Predicting Political Discussion in a Censored Virtual Environment

Mou, Yi; Atkin, David; Fu, Hanlong

doi:10.1080/10584609.2011.572466

Cited by 65 publications

(28 citation statements)

References 31 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…In addition, because undergraduates tend to be more detached from social and political issues (Mann, 2007;Mou, Atkin, & Fu, 2011;Ruget, 2006), perceived issue salience and risk perceptions might represent more general interpretations of the risks of climate change to society, rather than perceptions of personal risks (Tyler & Cook, 1984). In fact, the general public perceives the risk of climate change as highly impersonal (Leiserowitz, 2006), threatening distant people and places, but not themselves.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

I Share, Therefore I Am: A U.S.−China Comparison of College Students' Motivations to Share Information About Climate Change

2013

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study examines social cognitive factors that influence information sharing related to climate change. Survey data were collected in the United States and China. Social and epistemic motivations, negative emotion, and information seeking were significant predictors of information sharing in the U.S. sample. In the Chinese sample, however, social motivation and information seeking were the only significant predictors. These results suggest that psychological collectivism fosters information sharing. For theory development purposes, these findings suggest that besides information seeking and processing, the Risk Information Seeking and Processing model could account for information sharing as well, although evidence only surfaced in the U.S. sample. Practically, this study offers important pathways to improve information sharing related to climate change in the public sphere.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

I Share, Therefore I Am: A U.S.−China Comparison of College Students' Motivations to Share Information About Climate Change

2013

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…C. C. Yang, 2010;Yu, 2006), web content and discourse analysis (Tang & Yang, 2011;Yang, 2003a;X. Zhou, 2009), and surveys (Guo & Feng, 2012;Mou, Atkin, & Fu, 2011;Shen et al, 2009;Shen et al, 2011;B. Zhou, 2011).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do Chinese Internet users care about news? Tracking news consumers on the Internet in a metropolis 2009–2011

Shen

Liang

2013

Chinese Journal of Communication

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…It is often argued that the extent to which people use the Internet for political participation is connected to the degree of trust in online content and the general worries they associate with Internet use (Mou, Atkin, & Fu, 2011;Mou, Atkin, Fu, Lin, & Lau, 2013). Content on the Internet is, for example, often criticized for low level of trustworthiness due to the anonymity of contributors, lack of editorial control and low professional standards.…”

Section: Worried Online: Trust In Content and Concernsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Switzerland on the Internet: An overview of diffusion, usage, concerns and democratic implications

Just

Latzer

Metreveli

et al. 2013

Studies in Communication Sciences

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article gives multifaceted insights into the current status of Internet use in Switzerland and the related democratic implications. It shows the state of Internet diffusion, digital gaps and the usage patterns of Internet applications. It analyzes people's trust in Internet content and the concerns related to using the Internet. Finally, it explores the extent of political participation online and citizens' views on digital democratization. The results derive from the World Internet Project -Switzerland (WIP-CH), a representative national academic survey embedded in the wider framework of the World Internet Project (WIP). Key WordsInternet, Switzerland, survey, Internet usage Natascha Just, Michael Latzer, Sulkhan Metreveli and Florian Saurwein: Switzerland on the Internet: An overview of diffusion, usage, concerns and democratic implications; In Studies in Communication Sciences, 2013 forthcoming Switzerland on the Internet: An overview of diffusion, usage, concerns and democratic implicationsThe diffusion of technological innovations such as the Internet is generally accompanied by visions and expectations of social progress and democratization. Conceptions such as electronic democracy, digital democracy and network democracy refer to this potential of the Internet and attendant applications for democracy, e.g., by promising to increase the transparency of the political process, enhance the direct involvement and citizens' participation or improve the quality of opinion formation by opening new channels for information and deliberation (Trechsel, Kies, Mendez, & Schmitter, 2003;Saurwein, Just, Latzer, & Metreveli, 2013). In this context it is often argued that democracy could be promoted and strengthened by a broad diffusion of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) and by a proficient and skilled handling of its applications. This alone would provide new opportunities for political engagement and public debate, in essence it would create an easily accessible virtual common public sphere (Giannakoulopoulos, Oikonomou, Oikonomidou, & Meimaris, 2012;Neumayer & Raffl, 2008). Because of its long-standing concern with questions of the public sphere and with how the media fulfill important functions for society (e.g., political or democratic functions) communication science has increasingly moved its research interest to the Internet in order to uncover its feasibility for political participation and for assessing related democratic implications (Weare, 2002;Hacker & van Dijk, 2000). Many empirical examples underline the enabling potential of the Internet to enhance the quality of democracy, e.g., the role of social media for citizen empowerment in the "Arab Spring" (Tufekci & Wilson, 2012;Khondker, 2011). Dutton (2007 argues that the Internet crucially enables individuals to network in new ways that reconfigure and enhance their communicative power -as a type of "Fifth Estate". Chadwick (2008) highlights the low threshold for co-production behavior characteristic of Web 2.0, which provid...

show abstract

Predicting Political Discussion in a Censored Virtual Environment

Cited by 65 publications

References 31 publications

I Share, Therefore I Am: A U.S.−China Comparison of College Students' Motivations to Share Information About Climate Change

I Share, Therefore I Am: A U.S.−China Comparison of College Students' Motivations to Share Information About Climate Change

Do Chinese Internet users care about news? Tracking news consumers on the Internet in a metropolis 2009–2011

Switzerland on the Internet: An overview of diffusion, usage, concerns and democratic implications

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About