Populist radical-right attitudes, political involvement and selective information consumption: Who tunes out and who prefers attitude-consonant information

  • This study seeks to understand how populist radical-right (PRR) attitudes and political involvement relate to individuals’ political information consumption and selective exposure to ideological content. The study approaches political information selection as a two-step phenomenon: first, individuals use different amounts of political information, and second, they rely on attitude-consonant information to different degrees. Results from a combination of survey measures, implicit association tests and automated text analysis of large-scale online tracking data collected in Germany and Switzerland in 2020 showed that first, political information consumption was related to political involvement but also to PRR attitudes—in different ways—in both countries. Second, our analyses revealed country variations regarding attitude-consonant online PRR exposure. Third, implicit PRR attitudes were not relevant in explaining the use of PRR content online. We discuss the relevance of moving beyond analyses of traditional news toward the breadth of political information consumption, country contexts, and naturalistic research designs.
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Author:Michaela MaierORCiD, Silke AdamORCiD, Teresa Gil LopezORCiD, Mykola MakhortykhORCiD, Laurits BrommeORCiD, Clara ChristnerORCiD, Ernesto de LeónORCiD, Aleksandra UrmannORCiD
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:386-kluedo-89111
Parent Title (English):Mass Communcation and Society
Publisher:Routledge, Taylor und Francis
Place of publication:London
Document Type:Article
Language of publication:English
Date of Publication (online):2024/03/20
Year of first Publication:2024
Publishing Institution:Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau
Date of the Publication (Server):2025/04/08
Issue:Volume 28, 2025 - Issue 1
Page Number:29
First Page:101
Last Page:129
Source:10.1080/15205436.2024.2310156
Faculties / Organisational entities:Landau - Fachbereich Psychologie
DDC-Cassification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 320 Politik
Collections:Open-Access-Publikationsfonds
Licence (German):Zweitveröffentlichung