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"Connecting" and "Disconnecting" With Civic Life: Patterns of Internet Use and the Production of Social Capital

This article explores the relationship between Internet use and the individual-level production of social capital. To do so, the authors adopt a motivational perspective to distinguish among types of…
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Information and Expression in a Digital Age

Results reveal that the model produces the best fit, empirically and theoretically, with the influence of the Internet, rivaling the mobilizing power of traditional modes of information and expression.
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Mobile Communication and Civic Life: Linking Patterns of Use to Civic and Political Engagement

This study employed the uses and gratifications approach to investigate how patterns of mobilephoneusearelinkedtocivicandpoliticalinvolvement.Findingsrevealthatuseofthe technology for information…
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Assessing Causality in the Cognitive Mediation Model

Panel analyses found that most of the causal relationships predicted by the “cognitive mediation model” are mutually causal, and future research should consider the reciprocal nature of relationships between information processing and knowledge, particularly as it relates to the study of the knowledge gap hypothesis.
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Political Involvement in “Mobilized” Society: The Interactive Relationships Among Mobile Communication, Network Characteristics, and Political Participation

In recent years, mobile communication has emerged as a channel for political discourse among network ties. Although some celebrate new possibilities for political life, others are concerned that it…
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Environmental Concern, Patterns of Television Viewing, and Pro-Environmental Behaviors: Integrating Models of Media Consumption and Effects

This study merges insights from cultivation and uses and gratifications to examine the relationship between environmental concern, five forms of television viewing, and pro-environmental behaviors.…
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A Multilevel Approach to Civic Participation

Significant interactive relationships between residential variables and media use in generating civically oriented citizens are revealed: the use of local public affairs news on TV is more likely to lead to community participation among those living in a neighborhood with lower residential mobility, and time spent watching TV tends to be negatively related to civic engagement among those whose residence in a community is shorter.
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Revisiting the Knowledge Gap Hypothesis

The findings of this study support the significance of motivational variables and media use in modifying the relationship between education and knowledge acquisition. People's behavioral involvement…
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The Interplay of News Frames on Cognitive Complexity

This research considers how distinct news frames work in combination to influence information processing. It extends framing research grounded in prospect theory (Tversky & Kahneman, 1981) and…
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The Affect Effect of Political Satire: Sarcastic Humor, Negative Emotions, and Political Participation

Building on the Orientation-Stimulus-Orientation-Response (O-S-O-R) framework, the current study proposes a mediation model wherein negative emotions serve as a second O. An online experiment using a…
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