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What’s So Social About Social Media? Personality and Incentives as Predictors of Political Participation

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

During the last decade social media has become an increasingly common platform for political participation. However there is to date no research investigating the personality and/or incentive correlates of political participation on social media platforms. Some previous research has shown that extraversion is positively correlated to social media use (Correa et al, 2010), while other studies have failed to support this (Hughes, Rowe, Batey & Lee, 2011), indicating a more complex relation. In this paper we aim to investigate the differences in the trait extraversion in those who participate online compared to those offline. We hypothesize that introverted individuals are more likely to use social media for political purposes, than extraverted ones. In addition, given that individuals who are introverted may feel more comfortable expressing themselves online as compared to in real life, and much of the activity on social media platforms regards expressing one’s opinion (i. e. sharing political material, signing petitions), we expect a moderating effect of expressive incentives. In contrast, we expect those high on extraversion and expressive incentives to participate more in offline manifestations. Results confirm our hypotheses with those low on extraversion but high on expressive incentives more likely to use online participation, where as those high on extraversion and expressive incentives more likely to participate in offline modes of participation.

Publiceringsår

2015

Språk

Engelska

Dokumenttyp

Konferensbidrag

Ämne

  • Media and Communications
  • Political Science
  • Psychology

Nyckelord

  • social media
  • social network sites
  • political psychology
  • political participation
  • personality traits

Conference name

Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), 2015

Conference date

2015-07-03 - 2015-07-06

Conference place

San Diego, United States

Status

Unpublished