Abstract
This study examines selective exposure and trust during uprisings. It studies major uses of traditional and social media and assesses the public’s trust in these media and their engagement in sharing news. Focusing on the October 2019 Lebanon uprising, the research surveys thousand Lebanese individuals using a nationally representative probability sample. The findings provide support for selective exposure theory beyond the Western context, particularly for people undergoing stressful political change. The findings also provide support to the robustness of issue publics as a theoretical construct that predicts selective exposure to pro-attitudinal news content, as well as support for attitude strength and attitude importance as two separate predictors.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 907-928 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | International Journal of Press/Politics |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 2021 |
Funding
The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was funded and supported by the Lebanese American University.
Keywords
- Arab media
- Lebanon
- confirmation bias
- conflict
- issue publics
- protest
- selective exposure
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Communication
- Sociology and Political Science