Abstract. As political campaigns increasingly use social media to reach voters, scholars debate whether users actually acquire election-related knowledge o

Mediation analysis has gotten a lot of flak, including classic titles such as “Yes, but what’s the mechanism? (Don’t expect an easy answer)” (Bullock et al., 2010), “What mediation analysis can (not) ...

The Internet and particularly social media offer opportunities for exposure to political information even when individuals were not looking for such information. This phenomenon is called incidenta...

Uninformed participation might be a threat to the functioning of democracies. Scholars have pointed out the discrepancy that social media use is positively associated with political engagement but,...

"Imagine that a medical research group were to conduct an experimental test of a new drug for dementia, and use mediation analysis…”

In the modern, networked information environment, incidental exposure (IE) to political news is often theorized to benefit democracy, particularly by fueling political participation. Using cross-na...

In the modern, networked information environment, incidental exposure (IE) to political news is often theorized to benefit democracy, particularly by fueling political participation. Using cross-na...