Weblogs, traditional sources online and political participation: an assessment of how the internet is changing the political environment

By Homero Gil de Zúñiga, Eulàlia Puig-i-Abril, Hernando Rojas. New Media & Society, 2009

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Expressive Versus Consumptive Blog Use: Implications for Interpersonal Discussion and Political Participation (2013, background): “However, few studies have examined the impact of blog use more generally (ideological or otherwise) on political participation (Gil de Zúñiga et al., 2009; Papacharissi, 2009); only initial efforts have tested whether visiting blogs helps to foster participation (Kerbel & Bloom, 2005).”
Studying political microblogging: Twitter users in the 2010 Swedish election campaign (2012, background): “Blog use has been found to be an important predictor of online political engagement (Gil De Zuniga et al., 2009), and reasons for blogging appear to go beyond more intrinsic motivations.”
Stumbling upon news on the Internet: Effects of incidental news exposure and relative entertainment use on political engagement (2013, methodology): “For a more accurate representation of the population, the matched sample using census data has been validated in previous research (Iyengar & Hahn, 2009).”
Social media and citizen engagement: A meta-analytic review (2016, background): “Research also shows that the use of blogs and microblogs is positively related to online (Chan et al., 2012; Gil de Zúñiga et al., 2009; Lewis, 2010) and offline political engagement (Gil de Zúñiga et al., 2013).”
Every tweet counts? How sentiment analysis of social media can improve our knowledge of citizens’ political preferences with an application to Italy and France (2013, background): “…social media are potential sources of direct democracy that may contribute to increased responsiveness and accountability in real-world politics (De Zúñiga et al., 2009; Papacharissi, 2002), others have proposed diverging views strongly criticizing this same idea (Alvarez and Hall, 2011; Hindman,…”
More than words: Social networks' text mining for consumer brand sentiments (2013, background): “In a study investigating microblogging participation within political environment, Gil De Zuniga, Puig-I-Abril, and Rojas (2009) found that the major reasons for blogging are basically extrinsic motivations.”