Who Is Responsible? the Impact of Emotional Personalization on Explaining the Origins of Social Problems

dc.contributor.author Kim, Minchul
dc.contributor.author Baş, Özen
dc.contributor.author Hale, Brent J.
dc.contributor.author Grabe, Maria Elizabeth
dc.contributor.author Baş, Özen
dc.contributor.other New Media
dc.date.accessioned 2020-12-24T10:24:48Z
dc.date.available 2020-12-24T10:24:48Z
dc.date.issued 2020
dc.department Fakülteler, İletişim Fakültesi, Yeni Medya Bölümü en_US
dc.description.abstract Personalization refers to the journalistic practice of including emotional case studies of ordinary people in news stories, increasing vividness and emotional charge of news and eliciting identification and empathy in news consumers. Previous research suggests that personalization of news stories increases collectivistic (compared with individualistic) causal attributions by the news audience. In response, an experiment was conducted with a week time delay between stimuli presentation and open-ended participant responses to examine the influence of news personalization on how news consumers attribute causes for social issues. Participant (N = 80) trait empathy was included as an additional factor. Findings show that participants with high trait empathy expressed a greater shift to collectivistic attribution after watching personalized news stories than participants with low trait empathy, suggesting that individual differences in trait empathy may be an important factor in how individuals construct their own understanding of social problems. en_US
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dc.identifier.doi 10.1080/15456870.2020.1752693 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1545-6870 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1545-6870
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dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/3645
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870.2020.1752693
dc.identifier.volume 2020 en_US
dc.identifier.wos WOS:000925007700002 en_US
dc.institutionauthor Baş, Özen en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Routledge en_US
dc.relation.journal Atlantic Journal of Communication en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess en_US
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dc.title Who Is Responsible? the Impact of Emotional Personalization on Explaining the Origins of Social Problems en_US
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