Selective Exposure examines how predispositions and goals shape information choices within available environments, including preferences for congenial material. Accuracy and utility can encourage contrary evidence, while availability differs from deliberate selection, so a homogeneous information diet neither proves defensive avoidance nor predicts persuasion after exposure.
- FamilyModel
- CategoryTheories & Explanatory Models
- DomainMedia, Publics & Society
What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Theories & Explanatory Models
Explains how or why a communication process works by relating mechanisms, conditions or variables. Its value is an account that can guide inquiry into what produces an outcome, rather than a name for the outcome alone.