Partisan News and Political Participation: Exploring Mediated Relationships

被引：72

作者：

Wojcieszak, Magdalena ^{[1
]}

Bimber, Bruce ^{[2
,3
]}

Feldman, Lauren ^{[4
]}

Stroud, Natalie Jomini ^{[5
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam Sch Commun Res ASCoR, NL-1012 WX Amsterdam, Netherlands

[2] UC Santa Barbara, Polit Sci, Santa Barbara, CA USA

[3] UC Santa Barbara, Commun, Santa Barbara, CA USA

[4] Rutgers State Univ, Sch Commun & Informat, Piscataway, NJ 08855 USA

[5] Univ Texas Austin, Annette Strauss Inst Civ Participat, Austin, TX 78712 USA

来源：

POLITICAL COMMUNICATION | 2016年 / 33卷 / 02期

关键词：

affect; attitudes; cognition; news; partisan news; partisan selectivity; political participation; SELECTIVE EXPOSURE; INFORMATION; EMOTIONS; ANGER; REINFORCEMENT; CONSEQUENCES; DISAGREEMENT; INVOLVEMENT; KNOWLEDGE; ATTITUDES;

D O I：

10.1080/10584609.2015.1051608

中图分类号：

G2 [信息与知识传播];

学科分类号：

05 ; 0503 ;

摘要：

This study examines mediators of the relationship between news consumption and political participation in the contemporary news environment. We test the differential effects exerted by pro- and counter-attitudinal news compared with balanced news on intended participation. Our primary objective is to model three paths that may link news exposure and participation: cognitive (i.e., perceived issue understanding), affective (i.e., emotions evoked by a news story), and attitudinal (i.e., attitude strength). We compare these paths across four issues, testing which is strongest. Relying on a large survey-based experiment on a representative sample of the American population (N=2,300), we find that pro-attitudinal exposure increases intended participation relative to balanced news exposure, while the effects of counter-attitudinal news do not differ from those exerted by balanced news. Issue understanding, anger, positive emotions, and attitude strength all mediate the relationship between pro-attitudinal exposure and intended participation, with the route via attitude strength being strongest. These effects do not depend on whether exposure is self-selected or experimentally assigned.

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