Differential and interactive influences on political participation by different types of news activities and political conversation through social media

The impact of social media on risk perceptions during the MERS outbreak in South Korea

“…Especially, because social media are designed to customize individual's interests or needs based on users' active behaviors, such as constructing his/her profile, building online networks, or selecting news information (Boyd & Ellison, 2008;Glynn, Huge, & Hoffman, 2012;Lin & Lu, 2011), individual's differences could play an important role in considering the impact of social media. Specifically, people tend to seek and acquire varying gratifications when they use media, such as social media (Hyun & Kim, 2015;Kim et al, 2013). Moreover, individuals often perceive risks depending on their psychological or cognitive characteristics (Sj€ oberg, 2000;Slovic, 1987), such as information processing mode (e.g., Trumbo, 2002) or self-efficacy (e.g., Coleman, 1993).…”

Facilitating personal deliberation online: Immediate effects of two ConsiderIt variations

“…Kim and Khang (2014) found that political participation on social network sites was an important predictor of offline political participation, and was in turn predicted by resources, recruitment, and psychological engagement. Hyun and Kim (2015) also found that political conversations via social media were a significant predictor for participants' political participation in the offline world. In all, the research suggests a two-way relationship between political participation in the online and the offline world.…”

Emociones y difusión de noticias sobre el cambio climático en redes sociales. Influencia de hábitos, actitudes previas y usos y gratificaciones en universitarios

“…Siguiendo a Hyun & Kim (2015), el grado del conocimiento previo sobre cambio climático se ha calculado como el sumatorio de respuestas correctas a un conjunto de preguntas donde los usuarios debían elegir entre "verdadero" y "falso". Cada respuesta correcta se puntuó con uno, mientras que las respuestas incorrectas no sumaban ningún punto (media=1,54, desviación estándar=0,87) (ver tabla 2).…”

“…Los primeros registros históricos de la temperatura datan de unos 150 años. Desde entonces, los registros no han hecho más que aumentar (Verdadero) El CO2 es el único gas industrial responsable del efecto invernadero (Falso) Estados Unidos ha ratificado el protocolo de Kioto (Falso) Cada país adherido al protocolo de Kioto se compromete a reducir sus emisiones de CO2 en un 5% (Falso) Fuente: Hyun & Kim (2015).…”