Social Media Democracy Mirage : How Social Media News Fuels a Politically Uninformed Participatory Democracy (Elements in Politics and Communication)

Gil de Zúñiga, Homero/ Marné, Hugo Marcos/ Goyanes, Manuel

Cambridge University Press（2024/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 118 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781009500869
• DDC分類 320.014

Full Description

For over two decades, political communication research has hailed the potentially reinvigorating effect of social media on democracy. Social media was expected to provide new opportunities for people to learn about politics and public affairs, and to participate politically. Building on two systematic literature reviews on social media, and its effects on political participation and knowledge (2000-2020), and introducing empirical evidence drawing on four original US survey data that expands for over a decade (2009-2020), this Element contends that social media has only partially fulfilled this tenet, producing a Social Media Democracy Mirage. That is, social media have led to a socio-political paradox in which people are more participatory than ever, yet not necessarily more informed.

Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Systematic literature review: social media and political participation; 3. Systematic literature review: social media and political knowledge; 4. More participation and less political learning; 5. Final conclusions; Appendix; References.