Taking Political Alternative Media into Account

Autor(en)

Rens Vliegenthart, Jesper Strömbäck, Hajo Boomgaarden, Elena Broda, Alyt Damstra, Elina Lindgren, Yariv Tsfati, Annelien Van Remoortere

Abstrakt

In most studies on news repertoires and the linkage between media use and (mis)perceptions of social and political matters, the use of political alternative media has not been included. In this paper, we therefore investigate how people combine both traditional and political alternative media into different media repertoires, and how these media repertoires are related to misperceptions. We rely on a two-wave panel survey, conducted in 2020 and 2021, with a probability-recruited sample of the Swedish population. Measures on the use of a wide range of media, including political alternative ones, are used to conduct a Latent Profile Analysis. This analysis distinguishes five media repertoires in the data. The results show that these repertoires coincide with different levels of misperceptions, with those dominated by TV use showing higher levels of misperceptions and those with higher newspaper and alternative media use showing lower levels of misperceptions. Results also show that media repertoires do not affect over-time changes in misperceptions

Organisation(en)

Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft

Externe Organisation(en)

University of Amsterdam (UvA), University of Gothenburg, University of Haifa, Wageningen University and Research Centre

Journal

Mass Communication and Society

ISSN

1520-5436

DOI

https://doi.org/DOI: 10.1080/15205436.2023.2251444

Publikationsdatum

2023

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

508007 Kommunikationswissenschaft, 508020 Politische Kommunikation

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Communication

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/taking-political-alternative-media-into-account(2b6fa5bb-9392-4cb9-9f3a-6d160cfd0cd7).html