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Why people dual screen political debates and why it matters for democratic engagement

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posted on 2017-10-20, 14:53 authored by Andrew ChadwickAndrew Chadwick, Ben O'Loughlin, Cristian Vaccari
Dual screening during televised election debates is a new domain in which political elites and journalists seek to influence audience attitudes and behavior. But to what extent do non-elite dual screeners seek to influence others, particularly their social media followers, social media users in general, and even politicians and journalists? And how does this behavior affect short- and longer-term engagement with election campaigns? Using unique, event-based, panel survey data from the main 2015 UK general election debate (Wave 1 = 2,351; Wave 2 = 1,168) we reveal the conditions under which people experience agency, empowerment, and engagement now that social media have reconfigured broadcast political television.

History

School

  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies

Published in

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media

Volume

61

Issue

2

Pages

220 - 239

Citation

CHADWICK, A., O'LOUGHLIN, B. and VACCARI, C., 2017. Why people dual screen political debates and why it matters for democratic engagement. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 61(2), pp. 220-239.

Publisher

© Broadcast Education Association. Published by Taylor and Francis

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2017-03-23

Publication date

2017-05-26

Notes

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media on 26 May 2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/08838151.2017.1309415.

ISSN

0883-8151

eISSN

1550-6878

Language

  • en