Does Twitter motivate involvement in politics? Tweeting, opinion leadership, and political engagement

By Chang Sup Park. Computers in Human Behavior, 2013

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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): “In the contemporary media environment, opinion leaders actively discuss, share, comment on, and produce news and political information (Park, 2013; Weeks, Ardévol-Abreu, & Gil de Zúñiga, 2015), which may contribute to the news-finds-me perception and affect subsequent media use behaviors.”
A Tale of Four Platforms: Motivations and Uses of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat Among College Students? (2017, background): “Park (2013) found that among opinion leaders on Twitter, their motivations of information seeking, mobilization, and public expression predicted their use of Twitter within a political context.”
From internet access to internet skills: digital inequality among older adults (2019, background): “Finally, and somewhat surprisingly given other literature on Internet skills [14, 43, 57], there are no significant skill differences among men and women in our sample.”