National security versus freedom of speech: How media exposure, personal values, and media framing influence non-users’ support for a national ban on TikTok

IF 4.3 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

New Media & Society Pub Date : 2025-07-16 DOI:10.1177/14614448251349427

Huu Dat Tran, Pham Phuong Uyen Diep, Hayley Booth

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Abstract

Our study examines how external factors, including media exposure, personal values, and media framing (i.e. national security vs free speech), influence non-users’ support for a national TikTok ban in the United States via an online experiment-embedded survey ( N = 498). Results show that while perceived national security threats predicted ban support only in the national security condition, concerns about free speech violations consistently decreased support across all conditions. An analysis of open-ended responses further demonstrated that participants adopted the framing language consistent with their experimental condition. Findings suggest that personal value framing in the media, especially those related to free speech values, plays a crucial role in shaping public opinion on social media regulation policies. We thus contribute to a comprehensive understanding of how media framing influences policy preferences for emerging digital governance issues such as social media regulations. Other implications were also discussed.

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国家安全与言论自由：媒体曝光、个人价值观和媒体框架如何影响非用户对TikTok全国禁令的支持

我们的研究通过一项在线实验嵌入式调查（N = 498），研究了包括媒体曝光、个人价值观和媒体框架（即国家安全与言论自由）在内的外部因素如何影响非用户对美国全国性TikTok禁令的支持。结果显示，虽然感知到的国家安全威胁仅在国家安全条件下预测禁令的支持，但对言论自由侵犯的担忧在所有条件下都持续降低支持。对开放式回答的分析进一步表明，参与者采用了与其实验条件相一致的框架语言。研究结果表明，媒体中的个人价值框架，特别是那些与言论自由价值观有关的价值观，在塑造公众对社交媒体监管政策的意见方面起着至关重要的作用。因此，我们有助于全面了解媒体框架如何影响新兴数字治理问题（如社交媒体监管）的政策偏好。还讨论了其他影响。

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New Media & Society COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

12.70

自引率

8.00%

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274

期刊介绍： New Media & Society engages in critical discussions of the key issues arising from the scale and speed of new media development, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and on both theoretical and empirical research. The journal includes contributions on: -the individual and the social, the cultural and the political dimensions of new media -the global and local dimensions of the relationship between media and social change -contemporary as well as historical developments -the implications and impacts of, as well as the determinants and obstacles to, media change the relationship between theory, policy and practice.