Differential Effects of Capital-Enhancing and Recreational Internet Use on Citizens’ Demand for Demo...

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Beteiligte: Stoycheff, Elizabeth, Nisbet, Erik C., Epstein, Dmitry
In: Communication Research, 47, 2020, 7, S. 1034-1055
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SAGE Publications
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Umfang: 1034-1055
ISSN: 0093-6502
1552-3810
DOI: 10.1177/0093650216644645
veröffentlicht in: Communication Research
Sprache: Englisch
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Kollektion: SAGE Publications (CrossRef)
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<jats:p>This study seeks to contribute to the growing body of scholarship about the Internet’s role in authoritarian and transitioning countries. Based on two original surveys of Russian and Ukrainian Internet users, online behaviors were classified as either primarily capital enhancing or recreational in terms of their democratic potential. Indirect and differential models of how these types of Internet use are associated with citizen demand for democracy were tested using serial mediation. Capital-enhancing use exhibited an indirect positive effect on demand for democratic governance by increasing critical appraisals of the incumbent regime, whereas recreational Internet was associated with satisfactory evaluations of non-democratic regimes and more entrenched authoritarian worldviews.</jats:p>