{"title":"Civic Life in Rural America Revisited: The Role of Social and Mobile News on Civic Participation","authors":"Chun Shao, K. H. Kwon, Seungahn Nah","doi":"10.1080/08838151.2022.2086255","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Rural America has been suffering from insufficient civic resources and is often characterized as a “civic desert.” Drawing upon the Communication Infrastructure Theory, this study surveys residents in Oregon (N = 564) and explores the ways in which social and mobile news use, along with other traditional storytelling networks, relate to rural and non-rural residents’ civic participation. Results showed that the types of communities moderated the effects of social and mobile news usage on online civic participation. This study expands upon scholarly concerns about the possible side effects of emerging media storytelling networks on civic life in local community contexts.","PeriodicalId":48051,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media","volume":"66 1","pages":"278 - 299"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2022.2086255","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT Rural America has been suffering from insufficient civic resources and is often characterized as a “civic desert.” Drawing upon the Communication Infrastructure Theory, this study surveys residents in Oregon (N = 564) and explores the ways in which social and mobile news use, along with other traditional storytelling networks, relate to rural and non-rural residents’ civic participation. Results showed that the types of communities moderated the effects of social and mobile news usage on online civic participation. This study expands upon scholarly concerns about the possible side effects of emerging media storytelling networks on civic life in local community contexts.
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Published quarterly for the Broadcast Education Association, the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media contains timely articles about new developments, trends, and research in electronic media written by academicians, researchers, and other electronic media professionals. The Journal invites submissions of original research that examine a broad range of issues concerning the electronic media, including the historical, technological, economic, legal, policy, cultural, social, and psychological dimensions. Scholarship that extends a historiography, tests theory, or that fosters innovative perspectives on topics of importance to the field, is particularly encouraged. The Journal is open to a diversity of theoretic paradigms and methodologies.
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