Are We Deliberately Captivated in Homogeneous Cocoons? An Investigation on Political Tie Building on Facebook

Cargnino, Manuel; Neubaum, German

doi:10.1080/15205436.2020.1805632

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“…Extroverts may not only be inclined to discuss politics more frequently but also those conversations may contain different attributes when compared to more introverted people. For instance, future research should consider the implications for like-minded and crosscutting talk (Cargnino and Neubaum, 2021;Barnidge, Ardèvol-Abreu, and Gil de Zúñiga, 2018), or between political conversations maintained with strong and weak ties (Lu and Lee, 2021). In this vein, this study also neglected to look deeper into the mediating mechanism by distinguishing between online and offline forms of political discussion (Liu, 2019;Yamamoto and Nah, 2018).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Linking Extraversion to Collective and Individual Forms of Political Participation: The Mediating Role of Political Discussion

Huber

Goyanes

Zúñiga

2021

Social Science Quarterly

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Objectives. Scholars are increasingly investigating the role of citizens' personality in activating political behavior. We test whether extraversion is associated to collective political activities (i.e., activities that include social interaction) and individual ones (i.e., activities that do not include social interactions). Methods. We use originally collected survey data from five countries (Brazil, Korea, Russia, United States, United Kingdom). Results. We found that extraversion is positively and directly related to collective political activities in Brazil, Korea and Russia. Results show no direct relationship between individual forms of political activities and extraversion. However, political discussion fully mediates the relationship between extraversion and individual forms of political activities in all five countries. Conclusion. This study contributes to growing discussions on the role of personality traits in explaining political participation across countries, arguing that the relationship between extraversion and diverse forms of political participation are also context-driven and nourished by political discussion.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Linking Extraversion to Collective and Individual Forms of Political Participation: The Mediating Role of Political Discussion

Huber

Goyanes

Zúñiga

2021

Social Science Quarterly

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“…Several reasons for the lack of effect have been discussed. Selective exposure and echo chambers in social media may reduce people's opportunity to detect and internalize new information (Cargnino and Neubaum, 2021). In addition, the combination of different news platforms may lead to information overload, which in turn may lead to news avoidance on social media (Park, 2019;Granderath et al, 2021).…”

Section: (Subjective) Political Knowledgementioning

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How incidental and intentional news exposure in social media relate to political knowledge and voting intentions

Dreston,

Neubaum

2023

Front. Psychol.

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BackgroundCitizens are expected to make informed voting decisions. Theoretical approaches suggest that people are most likely to acquire their political knowledge through media. As more people turn to social media as a source of news, the political knowledge gains from using these technologies are called into question. Previous research has shown that rather than increasing objective political knowledge, the use of social media for news only increases people’s metacognitive sense of being knowledgeable (subjective knowledge), which in turn increases their political participation. However, it remains to be understood which particular forms of social media use, e.g., incidental or intentional news exposure, are related to which dimension of political knowledge. The present work examines (a) the extent to which different motivational forms of social media news consumption foster subjective knowledge, and (b) whether this metacognition is related not only to political participation as a broad concept, but also to specific democratic outcomes such as voting intentions.Methods and resultsResults from a pre-registered, pre-election survey (N = 1,223) of social media users show that intentional news seeking, but not incidental news exposure on social media, is directly related to increased subjective knowledge. Subjective knowledge appears to explain the relationship between social media news use and voting.DiscussionBy showing that incidental and intentional social media news use affect subjective knowledge differently, this study provides preliminary and nuanced insights into the ultimate role that social media technologies can play in democratic processes.

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“…The study distinguishes itself from previous studies of news overload and news avoidance by focusing on the phenomenon in China, a jurisdiction with a significant feature that distinguishes its news environment from that of Western democratic nations in which an unconstrained press adopts positions across the ideological spectrum. In the context of often highly politically polarized environments, the role of ideology as a filter is significant and is likely to be the primary filter for news avoidance behavior (Cargnino & Neubaum, 2021). While prior studies have sought through regression analysis to identify a range of factors that might impact on news avoidance behavior such as age, gender, education, or occupation, it is almost impossible to segregate from any findings the overarching impact of ideology in societies with significant political and ideological polarization.…”

Section: The Unbearable Weight Of Limitless Informationmentioning

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Responses to News Overload in a Non-Partisan Environment: News Avoidance in China

Zhu

Krever

2023

Sage Open

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Studies conducted in Western democratic countries with privately owned press presenting news from different ideological perspectives have found the phenomenon of news overload causes stress in media users (affective load) and this leads to news avoidance behavior. This study, conducting a structural equation modeling using AMOS 27, investigates the relationships between news overload, affective load, and consequent news avoidance behavior in China. The findings suggest, consistent with studies in Western democratic jurisdictions, that news overload and affective load influence users’ news avoidance behavior. However, in contrast to studies outside of China, this study found demographic variables of age, gender, education, and occupation had no statistically significant influence on avoidance behavior by Chinese social media news consumers. The results suggest that either social attributes and responses by media users in China are significantly different from those in Western countries or ideology plays an important role in avoidance behavior and the impact of ideology is different across different demographic groups in Western jurisdictions.

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Are We Deliberately Captivated in Homogeneous Cocoons? An Investigation on Political Tie Building on Facebook

Cited by 16 publications

References 48 publications

Linking Extraversion to Collective and Individual Forms of Political Participation: The Mediating Role of Political Discussion

Linking Extraversion to Collective and Individual Forms of Political Participation: The Mediating Role of Political Discussion

How incidental and intentional news exposure in social media relate to political knowledge and voting intentions

Responses to News Overload in a Non-Partisan Environment: News Avoidance in China

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