/ Media Content for 69³ÉÈË en /news/new-episode-backdrop-podcast-released-1 <p>Conventional wisdom has held that as people are exposed to more partisan news, they become more polarized. But a new study finds that’s not so.&nbsp;On this month’s episode of <em>The Backdrop</em>, <strong><a href="https://communication.ucdavis.edu/people/mwojcie1">Magdalena Wojcieszak</a></strong> discusses a couple of new studies she has co-authored that found no correlation between media exposure and political polarization.</p> February 25, 2021 - 11:35am Soterios J Johnson /news/new-episode-backdrop-podcast-released-1