Erik Knudsen

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title = {Modeling news recommender systems’ conditional effects on selective exposure: evidence from two online experiments},

author = {Erik Knudsen},

url = {https://mediafutures.no/jqac047/},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-12-23},

urldate = {2023-12-23},

journal = {Journal of Communication },

abstract = {Under which conditions do news recommender systems (NRSs) amplify or reduce selective exposure? I provide the Recommender Influenced Selective Exposure framework, which aims to enable researchers to model and study the conditional effects of NRSs on selective exposure. I empirically test this framework by studying user behavior on a news site where the choice environment is designed to systematically influence selective exposure. Through two preregistered online experiments that simulate different NRSs and unobtrusively log user behavior, I contribute empirical evidence that an NRS can increase or decrease the chance that selective exposure occurs, depending on what the NRS is designed to achieve. These insights have implications for ongoing scholarly debates on the democratic impact of NRSs.},

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@article{Knudsen2023,

title = {How Rally-Round-the-Flag Effects Shape Trust in the News Media: Evidence from Panel Waves before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis},

author = {Erik Knudsen and Åsta Dyrnes Nordø and Magnus Hoem Iversen},

url = {https://mediafutures.no/how-rally-round-the-flag-effects-shape-trust-in-the-news-media-evidence-from-panel-waves-before-and-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-crisis/},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-02-23},

urldate = {2023-02-23},

journal = {Political Communication},

abstract = {In this study, we extend the literature on the rally ‘round the flag phenomenon, that is, that international crises tend to cause an increase in citizens’ approval of political institutions. We advance this literature and highlight its relevance for political communication research in three ways: 1) by theorizing and empirically testing two arguments for why rally effects should extend to trust in the news media on the institutional level, 2) by providing empirical evidence on how rally effects on trust in the media develop over time during an international crisis, and 3) by theorizing and testing the conditions under which rally effects on media trust are more likely to occur by studying heterogeneous effects. Through a panel design with a pre-crisis baseline of Norwegian citizens’ trust in news media, we find evidence to suggest that the compound effect of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis caused a long-lasting increase in trust in the news media in Norway, and that the degree of increase varied by citizens’ education and whether they belonged to a “high-risk” group. We also provide evidence to suggest that rally effects on news media trust are contingent on how important the news media is as a source of information about the crisis and the “trust nexus” between media trust and political trust. These insights extend our current understanding of how times of crisis affect trust in the news media.},

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@article{cristin1953352,

title = {Towards Responsible Media Recommendation},

author = {Mehdi Elahi and Dietmar Jannach and Lars Skjærven and Erik Knudsen and Helle Sjøvaag and Kristian Tolonen and Øyvind Holmstad and Igor Pipkin and Eivind Throndsen and Agnes Stenbom and Eivind Fiskerud and Adrian Oesch and Loek Vredenberg and Christoph Trattner},

url = {https://app.cristin.no/results/show.jsf?id=1953352, Cristin

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs43681-021-00107-7},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-021-00107-7},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-11-02},

journal = {AI and Ethics},

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@article{cristin1902285,

title = {How the public understands news media trust: An open-ended approach},

author = {Erik Knudsen and Stefan Dahlberg and Magnus Hoem Iversen and Mikael Poul Johannesson and Silje Nygaard},

url = {https://app.cristin.no/results/show.jsf?id=1902285, Cristin},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849211005892},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

journal = {Journalism - Theory, Practice & Criticism},

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