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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/s0747563214007481social media present new opportunities for citizens to engage with news and to participate in political processes. when used for political purposes, social media contribute to various types of participatory behaviors such as conventional political participation (bode et al., 2014, dimitrova et al., 2014, gil de zúñiga et al., 2012), protests (valenzuela, arriagada, & scherman, 2012) and political consumerism (gil de zúñiga, copeland, & bimber, 2014). the significance of social media as news outlets and venues for political discourse draws upon multiple and distinctive features provided by social networking sites (snss). as a news source, social media provide a flexible and multiple means to receive news from members of one’s network as well as from news organizations and journalists (weeks & hobert, 2013). social media also grant an active role to users because they can participate in news circulation by disseminating or sharing news (singer, 2014). in addition, due to intimate relationships among network members, social media can function as effective platform for citizens to talk about political issues and events with others (choi, 2014). although social media offer various functions that potentially foster political participation, previous studies have not fully addressed how distinct aspects of use of social media differently influence individuals’ participatory behaviors. to address this limitation, this study examines whether different types of news activities have differential effects on political participation. these activities include news reception (i.e., receiving news from one’s network members), news following (i.e., following the accounts of news sources in snss), and news dissemination through snss.
social media present new opportunities for citizens to engage with news and to participate in political processes. when used for political purposes, social media contribute to various types of participatory behaviors such as conventional political participation (bode et al., 2014, dimitrova et al., 2014, gil de zúñiga et al., 2012), protests (valenzuela, arriagada, & scherman, 2012) and political consumerism (gil de zúñiga, copeland, & bimber, 2014). the significance of social media as news outlets and venues for political discourse draws upon multiple and distinctive features provided by social networking sites (snss). as a news source, social media provide a flexible and multiple means to receive news from members of one’s network as well as from news organizations and journalists (weeks & hobert, 2013). social media also grant an active role to users because they can participate in news circulation by disseminating or sharing news (singer, 2014). in addition, due to intimate relationships among network members, social media can function as effective platform for citizens to talk about political issues and events with others (choi, 2014). although social media offer various functions that potentially foster political participation, previous studies have not fully addressed how distinct aspects of use of social media differently influence individuals’ participatory behaviors. to address this limitation, this study examines whether different types of news activities have differential effects on political participation. these activities include news reception (i.e., receiving news from one’s network members), news following (i.e., following the accounts of news sources in snss), and news dissemination through snss.