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The Informational Consequences of Populism: Social Media News Use and "News Finds Me" Perception
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Abstract Prior studies have theorized a positive association between people’s populist attitudes and an increased use of social media to consume news, which will be mainly driven by individuals' engagement with news that reflects their people-centered, anti-elitist, and Manichean understanding of politics. H... mehr
Prior studies have theorized a positive association between people’s populist attitudes and an increased use of social media to consume news, which will be mainly driven by individuals' engagement with news that reflects their people-centered, anti-elitist, and Manichean understanding of politics. However, such general connection remains elusive. This research seeks to further clarify this strand of the literature by incorporating people’s belief that important political information will find them without actively seeking news - "News Finds Me" perception (NFM). For that, we use online survey data from two European countries that differ regarding the ideological political supply side of populism (Italy and Portugal). The main results suggest that citizens who hold stronger populist attitudes will also develop stronger NFM. Furthermore, findings reveal a mediating effect of social media news use on the effects of populist attitudes over NFM. That is, those who hold stronger populist attitudes tend to use social media to get exposed to public affairs news more often, which in turn explains the development of the NFM. These results emphasize the importance of systematically exploring citizens populists’ attitudes within today's social media, social networks, and complex information systems.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Nachrichten; Populismus; politische Einstellung; Informationsverhalten; Soziale Medien; Nutzung; Italien; Portugal; Südeuropa
Klassifikation
interaktive, elektronische Medien
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
News Finds Me perception
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2022
Seitenangabe
S. 197-209
Zeitschriftentitel
Politics and Governance, 10 (2022) 1
Heftthema
Analyzing Citizen Engagement with European Politics Through Social Media
ISSN
2183-2463
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)