基于台湾地区传播调查资料库2012年所收集的调查数据,本研究将互联网使用与政 治参与间的关系置于台湾地区社会的语境下进行审视。结果发现,当控制了人口统计 学、政治心理特征和其它传统媒体媒介使用的影响之后,互联网的政治新闻使用并没有 对个体层面的政治意见表达产生显著影响,但它却与台湾地区民众的竞选活动参与和投 票意愿呈显著的负向关联性。网络政治新闻使用与内部政治效能感对这两类政治参与行 为还具有交互效应:内部政治效能感越高,互联网政治新闻的关注对参与竞选活动的负 向影响也就越大;而随着内部效能感越高,互联网政治新闻的关注度对投票意愿的负向 影响反而越小。

Based on 2012 TCS data, this study examines the relationship between Internet use and political participation in the context of Taiwan society. Results show that online political news use is not a significant predictor of individual-level political opinion expression when the factors of demographical backgrounds, political antecedents, and traditional media use are controlled. Online political news use is negatively associated with campaign participation and willingness to vote in the study. Internal political efficacy is found to interact with online political news use to shape these two forms of political participation. Interaction effects suggest that the relationship between online political news use and campaign participation is more negative among people with higher internal political efficacy, while the relationship between online political news use and willingness to vote is less negative among this group of people.