Mobile Selective Exposure: Confirmation Bias and Impact of Social Cues during Mobile News Consumption in the United States

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dc.contributor.authorRoss, Morgan Quinn
dc.contributor.authorCrum, Jarod
dc.contributor.authorWang, Shengkai
dc.contributor.authorKnobloch-Westerwick, Silvia
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-08T13:20:19Z
dc.date.available2023-02-08T13:20:19Z
dc.date.issued2023-01-28
dc.date.updated2023-02-03T17:09:57Z
dc.description.abstractConcerns about online news consumption have proliferated, with some evidence suggesting a heightened impact of the confirmation bias and social cues online. This paper argues that mobile media may further shape selective exposure to political content. We conducted two online selective exposure experiments to investigate whether browsing political content on smartphones (vs. computers) facilitates selective exposure to attitude-consistent vs. attitude-discrepant articles (confirmation bias) with high vs. low views (impact of social cues). Notably, these studies leveraged novel random assignment techniques and a custom-designed, mobile-compatible news website. Using a student sample, Study 1 (N = 157) revealed weak evidence that the confirmation bias is stronger on smartphones than computers, and the impact of social cues was similar across devices. Study 2 (N = 156) attempted to replicate these findings in a general population sample. The impact of social cues remained similar across devices, but the confirmation bias was not stronger on smartphones than computers. Overall, the confirmation bias (but not the impact of social cues) manifested on smartphones, and neither outcome was consistently stronger on smartphones than computers.
dc.identifier.eissn2673-5172
dc.identifier.urihttps://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/18170
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-16963
dc.language.isoen
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject.ddc070 Publizistische Medien, Journalismus, Verlagswesende
dc.subject.othercognitive processing
dc.subject.otherconfirmation bias
dc.subject.otherexperiment
dc.subject.otheridentity
dc.subject.othermobile effects
dc.subject.othermobile media
dc.subject.othermobile news consumption
dc.subject.otherselective exposure
dc.subject.othersocial cues
dc.titleMobile Selective Exposure: Confirmation Bias and Impact of Social Cues during Mobile News Consumption in the United States
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi10.3390/journalmedia4010011
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.issue1
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitleJournalism and Media
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishernameMDPI
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplaceBasel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend161
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart146
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume4
dcterms.rightsHolder.referenceCreative-Commons-Lizenz
tub.accessrights.dnbfree
tub.affiliationFak. 1 Geistes- und Bildungswissenschaften::Inst. Sprache und Kommunikation::FG Audiokommunikation
tub.publisher.universityorinstitutionTechnische Universität Berlin

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