Abstract

As people increasingly rely on social media for news, it is important to understand what types of news media they are likely to come across in their social media environment. Exposure to news content in social media is the result of complex, interdependent systems driven by individuals, platforms, and institutions—among others—but an important element of exposure is what kind of news content engaged individuals tend to share with their peers. This study examines how partisan news media may be influential in social media by proposing that their content is shared more frequently and that they share more emotional content than non-partisan news media. This study examines more than 300,000 tweets and retweets from 22 news organizations to understand what type of political news is shared more widely in social media and how emotion in news content can influence political news sharing. The results suggest that partisan news media are shared more frequently in Twitter, and that partisan news content is more likely to express emotion compared with non-partisan news. Overall, partisan and emotional news media content is disproportionately amplified in social media, which may have important consequences for others who rely on social media for political news information.

摘要

随着人们越来越依赖社交媒体获取新闻，了解他们在社交媒体环境中可能会遇到哪些类型的新闻媒体非常重要。在社交媒体中接触新闻内容是由个人、平台和机构等驱动的复杂、相互依赖的系统的结果，但接触的一个重要因素是个人倾向于与同龄人分享什么样的新闻内容。本研究通过提出与无党派新闻媒体相比，更频繁地分享他们的内容并且分享更多的情感内容，研究了党派新闻媒体如何在社交媒体中产生影响。这项研究检查了 300 多个，来自 22 个新闻机构的 000 条推文和转推，以了解社交媒体中更广泛地分享哪种类型的政治新闻，以及新闻内容中的情绪如何影响政治新闻分享。结果表明，党派新闻媒体在 Twitter 上的分享频率更高，与无党派新闻相比，党派新闻内容更容易表达情感。总体而言，党派和情绪化新闻媒体内容在社交媒体中被不成比例地放大，这可能对依赖社交媒体获取政治新闻信息的其他人产生重要影响。