Lecture 16: Social Media and News Consumption Flashcards
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What’s this section all about?
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- Perception-Based Behavioral Choices and Social Engagement
- Lower rules in campaign participation of our generation
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Re-organize The Topics
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- More on (mis)perceptions and their behavioral consequences
- Reconsider participation (or engagement) in the digital age
- The common thread: social formation with social and mobile media
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actualizing citizen (Lance Bennett)
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- Higher sense of individual purpose, diminished government obligation
- Voting less meaningful than personally defined acts (consumerism, volunteering, etc)
- Favors loose networks of community action
- Peer relations
- Information technology
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dutiful citizen (Lance Bennett)
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- Obligation to participate in government activites.
- Voting= core democratic act
- Learns about government by following mass media.
- Joins civil society organizations that use one-way conventional communication to mobilize supporters.
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Lance Bennett: Two Modes
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- Outlines two modes of citizenship
- Increase in actualizing citizens
- People engage in activities in which they feel they can self-actualize and find their values realized.
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A useful concept
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- Participation repertoire
- A mixture of various acrtivities
- Institutional (Ex: contacting one’s representa..) or not (attending a rally)
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Social Media & Engagement
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- Yamamoto et al.’s (2015) study
- Mobile web apps and online expression foster political participation
- Present study: an extension of differential gains model
- Today’s media environment
- Info. dissemination
- Expression
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Info. dissemination (Social Media & Engagement)
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political participation via multiple modes and platforms, via social media sites & mobile apps
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Expression (Social Media & Engagement)
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multiple modes, platforms social media sites & mobile apps
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The differential gains model
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- Lower levels of media use associated wtih lower levels of political participation
- Discussion leads to higher levels of participation by
- Making non-media users participate more.
- Discussion can amplify positive gains we get by using media.
- Traditional media use leads to hard news use.. leads to messaging and discussion, leads to civic participation (left-to-right approach)
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The communication mediation model
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- Depicts causal flow.
- Shows: overall media use, interpersonal discussions (interactive political messaging)
- This model is a horizontal process. If you watch traditional media, you are more likely to consume hard news (political stuff, foreign policy, etc.). Since you consume hard news, you are likely to discuss politics (because you have, or at least perceive to have, knowledge on the topic). Because you discuss politics, you are likely to participate in politics in an offline setting (voting, etc.).
- Depicted a model of campaign communication mediation on civic participation
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Yamamoto 4 Hypotheses
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- Attention to information on offline media, online media, social media, and mobile apps all have positive effects on political participation.
- Relationship is mediated by online expressions
- Essentially: Online expressions help committ info. received from media platforms, integrate them into cognitive systems, and also translate from online media into taking action (mobilizer).
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A wide range of activities (Idk if important)
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- Re-iterate the notion of “participation repertoire”
- Andolina et al. (2003)
- Habits from home, lessons from school, and opportunities via groups
- Political dinner conversations associated wtih future dinner conversations
- PEW research center
- SNS users vs. “population at large”
- Andolina et al. (2003)
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Summary of social media and social engagement
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- Social media..
- Sources of information
- Congenial, homogenous networks
- Platforms of expression
- Polarization
- Reflexivity
- Shared experiences
- Sites of participation
- Broadening participation repertoire
- Democratizing “the politics” (e.g. lifestyle politics)
- Sources of information
