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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Political information"”.
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Information & Interest Group Lobbying in Congress: Policy vs. Political Information
… of interest group influence, the nature of informational lobbying in Congress and how Congress responds to new issues on the policy agenda.
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The Credibility Assessment Process of Political Information on WhatsApp in Brazil
… (IMA) like WhatsApp are increasingly used for political information and news and have been directly related to the spread of misinformation (Newman, 2019). Although the platform’s closed nature differentiates it from open social media, it also has hindered studies exploring political …
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Acquiring Political Information on the Web: Issue Publics, Domain-Specificity, and Selectivity
Implications for fields of research and the functioning of democracy are discussed.
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"What Do We Know About Knowledge? Citizen Competence, ""Psychological Realism"" and Political Information"
… First, knowledge has much in common with other political cognitions. Like attitudes, knowledge can result from constructed judgments, and, like attitudes or values, knowledge can comprise organized structures and systems. Second, though scholars typically assume that ""more knowledge is …
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Message and context: A study of political information use in the 1993 Canadian federal election.
… where a small group of voters obtained their political information during the 1993 Canadian federal election. It adapted a new qualitative method for use in a longitudinal study, using non-leading interviewing techniques and barometer opinion forms to capture how collaborators perceived the …
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Understanding Persuasive Communication: The Role of Heuristic Thinking, Context, and Debiasing in the Evaluation of Online Political Information
… life, including the way we conceive and perform information and communication practices. In this sense, the Internet has drastically reduced the cost of data accessibility and data sharing, by increasing both the amount of information freely available for consultation and the speed at which it is …
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Political Development in Zambia : A critical appraisal of Communication stategies used by The Movement for Multi Party Democracy (MMD) to disseminate Political Information
… find out whether MMD is adequately communicating political information to the public. The problem of political ignorance has been said to lead to voting behavior and electoral outcomes that are meaningless representations of voter interests. Political parties are therefore the solution to the …
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A Tale of Two Turnouts in 2004: Effects of News Frame Valence and Substance on College Students' Levels of Trust, Cynicism, and Political Information Efficacy
… to build upon research on framing theory and political information efficacy theory. Articles about youth voter turnout in the 2004 election served as the stimuli to test the effects of news frame valence and frame substance on college student respondents' levels of trust, cynicism, and …
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REVISITING THE COGNITIVE MEDIATION MODEL IN THE DIGITAL AGE: A CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY OF FACEBOOK AS A VENUE FOR NEWS AND POLITICAL INFORMATION SOURCES, FACEBOOK USE AND CREDIBILITY AMONG NEW MEDIA USERS IN SOUTH KOREA AND THE UNITED STATES
… how credibility on Facebook is associated with information-seeking and sharing among new media users in South Korea and the United States. An information-seeker's environment is related to information resources that need to be assessed for usefulness and accuracy. As a vast number of users on …
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Political engagement and social networking sites exploring the relationship between social networking sites and political engagement in young adults
… of college age. Due to the increasing number of political figures and political information on SNS, this study analyzes the relationship between SNS and political engagement. Specifically, this study seeks to determine if adults' consumption of political information on SNS leads to higher levels …
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Political Content And Political Behavior: Using Functional Theory To Test The Ability Of Political Content To Stimulate Political Interest
… up with Internet access--are engaging in formal political participation, compared to their parents. Digital natives lack the information needed to participate. This study examined the effects of interactive political content on digital natives' political information efficacy (PIE) through an …
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Essays on Empirical Political Economy
… The media has the fundamental role of providing political information to voters. New media such as the Internet brought about an enormous shift in the availability of political information during elections. Exploiting the timing and geographic variation in the introduction of Internet in Brazil, …
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Political Awareness and Public Opinion on Health Care Reform
Political Science literature shows that the two major political parties have continued to polarize over time in the United States. Parties and elites continue to shape, frame and even manipulate public opinion, especially on contentious policy issues such as health care reform. Political …
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Special events and their impacts on stock markets
… makes a hypothesis of the correlation between political influence and equity market returns. The hypothesis is tested in the thesis. The author also examines whether or not stock markets exhibit abnormal return patterns before and after the date when these events occurred. The finding of the …
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Civic and political involvement among young adults: Exploring political talk, political efficacy and political participation in a community context
… research on uses and gratifications by exploring political information-seeking uses of the Internet and social networking sites (SNS) and their relationships with political efficacy and political participation. Approximately 300 young adults completed a survey covering information-seeking, …
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Searching for the President: Analysis of Search Engine Results from the 2008 Presidential Election
… reported using the Internet as a source of political information during the 2008 political campaign (Smith, 2009). Although past communication research has focused on the characteristics of messages presented on political candidate Web sites, it has not looked at third-party sources, such as …
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Legislative Effectiveness in Brazil: the Role of Legislative Member organizations in the Chamber of Deputies
… rests on the combination of both policy and political information. Policy information refers to information about various issues areas and their potential real-world consequences. Political information refers to information about the legislative process itself, including who can participate …
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An analysis of technical and policy drivers in Current U.S. nuclear weapons force structure
… as a unique integration of logical technical and political information. The dynamic that results from military requirements, physical design limitations, and congressional response to balance deterrence with stockpile reductions has not produced the necessary level of change in the post-Cold War …
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West Virginia state legislators' opinions of local mass media
… however, view the media as neutral sources of political information. Self-described "conservative" lawmakers rated media sources described as "liberal" as being less accurate in their coverage of the legislature than did self-described "liberal" or "middle-of-the-road" lawmakers. The thesis …
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Political knowledge and social media use in the digital media system
… explores how social media exposure affects political knowledge among the American public. Political knowledge is central to any understanding of citizen competence, yet key questions remain about how to best increase citizens’ information levels. My dissertation project assesses to what …
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