Individual Political Factors Informing the Consumption of Outrage Media
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- Author:
- Sheaffer, Joseph Michael
- Area of Honors:
- Political Science
- Degree:
- Bachelor of Arts
- Document Type:
- Thesis
- Thesis Supervisors:
- Dr. Mark Major, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Matthew Richard Golder, Thesis Honors Advisor - Keywords:
- outrage news
outrage media
partisan news - Abstract:
- During the 2016 Presidential election cycle Donald Drumpf popularized the term “fake news” and mainstreamed the concept of dismissing all facts and information from all detractors as “lies” and biased media. While these events may have come to fruition during the campaign, they are the result of an underlying media strategy that has been relevant for decades. Outrage media, which embodies the angry figure behind the desk reading the news and presenting news with a partisan twist, has grown through the expansion of cable television and the internet. Previous research has focused on studying the landscape that allowed for outrage media to rise, explained the criteria that are used to identify outrage, and explored the qualities that make this form of news popular to individuals. Most of the research has focused on the distribution of outrage media by observing the outlets. There is currently a gap in the research, with little being done to examine the consumption of outrage media on the individual level. This project used an experiment that mimicked the news cycle during a presidential campaign to explore which factors affect how individuals consume outrage media.
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