Hybrid media consumption: How tweeting during a televised political debate influences the vote decision

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dc.contributor.authorMaruyama, Misa
dc.contributor.authorRobertson, Scott P.
dc.contributor.authorDouglas, Sara K.
dc.contributor.authorSemaan, Bryan C.
dc.contributor.authorFaucett, Heather
dc.date.accessioned2014-11-20T02:29:05Z
dc.date.available2014-11-20T02:29:05Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractAn increasing number of people are using microblogs to broadcast their thoughts in real time as they watch televised political events. Microblogging social network sites (SNSs) such as Twitter generate a parallel stream of information and opinion. It is presumed that the additional content enhances the viewing experience, but our experiment explores the validity of this assumption. We studied how tweeting, or passively observing Twitter during a debate, influenced affect, recall and vote decision. For most measures, participants’ average feeling and recall toward the candidates did not depend on Twitter activity, but Twitter activity did matter for vote choice. People who actively tweeted changed their voting choice to reflect the majority sentiment on Twitter. Results are discussed in terms of the possibility that active tweeting leads to greater engagement but that it may also make people more susceptible to social influence.
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dc.identifier.citationMaruyama, M., Robertson, S. P., Douglas, S. K., Semaan, B. C., & Faucett, H. A. (2014). Hybrid media consumption: How tweeting during a televised political debate influences the vote decision. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing, pp. 1422-1432. ACM.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/34239
dc.language.isoen-US
dc.publisherACM
dc.subjectSocial networking
dc.subjectSocial media
dc.subjectE-participation
dc.subjectE-citizenship
dc.subjectDigital democracy
dc.titleHybrid media consumption: How tweeting during a televised political debate influences the vote decision
dc.typeConference Paper
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