Persuasion in 140 characters: Testing issue framing, persuasion and credibility via Twitter and online news articles in the gun control debate
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- 作者：Ben Wasike ben.wasike@utrgv.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding authorAuthor Vitae
- 关键词：Social media ; Gun control ; Framing ; Persuasion ; Credibility ; Experimental design
- 刊名：Computers in Human Behavior
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：January 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：66
- 期：Complete
- 页码：179-190
- 全文大小：1934 K
文摘
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Experimental design used to examine the persuasion and credibility of pro and anti-gun control arguments via Twitter and news articles.
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Study also examined the effect of the medium of transmittal (online news vs Twitter).
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Pro-gun control frames were more persuasive and more credible than anti-gun control frames.
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Arguments transmitted via online news articles elicited more persuasion than those transmitted via Twitter.
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Arguments transmitted via online news articles were also deemed more credible than those transmitted via Twitter.