Is Online Textual Political Expression Associated With Political Knowledge?

IF 4.9 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Communication Research Pub Date : 2023-01-19 DOI:10.1177/00936502221113808

Toby Hopp, Patrick Ferrucci, Chris J. Vargo, Luna Liu

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Abstract

Prior research has reliably shown a positive relationship between political talk and political knowledge. This study sought to build upon this research by assessing the association between internet-based textual political expression and political knowledge. Notably, while online textual political expression is closely linked to traditional conceptualizations of political talk, it is also different in several key ways. Accordingly, this study drew upon research and theorization in the areas of political talk, online expression, and communication self-effects to explore the association between political commentary frequency on Facebook and performance on a political knowledge quiz. Moreover, we investigated the degree to which expression-apparent elaborative thinking levels were differentially associated with political knowledge. The results indicated that Facebook-based textual political expression was, as predicted, positively associated with political knowledge. Therein, we found that textual political expression indicative of high levels of elaboration was much more strongly associated with political knowledge levels than textual political expression that was indicative of comparatively lower levels of elaboration. Finally, exploratory analyses suggested that highly elaborative textual political expression was at least as strongly related to political knowledge as traditional media consumption variables.

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网络文本政治表达与政治知识有关联吗?

先前的研究已经可靠地显示了政治谈话与政治知识之间的正相关关系。本研究试图通过评估基于互联网的文本政治表达与政治知识之间的关系来建立这一研究。值得注意的是，尽管网络文本政治表达与传统的政治话语概念密切相关，但它在几个关键方面也有所不同。因此，本研究借鉴了政治谈话、在线表达和沟通自我效应领域的研究和理论，以探索Facebook上政治评论频率与政治知识测验成绩之间的关系。此外，我们还调查了表达-表观精细化思维水平与政治知识的差异相关程度。结果表明，正如预测的那样，基于facebook的文本政治表达与政治知识呈正相关。其中，我们发现，与表明阐述水平相对较低的文本政治表达相比，表明阐述水平较高的文本政治表达与政治知识水平的关系要紧密得多。最后，探索性分析表明，高度详尽的文本政治表达至少与传统媒体消费变量一样与政治知识密切相关。

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Communication Research COMMUNICATION-

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