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Publication details [#53820]

Rauch, Jennifer. 2010. Superiority and susceptibility: How activist audiences imagine the influence of mainstream news messages on self and others. Discourse & Communication 4 (3) : 263–277.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

audience | influencing | message1 | news reporting | perception3

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Annotation

This paper explores how US activists perceive the impact of mainstream news messages on themselves and others, thereby examining the third-person effect, i.e. a widespread perception that others are more affected by media messages than the self is.