New Online Publication in Mass Communication and Society

05.08.2019

Mass Communication and Society has published a paper by Hyunjin Song, Homero Gil de Zúñiga and Hajo G. Boomgaarden!

Hyunjin Song, Homero Gil de Zúñiga and Hajo G. Boomgaarden published their new paper "Social Media News Use and Political Cynicism: Differential Pathways Through 'News Finds Me' Perception" in Mass Communication and Society. Congratulations!

As citizens inadvertently “encounter” news and political information through digital media and social networking sites, they might perceive themselves to be well informed about politics without actively seeking political information, which has been labeled as the “News Finds Me” (NFM) perception. The authors attempt to explicate and further advance the conceptualization and corresponding measurement of “News Finds Me” perception. Using a nationally representative survey conducted in Austria, their analysis shows that social media news use may contribute to cynicism towards politics, and that such a relationship is critically mediated through NFM perceptions, but to a differential degree depending on specific sub-dimensions of NFM perceptions.

 

Hyunjin Song, Homero Gil de Zúñiga and Hajo G. Boomgaarden (2019) Social Media News Use and Political Cynicism: Differential Pathways Through 'News Finds Me' Perception. Mass Media and Society.

Find the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2019.1651867