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The gender news use divide: Impacts of sex, gender, self-esteem, achievement, and affiliation motive on German newsreaders' exposure to news topics
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Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick
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Julia Brück
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28. November 2006
Abstract
To examine the psychological origins of sex-typed news preferences, an online newsmagazine was presented to 246 German participants in a quasi-experimental design. The presented articles featured equal portions of social/interpersonal and achievement/performance topics. Newsreaders' selective news exposure was unobtrusively logged. Results show that, even when various intervening factors are eliminated, women read more about social/interpersonal topics than men did, and men spent more time on achievement/performance-related news than women. Newsreaders' self-esteem and gender role orientation influenced the preference of news content. This contribution will also discuss the effects of sex-typed news exposure.
Keywords: gender differences; news use; selective exposure; information seeking; self-esteem; gender roles
Published Online: 2006-11-28
Published in Print: 2006-09-01
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Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
gender differences;
news use;
selective exposure;
information seeking;
self-esteem;
gender roles
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Introduction to the special issue: Media use and selectivity
- Emotional gratifications during media use – An integrative approach
- Explaining and analyzing audiences: A social cognitive approach to selectivity and media use
- How players manage moral concerns to make video game violence enjoyable
- The gender news use divide: Impacts of sex, gender, self-esteem, achievement, and affiliation motive on German newsreaders' exposure to news topics
- The relevance of attention for selecting news content. An eye-tracking study on attention patterns in the reception of print and online media
- Media repertoires as a result of selective media use. A conceptual approach to the analysis of patterns of exposure
- “Play it again, Sam”. A differentiating view on repeated exposure to narrative content in media
- Contributors
