This study examines selective exposure and trust during uprisings. It studies major uses of traditional and social media and assesses the public’s trust in these media and their engagement in sharing news. Focusing on the October 2019 Lebanon uprising, the research surveys thousand Lebanese individuals using a nationally representative probability sample. The findings provide support for selective exposure theory beyond the Western context, particularly for people undergoing stressful political change. The findings also provide support to the robustness of issue publics as a theoretical construct that predicts selective exposure to pro-attitudinal news content, as well as support for attitude strength and attitude importance as two separate predictors.

本研究考察了起义期间的选择性接触和信任。它研究了传统媒体和社交媒体的主要用途，并评估了公众对这些媒体的信任以及它们在共享新闻中的参与度。该研究着重于2019年10月黎巴嫩起义，使用全国代表性的概率样本对数千名黎巴嫩人进行了调查。这些发现为西方背景之外的选择性暴露理论提供了支持，特别是对于经历压力大的政治变革的人们。这些发现还支持发行人的健壮性，因为它是一种理论构造，可以预测有选择地接触前人道主义新闻内容，也可以作为两个独立的预测因素来支持态度强度和态度重要性。