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(Almost) Everything in Moderation: New Evidence on Americans' Online Media Diets

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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
卷 65, 期 4, 页码 1007-1022

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/ajps.12589

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Most people have moderate online media diets, with a small group leaning towards ideologically slanted websites. There is a significant overlap in media diets between Democrats and Republicans, but some individuals still drive a disproportionate amount of traffic to specific biased websites.
Does the internet facilitate selective exposure to politically congenial content? To answer this question, I introduce and validate large-N behavioral data on Americans' online media consumption in both 2015 and 2016. I then construct a simple measure of media diet slant and use machine classification to identify individual articles related to news about politics. I find that most people across the political spectrum have relatively moderate media diets, about a quarter of which consist of mainstream news websites and portals. Quantifying the similarity of Democrats' and Republicans' media diets, I find nearly 65% overlap in the two groups' distributions in 2015 and roughly 50% in 2016. An exception to this picture is a small group of partisans who drive a disproportionate amount of traffic to ideologically slanted websites. If online echo chambers exist, they are a reality for relatively few people who may nonetheless exert disproportionate influence and visibility.

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