Selective Exposure in the Age of Social Media: Endorsements Trump Partisan Source Affiliation When Selecting News Online

Communication Research

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1042-1063

  Messing, Solomon ^a   Westwood, Sean J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cross cutting; internet; polarization; selective exposure; social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911956321     PISSN: 00936502     EISSN: 15523810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093650212466406     Document Type: Article

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