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ABSTRACT
The present study examines the interactive roles of hostile media perception (HMP) and third-person perception (TPP) on political participation. In the context of partisan news and polarized politics, an online experiment (N = 811) found that partisan source cues (in-group vs. out-group news sources) and content slants (pro-attitudinal vs. counter-attitudinal news stories) led to HMP separately, but they did not interact. Next, HMP enhanced political participation intentions, and further HMP mediated the effects of the two partisan news features on participation. Furthermore, nuanced differences in the moderating roles of TPP were found between in-group and out-group targets. HMP and TPP let partisans take part in politics interactively when political opponents were compared, but such synergistic effects were not found when it came to likeminded targets.
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Supplementary material
Supplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2023.2272846
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Seungsu Lee
Seungsu Lee (MA, Yonsei University) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Davis.
Kyungmo Kim
Kyungmo Kim (PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo) is a professor in the Department of Communication at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea.