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Abstract
Social media have opened up new possibilities for news engagement, and one of the important possibilities is news curation, which is defined as the reconstructing, reformulating, repurposing, reframing and sharing of news through social media. Focusing on this news curation concept, this study extends the Cognitive Mediation Model and the Communication Mediation Model (O-S-R-O-R) to the social media context. Drawing on a national survey of 1,135 South Korean adults, the present study finds that news elaboration and news curation are positively related to political knowledge and mediate the association between social media use for news and political knowledge.
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Notes
1. Political knowledge items: (1) Who of the following is not running for the coming presidential election? (2) What job or political office does Jung Sekyun hold? (3) What is the name of the speaker of the Congress? (4) Do you happen to know what job or political office is now held by Heejung Ahn? (5) Do you happen to know what party recently proposed an idea of revamping of the school system? (6) Who is the prime minister of South Korea? (7) Which party is most strongly campaigning for child care allowance? (8) Which of the following is the city where the controversial Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system (THAAD) is scheduled to be deployed?
2. GDP per capita income in South Korea in 2015 was 27,221.5 USD according to World Bank.
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Chang Sup Park
Chang Sup Park (Ph.D. Southern Illinois University) is assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Albany, SUNY. His research interests include social media and democracy, mobile communication, and digital journalism.
Barbara K. Kaye
Barbara K. Kaye (Ph.D. Florida State University) is a Professor in the School of Journalism & Electronic Media at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Her research interests include media effects and consumer uses of traditional and digital media for political information.