The Effects of Digital Media on Political Knowledge and Participation in Election Campaigns

By Daniela V. Dimitrova, Adam Shehata, Jesper Strömbäck, Lars W. Nord. Communication Research, 2014

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Effects of the News-Finds-Me Perception in Communication: Social Media Use Implications for News Seeking and Learning About Politics (2017, background): “But whether social media facilitate political learning remains an open question, as preliminary evidence suggests use of these outlets are not strongly contributing to political knowledge (e.g. Bode, 2016; Dimitrova et al., 2014).”
Studying political microblogging: Twitter users in the 2010 Swedish election campaign (2012, background): “In a recently completed panel study on the use of various forms of social media in the period leading up to the same election under study here, Dimitrova et al. (2011) found that only around 1 per cent of the respondents in their representative sample used Twitter to follow politicians or political…”
The social media political participation model: A goal systems theory perspective (2020, background): “Findings suggest that the use of social media can promote various forms of political engagement (Boulianne, 2015; Dimitrova and Bystrom, 2013; Dimitrova et al., 2014; Halpern and Gibbs, 2013).”