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NewsCube: delivering multiple aspects of news to mitigate media bias
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Opinion space: a scalable tool for browsing online comments
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Presenting diverse political opinions: how and how much
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Competing online viewpoints and models of chronic illness
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You
The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You
Supporting reflective public thought with considerit
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Can you hear me now?: mitigating the echo chamber effect by source position indicators
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
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We investigated participants' preferential selection of information and their attitude moderation in an online environment. Results showed that even when opposing views were presented side-to-side, people would still preferentially select information that reinforced their existing attitudes. Preferential selection of information was, however, influenced by both situational (e.g., perceived threat) and personal (e.g., topic involvement) factors. Specifically, perceived threat induced selective exposure to attitude consistent information for topics that participants had low involvement. Participants had a higher tendency to select peer user opinions in topics that they had low than high involvement, but only when there was no perception of threat. Overall, participants' attitudes were moderated after being exposed to diverse views, although high topic involvement led to higher resistance to such moderation. Perceived threat also weakened attitude moderation, especially for low involvement topics. Results have important implication to the potential effects of "information bubble" - selective exposure can be induced by situational and personal factors even when competing views are presented side-by-side.