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Social Media for Journalism and Civic Political Participation

Haishan WangCommunication University of China*

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Abstract

Social media kept developing these years, which has a significant impact on every part of society. Especially, this change happened in the field of news communication that has triggered many scholars to explore. They gradually find that the real reason for influencing the political participation of citizens is not the social media itself, but people’s behavior of using social media, such as access to news information. In order to explore the impact mechanism, this paper does a regression analysis of the factors that influence the civic political participation, specially analyzing online and offline political participation. In addition, the influence of education levels on political participation is also further analyzed.

Keywords: social media; civic political participation; journalism
Published: December 7, 2023
DOI: 10.54254/2753-7064/18/20231190
Volume: CHR Vol.18
pp. 271-278
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