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DOI	10.1080/15205436.2023.2299209
	Media Salience Shifts and the Public's Perceptions About Reality: How Fluctuations in News Media Attention Influence the Strength of Citizens' Sociotropic Beliefs
	Djerf-Pierre, Monika; Shehata, Adam; Johansson, Bengt
发表日期	2024
ISSN	1520-5436
EISSN	1532-7825
英文摘要	This article examines whether shifts in news media attention to societal issues matter for how strong beliefs citizens have about those issues. Based on an issue signal approach, in which media salience is conceptualized as signal strength, the study analyzes whether sociotropic beliefs become more prevalent, extreme, and certain when news media salience rises, and less prevalent, extreme, and certain when media salience drops. Using a four-wave panel survey dataset collected over a two-year period, the empirical analysis links media content analyses of issue salience to panel survey data, comparing four issues with different levels of baseline salience and political controversy: violent crimes, immigration, climate change, and antibiotic resistance. The analysis shows that issue-specific news media exposure and issue-specific use of alternative media offer two different pathways to the formation of beliefs. The hypothesized relationship with news media salience was supported for the two controversial issues with high baseline salience (immigration and violent crimes), but not for climate change and antibiotic resistance. The results indicate that issue attributes matter and that audiences may respond differently to salience shifts depending on the level of controversy of the issue.
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Communication
WOS类目	Communication
WOS记录号	WOS:001150744200001
来源期刊	MASS COMMUNICATION AND SOCIETY
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/287714
作者单位	University of Gothenburg; University of Gothenburg
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Djerf-Pierre, Monika,Shehata, Adam,Johansson, Bengt. Media Salience Shifts and the Public's Perceptions About Reality: How Fluctuations in News Media Attention Influence the Strength of Citizens' Sociotropic Beliefs[J],2024.
APA	Djerf-Pierre, Monika,Shehata, Adam,&Johansson, Bengt.(2024).Media Salience Shifts and the Public's Perceptions About Reality: How Fluctuations in News Media Attention Influence the Strength of Citizens' Sociotropic Beliefs.MASS COMMUNICATION AND SOCIETY.
MLA	Djerf-Pierre, Monika,et al."Media Salience Shifts and the Public's Perceptions About Reality: How Fluctuations in News Media Attention Influence the Strength of Citizens' Sociotropic Beliefs".MASS COMMUNICATION AND SOCIETY (2024).