Learning Political Information From the News: A Closer Look at the Role of Motivation

By Clarissa C. David. 2009

126 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/4719118bf5ecc94ef3b7c9aef4afd00090fbfb7c

How researchers see this paper

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In Communication

1. Brian E. Weeks
2. Alberto Ardévol-Abreu
3. Homero Gil de Zúñiga

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Brian E. Weeks
2. Alberto Ardévol-Abreu
3. Homero Gil de Zúñiga

Citations in the corpus

• Effects of the News-Finds-Me Perception in Communication: Social Media Use Implications for News Seeking and Learning About Politics (2017, background): “Individuals who want to learn more about their political environment and actively seek news pay closer attention to and elaborate more deeply on news content, which facilitates political learning (e.g. Eveland et al., 2003; David, 2009; Prior, 2007).”