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News Media Consumption and Political Participation in Central America: Causation and Explanation
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Modeling Media:
News Media Consumption and Political Participation in Central America
Ryan Salzman
University of North Texas
Department of Political Science
## email not listed ##
940-565-4803
Rosa Aloisi
University of North Texas
Department of Political Science
## email not listed ##
940-565-6804
Abstract:
The empirical study of the effects of news media consumption on political participation has proliferated in recent years, but has largely ignored the causal path connecting media consumption to political participation. We test two competing models of news media effects. The individual model examines the individual-based process that occurs given the consumption of news media where consumption leads to variation in levels of support for participation which ultimately effects the enactment of a participatory action. The social model of media effects suggests that media consumption’s effect on participation is mediated through joining groups. Political participation is measured as voting, informal participation, and protest participation. The news media consumption we examine is those of newspaper, radio and television. OLS regressions of our pooled sample of six Central American countries find significant support for the social model of media effects.
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Modeling Media:
News Media Consumption and Political Participation in Central America
Ryan Salzman
University of North Texas
Department of Political Science
940-565-4803
Rosa Aloisi
University of North Texas
Department of Political Science
940-565-6804
Abstract:
The empirical study of the effects of news media consumption on political participation has
proliferated in recent years, but has largely ignored the causal path connecting media
consumption to political participation. We test two competing models of news media effects.
The individual model examines the individual-based process that occurs given the consumption
of news media where consumption leads to variation in levels of support for participation which
ultimately effects the enactment of a participatory action. The social model of media effects
suggests that media consumption’s effect on participation is mediated through joining groups.
Political participation is measured as voting, informal participation, and protest participation.
The news media consumption we examine is those of newspaper, radio and television. OLS
regressions of our pooled sample of six Central American countries find significant support for
the social model of media effects.
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