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Michael McDevitt
Researcher at University of Colorado Boulder
Publications - 35
Citations - 1443
Michael McDevitt is an academic researcher from University of Colorado Boulder. The author has contributed to research in topics: Journalism & Political socialization. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 32 publications receiving 1324 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael McDevitt include University of Texas at Austin.
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From Top-Down to Trickle-Up Influence: Revisiting Assumptions About the Family in Political Socialization
TL;DR: The authors argue that children are not merely receptive to political stimulation; they possess the power to transform patterns of family communication in ways that benefit themselves and their parents, and propose a model of family communications that reverses the roles of parents and children as conventionally understood in political socialization.
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Closing Gaps in Political Communication and Knowledge Effects of a School Intervention
TL;DR: Parents in low-SES homes had not been strongly socialized to politics in their own youth, but their children's exposure to the school intervention provided them a second chance at citizenship.
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Spiral of Moderation: Opinion Expression in Computer-Mediated Discussion
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The Roots of the Gender Gap in Political Knowledge in Adolescence
Jennifer Wolak,Michael McDevitt +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that young women are significantly less politically knowledgeable than men, and that partisan conflict is more likely to promote learning among young men, while young women gain information in environments marked by consensus rather than conflict.