Participation in Conversations about the News

Boer, Catherine de

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“…Dependency on media for those purposes has been shown to predict a variety of attitudes and behaviors, including selective exposure (Ball-Rokeach et al, 1984), newspaper readership (Loges & Ball-Rokeach, 1993), product purchases (Grant, Guthrie, & Ball-Rokeach, 1991;Skumanich & Kintsfather, 1998), participation in public deliberation (De Boer & Velthuijsen, 2001), political perceptions (Halpern, 1994), and voting decisions (Davies, 2009).…”

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“…Consumers relying heavily on a source for the fulfillment of personal goals will experience greater effects, even if their exposure is limited. News reading, for instance, has been found to produce different cognitive responses in people who report similar exposure time but different dependency intensity (De Boer & Velthuijsen, 2001).…”

Section: Online Efficacy and Dependency Relationsmentioning

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Political Efficacy on the Internet: A Media System Dependency Approach

Ognyanova¹,

Ball‐Rokeach²

2015

Communication and Information Technologies Annual

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Section: Online Efficacy and Dependency Relationsmentioning

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Political Efficacy on the Internet: A Media System Dependency Approach

Ognyanova¹,

Ball‐Rokeach²

2015

Communication and Information Technologies Annual

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“…Research (Eveland, Hayes, Shah, & Kwak, 2005a, 2005b has shown that there is a close relationship between mass media use and interpersonal political discussion, and both can lead to political knowledge gain. Empirical research generally asserts that the more frequently people discuss politics or news, the more knowledgeable they are about politics (Bennett, Flickinger, & Rhine, 2000;Eveland, 2004;Eveland & Thomson, 2006;Holbert, Benoit, Hansen, & Wen, 2002;Kennamer, 1990;Kwak, Williams, Wang, & Lee, 2005;Robinson & Levy, 1986;Scheufele, 2000; for exceptions see, e.g., de Boer & Velthuijsen, 2001;Rojas, 2008).…”

Section: Media Use Political Discussion and Political Knowledgementioning

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The Influence of Communication Context on Political Cognition in Presidential Campaigns: A Geospatial Analysis

Liu

2012

Mass Communication and Society

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Due to targeting strategies employed by political campaigns, campaign intensity is not uniform across the whole country. This study investigates how an individual's communication context, defined by geospatial characteristics created by campaigns, would influence his or her political learning. Data for this study come from three separate studies conducted during the 2000 U.S. presidential election. The results from a series of multilevel modeling analyses indicate that contextual-level political advertising and candidate appearances moderate the relationship between newspaper use and political knowledge, and the relationship between political discussion and political knowledge. This study not only demonstrates that conditional communication effects hinge on geospatial factors but also helps to develop contextual theories of communication that specifically address effects of contextual factors and cross-level interactions.Political campaigns nowadays have grown very sophisticated, which could be understood primarily from two perspectives-integrated marketing communication and targeting strategies. In political campaigns, integrated

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“…Conversations with others provide people with an additional window for exposure to content in the news media (Katz & Lazarsfeld, 1955), encourage elaboration of and reflection on political information (Eveland, 2004), and stimulate further information seeking (Scheufele, Nisbet, Brossard, & Nisbet, 2004;Tan, 1980)-all of which contribute to knowledge acquisition. Although support for everyday political talk as a purveyor of political information is becoming increasingly widespread, not all discursive participation enhances knowledge (see de Boer & Velthuijsen, 2001;McLeod et al, 1996;. Thus, identifying the conditions under which discussion is, in fact, productive for learning seems necessary for understanding the role of political talk in a democratic society.…”

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Confusion or Enlightenment?

Feldman

Price

2008

Communication Research

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Recent research has yielded inconsistent findings regarding the relationship between interpersonal discussion and media use in the production of political knowledge. This study seeks to better illuminate this relationship by introducing political disagreement as an additional moderator. Using nationally representative survey data collected during the 2000 primary campaign, the authors find a negative interaction between discussion frequency and disagreement in predicting knowledge of candidate issue positions. This suggests either that the benefits of frequent discussion are stronger for those whose discussion networks are composed of like-minded others or that disagreement facilitates learning only at low levels of discussion frequency. Results also demonstrate that frequent discussion enhances the relationship between debate viewing and issue knowledge among those who reside in politically homogenous networks. In diverse networks, however, the relationship between debate viewing and issue knowledge is weaker for those who regularly talk about politics than those who talk less. Political disagreement is unassociated with knowledge of candidates' personal backgrounds.

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Participation in Conversations about the News

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Political Efficacy on the Internet: A Media System Dependency Approach

Political Efficacy on the Internet: A Media System Dependency Approach

The Influence of Communication Context on Political Cognition in Presidential Campaigns: A Geospatial Analysis

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