How News Type Matters: Indirect Effects of Media Use on Political Participation Through Knowledge and Efficacy

Kim Andersen; Camilla Bjarnøe; Erik Albæk; Claes Holger de Vreese

doi:10.1027/1864-1105/a000201

How News Type Matters: Indirect Effects of Media Use on Political Participation Through Knowledge and Efficacy

Kim Andersen, Camilla Bjarnøe, Erik Albæk, Claes Holger de Vreese

University of Amsterdam

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Abstract

Today, citizens have the possibility to use many different types of news media and participate politically in various ways. This study examines how use of different news types (hard and soft TV news as well as printed and online versions of broadsheet and tabloid newspapers) indirectly affects changes in offline and online political participation through current affairs knowledge and internal efficacy during nonelection and election time. We use a four-wave national panel survey from Denmark (N = 2,649) and show that use of hard TV news and broadsheets as well as online tabloids positively affects changes in both offline and online political participation through current affairs knowledge and internal efficacy. Use of soft TV news and printed tabloids has a negative indirect effect. These results are more pronounced for online political participation and during election time. However, use of soft TV news also has a positive direct effect on changes in political participation, which suggests a positive impact via other processes.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Media Psychology
Volume	28
Issue number	3
Pages (from-to)	111-122
ISSN	1864-1105
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000201
Publication status	Published - Jul 2016

Keywords

Indirect media effects
News types
Political efficacy
Political knowledge
Political participation

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1 Ph.D. thesis

The News Media as a Mobilizing Agent: Understanding the Underlying Mechanisms Linking News Media Use and Political Participation in Today’s High-Choice Media Environment.
Andersen, K., Oct 2017, Odense: Syddansk Universitet. Det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet. 227 p.
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