss successfully implemented approach specifically developed for this purpose. By providing researchers with combined record of observational data self-report data, the we describe here offers investigators opportunity examine joint impact media content features user characteristics on...

Abstract. Insufficient message exposure is still a major obstacle for effective health communication activities, and little known on how features affect selective persuasion. This study examined the effects of two features, suggested susceptibility gain–loss framing, respondents’ subsequent behavior intentions. Two personality traits, repression-sensitization approach/avoidance motivation, were studied as moderators proposed relationships. An experimental 2 (suggested susceptibility: low vs....

In a quantitative content analysis, social norm violations and their narrative context are analyzed in 225 episodes of 15 television series four popular genres (crime drama, medical sitcom, daily soap). Extending previous studies, the authors' results indicate that aggressive only fraction all violations, which dominated by lying/deception, swearing/use vulgar language, verbal attacks. The shows often motivated egoism, receive low punishment, rarely forgiven seldom reflected characters;...