ABSTRACT

This study examined how news audience’s predispositions (value and outcome involvement, political and gun ownership identities) predicted perceived media bias in mass shooting coverage against gun owners and intention to participate in discursive activities concerning gun issues. Republicans, strong identifiers of gun ownership, and those who perceived the outcome of tightening gun ownership would affect their lives predicted perceptions of media bias. Strong party identifiers, gun ownership identifiers, and those who displayed outcome involvement predicted intention to participate in discursive activities. Perceived media bias was not found to predict the intention to participate in discursive activities concerning gun issues. The results extended the theoretical discussion of corrective action hypothesis and increased our understanding of both individual-level (personal involvement) and social-psychological level (social identities) factors relevant to biased media perception.

摘要

本研究考察了新闻受众的倾向（价值和结果参与、政治和枪支所有权身份）如何预测媒体在针对枪支拥有者的大规模射击报道中的偏见以及参与有关枪支问题的讨论活动的意图。共和党人、枪支所有权的强烈识别者以及那些认为收紧枪支所有权的结果的人会影响他们的生活，他们预测对媒体偏见的看法。强大的政党标识符、枪支所有权标识符和那些表现出结果参与的人预测了参与话语活动的意图。没有发现感知到的媒体偏见可以预测参与有关枪支问题的讨论活动的意图。