Media Effects on Political Disengagement Revisited: A Multiple-Media Approach

2005 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 416-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tien-Tsung Lee
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Media Effects ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Political Trust ◽  
Political Information ◽  
Media Consumption ◽  
Fox News ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Multiple Media ◽  
Extensive List

Numerous studies have been conducted on whether media consumption reduces political participation. To reflect the proliferation and influence of new and nontraditional sources of political information in recent years, the present research measures the effects of an extensive list of information sources that rarely are found in existing literature, including Larry King Live, Fox News, and The O'Reilly Factor. Findings reveal that media in general do not contribute to political disengagement as suggested by some research. A few news sources may in fact reduce political cynicism and promote political trust.

Engagement at the margins: Investigating how marginalized teens use digital media for political participation

2021 ◽  
pp. 146144482110094
Author(s):  
Amana Kaskazi ◽  
Vanessa Kitzie
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Information ◽  
Marginalized Youth ◽  
Political Issues

This study investigates the information and participatory political practices of marginalized youth via four focus groups with 23 teens (aged 13–17 years) from two geographically distinct regions of the United States to address this limited understanding. The findings indicate that teens encounter political information and news from members of their social networks via digital media more than legacy media outlets, because it enables them to assert agency over social and political issues to which they feel connected. Furthermore, teens identify a tension between viewing adults, specifically teachers and politicians, as authoritative yet untrustworthy information sources, which can lead to their use of digital media to verify or challenge what adults are telling them. Finally, teens must navigate the sociotechnical challenges of digital media, including exposure to unwanted information and the potential social backlash of posting content that could be considered by others to represent slacktivism.

scholarly journals TIPOLOGI PARTISIPASI POLITIK PEMILIH LAKI-LAKI DI KABUPATEN BOGOR BERDASARKAN PENGGUNAAN SUMBER INFORMASI POLITIK

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-39
Author(s):  
Roni Jayawinangun ◽  
Dini Valdiani
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Quantitative Method ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Political Information ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Participation Level ◽  
The Government ◽  
Automatic Interaction Detector

In nowdays context, the community political participation has slightly changed as a result of technological development. In 2018, our regional election had failed to achieve minum target of political participation level that had been given by the Indonesian government. The government was targeting 77.5 percent but in the reality the society participation level only reached 73.24 percent due to the low level of participation from male voters. This research is conducted in order to identify male voters typology in Bogor Regency based on their utilization of political information sources or media. Quantitative method was used as metodological approach, 200 male voters were taken as research sampel by using quota samping based on their electoral district, and Chi-Square Automatic Interaction Detector (CHAID) was used as data analysis. This research finds that television and internet are the most frequently used media meanwhile, campaign props and television are the most trusted source of political information. The typology of male voters with the highest percentage in Bogor Regency is apathetic voters (34%) followed by naive (29.5%), alienated (19%) and loyal voters (17.5%).

Politikvermittlung an der Schnittstelle von Unterhaltung und Information : Political communication at the interface of entertainment and information

SPIEL ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-145
Author(s):  
Larissa Leonhard ◽  
Anne Bartsch ◽  
Frank M. Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Political Information ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Dual Process ◽  
Dual Process Model

This article presents an extended dual-process model of entertainment effects on political information processing and engagement. We suggest that entertainment consumption can either be driven by hedonic, escapist motivations that are associated with a superficial mode of information processing, or by eudaimonic, truth-seeking motivations that prompt more elaborate forms of information processing. This framework offers substantial extensions to existing dual-process models of entertainment by conceptualizing the effects of entertainment on active and reflective forms of information seeking, knowledge acquisition and political participation.

Partisan media effects beyond one-shot experimental designs

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Kathleen Searles ◽  
Joshua P. Darr ◽  
Mingxiao Sui ◽  
Nathan Kalmoe ◽  
Raymond Pingree ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Media Effects ◽  
News Media ◽  
Online News ◽  
Repeated Exposure ◽  
Experimental Designs ◽  
Fox News ◽  
Partisan Media ◽  
News Effects ◽  
Partisan News

Abstract Previous study demonstrates that partisans perceive in-party news outlets as fair, and out-party news outlets as unfair. However, much of this study relies on one-shot designs. We create an ecologically valid design that randomly assigns participants to news feeds within a week-long online news portal where the balance of in-party and out-party news outlets has been manipulated. We find that sustained exposure to a feed that features out-party news media attenuates Democrats' beliefs that Fox News is unfair, but the same is not true for Republican's perceptions of MSNBC's fairness. Unexpectedly, repeated exposure to in-party news did increase Republicans' beliefs that Fox News is unfair. This study updates our understanding of partisan news effects in a fragmented online news environment.

The Four Anchors Model – Women Political Participation

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-259
Author(s):  
Osnat Akirav ◽  
Yael Ben-Horin
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Authentic Leadership ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Women Candidates ◽  
Israeli Government ◽  
Do So

AbstractThis paper examines the causes of the increase in the number of women candidates in local Israeli government elections during October 2013. To do so, it develops a new model called the four anchors model based on (1) authentic leadership, (2) organizations with gender awareness, (3) practices that provide organized training for women only and (4) networking for women. Establishment of each one of the anchors with synergy among all four of them will encourage more women to be active in political life at the local level. The research combines mixed research methods based on seven different information sources such as questionnaires, interviews, content analysis of newsletters from the Local Councilwomen’s Union, observations and informal talks with women council members.

What is Fox News? Partisan Journalism, Misinformation, and the Problem of Classification

2021 ◽  
pp. 193124312110604
Author(s):  
A.J. Bauer ◽  
Anthony Nadler ◽  
Jacob L. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Research Design ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Fox News ◽  
News Sources ◽  
News Source ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Journalism Research ◽  
Scholarly Inquiry

Fox News is one of the most popular news sources in the United States. Yet, there are those who reject the idea that Fox should be considered a news source in the first place, claiming it should be considered something more akin to propaganda. This article uses the ambiguity surrounding Fox News’ classification as an opportunity to explore how news sources get defined and categorized within journalism research and practice. It discusses three approaches that can be utilized to understand and categorize partisan media—producer-focused, audience-focused, and critical/normative. It explores the benefits and limitations of these perspectives and the need for scholarly inquiry that transverses and synthesizes them. We argue that an increasingly variegated news landscape calls for scholars to develop a richer vocabulary for distinguishing key features of partisan news outlets and greater reflexivity in research design that acknowledges the challenges inherent in translating meaning and values between producers, audiences, and scholars.

Assessing the Consequences of Religious Inclusion

2018 ◽  
pp. 103-135
Author(s):  
Benjamin R. Hertzberg
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Political Information ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Good Policy ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Instrumental Justification

Many fear including religion in democratic politics because they think religious-political participation is likely to undermine public policies they value, from sexual freedoms to science education. This chapter uses a form of instrumental justification of democracy—John Dewey’s informational approach—in order to develop criteria that can determine when religious inclusion is likely to undermine crucial democratic purposes and when it will enhance them. These criteria include religion’s likely effect on the cognitive and identity diversity of the public sphere, and the public sphere’s openness and fallibility. They require analysis of the role that religious institutions play in the public sphere, demanding that citizens consider when and under what conditions religious activism publicizes relevant political information, and when it acts to prevent democratic institutions from gathering the information required to make good policy.

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