Platform-dependent effects of incidental exposure to political news on political knowledge and political participation

Lee, Sang‐Won; Nanz, Andreas; Heiss, Raffael

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2021.107048

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“…Our findings add to and expand on a nascent literature base which suggests a growing tendency to rely on incidental exposure to news (Lee et al , 2022) as well as noninstitutional sources such as memes (Journell and Clark, 2019) and personal testimony or activist accounts (Clark and Marchi, 2017). Furthermore, they reinforce Mihailidis and Viotty’s (2017) argument that media literacy education must expand beyond teaching a set of skills suited to effortful research and take into account the ways in which every day users participate in the spread of information with different value judgments in mind.…”

Section: Emerging Framework For Civic Media Literacysupporting

confidence: 72%

Think before you share: building a civic media literacy framework for everyday contexts

Middaugh

Bell

Kornbluh

2022

ILS

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Purpose In response to concerns about fake news (Allcott et al., 2019) and polarization (Wollebaek et al., 2019), youth media literacy interventions have emerged to teach strategies for assessing credibility of online news (McGrew et al., 2018) and producing media to mobilize others for civic goals (Kahne et al., 2016). However, in light of evidence that practices learned in classroom contexts do not reliably translate to the context of sharing social media (Middaugh, 2018), this study aims to provide a better understanding of youth social media practices needed to design meaningful and relevant educational experiences. Design/methodology/approach Semistructured interviews with a think-aloud component were conducted with a diverse sample of 18 California youth (15–24) to learn about factors that guide behavior as they access, endorse, share, comment and produce civic media. Findings Findings suggest a shift toward reliance on incidental exposure and noninstitutional sources when accessing information and a tendency toward endorsement and circulation of posts (vs producing original posts) when engaging with civic issues on social media. As participants engaged in these practices, they not only applied judgments of credibility and civic impact but also concerned for personal relevance, relational considerations and fit with internet culture. Originality/value The authors recommend moving beyond models that reflect linear processes of effortful search, credibility analysis and production. Instead, the authors propose a new dynamic model of civic media literacy in which youth apply judgments of credibility, relational considerations, relevance to lived experience, civic impact and fit with internet culture as they receive, endorse, share, comment on and produce media in a nonlinear fashion.

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Section: Emerging Framework For Civic Media Literacysupporting

confidence: 72%

Think before you share: building a civic media literacy framework for everyday contexts

Middaugh

Bell

Kornbluh

2022

ILS

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“…This generates an important gap for future research, where studies need to find out the possibilities of other political decision-making strategies that people use. Also, there can be possibilities of democratic paradox on social media, in which misinformation may stimulate participation and vice versa (Lee et al, 2022). Also, social media as a political communication platform in India has not achieved its professionalization as an information-sharing one (Mahapatra & Plagemann, 2019).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The present study postulates that SNS provide a platform to adult people for overcoming the basic reasons that hinder their political participation through online mode as they have the potential of contributing toward these resources (Vitak et al, 2011). Today, SNS users are exposed to political content, even though they have not been actively looking for it—a phenomenon referred to as incidental exposure to political news (Lee et al, 2022). The incidental exposure stimulates political interest, knowledge, and engagement that further contribute toward democratic participation (Bode, 2016).…”

Section: Literature Review and Hypotheses Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding the Role of Social Networking Sites in Political Marketing

Gupta

Chauhan

2023

Jindal Journal of Business Research

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Today social networking sites (SNS) are one of the most popular and extensively used platforms. These SNSs are now acting as a strong medium of social expression and are changing the way people are acting and reacting to the information flow on these sites. Therefore, in this context, the current study tries to identify how SNS engagement of the people is affecting their online political participation and further how it impacts their rational political decision-making strategy. The resource model of political participation and the social exchange theory are undertaken as a guiding theoretical framework of this study. Survey method was used to collect data from university students across the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir. PLS SEM has been used for data analysis. The paper concludes by putting up the major findings of the study along with theoretical and practical implications.

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“…Following this groundbreaking study, political participation, defined as "activity that is intended to or has the consequence of affecting, either directly or indirectly, government action" (Verba et al, 1995, p. 9), has been used as an academic tool to capture public behavior related to politics (Ardèvol-Abreu et al, 2020;Chang, 2016;He et al, 2022;Ikeda et al, 2013;Pavlova et al, 2022). In this field, numerous studies have identified various determinants of political participation, including political efficacy (Heiss and Matthes, 2019;Ikeda et al, 2008;Jung et al, 2011), political knowledge (Gil de Zúñiga, 2012Johann, 2012;Lee et al, 2022), and media exposure (Pandey et al, 2020;Skoric et al, 2016;for review, Boulianne, 2020). For example, building on the theory of planned behavior (Ajzen, 1991, Ajzen andFishbein, 2005), Reichert (2016) analyzed German longitudinal election data and showed that political efficacy increases the chance that citizens will participate in politics.…”

Section: Existing Studies and Their Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Who participates in criminal justice? An exploratory study in Japan

Mukai,

Matsuki,

Watamura

2024

Preprint

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Public participation in criminal justice is a major topic in criminological research. Recently, an empirical study in Japan coined the term “criminal justice participation” and provided preliminary results for this concept. The present study aimed to identify the correlates of criminal justice participation using data collected from 846 Japanese adults. Our findings show that, among the three groups of correlates, internal efficacy was a consistent predictor of experience and intention to participate in criminal justice. In addition to its relationship with internal efficacy, experience was related to low external court efficacy, stronger support for harsher punishment, and intention to participate. Intention to participate was related to support for rehabilitation and fear of crime. Based on the finding regarding support for harsher punishment and rehabilitation, we discuss the risk that the opinions of those who are more supportive of harsher punishment are overrepresented in society due to their active participation.

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Platform-dependent effects of incidental exposure to political news on political knowledge and political participation

Cited by 23 publications

References 54 publications

Think before you share: building a civic media literacy framework for everyday contexts

Think before you share: building a civic media literacy framework for everyday contexts

Understanding the Role of Social Networking Sites in Political Marketing

Who participates in criminal justice? An exploratory study in Japan

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