| URN |
etd-0431117-164536 |
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| Author |
Sin-hua Wu |
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| Author's Email Address |
No Public. |
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| Statistics |
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| Department |
Political Science |
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| Year |
2016 |
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| Semester |
2 |
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| Degree |
Master |
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| Type of Document |
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| Language |
zh-TW.Big5 Chinese |
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| Title |
The Use of Social Media Sites and Political Efficacy |
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| Date of Defense |
2016-11-11 |
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| Page Count |
77 |
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| Keyword |
media effects
social media
internet
external efficacy
internal efficacy
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| Abstract |
Online and offline news media have been serving as the major providers of political information. Recently social media have emerged as another channel of information acquisition and a platform of opinion expression. Scholars who emphasize the role of internet and social media expect that the use of social media would eventually influence one’s political participation via the echo chamber effect and intermediation role of political efficacy. Even though the hypothesis that political efficacy influences political participation has been confirmed in the literature, the critical assumption that social media use influence political efficacy has not been systematically examined. This study, based on analysis of Taiwan Social Change Survey (TSCS) face-to-face interview data (N=1,875), systematically examines if any of the three types of internet use behavior—using internet for political information, browsing and searching on social media sites, and posting opinions on social media sites—influences internal political efficacy and external political efficacy. The findings suggest that (1) using internet for political information influences internal efficacy; and that (2) browsing and searching on social media sites influence internal efficacy and the perception that “I can influence the government” but not the perception that “The government responds”. The analysis controls for conventionally important variables such as political interest, party identification, and age, which contributes to the literature as a solid base for exploring the role of social media in Taiwan. |
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| Advisory Committee |
Liao, Da-Chi - chair
Chen, Wen-Chun - co-chair
Frank C.S. Liu - advisor
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| Files |
Indicate in-campus at 1 year and off-campus access at 1 year. |
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| Date of Submission |
2017-06-01 |
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