scholarly journals The Internet and Political Participation of Indonesian Students in Taiwan

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-84
Author(s):  
Albertus Magnus Prestianta
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
News Media ◽  
Political Efficacy ◽  
Online News ◽  
Internet Usage ◽  
Quantitative Approach ◽  
The Internet

This study examined how Internet through online news media is used to influence political participation and political efficacy. Scholars believe that the existence of Internet could have a significant impact on broadening political participation and political efficacy. This research is written based on the quantitative approach. Questionnaire items were employed to find out the relationships between online news media, political participation and political efficacy. The samples used in this research are Indonesian students in Taiwan. As predicted, the findings indicated that Internet usage, particularly online news media, was positively associated with higher levels of political participation and also political efficacy among Indonesian students in Taiwan. Keywords: Indonesian, the Internet, online news media, political efficacy, politicalparticipation.

Resisting Political Fragmentation on the Internet

Daedalus ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 140 (4) ◽  
pp. 108-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Kelly Garrett ◽  
Paul Resnick
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Online News ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Political Fragmentation ◽  
Software Designers ◽  
The Face ◽  
Desirable Behavior ◽  
Partisan News

Must the Internet promote political fragmentation? Although this is a possible outcome of personalized online news, we argue that other futures are possible and that thoughtful design could promote more socially desirable behavior. Research has shown that individuals crave opinion reinforcement more than they avoid exposure to diverse viewpoints and that, in many situations, hearing the other side is desirable. We suggest that, equipped with this knowledge, software designers ought to create tools that encourage and facilitate consumption of diverse news streams, making users, and society, better off. We propose several techniques to help achieve this goal. One approach focuses on making useful or intriguing opinion-challenges more accessible. The other centers on nudging people toward diversity by creating environments that accentuate its benefits. Advancing research in this area is critical in the face of increasingly partisan news media, and we believe these strategies can help.

STRATEGIES FOR IMPOSING A CHARGE ON ONLINE NEWS CONTENT DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ján Višňovský
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Online News ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Information Graphics ◽  
News Content ◽  
News Websites ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Global Events ◽  
A Charge

The COVID-19 pandemic not only marked global events in 2020, but also left its marks on news media functioning. The Coronavirus has become a thematic agenda of the newscast of the last month in global, national, and regional media. While radio and TV stations came up with special programmes on the subject of the pandemic, in newspapers, on the Internet and in mobile applications there appeared specialized sections and columns, in which media published news items thematically related to the Coronavirus. Some TV stations made their archives and other usually paid services available free of charge, and mobile operators offered their customers unlimited data. However, the approach to the charging a toll for the Internet content has also changed. While some media made all content available to their readers, others unlocked, for instance, news items and various content devoted to the pandemic (comments, analyzes, information graphics, etc.). The purpose of the paper is to point out different approaches to the strategy of imposing a charge on the content of news websites during the COVID-19 pandemic, on the example of the most widely read Slovak news portals.

scholarly journals Social Media, Professional Media and Mobilisation in Contemporary Britain: Explaining the Strengths and Weaknesses of the Citizens’ Movement 38 Degrees

2016 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Chadwick ◽  
James Dennis
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Political Efficacy ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Activism ◽  
Digital Network ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
Media Professional

Digital media continue to reshape political activism in unexpected ways. Within a period of a few years, the internet-enabled UK citizens’ movement 38 Degrees has amassed a membership of 3 million and now sits alongside similar entities such as America’s MoveOn, Australia’s GetUp! and the transnational movement Avaaz. In this article, we contribute to current thinking about digital media and mobilisation by addressing some of the limitations of existing research on these movements and on digital activism more generally. We show how 38 Degrees’ digital network repertoires coexist interdependently with its strategy of gaining professional news media coverage. We explain how the oscillations between choreographic leadership and member influence and between digital media horizontalism and elite media-centric work constitute the space of interdependencies in which 38 Degrees acts. These delicately balanced relations can quickly dissolve and be replaced by simpler relations of dependence on professional media. Yet despite its fragility, we theorise about how 38 Degrees may boost individuals’ political efficacy, irrespective of the outcome of individual campaigns. Our conceptual framework can be used to guide research on similar movements.

Feminism! What Is It Good For? The Role of Feminism and Political Self-Efficacy in Women’s Online Political Participation

2019 ◽  
pp. 089443931986590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharina Heger ◽  
Christian P. Hoffmann
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Political Efficacy ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Feminist Attitudes ◽  
Online Political Participation

Despite initial hopes for more egalitarian access to democracy, research has shown that political participation on the Internet remains as stratified as its offline counterpart. Gender is among the characteristics affecting an individual’s degree of political engagement on the Internet—even when controlling for socioeconomic status. To explain this gender divide, it is necessary to go beyond purely resource-based perspectives. Social cognitive theory allows for an analysis of how environmental factors shape cognitions, such as political efficacy, which, in turn, foster political participation. Political efficacy has been shown to be lower among women compared to men. This study explores determinants of gendered online political participation (OPP) by analyzing how self-efficacy mediates the effect of newly developed measures of three different waves of feminist attitudes on OPP. Based on a survey of 1,078 Internet users in Germany, 70% of them women, we analyze the effects of feminism on political efficacy and participation. Feminism is associated with higher internal political efficacy. Also, some feminist paradigms are shown to empower women to participate politically online. This effect, however, is not mediated through efficacy. This finding sheds light on opportunities to foster women’s political participation.

Jurisdictional protectionism in online news: Am erican journalists and their perceptions of hyperlinks

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 684-700 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsan-Kuo Chang ◽  
Brian G. Southwell ◽  
Hyung-Min Lee ◽  
Yejin Hong
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
News Media ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
The United States ◽  
Online News ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Sociology Of Professions ◽  
Tv News ◽  
Scholarly Attention ◽  
Financial Consideration

Because of their widespread use on the internet, hyperlinks have become a useful tool in information sharing and knowledge distribution in online communication, particularly in the realm of journalism. Their importance has received little scholarly attention, however. Against the backdrop of the sociology of professions, the purpose of this study is to determine how journalists approach hyperlinks and what they perceive to be their functions in online news. A national survey of newspaper editors and TV news directors in the United States shows that American journalists exhibit a sense of jurisdictional protectionism in online news. They appear to privilege US hyperlinks over foreign ones, especially internal links to their own websites. They are also predominantly against linking to foreign news media that cover the same events or issues. Financial consideration seems to be the main reason behind the journalistic preference.

scholarly journals Discovered and Undiscovered Fields of Digital Politics : Mapping Online Political Communication and Online News Media Literature in Hungary

Intersections ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Márton Bene ◽  
Gabriella Szabó
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
News Media ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Online News ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Digital Politics ◽  
And Linguistics

The article reviews the main theoretical and empirical contributions about digitalnews media and online political communication in Hungary. Our knowledge synthesis focuses on three specific subfields: citizens, media platforms, and political actors. Representatives of sociology, political communication studies, psychology, and linguistics have responded to the challenges of the internet over the past two decades, which has resulted in truly interdisciplinary accounts of the different aspects of digitalization in Hungary. In terms of methodology, both normative and descriptive approaches have been applied, mostly with single case-study methods. Based on an extensive review of the literature, we assess that since the early 2000s the internet has become the key subject of political communication studies, and that it has erased the boundaries between online and offline spaces. We conclude, however, that despite the richness of the literature on the internet and politics, only a limited number of studies have researched citizens’ activity and provided longitudinal analyses.

Exploring Factors Associated With Digital and Conventional Political Participation in the Caribbean

2022 ◽  
pp. 241-261
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Adugu ◽  
Pearson A Broome
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Internet Usage ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Attitudinal Factors ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Political Understanding

The use of social media is becoming a feature of political engagement in the Caribbean. This article investigates factors associated with digital and conventional political participation in Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana, Surinam and Haiti using 2012 AmericasBarometer dataset. Based on logistic regression, attitudinal factors positively associated with digital political participation are: political understanding, support for democracy, conventional political participation, and internet usage. Digital political action is less likely for the politically tolerant. Engagement in protest is positively associated with digital political action, signing petition, greater levels of education, being male but less likely for those who use the internet. These findings demonstrate that digital political action and conventional political participation are mutually reinforcing.

The Impact of Online News Consumption on Young People's Political Participation

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-31
Author(s):  
Hao Xiaoming ◽  
Wen Nainan ◽  
Cherian George
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
New Media ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Knowledge ◽  
Political Efficacy ◽  
Online News ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
The Impact

The informational usage of media has been identified as one of the most important factors that facilitate citizens' participation in political activities. This relationship becomes exceptionally intriguing in the 21st century, which is characterized by a growing popularity of new media, and concurrently, a decline of political and civic engagement in many societies, particularly among young people. Research findings about the link between new media usage and political participation have been inconclusive, and specific processes through which new media usage, especially the informational usage of such media, may affect political participation remain less than lucid. In this study, we propose a theoretical framework under which political knowledge and political efficacy are used to explain the possible connection between online news consumption and political participation. Through a survey of university students in Singapore, this study shows that the young people's consumption of online news is directly related to both online and offline political participation. At the same time, the consumption of online news is also indirectly related to online and offline political participation via political efficacy. Political knowledge, however, is found to be a mediating factor between online news consumption and online political participation but not offline political participation. This study not only allows us a more holistic view of the impact of online news on young people's political and civic engagement but also contributes to the existing literature on the relationship between news consumption and political participation by incorporating both online and offline political activities in the proposed theoretical model.

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