Pathways to political (dis-)engagement: motivations behind social media use and the role of incidental and intentional exposure modes in adolescents’ political engagement

Autor:	Raffael Heiss, Johannes Knoll, Jörg Matthes
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	Politics 0508 media and communications Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Communication 05 social sciences 050602 political science & public administration 050801 communication & media studies Social media Political engagement Psychology Social psychology 0506 political science
Zdroj:	Communications. 45:671-693
ISSN:	1613-4087 0341-2059
DOI:	10.1515/commun-2019-2054
Popis:	Based on the Social Media Political Participation Model (SMPPM), this study investigates the relationship between four key motivations behind the use of Social Network Sites (SNS) and political engagement among adolescents. We collected our data in a paper-pencil survey with 15- to 20-year-old adolescents (N=294), a highly underexplored group, which is most active on social media. We theorize that adolescents’ user motivations are related to political engagement via two modes of exposure: The intentional mode, which is related to active information seeking, and the incidental mode, in which adolescents run into politics only by accident. We found that political information and self-expression motivations were positively related to political engagement via the intentional mode. By contrast, entertainment motivations were negatively related to offline, but not to online engagement via the incidental mode.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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