Normative and informational influences in online political discussions

被引：129

作者：

Price, V ^{[1
]}

Nir, L

Cappella, JN

机构：

[1] Univ Penn, Annenberg Sch Commun, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA

[2] Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Dept Commun, IL-91905 Jerusalem, Israel

[3] Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Dept Polit Sci, IL-91905 Jerusalem, Israel

来源：

COMMUNICATION THEORY | 2006年 / 16卷 / 01期

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D O I：

10.1111/j.1468-2885.2006.00005.x

中图分类号：

G2 [信息与知识传播];

学科分类号：

05 ; 0503 ;

摘要：

How do the statements made by people in online political discussions affect other people's willingness to express their own opinions, or argue for them? And how does group interaction ultimately shape individual opinions? We examine carefully whether and how patterns of group discussion shape (a) individuals' expressive behavior within those discussions and (b) changes in personal opinions. This research proposes that the argumentative "climate" of group opinion indeed affects postdiscussion opinions, and that a primary mechanism responsible for this effect is all intermediate influence oil individual participants' own expressions during the online discussions. We find support for these propositions in data from a series of 60 online group discussions, involving ordinary citizens, about the tax plans offered by rival U.S. presidential candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore in 2000.

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页码：47 / 74

页数：28

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