News diets, social media use and non-institutional participation in three communication ecologies: comparing Germany, Italy and the UK

Mosca, Lorenzo; Quaranta, Mario

doi:10.1080/1369118x.2015.1105276

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“…Their data do not offer evidence of significant variance in the relationship between the considered variables (i.e., news diets and platform choice) across the three countries. This finding is somewhat contradicted by the present research which shows that communication ecologies (Mosca and Quaranta, 2016) and political contexts mediate the contributions of Facebook to political participation.…”

Section: Snss and Political Participation Researchcontrasting

confidence: 56%

“…Two recently published studies (Mosca and Quaranta, 2016;Saldaña et al, 2015) are particularly relevant to the present article. Mosca and Quaranta (2016) examine how distinct news diets and the use of different social media platforms may influence noninstitutional participation in Italy, Germany and the UK.…”

Section: Snss and Political Participation Researchmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…As attested by the insightful Digital Media and Political Engagement Worldwide (Anduiza et al, 2012) and more recent publications (Splendore, 2016;Vaccari, 2017;Mosca and Quaranta, 2016), some progress has been made in this direction as more scholars have embarked on cross-national comparative studies. Although there have been advances in research focusing on the Internet in general, crossnational studies looking specifically at the contributions of SNSs to political participation remain scarce.…”

Section: Snss and Political Participation Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Saldaña et al (2015) argue that social media personalized news model (i.e., news are delivered, recommended, and prioritized on the basis of users' interests and social graph) complements the American fragmented (i.e., regional and partisan) media system, while it 'stands in starker contrast to the BBC model' (p. 14) bearing a stronger politically energizing effect for the Britons. Mosca and Quaranta's (2016) and Saldaña et al's (2015) studies demonstrate how cross-national comparative research can facilitate the understanding of the particularities of national contexts and the assessment of the generalizability of findings by testing them in diverse settings. Comparative studies are often employed to three separate ends, as follows: to adjudicate between competing theories (Ragin and Rubinson, 2009); to promote a deeper understanding of the phenomena under investigation (Hantrais and Mangen, 1996); and to facilitate the testing of empirical relationships among variables (Lijphart, 1975).…”

Section: Snss and Political Participation Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Mosca and Quaranta (2016) examine how distinct news diets and the use of different social media platforms may influence noninstitutional participation in Italy, Germany and the UK. Their data do not offer evidence of significant variance in the relationship between the considered variables (i.e., news diets and platform choice) across the three countries.…”

Section: Snss and Political Participation Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Mediating the contributions of Facebook to political participation in Italy and the UK: the role of media and political landscapes

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2018

Palgrave Commun

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Over the last decade, an increasing number of academic studies have examined how digital technologies can contribute to political participation, with numerous publications focusing on social networking websites. This article adds to this strand of research by tackling the scarcity of cross-national comparative studies in the field. Drawing from an original dataset acquired by combining a cross-national comparative approach and a mixedmethods methodology, this paper explores how media and political landscapes mediate the contributions of Facebook to citizens' political participation in Italy and the United Kingdom. A participatory gap between Italian and British participants, with Italians displaying higher levels of political participation through Facebook, is found and explained with reference to three contextual factors: the greater diffusion and relevance of other online platforms such as Twitter in the UK; Italian participants' more negative perception of traditional media linked to the high level of political parallelism typical of the Italian media system; and the presence in Italy of a political party such as the Five Stars Movement making full use of the communicative and organizational affordances of Facebook. The findings indicate that the contributions of Facebook, and digital technologies in general, to political participation must be analysed in context, within the larger patterns they fit into, and cannot be examined in isolation. Such contributions are better understood if considered within the hybrid media system in which different digital platforms interact, merge and compete. Similarly, the political scenarios in which citizens and political parties operate need to be accounted for when looking at the links between the Internet and politics.

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Section: Snss and Political Participation Researchmentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Snss and Political Participation Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%