Week 3

Question 1

Game frame

Answer 1

politics as a game, framing as winners and losers, actions aimed at winning

Question 2

‘rally around the flag’ reporting

Answer 2

Uncritical reporting, strong consensus around ‘supporting our troops’

Question 3

knowledge gap

Answer 3

educated/interested people read more news and are better at processing, making them more educated/interested

Question 4

5 share worthiness factors

Answer 4

proximity, negativity, positivity, conflict, human interest

Question 5

Hypotheses of the Wischnewski, M. (2021). Shareworthiness and Motivated Reasoning in Hyper-Partisan News Sharing Behavior on Twitter article

Answer 5

1. News that is more shareworthy is more likely to be shared

2. News that is attitude-congruent is more likely to be shared

Question 6

conclusions Wischnewski article

Answer 6

Proximity, Conflict, and Human Interest predict shareability of hyper partisan news on twitter

Only human interest explains retweets

Ideology does not have consistent effect

Question 7

Inadvertent audience

Answer 7

people that ‘stumble upon’ news while consuming media for another purpose

Question 8

selective exposure

Answer 8

people consume media that match their interest

Question 9

Fragmentation of the media landscape

Answer 9

From (relatively homogenous) “national news” on TV / selected newspapers
to mainstream, niche, social, algorithmic, … news