Pathways to political (dis-)engagement

Autor(en)
Raffael Heiss, Johannes Knoll, Jörg Matthes
Abstrakt

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.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
Externe Organisation(en)
MCI Management Center Innsbruck
Journal
Communications: the European journal of communication research
Band
45
Seiten
671-693
Anzahl der Seiten
23
ISSN
0341-2059
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2019-2054
Publikationsdatum
11-2020
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
508007 Kommunikationswissenschaft
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Communication, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Link zum Portal
https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/pathways-to-political-disengagement(4510b024-9d34-4605-874a-016c8acfe70b).html