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Download or read book Coping with Perceived Disagreement written by Hyungjin Gill and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The OSROR model of communication effects has repeatedly suggested political discussion (R1), knowledge and efficacy (O2) as significant mediators through which news media use facilitates political participation. The present study contends that the application of the well-established OSROR framework to research linking social media use and citizen engagement may not wholly address social media's implications for a desired democratic citizenry in an age of growing partisan divide and political mis/disinformation. In an attempt to offer a more comprehensive understanding on the potential influence of social media on democracy, this dissertation aims to reimagine the communication mediation model of social media effect on participation by incorporating recent insights on (1) social media's potential to promote exposure to political disagreements and (2) the negative effect of social media use on political learning. Using a nationally representative survey of U.S. adults, this study finds that perceiving disagreements on social media positively moderates the path from social media use to the frequency of political talk (S-R1), and suggests that the positive effect of political discussion on internal efficacy (R1-O2) may depend on the level of perceived knowledge, underlining the little role that factual political knowledge plays in the pathways from social media use to civic participation. Implications of these findings and future research directions are discussed.