Elaboration of the Hostile Media Phenomenon

2008/12/30 by Jounghwa Choi, Myengja Yang, Jeongheon Jc Chang · 8 citations
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Advertising #Business #Computer science #Context (archaeology) #Elaboration #Epistemology #Geography #Media Influence and Health #News media #Perception #Phenomenon #Psychology #Public Relations and Crisis Communication #Skepticism #Social Media and Politics #Social psychology #Value (mathematics)

paper · doi:10.1177/0093650208326462

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Abstract

Hostile media perception (HMP) is a phenomenon showing the significance of individual factors in evaluation of media content. Extending theoretical understanding of HMP, this study has two purposes: (a) to examine the roles of different types of involvement in hostile media effect (HME), that is, value-relevant and outcome-relevant involvement, and (b) to explore relationships between HMP and other media-related perceptions, such as congruency of perceived media influence, media skepticism, and perceived opinion climate. Data were collected from college students in South Korea. Results suggest that value-relevant involvement, rather than outcome-relevant involvement, is a critical predictor of HMP in the context of news coverage of the National Security Law in Korea. HMP also was a significant predictor of congruency of presumed media influence, which in turn predicted perceived opinion climate.

Citations

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