Through the Grapevine: Informational Consequences of Interpersonal Political Communication
| Autor: | Taylor N. Carlson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Sociology and Political Science
05 social sciences 050801 communication & media studies Political communication Interpersonal communication Ideal (ethics) 0506 political science Politics 0508 media and communications Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration Psychology Social information Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | American Political Science Review. 113:325-339 |
| ISSN: | 1537-5943 0003-0554 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s000305541900008x |
| Popis: | Much of the US public acquires political information socially. However, the consequences of acquiring information from others instead of the media are under-explored. I conduct a “telephone-game” experiment to examine how information changes as it flows from official reports to news outlets to other people, finding that social information is empirically different from news articles. In a second experiment on a nationally representative sample, I randomly assign participants to read a news article or a social message about that article generated in Study 1. Participants exposed to social information learned significantly less than participants who were exposed to the news article. However, individuals exposed to information from someone who is like-minded and knowledgeable learned the same objective facts as those who received information from the media. Although participants learned the same factual information from these ideal informants as they did from the media, they had different subjective evaluations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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