The Kids Are Online: Teen Social Media Use, Civic Engagement, and Affective Polarization

IF 5.5 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI:10.1177/20563051231186364

Ayla Oden, Lance Porter

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Abstract

Teen users outpace adults in social media use across several platforms. Though much scholarship has considered the negative effects of social media use on teen well-being, this study considers how participation on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok is influencing teens’ political interests and behaviors. Compared to traditional resources, we find that social media use across these platforms positively correlated with political interest and civic online and offline engagement, while Twitter and Facebook use had positive relationships with affective polarization. TikTok and Instagram each correlated with higher levels of interest and civic engagement, and the platforms had no relationship with polarization. We discuss these implications and what they mean for political participation among teens online.

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孩子们在线：青少年社交媒体的使用、公民参与和情感两极分化

在多个平台上，青少年用户的社交媒体使用量超过了成年人。尽管许多学者都考虑了社交媒体使用对青少年幸福感的负面影响，但这项研究考虑了Twitter、Instagram、Facebook和TikTok的参与如何影响青少年的政治兴趣和行为。与传统资源相比，我们发现这些平台上的社交媒体使用与政治兴趣、公民在线和离线参与呈正相关，而推特和脸书的使用与情感两极分化呈正相关。TikTok和Instagram都与更高水平的兴趣和公民参与相关，而这两个平台与两极分化无关。我们讨论了这些影响，以及它们对青少年网络政治参与的意义。

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来源期刊

Social Media + Society COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

9.20

自引率

3.80%

发文量

111

审稿时长

12 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Media + Society is an open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal that focuses on the socio-cultural, political, psychological, historical, economic, legal and policy dimensions of social media in societies past, contemporary and future. We publish interdisciplinary work that draws from the social sciences, humanities and computational social sciences, reaches out to the arts and natural sciences, and we endorse mixed methods and methodologies. The journal is open to a diversity of theoretic paradigms and methodologies. The editorial vision of Social Media + Society draws inspiration from research on social media to outline a field of study poised to reflexively grow as social technologies evolve. We foster the open access of sharing of research on the social properties of media, as they manifest themselves through the uses people make of networked platforms past and present, digital and non. The journal presents a collaborative, open, and shared space, dedicated exclusively to the study of social media and their implications for societies. It facilitates state-of-the-art research on cutting-edge trends and allows scholars to focus and track trends specific to this field of study.