Social Media Expression and the Political Self

Lane, Daniel S.; Lee, Slgi S.; Liang, Fan; Kim, Dam Hee; Shen, Liwei; Weeks, Brian E.; Kwak, Nojin

doi:10.1093/joc/jqy064

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“…political blog readers; Gil de Zúñiga et al, 2010), are platform non-specific (e.g. Lane et al, 2019; Yoo et al, 2017), or are limited by their exclusive use of self-report data (e.g. Gibson and Cantijoch, 2013; Gil de Zúñiga et al, 2010; Yoo et al, 2017).…”

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Civic engagement, social capital, and ideological extremity: Exploring online political engagement and political expression on Facebook

Ferrucci

Hopp

Vargo

2019

New Media & Society

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Using a method incorporating both survey and trace data measures, this study presented and tested a theoretical model for understanding political expression on Facebook. The data suggested that self-reported measures of offline civic engagement, bonded social capital, and ideological extremity were predictive of a self-reported measure of general online political engagement. For its part, self-reported levels of online political engagement were positively and significantly associated with observed political expression on Facebook. These results are discussed in the context of both on and offline political connection and communication.

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Civic engagement, social capital, and ideological extremity: Exploring online political engagement and political expression on Facebook

Ferrucci

Hopp

Vargo

2019

New Media & Society

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“…In this sense, the desire to act as a gatekeeper of information or an opinion leader may be a fundamental motivation for news sharing. Indeed, research has found that self-perceptions of opinion leadership influence users' news sharing intention (Ma, Sian Lee, & Hoe-Lian Goh, 2014) and that political expression enhances people's motivations to self-present as politically active on social media (Lane et al, 2019). Moreover, users may feel motivated to share news that supports their own views and contradicts dissenting beliefs since advocating for one's own beliefs can be a motivator of news sharing (Dafonte-Gómez, 2018), consistent with evidence of a relationship between news sharing and ideology spreading (Lottridge & Bentley, 2018).…”

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From Dark to Light: The Many Shades of Sharing Misinformation Online

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Flanagin

Mena³

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Research typically presumes that people believe misinformation and propagate it through their social networks. Yet, a wide range of motivations for sharing misinformation might impact its spread, as well as people’s belief of it. By examining research on motivations for sharing news information generally, and misinformation specifically, we derive a range of motivations that broaden current understandings of the sharing of misinformation to include factors that may to some extent mitigate the presumed dangers of misinformation for society. To illustrate the utility of our viewpoint we report data from a preliminary study of people’s dis/belief reactions to misinformation shared on social media using natural language processing. Analyses of over 2,5 million comments demonstrate that misinformation on social media is often disbelieved. These insights are leveraged to propose directions for future research that incorporate a more inclusive understanding of the various motivations and strategies for sharing misinformation socially in large-scale online networks.

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“…Several studies employing the concept and type of activities underlined by DNP—including in the context of mobilization (Lilleker & Koc‐Michalska, 2017), participatory inequality (Bode, 2017), the participatory consequences of selective exposure (Feezell, 2016), feminist (Heger & Hoffmann, 2019) and youth activism (Ekström & Shehata, 2018; Pickard, 2019)—have shown that it has become a popular form of engaging in various areas of politics and civil society. Moreover, manifestations of DNP have been shown to be crucial for shaping political self‐concepts such as political self‐efficacy and interest, strengthening people's political self‐presentation on social media, and their public commitment to their image as politically active (Lane et al, 2019). As such, DNP has a variety of manifestations that may range from highly vocal, symbolic, and interactive (such as attaching #MeToo to a political post on Twitter, identifying with #ClimateChangeIsReal by changing one's profile on Facebook, or encouraging others to vote for a certain party by creating a YouTube video), to less intense acts (such as commenting through a tweet to an ongoing public discussion about a political issue) (Suk et al, 2019).…”

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“…To the contrary, it relies on platforms developed for social networking, entertainment, self‐expression, and socialization, and can thus be spontaneously political and targeted toward multiple actors and groups within and beyond the government in a bottom‐up manner. This flexible, interactive, low‐cost, and collaborative nature of DNP, along with the attention‐grabbing potential it can have when (and if) it scales (Barberá et al, 2015; Margetts, John, Escher, & Reissfelder, 2011; Margetts, John, Hale, & Yasseri, 2015), has made it a popular way of engagement across the world (Theocharis & van Deth, 2018a; Anderson, Toor, Rainie, & Smith, 2018), and one with important effects on how citizens think about politics (Lane et al, 2019).…”

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Digitally Networked Participation and Lifestyle Politics as New Modes of Political Participation

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Moor²,

Deth³

2019

Policy & Internet

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Political participation has seen substantial changes in terms of both its structure and its scope. One of the most prominent venues of citizen engagement today is participation that relies on online means. Several approaches to online participation have attempted to understand its nature as a continuation of offline acts into the online realm, or as an independent form. In this article, we determine the place of online participation in the repertoire of political participation with greater precision. We ask whether, in particular, digitally networked participation (DNP) is an expansion of lifestyle politics, or whether there are empirical grounds to classify it as a new, independent mode of participation. We study a large variety of participatory activities using data from an online survey conducted among 2,114 politically active individuals in Belgium in 2017. We use an innovative measurement approach that combines closed-with open-ended questions, which allows us to explore new forms of participation that have previously not been considered or measured. Our results show that DNP is a core part of today's activists' repertoire and a distinct mode of political participation that is clearly attractive to younger, critical citizens.

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Social Media Expression and the Political Self

Cited by 72 publications

References 49 publications

Civic engagement, social capital, and ideological extremity: Exploring online political engagement and political expression on Facebook

Civic engagement, social capital, and ideological extremity: Exploring online political engagement and political expression on Facebook

From Dark to Light: The Many Shades of Sharing Misinformation Online

Digitally Networked Participation and Lifestyle Politics as New Modes of Political Participation

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