WhatsApp political discussion, conventional participation and activism: exploring direct, indirect and generational effects

Zúñiga, Homero Gil de; Ardèvol‐Abreu, Alberto; Casero-Ripollés, Andreu

doi:10.1080/1369118x.2019.1642933

Cited by 110 publications

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“…We asked respondents about the frequency with which they take part in electoral and non-electoral forms of formal political participation (see Ekman & Amn a, 2012;Gil de Z uñiga, Ard evol-Abreu, & Casero-Ripoll es, 2019;Verba & Nie, 1972/1987. Specifically, we asked respondents to report how frequently (1 = never to 7 = all the time) they voted in 'national or presidential elections,' and 'local or statewide elections'.…”

Section: Conventional Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The influence of conspiracy beliefs on conventional and unconventional forms of political participation: The mediating role of political efficacy

Ardèvol‐Abreu

Zúñiga

Gámez

2020

British J Social Psychol

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Recent approaches from social psychology lend support to conspiracy beliefs as a motivated form of social cognition, structured around and consistent with a higher‐order belief system, which may have an impact on the way people understand their political environment and respond to it. Building on these accounts, this study examines the influence of conspiracism on political efficacy and, indirectly, on conventional and unconventional forms of political participation. Drawing on two‐wave panel data collected in five democracies (United States, Japan, United Kingdom, Poland, and Estonia; n = 5,428), results suggest that individuals who hold conspiracy beliefs tend to regard the political system as less responsive to citizens’ demands – external dimension of political efficacy. We also found a less clear and country‐specific effect of conspiracy beliefs on perceptions of being less equipped to partake in the political process – internal efficacy. Furthermore, conspiratorial beliefs negatively affect conventional modes of political participation, indirectly through reduced external efficacy. We finally examine group differences by country that suggest that both individual‐ and contextual‐level factors may explain the observed pattern of influences. Our results emphasize the potential of currently widespread conspiratorial narratives to undermine attitudes and behaviours that lie at the heart of the democratic process.

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Section: Conventional Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The influence of conspiracy beliefs on conventional and unconventional forms of political participation: The mediating role of political efficacy

Ardèvol‐Abreu

Zúñiga

Gámez

2020

British J Social Psychol

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“…Participants in this research were ten people, five of whom were female and five were male. Exploration of phenomena can be carried out on heterogeneous participants between 3-15 people [18]. Research subjects using a purposive sampling technique determine to determine research subjects by predetermined research criteria [19].…”

Section: General Background and Participantmentioning

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Elaborating Motive and Psychological Impact of Sharenting in Millennial Parents

Latipah¹,

Kistoro²,

Hasanah³

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The phenomenon of parental care shared through social media (sharenting) is increasingly widespread. This research aimed to elaborate on the motives, strategies, and psychological effects of sharenting by millennial parents. This research is qualitative research with a phenomenological approach. The subjects are millennial parents who have a habit of sharing parenting on social media and are members of the professional community. Determination of the sample uses purposive sampling so that as many as ten people consisted of five females and five males. Interviews, observations, and documentation are the methods used in data collection. Data were analyzed using reduction techniques, data presentation, and verification. The results showed that the motive of sharenting parents is to receive affirmation and social support, demonstrate the ability to care for children, social participation, and documentation. Millennial parents with a peer-oriented communication model do Sharenting. Sharenting for millennial parents has both positive and negative impacts, namely by providing new information and knowledge, making new friends, and support. The negative effects include feeling insecure, comparing her child with someone else's child, causing animosity and dissent. Thus, it can be concluded that sharenting by millennial parents is carried out with a variety of motives, carried out with a peer approach strategy, and has both positive and negative impacts at the same time. The implication is that millennial parents are more knowledgeable about parenting, understand good sharenting, and are psychologically trained in responding to netizens for their sharenting.

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“…Recently however, there have been some attempts to explore the role of WhatsApp (along with other digital technologies like Facebook or mobile messages) as a platform for workers' unionization (Lazar, et al, 2018), in Malaysia's regime change (Tapsell, 2019), in the empowerment of Nigerian women (Abubakar and Dasuki, 2018), in the Occupy Nigeria protest of 2012 (Uwalaka, 2018) and in Sierra Leone's 2018 elections (Dwyer, et al, 2019). Furthermore, new studies in political communication are now engaging with the role of mobile instant messaging platforms together with more 'traditional' social media (see, in particular, Gil de Zúñiga, et al, 2019;Vaccari and Valeriani, 2018;Valeriani and Vaccari, 2018).…”

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“…The first wave of studies on digital activism in the early 2000s frequently centered on the internal communicative dynamics of social movements, exploring activists' practices performed on forums, e-mail messages and mailing lists (Ayers, 2003;Hara andEstrada, 2005: Kavada, 2009). But as social media like Twitter and Facebook were gaining center stage within academic analyses -and a prominent role within activists' actions toothe internal communicative processes and practices carried out by activists started to lose relevance for researchers.…”

Section: The Computational Turn and The Eclipse Of The Backstage Of Dmentioning

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The banality of WhatsApp: On the everyday politics of backstage activism in Mexico and Spain

Treré¹

2020

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Drawing on interviews with social movements and organizations in Mexico and Spain, this paper sheds light on the dynamics of ‘backstage activism’ with a focus on WhatsApp. It illustrates how activists have integrated this app into their media ecologies to reinforce collective identity, cement internal solidarity and lower the pressure of protest. It shows that within WhatsApp groups, campaigners have countered the paranoia experienced in the frontstage of social media exchanging ironical material and intimate messages. It demonstrates that WhatsApp has been used as a robust organizational device and it is now firmly integrated into the mechanisms of organizations and movements. Its communicative affordances (speed, reliability, mobility, multimediality) in conjunction with the omnipresent smartphone are often emphasized. Nuancing characterizations that tend to either disregard its role or stress its negative side, this qualitative exploration foregrounds the banality of WhatsApp. This article unpacks the multiple roles of this app within the submerged practices of movements and organizations.

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WhatsApp political discussion, conventional participation and activism: exploring direct, indirect and generational effects

Cited by 110 publications

References 35 publications

The influence of conspiracy beliefs on conventional and unconventional forms of political participation: The mediating role of political efficacy

The influence of conspiracy beliefs on conventional and unconventional forms of political participation: The mediating role of political efficacy

Elaborating Motive and Psychological Impact of Sharenting in Millennial Parents

The banality of WhatsApp: On the everyday politics of backstage activism in Mexico and Spain

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