Political information repertoires and political participation

Abstract

This study examines the relationship between various forms of media use and political participation. The major argument is that in today’s high-choice media environment, individuals and groups with the highest level of political interest are more likely to develop richer political information repertoires that involve exploiting both digital and traditional ways of searching for political information. Individuals and groups with richer political information repertories can be expected to have higher levels of political knowledge, efficacy, and participation. This article argues further that a clear connection exists between peoples’ informational and participatory repertoires and tests these propositions using a large, heterogeneous sample of the Israeli public during the 2013 election campaign. The analysis supports the claims of this study, with a few intriguing exceptions.

The echo chamber is overstated: the moderating effect of political interest and diverse media

“…Individuals tend to develop media habits which are repeated media consumption behaviours (LaRose, 2010) and news or political information media repertoires, which is the collection of media an individual uses to access news and political information regularly (Heeter, 1985;Wolfsfeld, Yarchi, & Samuel-Azran, 2016). Research has convincingly argued that, given multiple media to choose from individuals tend to habitually make use of a smaller subset of media available (Heeter, 1985;Wolfsfeld et al, 2016). These repertoires differ in terms of how many media are included, which media, and how those media might be combined.…”

Computational observation: Challenges and opportunities of automated observation within algorithmically curated media environments using a browser plug-in

“…(1) Respondents' media repertoires in today's high-choice media environment vary widely because of structural, sociodemographic, and habitual factors (e.g., Kim, 2014;Taneja, Webster, Malthouse, & Ksiazek, 2012;Wolfsfeld, Yarchi, & Samuel-Azran, 2016). In addition, repertoire fragmentation may be fueled by the large variety of content available on social networking sites, where respondents might have different views on what counts as "journalistic news."…”

Istraživanja uloge medija za političku participaciju

“…u posljednjem razdoblju u političkoj komunikaciji sve se više koriste pristupi preuzeti iz istraživanja medijskih publika, kao što su primjerice medijski repertoari u istraživanjima publika vijesti (edgerly et al 2018;Strömbäck et al 2017;vozab 2016;Wolfsfeld, Yarchi and Samuel-azran 2016). otvaranje političke komunikacije prema drugim disciplinama, teorijama i metodologiji na način na koji su to učinile medijske i komunikacijske studije, te koje time prilagođavaju istraživanja brzim društvenim i (Karpf et al 2015; Kleis nielsen 2014).…”