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Replication Data for: "Stick to Sports": Evidence from Sports Media on the Origins and Consequences of Newly Politicized Attitudes

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Replication Data for: "Stick to Sports": Evidence from Sports Media on the Origins and Consequences of Newly Politicized Attitudes
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/RIHYSE
 
Creator Peterson, Erik
Muñoz, Manuela
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Politics now intrudes into many aspects of social life. How does this occur and what are its consequences? We study the sources of politicized attitudes towards ESPN, a sports media outlet involved in controversies where politics and sports intersect, and consider their implications for sports news use. We assess two potential contributors to politicized attitudes towards ESPN: exposure to political media criticizing the network and encounters with its sports coverage. In survey-linked web browsing data and a survey experiment, exposure to political media led the public to evaluate ESPN in political terms, showing messages from political elites can affect opinions of entertainment media. In contrast, exposure to ESPN’s typical sports coverage failed to alter views of the network. We also find these newly politicized attitudes do not reduce use of ESPN, demonstrating the intrusion of politics into a seemingly apolitical setting may not displace other considerations underlying behavior.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Contributor Peterson, Erik