Echo-chambers in online news consumption: evidence from survey and navigation data in Spain
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- dc.contributor.author Cardenal, Ana Sofía
- dc.contributor.author Aguilar-Paredes, Carlos
- dc.contributor.author Cristancho, Camilo
- dc.contributor.author Majó-Vázquez, Sílvia
- dc.date.accessioned 2024-04-04T07:56:52Z
- dc.date.available 2024-04-04T07:56:52Z
- dc.date.issued 2019
- dc.description.abstract Whether people live in echo-chambers when they consume political information online has been the subject of much academic and public debate. This article contributes to this debate combining survey and web-tracking online data from Spain, a country known for its high political parallelism. We find that users spend more time in outlets of their political leanings but, generally, they engage in considerable cross-partisan media exposure, especially those in the left. In addition, we use a quasi experiment to test how major news events affect regular patterns of news consumption, and particularly, selective exposure. We find that the nature of news explains changes in users’ overall consumption behaviour, but this has less to do with the type of event than with the interest it arouses. More importantly, we find that users become more polarized along party lines as the level of news consumption and interest for news increases.
- dc.description.sponsorship The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The research reported in this paper has been funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness under Grant CSO2013-47082-P.
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- dc.identifier.citation Cardenal AS, Aguilar-Paredes C, Cristancho C, Majó-Vázquez S. Echo-chambers in online news consumption: evidence from survey and navigation data in Spain. Eur J Commun. 2019 Aug;34(4):360-76. DOI: 10.1177/0267323119844409
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0267323119844409
- dc.identifier.issn 0267-3231
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59649
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher SAGE Publications
- dc.relation.ispartof European journal of communication. 2019 Aug;34(4):360-76
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/CSO2013-47082-P
- dc.rights Cardenal AS, Aguilar-Paredes C, Cristancho C, Majó-Vázquez S, Echo-chambers in online news consumption: evidence from survey and navigation data in Spain, European Journal of Communication (volume 34, issue 4) pp. 360-76. Copyright © 2019 SAGE Publications. DOI: 10.1177/0267323119844409.
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- dc.subject.keyword Echo-chambers
- dc.subject.keyword Fragmentation
- dc.subject.keyword News consumption
- dc.subject.keyword Online media
- dc.subject.keyword Selective exposure
- dc.title Echo-chambers in online news consumption: evidence from survey and navigation data in Spain
- dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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