Dissertation/ Thesis
The Youth's Usage of Facebook for Political Activism: The Role of Political Information, Expression, and Connection with Political Actors
| العنوان: | The Youth's Usage of Facebook for Political Activism: The Role of Political Information, Expression, and Connection with Political Actors |
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| Alternate Title: | 青年臉書使用與政治參與之關聯性研究: 論臉書政治資訊性使用、政治表達性使用、以及 與政治人物連結之角色 |
| المؤلفون: | Liu, Pei Ju, 劉佩茹 |
| Thesis Advisors: | Fang, Nein Husan, 方念萱 |
| المجموعة: | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| الوصف: | 國際傳播英語碩士學位學程(IMICS) 103 The effect of social networking sites in relation to the youth’s offline political participation has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention. However, previous research showed inconsistent results. Given Facebook is the most used social networking site in Taiwan, this thesis attempts to adopt a multidimensional approach to examine the roles of various aspects of political activities on Facebook and their effects on offline political participation among Taiwanese youth. This study examines whether Facebook use for information, Facebook use for expression, and connection with public political actors on Facebook are related to Taiwan’s youth offline political participation. Using an online questionnaire, a total of 703 Taiwanese respondents, aged 18 to 35, participated in this study. Findings of this study suggest that Facebook for expression and connection with public political actors has significant and positive association with offline political participation. Aside from focal independent variables, some other control variables exerted significant influence on offline political participation, such as internal efficacy, offline political discussion, and TV news use. An implication of these results is the possibility to utilize Facebook as a bridge between young adults and public political actors. Future researchers can continue to refine the dimensionality of social media usage to examine its relationship with offline political participation. |
| Original Identifier: | 103NCCU5838018 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| وصف الملف: | 77 |
| الاتاحة: | http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/93330329532920551562 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsndl.TW.103NCCU5838018 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations |
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