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A large percentage of the public believes that the news media are biased, and the majority of these individuals consider the direction of bias to be against their own viewpoints. Past research has examined howindividual factors such as strength of partisanship or extent of political involvement heighten bias perceptions, but little attention has been paid to interpersonal factors such as the ideological similarity or dissimilarity of personal communication networks. Results of a national survey show that perceptions of media bias were unrelated to the overall amount of discussion but were positively related to conversations with ideologically like-minded individuals. Moreover, the impact of conversations with similar others was stronger among Republicans than among Democrats, a finding consistent with recent work on news self-coverage of media bias claims. 1 Table, 1 Figure, 1 Appendix, 44 References. (Original abstract - amended)

The intersection of consumer culture and civic life has long been a topic of academic discussion. This study revisits the relationship between consumption and civic engagement and investigates the moderators of this relationship. Specifically, we focus on news consumption and opinion leadership as intervening factors that condition the way consumption and civic life are interconnected. Our data reveal that both socially conscious consumption and status-oriented consumption are positively related with civic participation. The positive relationships become stronger when news consumption increases or when one's opinion leadership is strong. Implications for research on consumer culture and civic engagement are discussed.

This study explores whether negative political advertising has any impact on adolescents. Two datasets are merged for this inquiry: (1) content-coded ad-buy data on the placement of campaign messages on a market-by-market and program-by-program basis and (2) national survey data of parent-child dyads collected immediately after the 2008 presidential election. The authors' analysis finds that the negativity of political advertising to which adolescents were exposed predicted human-interest candidate knowledge, but not policy-relevant candidate knowledge. In addition, the negativity of political advertising exposure suppressed political consumerism among adolescents, but had no effect on their levels of political participation. This study shows that political campaigns can affect adolescents' knowledge and participation in unconventional and potentially deleterious ways.

A large percentage of the public believes that the news media are biased, and the majority of these individuals consider the direction of bias to be against their own viewpoints. Past research has examined how individual factors such as strength of partisanship or extent of political involvement heighten bias perceptions, but little attention has been paid to interpersonal factors such as the ideological similarity or dissimilarity of personal communication networks. Results of a national survey show that perceptions of media bias were unrelated to the overall amount of discussion but were positively related to conversations with ideologically like–minded individuals. Moreover, the impact of conversations with similar others was stronger among Republicans than among Democrats, a finding consistent with recent work on news self–coverage of media bias claims.

Esther Thorson/Mitchell S. McKinney/Dhavan Shah: Introduction: Theorizing Political Socialization in a Media-Saturated World – Section One: Theories of Political Socialization– Esther Thorson/ Hans Meyer/Mi Jahng: The Role of Media Use Motives in the Classic Structural Model of Youth Political Socialization – Esther Thorson/Glenn Leshner/Mi Jahng/Margaret Duffy: A Hierarchy of Political Participation Activities in Pre-Voting-Age Youth – Esther Thorson/Eunjin Kim/Margaret Duffy: Political Advertising and the Hierarchy of Political Socialization in Teens – Mi Jahng/Mitchell S. McKinney/Esther Thorson: Peer Influence in Adolescent Political Socialization: Deliberative Democracy Inside and Outside the Classroom – Joonghwa Lee/Chang Dae Ham/Esther Thorson: Knowledge Gap in a Media-Saturated Presidential Election – Peter Levine/Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg: State Policies for Civic Education – Section Two: Parents and Children – Edson Tandoc/Esther Thorson/Margaret Duffy: Parenting Styles in Political Socialization: How the Path to Political Participation Begins at Home – Chang Dae Ham/Joonghwa Lee/Esther Thorson: The Importance of Family Communication Patterns and School Civics Experiences – Rosanne Scholl/Chance York: Predictors of Youth Voting: Parent-Child Relationships and Young Adult News Use – Benjamin R. Warner/Colleen Warner Colaner: Talking Politics at the Dinner Table: The Effects of Family Political Communication on Young Citizens' Normative Political Attitudes – Michael McDevitt/Shannon Sindorf: Social Media and Social Voting in Latino Families: A Strategic Approach to Mobilizing Youth as Information Leaders – Section Three: Interactions With Peers and Others – Mi Jahng/Hans Meyer/Esther Thorson: Youngsters' Political Talk With Those Outside School and Family: The Hierarchy of Political Socialization – Edson Tandoc/Esther Thorson: From News to Political Knowledge: The Roles of Elaboration and Discussion – Nam-jin Lee/Dhavan V. Shah/Jack M. McLeod: Communication Norms, Contexts of Socialization, and Youth Civic Development – Section Four: Youth and Political Knowledge – Esther Thorson/Seoyeon Kim/Joonghwa Lee: Measurement of Political Knowledge in American Adolescents – Esther Thorson/Mi Jahng/Mitchell S. McKinney: Political Knowledge and Participation in Teens During Low and High Political Interest Periods of a Presidential Election – Hans Meyer/Mi Jahng,/Esther Thorson: Political Socialization Patterns in Younger and Older American Adolescents – Section Five: Media Changes – J. Brian Houston/Mitchell S. McKinney: Young Citizens' Use of Digital and Traditional Political Information – Stephanie Edgerly/Kjerstin Thorson: Developing Media Preferences in a Post-Broadcast Democracy– Edson Tandoc/Esther Thorson/Mi Jahng/Eunjin Kim/Margaret Duffy: Is Dangerous News Use Dangerous? The Impact of Safe and Dangerous News Use on Political Socialization – Porismita Borah/Dhavan Shah: The Origins of Media Perceptions: Judgments of News Accuracy and Bias Among Adolescents – Jeremy Littau/Liz Gardner/Esther Thorson: The Impact of News "Voice" on Adolescent Political Efficacy – Robert H. Wicks/Myria Allen: Environmental Political, Civic Engagement and Political Consumerism Among Youth – Contributors

Marked by both deep interconnectedness and polarization, the contemporary media system in the United States features news outlets and social media that are bound together, yet deeply divided along partisan lines. This article formally analyzes communication flows surrounding mass shootings in the hybrid and polarized U.S. media system. We begin by integrating media system literature with agenda setting and news framing theories and then conduct automated text analysis and time series modeling. After accounting for exogenous event characteristics, results show that (a) sympathy and gun control discourses on Twitter preceded news framing of gun policy more than the other way around, and (b) conservatives on Twitter and conservative media reacted to progressive discourse on Twitter, without their progressive counterparts exhibiting a similar reactiveness. Such results shed light on the influence of social media on political communication flows and confirm an asymmetry in the ways partisan media ecosystems respond to social events.