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    University of Haifa

    New Frontiers in Selective Exposure Research

    International ISF Workshop, October 13-15 2015

    Organized by Yariv Tsfati

    The advent of new communication technologies in recent years has renewed scholarly interest in selective exposure, and with this renewed interest came very good questions begging for further theorization and empirical research: Do partisan media really polarize attitudes? (or rather , as argued by some, the association between selective exposure and political polarization is a methodological artifact). If ideologically-congruent exposure indeed polarizes political attitudes, what is the psychological mechanism underlying the association? How come people who prefer ideologically-consistent materials also seem to take in counter-attitudinal materials? With improvements in measurement techniques, even the hypothesis that people prefer ideologically supportive political content calls for further investigation.

    Workshop participants: Cornelia Mothes & R. Kelly Garrett, Yph Lelkes, Lourdes Martinez, Andy Tan and Nehama Lewis, Lilach Nir and Yariv Tsfati, Hernando Rojas, Shira Dvir Gvirsman, Meital Balmas-Cohen, Israel Waismel-Manor, Magdalena Wojcieszak, Michaela Maier, Gadi Wolfsfeld, Moran Yarchi and Tal Samuel-Azran, Jonathan Cohen and Nurit Tal Or, Benjamin K. Johnson, Kevin Arceneaux, Yariv Tsfati.