Seeing political information online incidentally. Effects of first- and second-level incidental exposure on democratic outcomes

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Highlights：

• We investigate how online incidental exposure (IE) affects political outcomes.

• We distinguish mere scanning from thorough processing of IE content.

• Mere scanning of IE content hardly affected political outcomes.

• Thorough processing can affect multiple outcomes, but not political knowledge.

摘要

•We investigate how online incidental exposure (IE) affects political outcomes.•We distinguish mere scanning from thorough processing of IE content.•Mere scanning of IE content hardly affected political outcomes.•Thorough processing can affect multiple outcomes, but not political knowledge.

论文关键词：Incidental exposure,Political participation,Political knowledge,Social media,Political expression

论文评审过程：Received 24 September 2021, Revised 18 February 2022, Accepted 24 March 2022, Available online 29 March 2022, Version of Record 1 April 2022.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107285