Social Media Use for News and Individuals' Social Capital, Civic Engagement and Political Participation

By Homero Gil de Zúñiga, Nakwon Jung, Sebastián Valenzuela. J. Comput. Mediat. Commun., 2012

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Uses and gratifications of social networking sites for bridging and bonding social capital: A comparison of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat (2017, background): “Similarly, Gil de Zuniga et al. (2012) found that political discussion and information seeking through SNSs significantly predicted social USES AND GRATIFICATIONS OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES (SNSs) 6 capital and civic engagement.”
The social media political participation model: A goal systems theory perspective (2020, background): “Similarly, sheer network size was assumed to increase the probability of being exposed to opportunities for PP (e.g. Gil de Zúñiga et al., 2012; Theocharis and Quintelier, 2016).”
Does gamification affect brand engagement and equity? A study in online brand communities (2020, neutral): “The service providers such as online brand communities can foster norms of reciprocity and trust and, therefore, create opportunities for engagement by making users feel connected to the brand and increasing their knowledge of other members (Gil de Zúñiga, Jung, & Valenzuela, 2012).”
To fear or not to fear? Applying the social amplification of risk framework on two environmental health risks in Singapore (2018, background): “Such platforms allow individuals to create and sustain both strong and weak network ties that can exert varying degrees of social pressure on other individuals (Gil de Zúñiga, Jung, and Valenzuela 2012).”
Emotion shapes the diffusion of moralized content in social networks (2017, background): “More and more, communications about morality and politics within social networks are computer-mediated (15), and contagion is often studied as information diffusion in online social networks.”
Social media and citizen engagement: A meta-analytic review (2016, background): “A study by Gil de Zúñiga et al. (2012) provides further support to the earlier findings regarding the use of SNSs such as Facebook to seek information, showing that news use significantly predicted civic participation although the relationship was quite small, explaining only 1.5% of variance in…”
Partisan Provocation: The Role of Partisan News Use and Emotional Responses in Political Information Sharing in Social Media (2016, background): “There are a number of ways in which citizens can do this both on and offline, but interactive political information sharing has become an important part of modern political expression (Gibson & Cantijoch, 2013; Gil de Zúñiga et al., 2012; Valenzuela, 2013; Weeks & Holbert, 2013).”
Online Political Discourse: Exploring Differences in Effects of Civil and Uncivil Disagreement in News Website Comments (2017, methodology): “Measures from prior research (Borah, 2014; Gil de Zúñiga et al., 2012) were used to operationalize this concept.”
News Sharing in Social Media: A Review of Current Research on News Sharing Users, Content, and Networks (2015, neutral): “…and, not least, social media’s potential for political participation and civic engagement (e.g., Bachmann & Gil de Zúñiga, 2013; Gil de Zúñiga, Jung, & Valenzuela, 2012; Gil de Zúñiga, Molyneux, & Zheng, 2014; Glynn, Huge, & Hoffman, 2012; Nielsen & Schrøder, 2014; Purcell,…”
Emerging in a Digital World (2013, background): “de Zúñiga, H. G., (2012). Social media use for news and individuals’ social capital, civic engagement and political participation.”