Social Media as a Civic Mobilizer: Community Storytelling Network, Social Media, and Civic Engagement in South Korea

Choi, Doo-Hun; Nah, Seungahn; Chung, Deborah S.

doi:10.1080/08838151.2021.1897818

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“…In other words, the relationships between ICSN and online civic engagement and collective efficacy are even stronger for those who share more information and express more opinions about what is happening in their communities. Such a finding suggests that a communicatively integrated, actively engaged use of digital media can function as a mobilizer for local civic communities (Choi et al, 2021; Nah & Yamamoto, 2017, 2018). These interaction effects also resonate with the differential gains model mentioned earlier (Hardy & Scheufele, 2005), which suggests that online interactions can moderate the relationship between integrated connection to storytelling network (ICSN) and participatory behaviors.…”

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“…As an ecologically oriented framework, CIT scholarship has extended community storytelling network to include newly emerging digital media such as social and mobile media (Choi et al, 2021; Kim et al, 2019; Nah & Yamamoto, 2017). In the rapidly evolving communication environment, CIT does not view interpersonal networks, local media, or community organizations as isolated entities.…”

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“…The emergence of Internet and new media platforms has prompted burgeoning research on expressive digital media use and its various civic consequences (e.g., Choi et al, 2021; Gil de Zúñiga et al, 2014; Nah et al, 2006; Shah et al, 2005). Literature in this area can be categorized around the specific medium of interest: Internet, social media, and mobile media.…”

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Community Storytelling Network, Expressive Digital Media Use, and Civic Engagement

Nah

Lee

Liu

2021

Communication Research

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Grounded in Communication Infrastructure Theory (CIT), this study tests the moderating roles of expressive digital media use through the Internet, social, and mobile media between community storytelling network and civic engagement. Based on online survey data of U.S. adults in an ethnically homogenous metropolitan area, this study finds that community storytelling network and expressive digital media use significantly predict the level of civic engagement. In particular, expressive digital media use serves as a necessary condition for community storytelling network to further promote online civic participation and collective efficacy among community residents. This study thus advances CIT with an integrated approach to expressive digital media use by testing the extended theoretical framework in a different local community context. Findings offer practical applications and policy implications regarding communication, citizenship, and civic community.

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Community Storytelling Network, Expressive Digital Media Use, and Civic Engagement

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Lee

Liu

2021

Communication Research

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“…Measuring sentiment may reveal underlying community-level attitudes, which could be done in conjunction with (or even when it is not possible to get) individual-level data from community members measuring neighborhood belonging, collective efficacy, or civic participation. These are variables central to CIT scholarship that researchers in recent studies have begun to consider online, described as integrated connectedness to the STN [83,84]. Expanding social media research using sentiment analysis in different places, cultures, and communities can help to understand the FHA in a locality.…”

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Examining Vaccine Sentiment on Twitter and Local Vaccine Deployment during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Martinez

Savage

Jones

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Understanding local public attitudes toward receiving vaccines is vital to successful vaccine campaigns. Social media platforms may help uncover vaccine sentiments during infectious disease outbreaks at the local level, and whether offline local events support vaccine-promotion efforts. Communication Infrastructure Theory (CIT) served as a guiding framework for this case study of the San Diego region examining local public sentiment toward vaccines expressed on Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic. We performed a sentiment analysis (including positivity and subjectivity) of 187,349 tweets gathered from May 2020 to March 2021, and examined how sentiment corresponded with local vaccine deployment. The months of November and December (52.9%) 2020 saw a majority of tweets expressing positive sentiment and coincided with announcements of offline local events signaling San Diego’s imminent deployment of COVID-19 vaccines. Across all months, tweets remained mostly objective (never falling below 63%). In terms of CIT, considering multiple levels of the Story Telling Network in online spaces, and examining sentiment about vaccines on Twitter may help scholars to explore the Communication Action Context, as well as cultivate positive community attitudes to improve the Field of Health Action regarding vaccines. Real-time analysis of local tweets during development and deployment of new vaccines may help monitor local public responses and guide promotion of immunizations in communities.

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“…commenting), facilitating further interaction with other users—from their passive use (i.e. simple reception of information, see Choi et al, 2021; Mari et al, 2022).…”

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News portals as a gateway to civic engagement: the case of South Korea

Kim,

von Herrmann,

Nah

2023

Media International Australia

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Applying the communication mediation model and the communication infrastructure theory in the Korean news media environment, the current study investigates the potential of news portals as a gateway to civic engagement through online discussion. Specifically, this study distinguishes the active use of news portals for information about community issues and public affairs (e.g. commenting, passing along and searching for information) from the passive use of news portals (i.e. simple reception of information). An analysis of a national survey of 1294 Korean adults shows that active, not passive, use of news portals positively predicts online community discussion to subsequently increase cognitive, psychological, and behavioral dimensions of civic engagement: neighborhood belonging, collective efficacy, and civic participation. Importantly, active portal use's indirect positive relationship with civic engagement through online community discussion is stronger among people with higher news portal credibility. Implications are further discussed in the context of Korean news portals.

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Social Media as a Civic Mobilizer: Community Storytelling Network, Social Media, and Civic Engagement in South Korea

Cited by 18 publications

References 36 publications

Community Storytelling Network, Expressive Digital Media Use, and Civic Engagement

Community Storytelling Network, Expressive Digital Media Use, and Civic Engagement

Examining Vaccine Sentiment on Twitter and Local Vaccine Deployment during the COVID-19 Pandemic

News portals as a gateway to civic engagement: the case of South Korea

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