From xbox to the ballot box? The influence of leisure activities on political engagement and vote choice

Bacovsky, Pavel

doi:10.1080/19331681.2021.1894523

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“…Finally, our study only included American adults over age 18. Youth under age 18 (Bacovsky, 2021a(Bacovsky, , 2021b, and people outside the United States (Jung, 2020; Lewis et al, 2019) engage with both video games and climate change issues differently from adults and Americans, respectively.…”

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“…Additional gaming research suggests that gamers' social ties with other gamers affects their likelihood of taking political action (Bacovsky, 2021a;Jung, 2020). Bacovsky (2021a) found that video gamers often engage with each other on political issues through online discussion and civic engagement, suggesting that gaming social communities provide an important forum for political engagement. Jung (2020) explored these issues directly and found that playing video games with others, and selfreported involvement in online gaming communities, were positively associated with participation in political action.…”

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Geeks versus climate change: understanding American video gamers’ engagement with global warming

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As climate change impacts increase, communicators must engage as many audiences as possible in climate action. One potentially underrated audience is video gamers. Two-thirds of Americans play video games, and video games are a potentially effective climate change communication tool. However, little research has examined whether video gamers have unique value as a target audience for climate communication, and if they do, what might be effective ways to reach them. To address this need, we use two surveys including self-identi ed video game players in the United States to measure their current engagement with climate change, including through video gaming. In Study 1, a nationally representative survey in the United States (N = 1,006), we found that being a video gamer was slightly positively associated with intentions to take collective action on global warming. In Study 2, restricted to gamers in the United States (N = 2,034), we found that having more friends and family who played video games, and/or being exposed to global warming content in gaming, were also positively associated with collective action intentions. These ndings were consistent even after controlling for potential confounding variables such as age, political party, and global warming attitudes. Results suggest that video gamers are a worthwhile potential audience for future climate change communication, combatting the stereotype of video gamers as disengaged or antisocial, at least in the context of climate change. Our study also identi es several potential avenues for future communication with video gamers, particularly outreach to and engagement with gaming communities.

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Geeks versus climate change: understanding American video gamers’ engagement with global warming

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“…We build on this stylized fact to gain fresh insight into the sources of mainstream partisanship. This seems especially relevant to modern developments since the movement away from established center-left and center-right parties stems partly from new generations exhibiting divergent partisan patterns from past cohorts (Bacovsky, 2021; Henn et al, 2005). Thus, further exploring how political socialization at home operates in the modern era is essential.…”

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Young Citizens’ Party Support: The “When” and “Who” of Political Influence within Families

Fitzgerald

Bacovsky

2022

Political Studies

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Decades of evidence point to the vital role of parents in shaping their children’s partisan leanings, particularly concerning mainstream parties. And yet the contours of intergenerational influence remain quite obscured. For instance, scholars disagree on when social learning in the household occurs (childhood vs adolescence) and about who is the dominant socializer (mother vs father). Data from a long-term German household panel survey allow for a fine-grained examination of intergenerational influence processes over time. We model the partisan preferences of 18-year-olds as a function of their mothers’ and fathers’ own contemporaneous and past partisan preferences. Our intergenerational inquiry reveals that mothers dominate socialization during childhood while influence in late adolescence is more evenly distributed between mothers and fathers. We also find that mothers have an advantage over fathers in communicating center-left party preferences. These findings have implications for our understanding of socialization, partisanship, and democratic stability.

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How young people get from voice to influence for change: exploring the relations between tactical choices and civic efficacy

Nam,

Kidd

2024

Journal of Information Technology & Politics

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From xbox to the ballot box? The influence of leisure activities on political engagement and vote choice

Cited by 4 publications

References 68 publications

Geeks versus climate change: understanding American video gamers’ engagement with global warming

Geeks versus climate change: understanding American video gamers’ engagement with global warming

Young Citizens’ Party Support: The “When” and “Who” of Political Influence within Families

How young people get from voice to influence for change: exploring the relations between tactical choices and civic efficacy

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