News Consumption and Political Party Preferences in Poland
Journal Title: Political Preferences - Year 2018, Vol 2018, Issue 18
Abstract
The objective of this paper is to determine the scale of influence of the media (both traditional and social) on party preferences. The complicated contemporary media ecosystem, in which the boundaries between traditional and internet media are blurred (internet versions of newspapers), news coverage is increasingly de-professionalized (emergence of civic journalism), verification of information becomes increasingly problematic (fake news) leads to a number of theoretical and methodological challenges. Theoretically, the paper uses the model in which mass media act as a factor triggering the emergence of latent views. Empirically, the effort is undertaken to cover the whole universe of information sources, including both print and electronic media, both traditional and internet sources. The analysis determines citizens’ sources of information, tracks consistencies in selecting particular categories of sources (thus outlining ‘information bubbles’), correlates sources with party preferences and measures generalized attitudes to media categories. The study is undertaken on a sample representative for adult Polish population, fielded with CAWI methodology.
Authors and Affiliations
Michał Wenzel
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP274028
- DOI 10.6084/m9.figshare.6025292
- Views 103
- Downloads 0
Polska, Unia Europejska i kryzys. Czy Polacy winią Europę?
The paper focuses both on results of own research (national poll conducted in Poland) and results of other polls concerning perception of the impact of the crisis in Poland. The results were analyzed in terms of correlat...
Opinie polskich wyborców na temat integracji europejskiej i wprowadzenia waluty euro w kontekście kryzysu finansowego w Europie i na świecie
The main aim of this paper is the analysis of the opinions of the Polish society on the European integration process and introduction of the euro currency in Poland. The research problem seems to be very interesting due...
Partycypacja polityczna w Polsce
Basing on research carried out on a representative group of Poles, as part of a national research project called „Political preferences. Attitudes-Identities-Behaviours”, it can be concluded that respondents the most oft...
News Consumption and Political Party Preferences in Poland
The objective of this paper is to determine the scale of influence of the media (both traditional and social) on party preferences. The complicated contemporary media ecosystem, in which the boundaries between traditiona...
The Spanish Party System and the Issue of Assigning Responsibility
The article addresses the dependency between the level of institutionalization present in the Spanish party system, electoral accountability and assigning responsibility. The primary research objective of this article is...