
#Mitigatecorona : news repertoires and civic participation during the COVID-19 pandemic
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- Cato Waeterloos (UGent) , Michel Walrave and Koen Ponnet (UGent)
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- Abstract
- The present study aims to shed light on the different types of civic participation that emerged after the COVID-19 outbreak. Specifically, we assess how different news use patterns (or news repertoires) are associated with various forms of civic participation during the COVID-19 pandemic. An online survey was distributed among Flemish adults, using a stratified sampling procedure. In total, 1.500 adults (50.4% male; M age = 41.58, SD = 13.94) participated in the period April 17 to 19, 2020. Results from a cluster analysis revealed four distinct news use clusters, each differing in terms of intensity of news use, as well as diversity in news sources: news avoiders, news conservatives, news mixers and news absorbers. Furthermore, a series of ANOVAs revealed significant between-group differences concerning civic participation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, news absorbers were more likely to engage in civic participation than any of the other groups.
- Keywords
- Civic participation, News repertoires, COVID-19, Collective action, Cluster analysis
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8701519
- MLA
- Waeterloos, Cato, et al. “#Mitigatecorona : News Repertoires and Civic Participation during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” ECREA, Political Communication Section Interim Conference, Abstracts, 2021.
- APA
- Waeterloos, C., Walrave, M., & Ponnet, K. (2021). #Mitigatecorona : news repertoires and civic participation during the COVID-19 pandemic. ECREA, Political Communication Section Interim Conference, Abstracts. Presented at the ECREA Political Communication Section Interim Conference, Bucharest, Romania.
- Chicago author-date
- Waeterloos, Cato, Michel Walrave, and Koen Ponnet. 2021. “#Mitigatecorona : News Repertoires and Civic Participation during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” In ECREA, Political Communication Section Interim Conference, Abstracts.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- Waeterloos, Cato, Michel Walrave, and Koen Ponnet. 2021. “#Mitigatecorona : News Repertoires and Civic Participation during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” In ECREA, Political Communication Section Interim Conference, Abstracts.
- Vancouver
- 1.Waeterloos C, Walrave M, Ponnet K. #Mitigatecorona : news repertoires and civic participation during the COVID-19 pandemic. In: ECREA, Political Communication Section Interim Conference, Abstracts. 2021.
- IEEE
- [1]C. Waeterloos, M. Walrave, and K. Ponnet, “#Mitigatecorona : news repertoires and civic participation during the COVID-19 pandemic,” in ECREA, Political Communication Section Interim Conference, Abstracts, Bucharest, Romania, 2021.
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