Pub Date : 2023-12-09DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2290494
Juan Pablo Luna, Daniel Alcatruz, Cristian Pérez Muñoz, Fernando Rosenblatt, Sergio Toro Maureira, Sebastián Valenzuela
Most research on governments’ use of social media focuses on the national or federal level. We therefore know little about the way local authorities harness social media platforms to communicate wi...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-07DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2291150
Eric Taylor Woods, Alexandre Fortier-Chouinard, Marcus Closen, Catherine Ouellet, Robert Schertzer
This article examines the nationalist rhetoric of Biden and Trump in the 2020 presidential election, focusing on how the candidates represented, and contested, the meaning of American national iden...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-06DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2290492
Clyde Yicheng Wang
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Pub Date : 2023-12-06DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2290497
Homero Gil de Zúñiga, Manuel Goyanes, Timilehin Durotoye
Research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in communication research is gaining broader interest. This interdisciplinary interest has yet to be supported by a systematic scholarly definition and by a...
人工智能在通信研究中的应用越来越受到人们的广泛关注。这种跨学科的兴趣尚未得到系统的学术定义和…
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Pub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2286570
Regina G. Lawrence
Published in Political Communication (Ahead of Print, 2023)
发表于《政治传播》(2023年出版前)
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Pub Date : 2023-11-20DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2283703
Cindy Ma
In recent years, popular interest in disinformation has coalesced around a series of high-profile events, starting with the Brexit referendum and the election of Donald Trump in 2016. While Faceboo...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2276104
Xiaotong Chu, Rens Vliegenthart, Lukas Otto, Sophie Lecheler, Claes de Vreese, Sanne Kruikemeier
This study investigates the effect of online political ads on party preference, and whether this effect is more pronounced for newer political parties and voters who are less politically knowledgeable and literate regarding online privacy. A mixed-method approach, combining Facebook browser tracking data and a four-wave panel survey, was adopted during the 2021 Dutch General Election campaign. The results showed that the number of political ads received from a specific party has a positive effect on both the propensity and choice to vote for that party. In addition, people with less political knowledge and online privacy literacy are more likely to be persuaded by online political ads. However, at the party level, there is no evidence indicating that the effect of political ads on party preference is stronger for new parties than for established parties. Overall, this study shows that voters can be persuaded via the frequency of exposure to online political ads, but the extent to which they are affected can vary.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-18DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2270539
Nathan P. Kalmoe, Lilliana Mason
Published in Political Communication (Ahead of Print, 2023)
发表于《政治传播》(2023年出版)
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Pub Date : 2023-10-17DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2270445
Emily Van Duyn
ABSTRACTAs political partisanship intensifies, political similarity in romantic partnerships has become increasingly common. Still, there exist many for whom their romantic partnership is “cross-cutting,” or one in which partners hold dissimilar political beliefs, and for whom the selection, consumption, and discussion of news may be especially challenging. Drawing from literature on news exposure, co-viewing, and political talk, I consider the influence of cross-cutting romantic partnerships on if and how romantic partners select, consume, and discuss news with each other. Through in-depth interviews with individuals in cross-cutting romantic partnerships (N = 67), I find that cross-cutting couples experience two phenomena when navigating news: a) negotiated exposure, in which partners influence the news one another selects and consumes, and b) two-step conflict, in which news content, source, and volume spurred conflict, not only discussion, between partners. I consider the implications of these phenomena for the study of political polarization, news use, and political discussion, and advocate for these areas of research to consider relational contexts in their approach.KEYWORDS: Cross-cuttingpolitical communicationnewspolarizationin-depth interviews AcknowledgmentsThis work received support from the Institute for Humane Studies under grant no. IHS016699.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Supplementary materialSupplemental data for this article can be accessed on the publisher’s website at https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2023.2270445Notes1. The study received IRB approval (# 54708) on February 14, 2020.Additional informationFundingThe work was supported by the Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University [IHS016699].Notes on contributorsEmily Van DuynEmily Van Duyn (PhD, The University of Texas at Austin) is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research explores the contexts in which people receive information and talk (or do not talk) about politics.
摘要随着政治党派关系的加剧,恋爱关系中的政治相似性变得越来越普遍。尽管如此,对许多人来说,他们的恋爱关系是“跨领域的”,或者伴侣拥有不同的政治信仰,对他们来说,新闻的选择、消费和讨论可能尤其具有挑战性。从关于新闻曝光、共同观看和政治谈话的文献中,我考虑了跨领域浪漫伙伴关系对浪漫伴侣是否以及如何选择、消费和彼此讨论新闻的影响。通过对跨领域情侣的深度访谈(N = 67),我发现跨领域情侣在浏览新闻时经历了两种现象:a)协商曝光,即伴侣影响彼此选择和消费的新闻;b)两步冲突,即新闻内容、来源和数量引发了伴侣之间的冲突,而不仅仅是讨论。我考虑了这些现象对政治两极分化、新闻使用和政治讨论研究的影响,并主张这些研究领域在其方法中考虑关系背景。关键词:跨领域政治传播;新闻极化;深度访谈。IHS016699。披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。补充材料本文的补充数据可在出版商的网站https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2023.2270445Notes1上获得。该研究于2020年2月14日获得了IRB批准(# 54708)。这项工作得到了乔治梅森大学人文研究所的支持[IHS016699]。作者简介:emily Van Duyn(博士,德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校),伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校传播系助理教授。她的研究探讨了人们接受信息和谈论(或不谈论)政治的语境。
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Pub Date : 2023-10-03DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2263400
Xiaoya Jiang, Yini Zhang, Jisoo Kim, Jon Pevehouse, Dhavan Shah
ABSTRACTExtending literature on political polarization and political expression, we study patterns of polarized expression by vocal partisans from opposing camps on social media. Specifically, we argue that polarized partisan expression can be characterized by three divergences: 1) different thematic emphases on the same issue; 2) response to different real-world events on the same issue; and 3) a temporal disconnect at the aggregate level. Highlighting how online expression by different partisan groups is animated by discrete concerns and events and exhibits different temporality, the three divergences in polarized partisan expression not only reflect and explain existing polarization concepts but also speak to the epistemological chasm between partisan groups. Our empirical analysis is based on Twitter discussion about the issue of immigration in the U.S. and applies topic modeling and time series analysis. Results demonstrate that liberal and conservative tweets exhibit different thematic emphases, are often spurred by different event features, and remain largely temporally independent, though both Trump’s tweets and emotionally evocative events can draw simultaneous reaction from both sides. These findings suggest that opposing partisan groups not only hold different views on the same issue, but also weave different events and facts about the issue into partisan expression in response to different exogenous factors. In short, they “talk past each other.” These polarized partisan expression patterns indicate a splintered public sphere, a concerning quality for deliberative democracy.KEYWORDS: Polarizationpartisanshippartisan expressionsocial mediaimmigration Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Data Availability StatementData is available upon request.Open ScholarshipThis article has earned the Center for Open Science badge for Open Materials. The materials are openly accessible at https://osf.io/3wqe4/Supplementary materialSupplemental data for this article can be accessed on the publisher’s website at https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2023.2263400.Notes1. We use conservatives/liberals from here on because 1) partisan-ideological sorting in the U.S. has resulted in the alignment of liberals with the Democratic Party and conservatives with the Republican Party; and 2) conservatives/liberals are more generalizable to the global context.2. According to agenda-setting research, an issue is “whatever is in contention among a relevant public” (Lang & Lang, 1991, p.281), a definition that we adopt in this study. As discussed in the literature review, a “thematic emphasis” refers to an interpretive lens and the resulting semantic coherence in expression. As such, issues are what the first-level agenda-setting research is mainly concerned about, while thematic emphases are largely equivalent to frames or attributes in the second-level agenda-setting research (Ceron, Curini & Iacus, 2016).3. https://ballotp
摘要:在政治极化和政治表达方面的文献基础上,我们研究了来自对立阵营的党派人士在社交媒体上的两极分化表达模式。具体而言,我们认为两极分化的党派表达可以表现为三种差异:1)对同一问题的不同主题强调;2)对同一问题的不同现实事件的反应;3)总体水平上的时间脱节。极化党派表达的三种分歧不仅反映和解释了现有的极化概念,也说明了党派群体之间的认识论鸿沟,突出了不同党派群体的网络表达如何受到离散的关注和事件的影响,并表现出不同的时间性。我们的实证分析基于Twitter上关于美国移民问题的讨论,并应用主题建模和时间序列分析。结果表明,尽管特朗普的推文和情感唤起事件可以同时引起双方的反应,但自由派和保守派的推文表现出不同的主题重点,往往受到不同事件特征的刺激,并且在很大程度上保持时间上的独立性。这些研究结果表明,对立的党派群体不仅对同一问题持有不同的观点,而且会根据不同的外生因素将关于该问题的不同事件和事实编织成党派表达。简而言之,他们“各执一词”。这些两极化的党派表达模式表明了一个分裂的公共领域,这是协商民主的一个令人担忧的品质。关键词:两极分化党派表达社交媒体移民披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。数据可用性声明数据可根据要求提供。这篇文章获得了开放材料的开放科学中心徽章。这些材料可以在https://osf.io/3wqe4/Supplementary上公开获取。本文的补充数据可以在出版商的网站https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2023.2263400.Notes1上访问。我们从这里开始使用保守派/自由派,因为1)美国的党派意识形态分类导致自由派与民主党结盟,保守派与共和党结盟;2)保守主义者/自由主义者在全球范围内更具普遍性。根据议程设置研究,问题是“在相关公众中争论的任何问题”(Lang & Lang, 1991, p.281),这是我们在本研究中采用的定义。正如文献综述中所讨论的,“主题强调”指的是一个解释镜头和由此产生的表达中的语义连贯。因此,第一层次议程设置研究主要关注的是问题,而第二层次议程设置研究的主题重点在很大程度上相当于框架或属性(Ceron, Curini & Iacus, 2016)。https://ballotpedia.org/Timeline_of_federal_policy_on_immigration _2017 - 20204。对于国际来源,我们参考了美国版本或报道。由于缺乏关于家庭分离和难民接纳的亲移民事件,“家庭分离-允许”和“难民接纳-允许”变量从分析中删除。作者简介蒋晓雅,美国威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校新闻与大众传播学院博士研究生。她用计算方法研究民意。张怡妮(美国威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校博士),纽约州立大学布法罗分校传播系助理教授。她使用计算方法研究社交媒体和政治传播。Jisoo Kim是威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校新闻与大众传播学院的博士候选人。她研究政治极化和政治化与传播环境的关系。Jon Pevehouse是威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校政治科学系的维拉斯杰出政治学教授。havan V. Shah是威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校Louis A. & Mary E. Maier-Bascom教授,他是大众传播研究中心(MCRC)主任和健康促进系统研究中心(CHESS)科学主任。
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