It ain`t easy: using normatively motivated news diversification to facilitate policy support, tolerance, and political participation
Published in Information, Communication & Society, 2024
Recommended citation: Mattis, N., Masur, P. K., Moeller, J., & van Atteveldt, W. (2024). It ain`t easy: using normatively motivated news diversification to facilitate policy support, tolerance, and political participation. Information, Communication & Society, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2423892
In this paper we conduct a 2 (low vs. high levels of activating language) by 3 (low vs medium vs high levels of alternative voices) between subjects experiment with N=715 respondents to test how normatively driven news diversification affect readers’ (a) policy support, (b) outcome tolerance, (c) outgroup tolerance, and (d) political participation.
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