TY - JOUR
T1 - Political Disaffection in the Digital Age
T2 - The Use of Social Media and the Gap in Internal and External Efficacy
AU - Fierro, Pedro
AU - Aroca, Patricio
AU - Navia, Patricio
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2022.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This work analyzes the relationship between social media use and the development of internal and external political efficacy, using five 1,650-person polls conducted in 2017–2021 in the 10 most populated municipalities of in the Valparaiso Region in Chile, a country characterized by high levels of political discontent and social protests, especially in 2019. With Structural Equation Models, we report positive impacts of different magnitudes of the civic use of social media on internal and external efficacy and no effect of the non-civic use of social media on either type of efficacy. As lower internal and external political efficacy feeds political disaffection, the differentiated use of social media can deepen the gap between engaged and disaffected citizens.
AB - This work analyzes the relationship between social media use and the development of internal and external political efficacy, using five 1,650-person polls conducted in 2017–2021 in the 10 most populated municipalities of in the Valparaiso Region in Chile, a country characterized by high levels of political discontent and social protests, especially in 2019. With Structural Equation Models, we report positive impacts of different magnitudes of the civic use of social media on internal and external efficacy and no effect of the non-civic use of social media on either type of efficacy. As lower internal and external political efficacy feeds political disaffection, the differentiated use of social media can deepen the gap between engaged and disaffected citizens.
KW - Internet
KW - attitudinal gap
KW - civic engagement
KW - political efficacy
KW - social media
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85130203229&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/08944393221087940
DO - 10.1177/08944393221087940
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85130203229
JO - Social Science Computer Review
JF - Social Science Computer Review
SN - 0894-4393
ER -