Citizens exposed to dissimilar views in the media: investigating backfire effects

Project Information

EXPO

Grant agreement ID: 756301

DOI

10.3030/756301

Project closed

EC signature date 28 March 2018

Start date 1 September 2018

End date 31 August 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 499 384,00

EU contribution

€ 1 499 384,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM
Netherlands

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (10)

Can AI Enhance People’s Support for Online Moderation and Their Openness to Dissimilar Political Views?

Author(s): Magdalena Wojcieszak, Arti Thakur, João Fernando Ferreira Gonçalves, Andreu Casas, Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Miriam Boon
Published in: JOURNAL OF COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION, 2021, ISSN 1083-6101
Publisher: Annenberg School for Communication
DOI: 10.1093/jcmc/zmab006

The (null) over-time effects of exposure to local news websites: Evidence from trace data

Author(s): Jane Cronin, Bernhard Clemm von Hohenberg, João Fernando Ferreira Gonçalves, Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Magdalena Wojcieszak
Published in: Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 2022, Page(s) 1-15, ISSN 1933-1681
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2022.2123878

Non-news websites expose people to more political content than news websites: Evidence from browsing data in three countries

Author(s): Magdalena Wojcieszak, Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Bernhard Clemm von Hohenberg, Sjifra de Leeuw, João Gonçalves, Sam Davidson, Alexandre Gonçalves
Published in: Political Communication, 2023, ISSN 1058-4609
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2238641

The (Null) Effects of Happiness on Affective Polarization, Conspiracy Endorsement, and Deep Fake Recognition: Evidence from Five Survey Experiments in Three Countries

Author(s): Xudong Yu, Magdalena Wojcieszak, Seungsu Lee, Andreu Casas, Rachid Azrout, Tomasz Gackowski
Published in: POLITICAL BEHAVIOR, 2021, ISSN 0190-9320
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11109-021-09701-1

Exposure to Extremely Partisan News from the Other Political Side Shows Scarce Boomerang Effects

Author(s): Andreu Casas, Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Magdalena Wojcieszak
Published in: Political Behavior, 2022, Page(s) 1-40, ISSN 0190-9320
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11109-021-09769-9

Partisan media, untrustworthy news sites, and political misperceptions

Author(s): Brian E Weeks, Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Christopher Calabrese, Andreu Casas, Magdalena Wojcieszak
Published in: New Media & Society, 2021, Page(s) 146144482110333, ISSN 1461-4448
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/14614448211033300

What Information Drives Political Polarization? Comparing the Effects of In-group Praise, Out-group Derogation, and Evidence-based Communications on Polarization

Author(s): Magdalena Wojcieszak, Paweł Sobkowicz, Xudong Yu, Beril Bulat
Published in: The International Journal of Press/Politics, 2021, Page(s) 194016122110044, ISSN 1940-1612
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/19401612211004418

Political content and news are polarized but other content is not in YouTube watch histories

Author(s): Magdalena Wojcieszak, Rong-Ching Chang, Ericka Menchen-Trevino
Published in: Journal of Quantitative Description, 2023, ISSN 2673-8813
Publisher: Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
DOI: 10.51685/jqd.2023.018

No Polarization From Partisan News: Over-Time Evidence From Trace Data

Author(s): Magdalena Wojcieszak, Sjifra de Leeuw, Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Seungsu Lee, Ke M Huang-Isherwood, Brian Weeks
Published in: The International Journal of Press/Politics, 2021, ISSN 1940-1612
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/19401612211047194

Null effects of news exposure: a test of the (un)desirable effects of a ‘news vacation’ and ‘news binging’

Author(s): Magdalena Wojcieszak, Bernhard Clemm von Hohenberg, Andreu Casas, Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Sjifra de Leeuw, Alexandre Gonçalves, Miriam Boon
Published in: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Issue 9-1, 2022, Page(s) 1-10, ISSN 2662-9992
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
DOI: 10.1057/s41599-022-01423-x

Other (4)

The Cure Worse Than the Disease? How the Media's Attention to Misinformation Decreases Trust

Author(s): Emma Hoes, Bernhard Clemm von Hohenberg, Theresa Gessler, Magdalena Wojcieszak, Sijia Qian
Published in: 2022
Publisher: PsyArXiv
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/4m92p

Analysis of Web Browsing Data: A Guide

Author(s): Bernhard Clemm von Hohenberg, Sebastian Stier, Ana S Cardenal, Andrew Guess, Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Magdalena Wojcieszak
Published in: 2023
Publisher: OSF
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/7hvap

Nudging the Recommendation Algorithm Increases News Consumption and Diversity on YouTube

Author(s): Xudong Yu, Muhammad Haroon, Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Magdalena Wojcieszak
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Research Square preprints
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3349905/v1

Prominent Misinformation Interventions Reduce Misperceptions but Increase Skepticism

Author(s): Emma Hoes, Brian Aitken, Jingwen Zhang, Tomasz Gackowski, Magdalena Wojcieszak
Published in: 2023
Publisher: OSF
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/zmpdu

Conference proceedings (1)

Developing a New Classifier for Automated Identification of Incivility in Social Media

Author(s): Sam Davidson, Qiusi Sun, Magdalena Wojcieszak
Published in: Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms, 2020, Page(s) 95-101
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2020.alw-1.12