"Corrective" actions in the public sphere: How perceptions of media and media effects shape political behaviors

International Journal of Public Opinion Research

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 343-363

  Rojas, Hernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956573605     PISSN: 09542892     EISSN: 14716909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ijpor/edq018     Document Type: Article

References (71)

1. Banning, S. A. (2006). Third-person effects on political participation. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 83, 785-800.
2. Bowman, S., & Willis, C. (2003). We media: How audiences are shaping the future of news and information. The Media Center at the American Press Institute. Retrieved March 30, 2006 from http://www.hypergene.net/wemedia/ weblog.php.
3. Boyle, M., Schmierbach, M., & McLeod, D.M. (2008). Understanding person perceptions: Comparing four common statistical approaches to third-person research. Mass Communication & Society, 11(4), 1-21.
4. Chia, S. C. (2006). How peers mediate media influence on adolescents' sexual attitudes and sexual behaviors. Journal of Communication, 56, 585-606.
5. Cohen, J., & Davis, R. G. (1991). Third-person effects and the differential impact in negative political advertising. Journalism Quarterly, 68, 680-688.
6. Cohen, J., Mutz, D., Price, V., & Gunther, A. (1988). Perceived impact of defamation: An experiment on third-person effects. Public Opinion Quarterly, 52, 161-173.
7. David, P., Liu, K., & Myser, M. (2004). Methodological artifact or persistent bias? Testing the robustness of the third person and reverse third-person effects for alcohol messages. Communication Research, 31, 206-233.
8. Davison, W. P. (1983). The third-person effect in communication. Public Opinion Quarterly, 47, 1-15.
9. Delli-Carpini, M. X., Cook, F. L., & Jacobs, L. R. (2004). Public deliberation, discursive participation and citizen engagement: A review of the empirical literature. Annual Review of Political Science, 7, 315-344.
10. Delli-Carpini, M. X., & Keeter, S. (1996). What Americans know about politics and why it matters. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
11. Duck, J. M., & Mullin, B. (1995). The perceived impact of the mass media: Reconsidering the third person effect. European Journal of Social Psychology, 25, 77-93.
12. Eveland, W. P., Jr. (2002). The impact of news and entertainment media on perceptions of social reality. In J. P. Dillard & M. Pfau (Eds.), The persuasion handbook: Developments in theory and practice (pp. 691-727). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
13. Eveland, W. P., & McLeod, D. M. (1999). The effect of social desirability on perceived media impact: Implications for third-person perceptions. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 11, 315-333.
14. Eveland, W. P., Jr., Shah, D. V., & Kwak, N. (2003). Assessing causality in the cognitive mediation model: A panel study of motivations, information processing and learning during campaign 2000. Communication Research, 30, 359-386.
15. Fishkin, J. S. (1995). The voice of the people: Public opinion & democracy. New Haven: Yale University Press.
16. Friedland, L. A., Hove, T, & Rojas, H. (2006). The networked public sphere. Javnost: The Public, 13(4), 5-26.
17. Gamson, W. A. (1992). Talking Politics. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
18. Gastil, J., & Dillard, J. P. (1999). Increasing political sophistication through public deliberation. Political Communication, 16, 3-23.
19. Gil de Zúñiga, H, Puig-i-Abril, E., & Rojas, H. (2009). Blogs, traditional sources online and political participation: An assessment of how the Internet is changing the political environment. New Media & Society, 11, 553-574.
20. Gunther, A.C. (1991). What we think others think: Cause and consequence in the third-person effect. Communication Research, 18, 355-372.
21. Gunther, A.C. (1992). Biased press or biased public? Attitudes toward media coverage of social groups. Public Opinion Quarterly, 56, 147-167.
22. Gunther, A.C. (1995). Overrating the X-rating: The third-person perception and support for censorship of pornography. Journal of Communication, 45, 27-38.
23. Gunther, A.C. (1998). The persuasive press inference: Effects of mass media on perceived public opinion. Communication Research, 25, 486-504.
24. Gunther, A. C., Bolt, D., Borzekowski, D. L. B., Liebhart, J. L., & Dillard, J. P. (2006). Presumed influence on peer norms: How mass media indirectly affect adolescent smoking. Journal of Communication, 56, 52-68.
25. Gunther, A. C., & Liebhart, J. L. (2006). Broad reach or biased source? Decomposing the hostile media effect. Journal of Communication, 56, 449-466.
26. Gunther, A. C., & Mundy, P. (1993). Biased optimism and the third-person effect. Journalism Quarterly, 70, 58-67.
27. Gunther, A. C., Perloff, R. M., & Tsfati, Y. (2008). The third-person effect. In W. Donsbach & M. Traugott (Eds.), Handbook of public opinion research. (pp. 181-191). London: Sage Publications.
28. Gunther, A. C., & Schmitt, K. (2004). Mapping boundaries of the hostile media effect. Journal of Communication, 54, 55-70.
29. Gunther, A. C., & Storey, J. D. (2003). The influence of presumed influence. Journal of Communication, 53, 199-215.
30. Gunther, A. C., & Thorson, E. (1992). Perceived persuasive effects of product commercials and public-service announcements: Third-person effects in new domains. Communication Research, 19, 574-596.
31. Hayes, A. F. (2005). Statistical methods for communication science. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
32. Hwang, H., Pan, Z., & Sun, Y. (2008). Influence of hostile media perception on willingness to engage in discursive activities: An examination of mediating role of media indignation. Media Psychology, 11, 76-97.
33. Henriksen, L., & Flora, J. A. (1999). Third-person perception and children: Perceived impact of pro- and anti-smoking ads. Communication Research, 26, 643-665.
34. Jensen, J. D., & Hurley, R. J. (2005). Third-person effects and the environment: Social distance, social desirability and presumed behavior. Journal of Communication, 55, 242-256.
35. Lee, B., & Tamborini, R. (2005). Third-person effect and Internet pornography: The influence of collectivism and internal self-efficacy. Journal of Communication, 55, 292-310.
36. Lord, C. G., Ross, L., & Lepper, M. R. (1979). Biased assimilation and attitude polarization: The effects of prior theories on subsequently considered evidence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 37, 2098-2109.
37. McLeod, D., Detenber, B., & Eveland, W. (2001). Behind the third-person effects: Differentiating perceptual processes underlying self and other. Journal of Communication, 51, 678-695.
38. McLeod, D. M., Eveland, W. P., Jr., & Nathanson, A. I. (1997). Support for censorship of violent and misogynic rap lyrics: An analysis of the third-person effect. Communication Research, 24, 153-174.
39. Mendelberg, T. (2002). The deliberative citizen: Theory and evidence. Political Decision Making, Deliberation and Participation, 6, 151-193.
40. Mendelberg, T., & Oleske, J. (2000). Race and public deliberation. Political Communication, 17, 169-191.
41. Mutz, D. C. (1998). Impersonal influence: How perceptions of mass collectives affect political attitudes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
42. Neuwirth, K., Frederick, E., & Mayo, C. (2002). Person-effects and heuristicsystematic processing. Communication Research, 29, 320-359.
43. Noelle-Neuman, E. (1974). The spiral of silence: A theory of public opinion. Journal of Communication, 24, 43-51.
44. Paul, B., Salwen, M. B., & Dupagne, M. (2000). The third-person effect: A metaanalysis of the perceptual hypothesis. Mass Communication & Society, 3, 57-85.
45. Perloff, R. M. (1999). The third person effect: A critical review and synthesis. Media Psychology, 1, 353-378.
46. Perloff, R. M. (2002). The third-person effect. In J. Bryant & D. Zillmann (Eds.), Media effects: Advances in theory and research (pp. 489-506). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
47. Price, V., Cappella, J. N., & Nir, L. (2002). Does disagreement contribute to more deliberative opinion. Political Communication, 19, 95-112.
48. Price, V., Tewksbury, D., & Huang, L. N. (1998). Third-person effects on publication of a Holocaust-denial advertisement. Journal of Communication, 48, 3-26.
49. Reid, S. A., Byrne, S., Brundidge, J. S., Shoham, M. D., & Marlow, M. L. (2007). A critical test of self-enhancement, exposure and self-categorization explanations for first and third person perceptions. Human Communication Research, 33, 143-162.
50. Reid, S. A., & Hogg, M. A. (2005). A self-categorization explanation for the third-person effect. Human Communication Research, 31, 129-161.
51. Riker, W., & Ordeshook, P. (1968). A theory of the calculus of voting. American Political Science Review, 62, 25-42.
52. Rojas, H. (2008). Strategy versus understanding: How orientations towards political conversation influence political engagement. Communication Research, 35, 452-480.
53. Rojas, H., & Puig-i-Abril, E. (2009a). Mobilizers mobilized: Information, expression, mobilization and participation in the digital age. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 14, 902-927.
54. Rojas, H., & Puig-i-Abril, E. (2009b). Comunicación y participación política en Colombia. In H. Rojas & I. Perez (Eds.), Comunicación y Participación Política (pp. 105-188). Bogotá, Colombia: Publicaciones Universidad Externado de Colombia.
55. Rojas, H., Shah, D. V., Cho, J., Schmierbach, M., Keum, H., & Gil-De-Zuñiga, H. (2005). Media Dialogue: Perceiving and addressing community problems. Mass Communication & Society, 8, 93-110.
56. Rojas, H., Shah, D. V., & Faber, R. J. (1996). For the good of others: Censorship and the third-person effect. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 8, 163-186. (Pubitemid 126106527)
57. Rosenstone, S., & Hansen, M. (1993). Mobilization, participation, and democracy in America. New York: MacMillan Press.
58. Shah, D. V., Cho, J., Eveland, W. P., & Kwak, N. (2005). Information and expression in a digital age: Modeling Internet effects on civic participation. Communication Research, 32, 531-565.
59. Shah, D. V., Faber, R. J., & Youn, S. (1999). Susceptibility and severity: Perceptual dimensions underlying the third-person effect. Communication Research, 26, 240-267.
60. Smith, E. S. (1999). The effects of investments in the social capital of youth on political and civic behavior in young adulthood: A longitudinal analysis. Political Psychology, 20, 553-580.
61. Sun, Y., Shen, L., & Pan, Z. (2008). On the behavioral component of the thirdperson effect. Communication Research, 35, 257-278.
62. Sun, Y., Pan, Z., & Shen, L (2008). Understanding the third-person perception: Evidence from a meta-analysis. Journal of Communication, 58, 280-300.
63. Tal-Or, N., Cohen, J., & Gunther, A. (2009, May). Testing causal direction in the influence of presumed media influence. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association. Chicago.
64. Tarrow, S. (1998). Power in movement: Social movements, collective action and politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
65. Tewksbury, D., Moy, P., & Weis, D. (2004). Preparations for Y2K: Revisiting the behavioral component of the third-person effect. Journal of Communication, 54, 138-155.
66. Tsfati, Y. (2007). Hostile media perceptions, presumed media influence and minority alienation: The case of Arabs in Israel. Journal of Communication, 57, 632-651.
67. Tsfati, Y., & Cohen, J. (2005). The influence of presumed media influence on democratic legitimacy: The case of Gaza settlers. Communication Research, 32, 794-821. (Pubitemid 41756101)
68. Tsfati, Y., Ribak, R., & Cohen, J. (2005). Rebelde Way in Israel: Parental perceptions of television influence and monitoring of children's social and media activities. Mass Communication & Society, 8(1), 3-22.
69. Vallone, R. P., Ross, L., & Lepper, M. R. (1985). The hostile media phenomena: Biased perception and perceptions of media bias in coverage of the Beirut massacre. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 49, 577-585.
70. Verba, S. (2003). Culture, calculation, and being a pretty good citizen: Thoughts on Shakespeare, rational choice and civic participation. Paper presented at the Political Behavior Group meeting, UW-Madison.
71. Verba, S., Schlozman, K. L., & Brady, H. E. (1995). Voice and equality: Civic volunteerism in American politics. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.