有效的选择，无效的民主？有线电视和互联网接入对政治知识和选民投票率的影响
Efficient Choice, Inefficient Democracy? The Implications of Cable and Internet Access for Political Knowledge and Voter Turnout
摘要：
本文解释了为什么尽管有线电视和互联网上的政治信息显著增加，但公民的政治知识水平充其量仍然停滞不前（Delli Carpini & Keeter，1996）。由于娱乐内容的可用性也增加了，新媒体对知识和投票可能性的影响应取决于人们对娱乐和信息的相对偏好。接触新媒体应该会增加喜欢新闻的人的知识和投票的可能性。与此同时，它被假设为对喜欢娱乐内容的人的知识和投票率有负面影响。通过从现有的NES和皮尤调查数据中构建相对娱乐偏好（REP）来测试假设。结果支持预测的媒体环境（有线电视和/或互联网接入）和动机（REP）对政治知识和投票率的交互作用。特别是，那些喜欢娱乐而不是新闻的人，以及那些可以接触有线电视和互联网的人，他们的知识和投票率都比其他任何群体的人要低。
英文摘要：
This paper explains why, despite a marked increase in available political information on cable television and the Internet, citizens' levels of political knowledge have, at best, remained stagnant (Delli Carpini & Keeter, 1996). Since the availability of entertainment content has increased too, the effect of new media on knowledge and vote likelihood should be determined by people's relative preferences for entertainment and information. Access to new media should increase knowledge and vote likelihood among people who prefer news. At the same time, it is hypothesized to have a negative effect on knowledge and turnout for people who prefer entertainment content. Hypotheses are tested by building a measure of Relative Entertainment Preference (REP) from existing NES and Pew survey data. Results support the predicted interaction effect of media environment (cable and/or Internet access) and motivation (REP) on political knowledge and turnout. In particular, people who prefer entertainment to news and have access to cable television and the Internet are less knowledgeable and less likely to vote than any other group of people.
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