Likeminded and cross-cutting talk, network characteristics, and political participation online and offline: A panel study

Autor(en)
Jörg Matthes, Franziska Marquart, Christian von Sikorski
Abstrakt

We test the role of like-minded and cross-cutting political discussion as a facilitator of online and offline political participation and examine the role of strong versus weak network ties. Most prior research on the topic has employed cross-sectional designs that may lead to spurious relationships due to the lack of controlled variables. The findings of a two-wave panel survey controlling the autoregressive effects suggest that cross-cutting talk with weak ties significantly dampens online but not offline political participation. However, no such effects were detectable for cross-cutting talk with strong ties. In addition, we found no effect of discussions involving like-minded individuals in either weak or strong network connections on online and offline forms of political engagement. Implications are discussed.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
Externe Organisation(en)
University of Amsterdam (UvA), Universität Koblenz-Landau
Journal
Communications: the European journal of communication research
Band
46
Seiten
113-126
Anzahl der Seiten
14
ISSN
0341-2059
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2020-2080
Publikationsdatum
2020
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
508007 Kommunikationswissenschaft, 508014 Publizistik
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Communication, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Link zum Portal
https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/likeminded-and-crosscutting-talk-network-characteristics-and-political-participation-online-and-offline-a-panel-study(f328d0ef-fc72-4ab4-a9eb-691dfb1be996).html