Social media use may contribute to political affects, which in turn impinge on civic and political participation. In addition, political affects may moderate the effects of social media use on political participation. Based on a survey of university students in Guangzhou, China (N = 897), this ...
Social media has also given a voice to marginalized groups, who may not have had a platform to share their views before. However, it is important to recognize the potential negative effects of social media on political engagement, and to work to mitigate these effects. In conclusion, social ...
While more and more studies focus on the effects of social media or mobile phones on psychological well-being, few have specifically examined the effect of political engagement on social media (i.e., Credit author statement Jing Guo: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft ...
These technological design effects are stronger when users believe the authoritarian state tolerates discussion, but less important when political talk is sensitive. The findings contribute to the debate on the political consequences of the internet by specifying technological and political conditions....
Because social media simply blunt the effect of barriers erected against anti-state participation in non-democracies, however, these media do not substantially change the political environment faced by mobilizers in democracies. The differential effects of social media on political mobilization across ...
An original collection of a two-wave panel U.S. survey data allows us to test these arguments that consider the direct effects of social media news use and social media political homophily as well as the interaction between them (see Fig.1)....
effects from confounding factors that might affect the actions of tracked human accounts, such as age, gender, race, ideology, and socioeconomic status. We thus turn to a method that removes the need to control for such confounding factors by leveraging social media accounts that mimic human ...
The rise of social media has attracted scholarly attention to its role in shaping political polarization. However, most of existing studies focused on exam
and International Relations at KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan. His research focuses on the political effects of digital, traditional, and hybrid media use in authoritarian regimes, with a particular emphasis on political attitudes and both conventional and unconventional forms of political ...
The rise of social media The influence of social media on politics is growing while the traditional media is losing its power. Contemporarily, there is no doubt that social media has become a very important part of our daily lives. Therefore, in order to promote political ideologies, social me...