Reexamine the Relationship between Internet Use and Political Participation: An Empirical Analysis Based on 2012 TCS Data

YOU Chunhui, XU Yu

Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2015, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (8) : 33-46.

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Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2015, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (8) : 33-46.

Reexamine the Relationship between Internet Use and Political Participation: An Empirical Analysis Based on 2012 TCS Data

  • You ChunHui is a Ph.D. student at the School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University. E-mail:soar.doris@gmail.com Xu Yu is a Ph.D. student at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California. E-mail:xuyufudan@gmail.com
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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.

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media effects / political change / political interest / political efficacy

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YOU Chunhui, XU Yu. Reexamine the Relationship between Internet Use and Political Participation: An Empirical Analysis Based on 2012 TCS Data[J]. Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication. 2015, 37(8): 33-46
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