| 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 | Hino, Airo |
| （連携研究者） | Waseda University | Professor | Kobayashi, Tetsuro |
| （連携研究者） | Waseda University | Assistant Professor | Fahey, A. Robert |
| （連携研究者） | Waseda University | Associate Professor | Ogawa, Hiroki |
| （連携研究者） | George Washington University, USA | Graduate Student | Zhang, Zhifan |
| （連携研究者） | University of Vienna | Professor | Wagner, Markus |
| （連携研究者） | University of Amsterdam | Associate Professor | Nai, Alessandro |
- 研究成果概要
This project investigates how individuals’ perceptions of media—particularly hostile media perception (HMP) and general media trust—shape their selective exposure to political information. While a growing body of literature has documented people’s tendency to avoid attitude-discrepant content, most of this research is situated within the U.S. context, where trust in the media is exceptionally low. This project addresses the question of whether such patterns hold in other cultural and media environments, and whether HMP plays an independent role beyond general distrust.
Over the past year, I developed a typology of media trusters based on both trust levels and perceptions of hostility in political news environments. I conducted a pilot survey in two national contexts, Japan and the United States, which differ markedly in their levels of media trust. The results suggest that HMP is a distinct construct from low media trust and has a stronger predictive power in explaining selective exposure behaviors. Respondents with strong hostile media perceptions are more likely to selectively engage with ideologically congenial content.
In the next phase, I plan to expand the cross-national design to include a wider sample of countries with varying levels of media trust, using embedded experiments. This will allow for more robust tests of how HMP operates across different media systems and political cultures.