Media Reach, Media Influence? The Effects of Local, National, and Internet News on Public Opinion Inferences
These two experiments compare perceptions of local, national, and Internet news articles on two U.S. environmental policy issues: oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and ratification of the Kyoto treaty on global warming. Of interest were the potential effects of perceived article re...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/107769900708400208 2024-09-30T14:30:50+00:00 Media Reach, Media Influence? The Effects of Local, National, and Internet News on Public Opinion Inferences Christen, Cindy T. Huberty, Kelli E. 2007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107769900708400208 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/107769900708400208 en eng SAGE Publications https://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly volume 84, issue 2, page 315-334 ISSN 1077-6990 2161-430X journal-article 2007 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/107769900708400208 2024-09-17T04:38:51Z These two experiments compare perceptions of local, national, and Internet news articles on two U.S. environmental policy issues: oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and ratification of the Kyoto treaty on global warming. Of interest were the potential effects of perceived article reach and slant on estimates of public support for different policy alternatives. While perceived slant proved to be a fairly robust predictor of public opinion estimates, support for an effect of perceived reach was mixed. Deconstructing perceived media reach into access and exposure assumptions should produce an opinion inference model that is more sensitive to the differing influences of local, national, and Internet news as consumption patterns evolve. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Global warming SAGE Publications Arctic Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 84 2 315 334 |
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These two experiments compare perceptions of local, national, and Internet news articles on two U.S. environmental policy issues: oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and ratification of the Kyoto treaty on global warming. Of interest were the potential effects of perceived article reach and slant on estimates of public support for different policy alternatives. While perceived slant proved to be a fairly robust predictor of public opinion estimates, support for an effect of perceived reach was mixed. Deconstructing perceived media reach into access and exposure assumptions should produce an opinion inference model that is more sensitive to the differing influences of local, national, and Internet news as consumption patterns evolve. |
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Media Reach, Media Influence? The Effects of Local, National, and Internet News on Public Opinion Inferences |
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