Journal ArticleDOI
Stephen Colbert's Civics Lesson: How Colbert Super PAC Taught Viewers About Campaign Finance
TLDR
The authors found that watching The Colbert Report both increased peoples' perception of how knowledgeable they were about super PACs and 501(c)(4) groups and increased actual knowledge of campaign finance regulation regarding these independent expenditure groups.Abstract:
This study tests whether exposure to The Colbert Report influenced knowledge of super PACs and 501(c)(4) groups, and ascertains how having such knowledge influenced viewers' perceptions about the role of money in politics. Our analysis of a national random sample of adults interviewed after the 2012 presidential election found that viewing The Colbert Report both increased peoples' perception of how knowledgeable they were about super PACs and 501(c)(4) groups and increased actual knowledge of campaign finance regulation regarding these independent expenditure groups. Findings suggest that the political satirist was more successful in informing his viewers about super PACs and 501(c)(4) groups than were other types of news media. Viewing The Colbert Report also indirectly influenced how useful his audience perceived money to be in politics.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Soft News Goes to War: Public Opinion and American Foreign Policy in the New Media Age
TL;DR: Baum et al. as discussed by the authors argue that watching soft news programs gets people who would otherwise have little interest in foreign affairs to pay attention to international crises, and that people learn what people learn about hard news from soft news.
Structural Equation Models with Latent Variables
TL;DR: Ressenya sobre la recerca actual en estadistica a Catalunya: resultats del grup d'investigacio catala "Structural Equation Models with Latent Variables".
Journal ArticleDOI
Climate as Comedy The Effects of Satirical Television News on Climate Change Perceptions
Paul R. Brewer,Jessica McKnight +1 more
TL;DR: Two satirical television news programs, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, cover climate change in ways that affirm the existence of global warming as discussed by the authors, using data from an experiment (N =...
Journal ArticleDOI
Critical information literacy as core skill for lifelong STEM learning in the 21st century: reflections on the desirability and feasibility for widespread science media education
TL;DR: The authors argue that the need for Science Media Education (SME) as an integral part of formal and informal science education is unrealistic, and offer instead that the broader concept of Information Literacy might be more easily achieved within the current strong movement to conceptualize STEM education via science and engineering practices and within the broad goals of strengthening learners' 21st century skills.
Journal ArticleDOI
Satire as a source for learning? The differential impact of news versus satire exposure on net neutrality knowledge gain
Amy B. Becker,Leticia Bode +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of exposure to political satire versus traditional news on issue-specific learning and engagement were investigated using data from an experiment conducted in January 2016 (N = 296 ).
References
More filters
Book
Principles and Practice of Structural Equation Modeling
TL;DR: The book aims to provide the skills necessary to begin to use SEM in research and to interpret and critique the use of method by others.
Book
Introduction to Mediation, Moderation, and Conditional Process Analysis: A Regression-Based Approach
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a discussion of whether, if, how, and when a moderate mediator can be used to moderate another variable's effect in a conditional process analysis.
Introduction to mediation, moderation, and conditional process analysis :
Andrew F. Hayes,names +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a discussion of whether, if, how, and when a moderate mediator can be used to moderate another variable's effect in a conditional process analysis.
Journal ArticleDOI
Entertainment—Education and Elaboration Likelihood: Understanding the Processing of Narrative Persuasion
Michael D. Slater,Donna Rouner +1 more
TL;DR: This article found that absorption in a narrative, and response to characters in a story, should enhance persuasive effects and suppress counterarguing if the implicit persuasive content is counter-attitudinal.
Journal ArticleDOI
Sex, Lies, and War: How Soft News Brings Foreign Policy to the Inattentive Public
TL;DR: This article found that information about foreign crises, and other issues possessing similar characteristics, presented in a soft news context, has indeed attracted the attention of politically uninvolved Americans, and the net effect is a reduced disparity in attentiveness to select high-profile political issues across different segments of the public.