The Things They Cared About

Autor: Stephen Earl Bennett, Staci L. Rhine, Richard S. Flickinger
Rok vydání: 2004
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Zdroj: Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics. 9:75-99
ISSN: 1081-180X
DOI: 10.1177/1081180x03259240
Popis: Pew Research Center polls in 1989, 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002 show that Americans pay more attention to media accounts of nonpolitical stories than those about national, international, and local politics. Although Americans’ attentiveness to political news rose between 2000 and 2002, attention to media accounts of politics remained below where it had been in 1989. For the most part, the relative rankings of attentiveness to different kinds of news stories remained the same. The authors also explore the factors that predict attention to political news.Finally,heed paid to media stories about politics appears to affect two important facets of democratic citizenship: political knowledge and participation.
Databáze: OpenAIRE