TY - JOUR
T1 - Making the Long March Online
T2 - Some Cultural Dynamics of Digital Political Participation in Three Chinese Societies
AU - Lu, Yuanhang
AU - Huang, Yi-Hui C.
AU - Kao, Lang
AU - Chang, Yu-tzung
N1 - The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article.
PY - 2023/1
Y1 - 2023/1
N2 - This study examines the authoritarian conditioning of political expression on social media in three Chinese societiesby analyzing three parallel surveys comprising 6942 respondents from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Results demonstrate that the use of social media to gather political information triggers politically expressive use of social media and indirectly predicts offline non-institutionalized political participation. Individuals' authoritarian orientation, however, moderates such indirect effects. Only people who demonstrate low or moderate adherence to authoritarian value systems exemplify this mediation model. Those with high levels of authoritarian orientation are not exemplary. Furthermore, the extent to which social media use interacts with authoritarian orientation to build a relationship with political participation presents two different patterns across three Chinese societies. The moderated mediating effect described here exists in Hong Kong and Taiwan but not in mainland China. Finally, we discuss the implications of these findings.
AB - This study examines the authoritarian conditioning of political expression on social media in three Chinese societiesby analyzing three parallel surveys comprising 6942 respondents from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Results demonstrate that the use of social media to gather political information triggers politically expressive use of social media and indirectly predicts offline non-institutionalized political participation. Individuals' authoritarian orientation, however, moderates such indirect effects. Only people who demonstrate low or moderate adherence to authoritarian value systems exemplify this mediation model. Those with high levels of authoritarian orientation are not exemplary. Furthermore, the extent to which social media use interacts with authoritarian orientation to build a relationship with political participation presents two different patterns across three Chinese societies. The moderated mediating effect described here exists in Hong Kong and Taiwan but not in mainland China. Finally, we discuss the implications of these findings.
KW - authoritarian orientation
KW - Chinese societies
KW - institutional system
KW - political participation
KW - social media use
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85111160412&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/19401612211028552
DO - 10.1177/19401612211028552
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1940-1612
VL - 28
SP - 160
EP - 183
JO - International Journal of Press/Politics
JF - International Journal of Press/Politics
IS - 1
ER -