Social Media News Use and Political Cynicism: Differential Pathways Through “News Finds Me” Perception

Autor(en)

Hyunjin Song, Homero Gil de Zuniga, Hajo Boomgaarden

Abstrakt

As citizens inadvertently "encounter" news and political information through digital media and social networking sites, they might perceive themselves to be well informed about politics without actively seeking political information, which has been labeled as the "News Finds Me" (NFM) perception. We attempt to explicate and further advance the conceptualization and corresponding measurement of "News Finds Me" perception. Using a nationally representative survey conducted in Austria, our analysis shows that social media news use may contribute to cynicism towards politics, and that such a relationship is critically mediated through NFM perceptions, but to a differential degree depending on specific sub-dimensions of NFM perceptions.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft

Journal

Mass Communication and Society

Band

23

Seiten

47-70

Anzahl der Seiten

24

ISSN

1520-5436

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2019.1651867

Publikationsdatum

01-2020

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

508012 Medienwirkungsforschung

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Communication

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/social-media-news-use-and-political-cynicism-differential-pathways-through-news-finds-me-perception(4cbe592a-7195-4489-b2f2-d87ec9e9a730).html