Facebook is the most popular social media platform and often used by news organizations to distribute content to broad audiences. Features of this online news environment, especially user-generated comments shown to news consumers, have the potential to induce audience perceptions of hostile media bias. This study furthers investigation into the influence of exposure to Facebook comments and news topics on consumers. Using a sample of U.S. adult Facebook users ( = 1,274), this work utilized a 2 (likeminded comments or disagreeable comments) × 2 (story topic of requiring COVID-19 vaccines to receive a monetary bonus or maintain employment) between-subjects experimental design. While controlling for the influence of partisanship, this work further proves that features of the Facebook environment uniquely influence news audience perceptions of neutral news content. Specifically, findings indicate that news story topic can influence perceptions of bias. Further, topic and comment exposure interacted, demonstrating the intensity of story topic and likeminded comments enhance hostile media perceptions.
Download full-text PDF |
Source |
|---|---|
| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10644347 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2023.1041454 | DOI Listing |
Publication Analysis
Top Keywords
Similar Publications
Roman urdu hate speech detection using hybrid machine learning models and hyperparameter optimization.
Sci Rep
November 2024
Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, 38541, Republic of Korea.
With the rapid increase of users over social media, cyberbullying, and hate speech problems have arisen over the past years. Automatic hate speech detection (HSD) from text is an emerging research problem in natural language processing (NLP). Researchers developed various approaches to solve the automatic hate speech detection problem using different corpora in various languages, however, research on the Urdu language is rather scarce.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Impact of Comment Slant and Comment Tone on Digital Health Communication Among Polarized Publics: A Web-Based Survey Experiment.
J Med Internet Res
November 2024
School of Journalism and Communication, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China.
Background: Public attitudes toward health issues are becoming increasingly polarized, as seen in social media comments, which vary from supportive to oppositional and frequently include uncivil language. The combined effects of comment slant and comment tone on health behavior among a polarized public need further examination.
Objective: This study aims to examine how social media users' prior attitudes toward mask wearing and their exposure to a mask-wearing-promoting post, synchronized with polarized and hostile discussions, affect their compliance with mask wearing.
The offline roots of online hostility: Adult and childhood administrative records correlate with individual-level hostility on Twitter.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
October 2024
Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus 5000, Denmark.
Reducing hostility in social media interactions is a key public concern. Most extant research emphasizes how online contextual factors breed hostility. Here, we take a different perspective and focus on the offline roots of hostility, that is, offline experiences and stable individual-level dispositions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGrowth media change Eisenia fetida epithelium thickness: implications for improving earthworm welfare in vermicomposting systems.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
November 2024
Departamento de Ecología y Biología Animal, Universidad de Vigo, 36310, Vigo, Spain.
Because the earthworm tegument represents their first barrier against environmental aggressions, we hypothesised that substrate-induced changes in earthworm growth would also alter the morphology of this protective layer. Therefore, a histological and morphometric study was performed on Eisenia fetida specimens that have been grown in five different organic residues: cow manure, horse manure, grape marc, coffee grounds, and a mixture of coffee grounds and cooking oil. The results showed that, across all treatments, both cuticle and epidermis were significantly thicker in the pre-clitellar region than after the clitellum, attributed to the fact that the former region is responsible for breaking up the soil.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOn the Frontlines: Protecting and Advancing Gender-Affirming Care in a Hostile Sociopolitical Environment.
J Gen Intern Med
October 2024
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Article Synopsis
- Since 2020, there has been a strong pushback in the USA against acceptance of different genders and care for transgender youth.
- Many new laws are trying to limit access to gender-affirming care, while false information about these issues spreads in the media.
- Despite these challenges, healthcare workers are finding ways to keep providing essential support and care for transgender and gender diverse patients and their families.
Want AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?
Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!