Consumption of Online Political News and Political Participation of First-Time Voters

Abstract

In some countries, it is stated that youth political participation tends to decline, and the media are then regarded as ones of the causes of this decline. This is strongly supported by the media perspective. However, it is undeniable that there are contradictions to these views, which bring forth the mobilization perspective. There are also parties who consider that the media have merits in increasing political participation. In this case, communication plays an important role as an analytical tool to determine the effect of online political news consumption on political participation. Political knowledge is used as a mediator in this study. This study was conducted to see the position of Consumption of Online Political News in influencing Political Participation through Political Knowledge among Students. The study employed a quantitative method through questionnaires as an effort to collect and analyze data through regression analysis. Population in this study is Universitas PendidikanIndonesia's student that used online news portal. The questionnaires were distributed to 100 student respondents. Sampling method of this study using purposive sampling with several criterias. The results of the study show that there is a significant effect of online political news consumption on political participation with a direct value 0,719.

What influences news learning and sharing on mobile platforms? An analysis of multi-level informational factors

“…Graber, 2001) and online news consumption (e.g. Effendi et al, 2020) on the acquisition of knowledge and factual information. The main conclusion is that media play a role in increasing people's knowledge in certain ways (Chan et al, 2020;Ansari and Khan, 2020).…”

“…Graber, 2001) and online news consumption (e.g. Effendi et al. , 2020) on the acquisition of knowledge and factual information.…”

Media Online dalam Meningkatkan Partisipasi Politik Masyarakat pada Pemilihan Umum (Pemilu)

“…Ada pula pihak yang menilai bahwa media memiliki manfaat dalam meningkatkan partisipasi politik. Dalam hal ini, komunikasi berperan penting sebagai alat analisis untuk mengetahui pengaruh konsumsi berita politik online terhadap partisipasi politik (Effendi, et.al., 2020).…”