How incidental and intentional news exposure in social media relate to political knowledge and voting intentions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Citizens are expected to make informed voting decisions. Theoretical approaches suggest that people are most likely to acquire their political knowledge through media. As more people turn to social media as a source of news, the political knowledge gains from using these technologies are called into question. Previous research has shown that rather than increasing objective political knowledge, the use of social media for news only increases people's metacognitive sense of being knowledgeable (subjective knowledge), which in turn increases their political participation. However, it remains to be understood which particular forms of social media use, e.g., incidental or intentional news exposure, are related to which dimension of political knowledge. The present work exam

SUBMITTER: Dreston JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10768061 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature