Erik C. Nisbet

TL;DR: Exposing 240 adults to simulated news stories about possible climate change health impacts on different groups, it was found the influence of identification with potential victims was contingent on participants’ political partisanship and resulted in a boomerang effect among Republican participants.

TL;DR: The authors developed a model of the interplay between sociostructural determinants of an individual's discussion behavior, such as the setting of primary discussion networks (work, church, and volunteer groups) and the nature of discussion (i.e., level of exposure to non-like-minded ideas), and individual-level outcomes such as hard news media use, political knowledge, and participation in political processes.

TL;DR: The authors found that both liberals and conservatives alike react negatively to dissonant science communication, resulting in diminished trust of the scientific community, and that the effect of such messages on trust in scientific community is not limited to ideological differences between conservatives and liberals but also to institutional and psychological factors.

TL;DR: This article explored the direct and indirect links between structural heterogeneity, network heterogeneity, and political participation and found positive links between both structural and network heterogeneity that are mediated through various communication processes, and developed a path model linking structure, context, and networks into an integrated pathway to evaluate the indirect effects of heterogeneity on political participation.

TL;DR: In this paper, a multilevel model examining the relationship between Internet penetration, individual Internet use, and citizen demand for democracy across 28 countries was proposed, finding that greater democratization and Internet penetration moderate the relationship of Internet use and demand for democratic governance.