{"id":7395,"date":"2025-05-28T13:20:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T13:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extremebeliefs.com\/?post_type=video&#038;p=7395"},"modified":"2025-05-28T13:22:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T13:22:19","slug":"differential-information-deficits-do-not-explain-political-polarization-by-endre-begby","status":"publish","type":"video","link":"https:\/\/extremebeliefs.com\/nl\/video\/differential-information-deficits-do-not-explain-political-polarization-by-endre-begby\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Differential information deficits do not explain political polarization&#8217; by Endre Begby"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><b>Abstract:\u00a0<\/b>According to Partisan Selective Exposure Theory, contemporary tendencies toward political polarization can be explained by the fact that people increasingly get their news from different politically aligned sources. Either through individual choice or by algorithmic filtering, we are led into &#8220;information bubbles&#8221; where we are only exposed to news-stories and perspectives that corroborate our pre-existing outlooks. As a result, different groups predictably suffer from different information deficits and might as well be &#8220;inhabiting different worlds,&#8221; as far as political epistemology Is concerned.<\/div>\n<div>In this talk, I will argue that the problem with Partisan Selective Exposure Theory is not just its lack of empirical grounding but that its underlying explanatory model is misguided: in brief, it treats as a problem of information <i>access\u00a0<\/i>what is better considered in terms of information\u00a0<i>processing<\/i>. Accordingly, its proposed remedies and normative implications are also potentially counterproductive: in antagonistic\u00a0information environments, they might in fact render us more vulnerable to manipulation and radicalization.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Endre Begby, Simon Fraser University<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/extremebeliefs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Hand-out-Endre-Begby.pdf\">Download Handout<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-7395","video","type-video","status-publish"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Differential information deficits do not explain political polarization&#039; by Endre Begby - Extreme Beliefs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/extremebeliefs.com\/video\/differential-information-deficits-do-not-explain-political-polarization-by-endre-begby\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"nl_NL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&#039;Differential information deficits do not explain political polarization&#039; by Endre Begby - Extreme Beliefs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Abstract:\u00a0According to Partisan Selective Exposure Theory, contemporary tendencies toward political polarization can be explained by the fact that people increasingly get their news from different politically aligned sources. 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