Differential Use, Differential Effects: Investigating the Roles of Different Modes of News Use in Promoting Political Participation
研究了社交媒体上三种新闻使用模式（阅读、发布、点赞）对政治参与的不同影响，发现新闻发布通过正向中介作用促进政治参与，而阅读和点赞则无显著关联，且该效应受用户网络政治专业知识水平调节。
The present study clarifies the role of the informational use of media in facilitating citizens' political participation by focusing on three distinctive modes of news experience (i.e., news reading, posting, and endorsing) within the context of online social networking sites (SNSs). The findings show that news posting contributes to greater participation in politics by positively mediating the relationship between the use of SNSs and participatory activities. In contrast, news reading and endorsing were not significantly associated with political participation. In addition, the study found that the indirect effects of SNS use on participation via news posting are highest among those with a high degree of network political expertise and lower among those with an average level of such expertise.