Is it talking, thinking, or both? A lagged dependent variable model of discussion effects on political knowledge

被引:122
作者
Eveland, William P., Jr. [1 ]
Thomson, Tiffany [1 ]
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[1] Ohio State Univ, Sch Commun, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
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10.1111/j.1460-2466.2006.00299.x
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G2 [信息与知识传播];
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05 ; 0503 ;
摘要
This study extends existing research on political discussion's influence on political knowledge in two ways. First, it expands the measures of discussion-related cognition to include discussion elaboration and perspective taking. Second, it employs panel data, which permit stronger causal inferences than cross-sectional studies. Our findings indicate that, even controlling for prior knowledge, interest, news use, and news elaboration, political discussion frequency and discussion elaboration are positively related to political knowledge. However, perspective taking is unrelated to political knowledge.
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