Modeling the Effects of Political Information Source Use and Online Expression on Young Adults’ Political Efficacy

Zhou, Yushu; Pinkleton, Bruce E.

doi:10.1080/15205436.2011.622064

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“…It is perhaps unsurprising that while internal efficacy was significantly predicted by one NML component, external was not. Media use is related mostly to internal efficacy, according to previous research (Jung, Kim, and Gil de Zuniga 2011;Zhou and Pinkleton 2012). If anything, we might actually expect external political efficacy to show a relationship similar to feelings of political trust, which decline with higher literacy.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 72%

“…Studies of media use often focus on internal political efficacy because it is considered more likely to be a product of communication than external political efficacy (Jung, Kim and Gil de Zuniga 2011). External political efficacy is more likely to be linked with active involvement in public affairs (Zhou and Pinkleton 2012). This literature leads us to ask:…”

Section: Political Activity Trust and Efficacymentioning

confidence: 99%

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News Media Literacy and Political Engagement: What’s the Connection?

Ashley¹,

Maksl²,

Craft³

2017

JMLE

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Scholars and educators have long hoped that media education is positively related to prosocial goals such as political and civic engagement. With a focus on measuring news media literacy with emphasis on media knowledge, need for cognition and media locus of control, this study surveyed 537 college students and found positive relationships between news media literacy and two political engagement measures: current events knowledge and internal political efficacy. Findings show that news media literacy is not associated with political activity, although some dimensions of news media literacy are associated with lower levels of political trust. Results help to define significant components of news media literacy and suggest that these components help foster positive relationships with civic and political life.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 72%

Section: Political Activity Trust and Efficacymentioning

confidence: 99%

News Media Literacy and Political Engagement: What’s the Connection?

Ashley¹,

Maksl²,

Craft³

2017

JMLE

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“…political interest) and online reasoning activities (e.g. political discussion) (Jung et al, 2011; Zhou and Pinkleton, 2012).…”

Section: The Mediating Role Of Facebook News Consumptionmentioning

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Determinants of cross-cutting discussion on Facebook: Political interest, news consumption, and strong-tie heterogeneity

Lee

2020

New Media & Society

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Scholarly debate persists as to whether the use of social networking sites (SNSs) encourages or discourages political discussion with people holding different opinions. Drawing on a national survey, this study focuses on Facebook and explores the predictors of cross-cutting discussion on this platform. The results reveal that political interest is positively associated with cross-cutting discussion and this relationship is mediated by the frequency of news consumption on Facebook, suggesting that Facebook use has the potential of exposing the politically attentive to dissonant views. Furthermore, the level of heterogeneity of a person’s strong-tie network is found to accentuate the mediating effect of Facebook news consumption. Implications are discussed for the impacts of Facebook use on deliberative democracy.

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“…For instance, Moy and Gastil (2006) found that television news use is positively related to offline political discussion frequency in two divergent adult and student samples. Similarly, on the Internet realm, Zhou and Pinkleton (2010) suggested that attention to online news positively predicts young adults’ online political expression and political participation, which reflects the increase of young adults’ political efficacy.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 98%

Social Media News Use and Political Discussion

2016

Electronic News

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Social media has been evidenced as a meaningful platform in terms of informing citizens and promoting democracy. The present research adds to the existing literature by examining various predictors of social media political discussion. Special attention was paid to social media news use, social media network, trust, as well as various control variables in a nondemocratic state, China. Results indicated a unique role of social media news dissemination in predicting social media political discussion. Moreover, news friending, the number of followers and followees, along with political interest predicted news dissemination. In addition, only the number of followees predicted news reception. Theoretical implications are discussed in detail.

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Modeling the Effects of Political Information Source Use and Online Expression on Young Adults’ Political Efficacy

Cited by 27 publications

References 48 publications

News Media Literacy and Political Engagement: What’s the Connection?

News Media Literacy and Political Engagement: What’s the Connection?

Determinants of cross-cutting discussion on Facebook: Political interest, news consumption, and strong-tie heterogeneity

Social Media News Use and Political Discussion

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