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Jingbo Meng

Bio: Jingbo Meng is an academic researcher from Michigan State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social support & Social media. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 33 publications receiving 1116 citations. Previous affiliations of Jingbo Meng include Ohio State University & University of Southern California.

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TL;DR: Results show that attitude-consistent exposure dominated regardless of particular issue, with 36% more reading time, and higher habitual news use and attitude certainty both fostered attitude- Consistent exposure.
Abstract: An experiment with two computer-based sessions (complete data for 156 participants) examined selective exposure to attitude-consistent and counterattitudinal media messages In the first session, participants indicated interest in politics and news, political attitudes, with four target issues embedded, along with attitude certainty and importance Attitude accessibility data were derived from response latencies In the second session, participants browsed an online opinion forum with eight texts about four issues, each with a pair of articles presenting opposing views Selective exposure was unobtrusively recorded by software and coded as attitude-consistent and counterattitudinal based on individual participants' attitudes Results show that attitude-consistent exposure dominated regardless of particular issue, with 36% more reading time Higher habitual news use and attitude certainty both fostered attitude-consistent exposure Selection of counterattitudinal articles was more likely among participants

385 citations

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TL;DR: This paper examined the effect of selective exposure on attitudes and self-concepts of political self-perceptions and found that participants preferred attitude-consistent over counterattitudinal messages, which strengthened the political selfconcept through increased accessibility.
Abstract: The idea that recipients prefer messages that reinforce preexisting attitudes and self-perceptions has pervaded much communication research, but effects of selective exposure are rarely examined. This 2-session experiment (n = 157) investigates such effects. The first session presented computerized questions on 12 political issue attitudes and political self-concept. Accessibility data were collected based on response times. In the second session, participants browsed through an online magazine including 4 of the 12 issues, each issue being covered by 2 articles featuring opposing viewpoints. Selective exposure was logged and categorized as attitude-consistent or counterattitudinal. Finally, a questionnaire repeated measures for attitudes and self-concept. The results show that participants preferred attitude-consistent over counterattitudinal messages, which strengthened the political self-concept through increased accessibility.

180 citations

01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: This paper examined selective exposure to attitude-consistent and counterattitudinal media messages and found that attitude consistent exposure dominated regardless of particular issue, with 36% more reading time and higher habitual news use and attitude certainty both fostered attitudeconsistent exposure.
Abstract: An experiment with two computer-based sessions (complete data for 156 participants) examined selective exposure to attitude-consistent and counterattitudinal media messages. In the first session, participants indicated interest in politics and news, political attitudes, with four target issues embedded, along with attitude certainty and importance. Attitude accessibility data were derived from response latencies. In the second session, participants browsed an online opinion forum with eight texts about four issues, each with a pair of articles presenting opposing views. Selective exposure was unobtrusively recorded by software and coded as attitude-consistent and counterattitudinal based on individual participants’ attitudes. Results show that attitudeconsistent exposure dominated regardless of particular issue, with 36% more reading time. Higher habitual news use and attitude certainty both fostered attitude-consistent exposure. Selection of counterattitudinal articles was more likely among participants with greater interest in politics, conservative party preference, stronger party preference, more accessible attitudes, and higher attitude importance.

136 citations

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TL;DR: Six types of player motivations were found: socializer, completionist, competitor, escapist, story-driven, and smarty-pants; this typology offers new insights into why people play video games and how player motivations can be used to infer players' in-game behaviors.

120 citations

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TL;DR: Among other findings, social networking was the most used app category, age was a significant demographic factor, and participants, especially heavy smartphone users, overestimated their mobile app usage.
Abstract: Smartphones offer multimedia convergence in a single device, ubiquitous access to media, and constant connections with others. The rapid rise of smartphone use calls for more scholarly attention pa...

96 citations


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TL;DR: As an example of how the current "war on terrorism" could generate a durable civic renewal, Putnam points to the burst in civic practices that occurred during and after World War II, which he says "permanently marked" the generation that lived through it and had a "terrific effect on American public life over the last half-century."
Abstract: The present historical moment may seem a particularly inopportune time to review Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam's latest exploration of civic decline in America. After all, the outpouring of volunteerism, solidarity, patriotism, and self-sacrifice displayed by Americans in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks appears to fly in the face of Putnam's central argument: that \"social capital\" -defined as \"social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them\" (p. 19)'has declined to dangerously low levels in America over the last three decades. However, Putnam is not fazed in the least by the recent effusion of solidarity. Quite the contrary, he sees in it the potential to \"reverse what has been a 30to 40-year steady decline in most measures of connectedness or community.\"' As an example of how the current \"war on terrorism\" could generate a durable civic renewal, Putnam points to the burst in civic practices that occurred during and after World War II, which he says \"permanently marked\" the generation that lived through it and had a \"terrific effect on American public life over the last half-century.\" 3 If Americans can follow this example and channel their current civic

5,309 citations

01 Jan 2013

1,098 citations

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TL;DR: Documentation to facilitate communication between dataset creators and consumers and consumers is presented.
Abstract: The machine learning community currently has no standardized process for documenting datasets, which can lead to severe consequences in high-stakes domains. To address this gap, we propose datasheets for datasets. In the electronics industry, every component, no matter how simple or complex, is accompanied with a datasheet that describes its operating characteristics, test results, recommended uses, and other information. By analogy, we propose that every dataset be accompanied with a datasheet that documents its motivation, composition, collection process, recommended uses, and so on. Datasheets for datasets will facilitate better communication between dataset creators and dataset consumers, and encourage the machine learning community to prioritize transparency and accountability.

1,080 citations

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TL;DR: It is concluded that previous work may have overestimated the degree of ideological segregation in social-media usage and liberals were more likely than conservatives to engage in cross-ideological dissemination.
Abstract: We estimated ideological preferences of 3.8 million Twitter users and, using a data set of nearly 150 million tweets concerning 12 political and nonpolitical issues, explored whether online communication resembles an “echo chamber” (as a result of selective exposure and ideological segregation) or a “national conversation.” We observed that information was exchanged primarily among individuals with similar ideological preferences in the case of political issues (e.g., 2012 presidential election, 2013 government shutdown) but not many other current events (e.g., 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, 2014 Super Bowl). Discussion of the Newtown shootings in 2012 reflected a dynamic process, beginning as a national conversation before transforming into a polarized exchange. With respect to both political and nonpolitical issues, liberals were more likely than conservatives to engage in cross-ideological dissemination; this is an important asymmetry with respect to the structure of communication that is consistent with psychological theory and research bearing on ideological differences in epistemic, existential, and relational motivation. Overall, we conclude that previous work may have overestimated the degree of ideological segregation in social-media usage.

940 citations