An experimental study on how liberal and alt-right online news media influence different communities of practice

Abstract

This experimental survey study aimed to find out how different online communities of practice get influenced by journalistic framing of news articles with a different political ideology than theirs and which influence their belief has on the perception of the truthfulness of news. The outcome showed that members of an ideological community of practice will perceive news based on their belief and frame them therefore themselves according to their attitude. Hence, members of such communities of practices are lesser receptive for the framing of authors.