表題番号：2023C-580
日付：2024/04/04
研究課題Media Trust Impacts on Exposure to Political Information
| 研究者所属（当時） | 資格 | 氏名 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| （代表者） | 高等研究所 | 講師 | 劉 凌 |
| （連携研究者） | Waseda University | Professor | Kobayashi, Tetsuro |
| （連携研究者） | Waseda University | Professor | Hino, Airo |
| （連携研究者） | Waseda University | Assistant Professor | Fahey, A. Robert |
| （連携研究者） | Kochi University | Associate Professor | Ogawa, Hiroki |
| （連携研究者） | George Washington University, USA | Graduate Student | Zhang, Zhifan |
- 研究成果概要
- To promote deliberative democracy, it is crucial to understand how voters respond to information that appears to threaten their existing political beliefs. Research has convincingly demonstrated the propensity of individuals to avoid exposure to attitude-discrepant content. However, such research is overwhelmingly based on the U.S. context, where trust in the media is at a near-global low, suggesting that findings may not be generalizable to other national contexts.During this project, I focused on advancing the theoretical foundations for analyzing the effects of national media trust levels on the dynamics of responses to information that conflicts with individuals’ political attitudes. This was accomplished by conducting a thorough and critical literature review, which strengthened the overall theoretical framework of the project. It yielded two major deliverables. The first is a review slated for publication in the Encyclopedia of Political Communication, edited by Alessandro Nai and Dominique Wirz of the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Max Groemping of Griffith University, Australia. The second is a collaborative paper with Tetsuro Kobayashi of Waseda University and Zhifan Zhang of George Washington University, USA. This paper features an extensive theoretical discussion on the influence of media trust and the related concept of media-party parallelism on the selective exposure of political information that either aligns with or contradicts one’s own political stance.