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Social Media, Political Expression, and Political Participation: Panel Analysis of Lagged and Concurrent Relationships
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In this paper, the role of social media as a sphere for political expression and its effects on political participation was examined and it was shown that social media use for social interaction does not have direct influence in people's political engagement, but rather an indirect effect by means of citizens expressing themselves politically.Abstract:
This article relies on U.S. 2-wave panel data to examine the role of social media as a sphere for political expression and its effects on political participation. Informational uses of social media are expected to explain political expression on social media and to promote political participation. This study clarifies the effect of using social media for social interaction in fostering political expression and participation processes. Results indicate that social media news use has direct effects on offline political participation and indirect effects on offline and online political participation mediated via political expression. Furthermore, social media use for social interaction does not have direct influence in people’s political engagement, but rather an indirect effect by means of citizens expressing themselves politically.read more
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Social media use and participation: a meta-analysis of current research
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results of a meta-analysis of research on social media use and participation, concluding that more than 80% of the metadata demonstrate a positive relationship between social media usage and participation.
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News Sharing in Social Media: A Review of Current Research on News Sharing Users, Content, and Networks
TL;DR: Three central areas of research—news sharing users, content, and networks—were identified and systematically reviewed and used to provide a critical diagnosis of current research and suggestions on how to move forward in news sharing research.
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Effects of the News-Finds-Me Perception in Communication: Social Media Use Implications for News Seeking and Learning About Politics
TL;DR: Although the news-finds-me perception is positively associated with news exposure on social media, this behavior doesn't facilitate political learning, and results suggest news continues to enhance political knowledge best when actively sought.
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Social media and citizen engagement: A meta-analytic review
TL;DR: The results suggest that social media use generally has a positive relationship with engagement and its three sub-categories, that is, social capital, civic engagement, and political participation.
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Accidental exposure to politics on social media as online participation equalizer in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom
TL;DR: Findings suggest that inadvertent encounters with political content on social media are likely to reduce the gap in online engagement between citizens with high and low interest in politics, potentially broadening the range of voices that make themselves heard.
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What is Twitter, a social network or a news media?
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Constructing validity: Basic issues in objective scale development
Lee Anna Clark,David Watson +1 more
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Self-perception: An alternative interpretation of cognitive dissonance phenomena
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Participation in America : Political Democracy and Social Equality
Sidney Verba,Norman H. Nie +1 more
TL;DR: Verba and Nie as discussed by the authors investigated the correlation between socioeconomic status and political participation, using a national sample survey and interviews with leaders in 64 communities to identify four kinds of political participation: voting, campaigning, communal activity and interaction with a public official.