W P Eveland
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 30014 |
|---|---|
| NOME | W P Eveland |
| PRENOMES | W P |
| SOBRENOME | Eveland |
| ASSINATURA | EVELAND W P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4761-1066 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 56 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 840 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Listening, Race, Partisanship, and Politics
Independent Political Networks
Most prior U.S. political discussion research has failed to pay close attention to the networks of political independents, and to the differences between true partisans, leaners, and true independents. This is in direct contrast to the (appropriately) growing research attention paid to the decades-long rise in the proportion of independents and the decline of true partisans. This study presents representative U.S. survey data that compares politi…
Partisanship supersedes race
White participants in the United States were asked to imagine having a hypothetical conversation about race-specific issues with either a White or Black discussant who was described as either a Republican or Democrat. Participants' expectations of encountering negative outcomes during the conversation, and their intentions to avoid the conversation, were measured. The black sheep effect posits that harmful ingroup members are evaluated more negat…
Why we can’t talk openly about race
Conversations about race-specific issues with interracial conversation partners can be important to combat prejudice and foster mutual understanding. Using a national U.S. sample of 201 Black Democrats, 199 Black Republicans, 200 White Democrats, and 200 White Republicans, this study examined the role that race and partisanship play in individuals’ desire to have political discussions about race-specific topics with racial outgroups. Findings ind…
Cross-national variation in political network size, distribution, and prediction
Listening and being listened to as affection exchange in marital discussions about the #MeToo movement
Marriage offers a context where individuals may have to discuss difficult topics. Discussing such topics, especially when there is a chance of disagreement, may lead to differences in the ability for spouses to listen to one another. In this study, we surveyed 746 individuals in heterosexual marriages to understand their listening in conversations about the #MeToo movement. Our findings indicate that being a good trait listener does not help one’…
Contexts for Family Talk about Racism
Scholars studying ethnic-racial socialization often call for research with larger and more representative samples to permit comparison of the behaviors of members of various ethnic-racial subgroups. Moreover, research has highlighted the value of examining contextual variables that may influence ethnic-racial socialization behaviors. With a backdrop of the racially charged 2016 United States (U.S.) presidential election campaign, national survey …
Listening During Political Conversations
Recent political theory in the areas of dialogic and deliberative democracy has placed particular emphasis on the importance of listening in contexts in which people disagree strongly, have competing (and potentially incompatible) interests, or are otherwise profoundly different. Despite this theoretical attention, there is very little empirical research directly examining the concept of listening – especially across lines of difference – in the …
A National Conversation About Race? Political Discussion Across Lines of Racial and Partisan Difference
Dialogue about race-based topics is essential to combat prejudice, foster mutual understanding, and improve race relations. This study describes the extent to which political conversations—especially those about race-related topics—are taking place within and across racial and political groups. This national survey with a Black oversample found racially diverse discussion networks to be more likely among Blacks than Whites, but politically divers…
Not Being Accurate Is Not Quite the Same as Being Inaccurate
Most existing evidence suggests that accuracy in perceptions of political preferences within communication networks is reasonably high, but closer examination suggests this may not be true. Perceptions may be accurate, inaccurate, or respondents may offer no perceptions to evaluate for accuracy due to uncertainty. We re-analyze data from several published studies to evaluate whether different treatments of “don’t know” (DK) and similar ambiguous …
Americans are more exposed to difference than we think
Evaluating Summary Measures of Heterogeneous Political Discussion
network heterogeneity measures are frequently used and often-cited in work on interpersonal political disagreement, but their properties are not well documented and they produce anomalous results relative to other measures of socially supplied disagreement. This study deconstructs the familiar summary network heterogeneity measure to examine why it produces incongruous results relative to other measures used in the literature. This study pays par…
Partisan Media Selectivity and Partisan Identity Threat
There is growing concern about the polarizing impact of citizens primarily choosing sources of political information consistent with their existing partisan perspective. Although research has begun providing answers about the consequences, questions remain about what factors drive such selective use of political media. This study conceptualizes partisanship as a social identity and the decision to selectively use like-minded political media as a …
Parental mediation during the U.S. 2016 presidential election campaign
Presidential election campaigns provide opportunities for parents to socialize their children to become politically engaged citizens. However, news coverage of the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign contained inappropriate content, leading parents to possibly restrict or denigrate rather than encourage child campaign news consumption. This study built on literatures in political socialization and parental mediation to explore mediation of campaign n…
Measures of Political Talk Frequency
Although many insights about political conversation have been gleaned from survey data, researchers have yet to engage in serious and intense scrutiny of the measures used to assess political discussion habits. Analyzing three types of data (two three-wave panel studies, social network data from 25 intact groups, and a cognitive interview), this paper examines the reliability of (and meaning ascribed to) self-reported political discussion frequen…
When Politicians Dodge Questions
Communication Content and Knowledge Content Matters
The present study reviews problems in the political learning literature, including ambiguous causality and a lack of specificity in linking communication content to learning outcomes. As a partial solution, our study of media and discussion influence incorporates both manipulated and observed aspects of mass and interpersonal communication. Results indicate that beyond (and often more important than) experimental manipulations, selection processe…
Cultural Variations in the Relationships Among Network Political Agreement, Political Discussion Frequency, and Voting Turnout
We add to the evidence regarding cross-national differences in political discussion by using survey data from North and South America, Western and Eastern Europe, and Asia gathered as part of the Comparative National Elections Project, combined with data on cross-national cultural differences from Hofstede (2001). First, we develop a general model linking network political agreement, political discussion frequency, and voting turnout. Then, we th…
The Structure of Communication Networks Matters
The present study focuses on how different features of discussion networks and the contexts in which they reside are related to political ambivalence, participation, and knowledge. Using full sociometric network data derived from 25 different student activity organizations, we reveal complex implications of various facets of discussion networks and their contextual settings. Ambivalence is amplified by being highly central within a discussion net…
Stimulating the Quasi-statistical Organ
We test an uninvestigated proposition from spiral of silence theory that fear of social isolation (FSI) prompts people to seek out information about the climate of public opinion. Taking a trait-based individual difference perspective, the authors develop and validate a measure of FSI that is less likely to produce the interpretational problems that plague existing measures. Then, using data from eight countries spread across four continents, the…
The Impact of News Use and News Content Characteristics on Political Knowledge and Participation
Research has examined the relationship between traditional news media use and normatively important political outcomes such as knowledge and participation. However, most research fails to account for variations in the nature of news over time and across communities that could alter the fundamental relationship between exposure and these outcomes. Here two studies are presented—one with variation in news characteristics over time based on the Amer…
Political Network Size and Its Antecedents and Consequences
Recent evidence supports the important political role that political network size and distribution plays at both the individual and system levels. However, we argue that the evidence is likely stronger than the current literature suggests due to network size measurement limitations in the extant literature. The most common approach to measuring political network size in sample surveys—the "name generator" approach—normally constrains network size…
The Role of Conversation in Developing Accurate Political Perceptions
We employed social network data from 25 randomly sampled voluntary associations to understand the factors associated with accurate perceptions of candidate preferences of group members. We analyzed relationships at the dyadic level, but also considered the overall accuracy of perceptions by each ego of all alters ("perceptiveness") and the overall accuracy of perception by all alters of each ego ("explicitness") regarding candidate preferences us…
The “Who” Matters
Research consistently finds that we discuss politics most often with our strong ties (i.e., our close, intimate others). As our strong ties tend to be more politically similar to us than not, the conclusion is that everyday political discussions are overwhelmingly characterized by real or perceived political agreement. However, this scenario may paint only a partial portrait of everyday political discussion. Neglected is the distinction between p…
Beyond Deliberation
The past 2 decades have witnessed important contributions to our understanding of political conversation and its effects. However, in many ways we have yet to scratch the surface of what we need to learn. We argue that the emphasis of the literature on political conversation as a weak form of deliberation or as an afterthought from the media effects perspective has led to neglect of important aspects of the interpersonal communication process tha…
Connecting News Media Use with Gaps in Knowledge and Participation
This article examines the relative size of gaps in knowledge and participation between the more and less educated as they vary by the quantity and type of news media use. We predicted that the gap between high and low education groups would be smaller among heavy television news users than among light users, whereas the gap between high and low education groups would be larger among heavy newspaper users than among light users. We also predicted …
The Effect of Political Discussion in Producing Informed Citizens
Recent studies have demonstrated a strong empirical relationship between political discussion and political knowledge. However, as of yet there has been no clear discussion or demonstration of how political discussion translates into increased political knowledge. The present study proposes three explanations--exposure (similar to the two step flow), anticipatory elaboration (linking work on uses and gratifications and news information processing…
The Impact of Individual and Interpersonal Factors on Perceived News Media Bias
A large percentage of the public believes that the news media are biased, and the majority of these individuals consider the direction of bias to be against their own viewpoints. Past research has examined how individual factors such as strength of partisanship or extent of political involvement heighten bias perceptions, but little attention has been paid to interpersonal factors such as the ideological similarity or dissimilarity of personal co…
Understanding the Relationship Between Communication and Political Knowledge
The purpose of this study was to examine more closely the assumptions of causality in research on communication and political knowledge. Although most communication theory suggests that communication causes learning, some have argued for the reverse causal direction or reciprocal causality. Others have confounded these concepts—in conjunction with political interest—in measures of political "sophistication" or "expertise." We collected panel data…
The “Who” Matters
Research consistently finds that we discuss politics most often with our strong ties (i.e., our close, intimate others). As our strong ties tend to be more politically similar to us than not, the conclusion is that everyday political discussions are overwhelmingly characterized by real or perceived political agreement. However, this scenario may paint only a partial portrait of everyday political discussion. Neglected is the distinction between p…
Political Network Size and Its Antecedents and Consequences
Recent evidence supports the important political role that political network size and distribution plays at both the individual and system levels. However, we argue that the evidence is likely stronger than the current literature suggests due to network size measurement limitations in the extant literature. The most common approach to measuring political network size in sample surveys—the "name generator" approach—normally constrains network size…
Contextual Antecedents and Political Consequences of Adolescent Political Discussion, Discussion Elaboration, and Network Diversity
Understanding how adolescents come to be informed participants in a democracy is a key concern in political socialization scholarship. However, our understanding of this process is hampered by limited research on the antecedents of a sufficiently wide array of communication behaviors and cognitions, in addition to a limited repertoire of knowledge outcomes in adolescent research. This study seeks to further the literature by addressing how discus…
The Structure of Communication Networks Matters
The present study focuses on how different features of discussion networks and the contexts in which they reside are related to political ambivalence, participation, and knowledge. Using full sociometric network data derived from 25 different student activity organizations, we reveal complex implications of various facets of discussion networks and their contextual settings. Ambivalence is amplified by being highly central within a discussion net…
The Effect of Social Desirability on Perceived Media Impact
Journal Article THE EFFECT OF SOCIAL DESIRABILITY ON PERCEIVED MEDIA IMPACT: IMPLICATIONS FOR THIRD-PERSON PERCEPTIONS Get access William P. Eveland, Jr., William P. Eveland, Jr. William P. Eveland. Jr. (Ph.D).,University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997) is an assistant professor. His research focuses on the impact of traditional and non-traditional media on knowledge and preceptions with special attention to the roles of motivation and information pr…
Exposure, Attention, or “Use” of News? Assessing Aspects of the Reliability and Validity of a Central Concept in Political Communication Research
The concept of news media use 1 1Although others have used the broader term “media orientations” (McLeod & McDonald, 1985 McLeod, J. M. and McDonald, D. 1985. Beyond simple exposure: Media orientations and their impact on political processes. Communication Research, 12: 3–33. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]), we employ the term “use” as a superordinate label that can subsume exposure, attention, or some combination of the two. M…
Comparing General and Political Discussion Networks Within Voluntary Organizations Using Social Network Analysis
Listening During Political Conversations
Recent political theory in the areas of dialogic and deliberative democracy has placed particular emphasis on the importance of listening in contexts in which people disagree strongly, have competing (and potentially incompatible) interests, or are otherwise profoundly different. Despite this theoretical attention, there is very little empirical research directly examining the concept of listening – especially across lines of difference – in the …
The Role of Conversation in Developing Accurate Political Perceptions
We employed social network data from 25 randomly sampled voluntary associations to understand the factors associated with accurate perceptions of candidate preferences of group members. We analyzed relationships at the dyadic level, but also considered the overall accuracy of perceptions by each ego of all alters ("perceptiveness") and the overall accuracy of perception by all alters of each ego ("explicitness") regarding candidate preferences us…
The Impact of News Use and News Content Characteristics on Political Knowledge and Participation
Research has examined the relationship between traditional news media use and normatively important political outcomes such as knowledge and participation. However, most research fails to account for variations in the nature of news over time and across communities that could alter the fundamental relationship between exposure and these outcomes. Here two studies are presented—one with variation in news characteristics over time based on the Amer…
Assessing Causality in the Relationship Between Community Attachment and Local News Media Use
Numerous studies have demonstrated a relationship between community attachment and local news media use. Despite calls for panel studies to determine the direction of causality in this relationship, there is little evidence beyond cross-sectional surveys, which are often further limited to single communities. In order to contribute to the debate about causal direction, we conducted a four-wave national panel study with repeated measurement of com…
Observations on Estimation of Communication Effects on Political Knowledge and a Test of Intracommunication Mediation
Additional informationNotes on contributorsWilliam P. EvelandWilliam P. Eveland, Jr. is Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Ohio State UniversityAndrew F. HayesAndrew F. Hayes is Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at Ohio State UniversityDhavan V. ShahDhavan V. Shah is Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-MadisonNojin KwakNojin Kwak is Assistant Professor in …
Actual and Perceived U.S. Public Opinion
This study analyzes actual and perceived support for the Persian Gulf War in the United States. Data were collected from 292 residents of New Castle County, Delaware, during the 1991 Gulf War. Results show that support for the war was not the strong consensus reported in mainstream media. In fact, 53.1 percent of the respondents fell within the neutral, disagree, or strongly disagree ranges of a support for the war scale. Only 6.6 percent of the …
Contexts for Family Talk about Racism
Scholars studying ethnic-racial socialization often call for research with larger and more representative samples to permit comparison of the behaviors of members of various ethnic-racial subgroups. Moreover, research has highlighted the value of examining contextual variables that may influence ethnic-racial socialization behaviors. With a backdrop of the racially charged 2016 United States (U.S.) presidential election campaign, national survey …
Evaluating Summary Measures of Heterogeneous Political Discussion
network heterogeneity measures are frequently used and often-cited in work on interpersonal political disagreement, but their properties are not well documented and they produce anomalous results relative to other measures of socially supplied disagreement. This study deconstructs the familiar summary network heterogeneity measure to examine why it produces incongruous results relative to other measures used in the literature. This study pays par…
Measures of Political Talk Frequency
Although many insights about political conversation have been gleaned from survey data, researchers have yet to engage in serious and intense scrutiny of the measures used to assess political discussion habits. Analyzing three types of data (two three-wave panel studies, social network data from 25 intact groups, and a cognitive interview), this paper examines the reliability of (and meaning ascribed to) self-reported political discussion frequen…
Not Being Accurate Is Not Quite the Same as Being Inaccurate
Most existing evidence suggests that accuracy in perceptions of political preferences within communication networks is reasonably high, but closer examination suggests this may not be true. Perceptions may be accurate, inaccurate, or respondents may offer no perceptions to evaluate for accuracy due to uncertainty. We re-analyze data from several published studies to evaluate whether different treatments of “don’t know” (DK) and similar ambiguous …
Why we can’t talk openly about race
Conversations about race-specific issues with interracial conversation partners can be important to combat prejudice and foster mutual understanding. Using a national U.S. sample of 201 Black Democrats, 199 Black Republicans, 200 White Democrats, and 200 White Republicans, this study examined the role that race and partisanship play in individuals’ desire to have political discussions about race-specific topics with racial outgroups. Findings ind…
Cultural Variations in the Relationships Among Network Political Agreement, Political Discussion Frequency, and Voting Turnout
We add to the evidence regarding cross-national differences in political discussion by using survey data from North and South America, Western and Eastern Europe, and Asia gathered as part of the Comparative National Elections Project, combined with data on cross-national cultural differences from Hofstede (2001). First, we develop a general model linking network political agreement, political discussion frequency, and voting turnout. Then, we th…
Partisan Media Selectivity and Partisan Identity Threat
There is growing concern about the polarizing impact of citizens primarily choosing sources of political information consistent with their existing partisan perspective. Although research has begun providing answers about the consequences, questions remain about what factors drive such selective use of political media. This study conceptualizes partisanship as a social identity and the decision to selectively use like-minded political media as a …
When Politicians Dodge Questions
Actual and Perceived U.S. Public Opinion
This study analyzes actual and perceived support for the Persian Gulf War in the United States. Data were collected from 292 residents of New Castle County, Delaware, during the 1991 Gulf War. Results show that support for the war was not the strong consensus reported in mainstream media. In fact, 53.1 percent of the respondents fell within the neutral, disagree, or strongly disagree ranges of a support for the war scale. Only 6.6 percent of the …
Community Integration, Local Media Use, and Democratic Processes
Research on dimensions of community integration has suffered from the lack of clear conceptual and operational definitions. The purposes of this article are to explicate the concept of community integration and its dimensions and to specify the structural and media antecedents and the political consequences of these dimensions. Using 15 indicators drawn from previous integration studies, we test the hypothesis that integration is a multidimension…
Support for Censorship of Violent and Misogynic Rap Lyrics
Recent calls for censorship of rap music have demonstrated the need to test the perceptual and especially the behavioral components of Davison's third-person effect hypothesis. The hypothesis states that people perceive media content to have a greater impact on others than on themselves (perceptual component), and that these perceptions lead people to take actions, such as censorship, to prevent the impact (behavioral component). Results of a sur…
Users and navigation patterns of a science World Wide Web site for the public
We report here initial findings of a multi-year study of public use of a World Wide Web site for science information. “The Why Files” strives to provide “the science behind the news” in story narratives that contain opportunities for both linear and non-linear navigation. We report results of two studies, one using survey data and another using computer-collected audit trails. The survey revealed that the typical user was male and well-educated, …
Rethinking the Social Distance Corollary
Researchers have proposed a social distance corollary to the third-person perception to explain the common finding that as comparison groups become more different from the self or more generally described, the size of the third-person perception increases (i.e., media messages are perceived to have greater negative impact on others than self). The two studies presented here investigate whether third-person perceptions are influenced by social dis…
The Effect of Social Desirability on Perceived Media Impact
Journal Article THE EFFECT OF SOCIAL DESIRABILITY ON PERCEIVED MEDIA IMPACT: IMPLICATIONS FOR THIRD-PERSON PERCEPTIONS Get access William P. Eveland, Jr., William P. Eveland, Jr. William P. Eveland. Jr. (Ph.D).,University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997) is an assistant professor. His research focuses on the impact of traditional and non-traditional media on knowledge and preceptions with special attention to the roles of motivation and information pr…
Connecting News Media Use with Gaps in Knowledge and Participation
This article examines the relative size of gaps in knowledge and participation between the more and less educated as they vary by the quantity and type of news media use. We predicted that the gap between high and low education groups would be smaller among heavy television news users than among light users, whereas the gap between high and low education groups would be larger among heavy newspaper users than among light users. We also predicted …
User Control and Structural Isomorphism or Disorientation and Cognitive Load?
User control theory predicts that providing freedom in learning increases learning compared to traditional instruction, implying that the Web is more effective for learning than print. Theorists have also argued that navigation through Web sites mimics the associative nature of human memory and information processing—structural isomorphism—suggesting Web superiority. However, studies indicate that hypermedia increases cognitive load and produces …
The Cognitive Mediation Model of Learning From the News
The cognitive mediation model predicts that the impact of a learning gratification for news media use on knowledge of news content is mediated by information processing variables. Specifically, surveillance gratifications seeking should encourage two forms of information processing: news attention and elaboration. These forms of information processing should covary and have a direct and positive impact on learning of news content. The impact of s…
Behind the Third-Person Effect
This study investigated factors related to two types of judgments that make up the third-person perception: media effects on others and effects on self. Specifically, separate regression path models revealed that estimates of effects on others are based on a relatively naive schema for media effects that is similar to the “magic bullet” model of media effects (i.e., more exposure leads to greater effects). On the other hand, assessing effects on …
Applying Research on the Uses and Cognitive Effects of Hypermedia to the Study of the World Wide Web
This article situates the technological and historical origins of the World Wide Web in hypermedia systems that were conceptualized during the World War II era and first developed decades before the Web. The article then reviews the cross-disciplinary literature on hypermedia, which has developed over the past decade or so in education and educational technology, computer science, library and information science, psychology, and even geography. T…
An Investigation of Elaboration and Selective Scanning as Mediators of Learning From the Web Versus Print
Recent studies suggest that Web delivery may produce less learning than traditional print. Left unanswered are questions of the process through which differences are produced. Using 2 theories user control and structural isomorphism-we proposed 2 mediators of the influence of medium on learning. Path analysis of experimental data varying medium while holding content constant suggested that the Web increases learning through increased elaboration,…
News Information Processing as Mediator of the Relationship between Motivations and Political Knowledge
The cognitive mediation model of learning from the news proposes that motivations for news use influence the processing to which the news information is put, and that this processing is the proximal determinant of learning. The role of motivations in learning from the news, then, is indirect through information processing. Secondary analysis of data indicate substantial support for the model. The relationship between motivations and knowledge was…
Assessing Causality in the Cognitive Mediation Model
This two-wave national panel study was designed to test the causal claims of the “cognitive mediation model.” The data indicate strong support for the following causal relationships predicted by the model: (a) surveillance motivations influence information processing, (b) information processing influences knowledge, and (c) motivations influence knowledge only indirectly through information processing. However, additional analyses demonstrated th…
A “Mix of Attributes” Approach to the Study of Media Effects and New Communication Technologies
The purpose of this article is to discuss the media effects approach broadly, to point out limitations the traditional approach imposes on the field, and to discuss a “mix of attributes” approach with a focus on the study of “new” technologies for the dissemination of news. It is argued that the mix of attributes approach would better serve to advance both theory and empirical research, not only in the area of new media technologies, but also for…
The Effects of Television on Group Vitality
The concept of vitality was first introduced to account for factors affecting language use in the late 1970s. Today, vitality has developed into a broader theory addressing issues related to ethnicity, gender, age, and intergroup communication. Theorists propose that the more vitality a group has, the more likely that group will survive as an entity in an intergroup context. Intergroup researchers claim that perceptions of vitality may be influen…
The Impact of Individual and Interpersonal Factors on Perceived News Media Bias
A large percentage of the public believes that the news media are biased, and the majority of these individuals consider the direction of bias to be against their own viewpoints. Past research has examined how individual factors such as strength of partisanship or extent of political involvement heighten bias perceptions, but little attention has been paid to interpersonal factors such as the ideological similarity or dissimilarity of personal co…
Moving beyond “Just the Facts”
The increasing use of online news, particularly by young Americans, pointsto the importance of understanding what users learn from this form of news and whether features of online news encourage or discourage various types of learning. This experimental study demonstrates that online news that takes advantage of one of the key characteristics of the Web—the use of in-text hyperlinks—may actually discourage learning of the facts that make up many …
How Web Site Organization Influences Free Recall, Factual Knowledge, and Knowledge Structure Density
Journal Article How Web Site Organization Influences Free Recall, Factual Knowledge, and Knowledge Structure Density Get access William P. Eveland, Jr., William P. Eveland, Jr. 1Ohio State University 4William P. Eveland, Jr., 3139 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Juliann Cortese, Juliann Cortese 1Ohio State University Search for other works by this author …
How Web Site Organization Influences Free Recall, Factual Knowledge, and Knowledge Structure Density
Past research has demonstrated that nonlinear Web presentations (i.e., those that allow viewing in multiple orders) may lead to decreased free recall and learning of factual information compared to traditional, print-like linear Web designs. Recent evidence suggests, however, that nonlinear designs may facilitate learning of the interconnectedness of the presented information. This article presents experimental data from a combined sample of coll…
The Effect of Political Discussion in Producing Informed Citizens
Recent studies have demonstrated a strong empirical relationship between political discussion and political knowledge. However, as of yet there has been no clear discussion or demonstration of how political discussion translates into increased political knowledge. The present study proposes three explanations--exposure (similar to the two step flow), anticipatory elaboration (linking work on uses and gratifications and news information processing…
Information and Expression in a Digital Age
This article examines the role of the Internet as a source of political information and a sphere for public expression. Informational media use, whether traditional news sources or online public affairs content, is expected to foster interpersonal political discussion and online civic messaging, contributing to increased civic participation. Using two-wave national panel survey data, three types of synchronous structural equation models are teste…
Understanding the Relationship Between Communication and Political Knowledge
The purpose of this study was to examine more closely the assumptions of causality in research on communication and political knowledge. Although most communication theory suggests that communication causes learning, some have argued for the reverse causal direction or reciprocal causality. Others have confounded these concepts—in conjunction with political interest—in measures of political "sophistication" or "expertise." We collected panel data…
Observations on Estimation of Communication Effects on Political Knowledge and a Test of Intracommunication Mediation
Additional informationNotes on contributorsWilliam P. EvelandWilliam P. Eveland, Jr. is Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Ohio State UniversityAndrew F. HayesAndrew F. Hayes is Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at Ohio State UniversityDhavan V. ShahDhavan V. Shah is Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-MadisonNojin KwakNojin Kwak is Assistant Professor in …
Is It Talking, Thinking, or Both? A Lagged Dependent Variable Model of Discussion Effects on Political Knowledge
This study extends existing research on political discussion’s influence on political knowledge in two ways. First, it expands the measures of discussion-related cognition to include discussion elaboration and perspective taking. Second, it employs panel data, which permit stronger causal inferences than cross-sectional studies. Our findings indicate that, even controlling for prior knowledge, interest, news use, and news elaboration, political d…
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