Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ674375
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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An Experimental Examination of Readers' Perceptions of Media Bias.
D'Alessio, Dave
Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, v80 n2 p282-94 Sum 2003
Explores perceptions of media bias by manipulating expectations of bias and news topic. Explains that university students read dummy newspaper articles and then responded to a survey. Concludes that readers were more likely to designate material opposing their own views as biased. (PM)
Descriptors: Bias, Higher Education, Mass Media Effects, Media Research, News Reporting, Reader Response, Student Attitudes
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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