Benetta Liu

Understanding Media Effects Through Media Technological Attributes: Young People’s Second Screening Use and Political Efficacy

Southern communication journal/The Southern communication journal, May 26, 2024

Motivations, Knowledge, Efficacy, and Participation: An O-S-O-R Model of Second Screening’s Political Effects in China

Journalism and media, Aug 2, 2023

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Towards Engaged Citizens: Influences of Second Screening on College Students’ Political Knowledge and Participation

The Southern Communication Journal, Nov 21, 2020

Commonly conducted alongside political TV viewing, second screening is a new media use behavior t... more Commonly conducted alongside political TV viewing, second screening is a new media use behavior that merits explorations at diverse levels. But the research on second screening is still in its infancy. To deeply understand the complicated mechanism of second screening and its influence in a political milieu, this study focuses on the second screening activities aroused by televised political campaign news and programs, and (1) identifies specific categories of second screening activities during television campaign exposure, and (2) establishes the indirect influences of each type of second screening activity on individuals' cognition (political knowledge) and behavior (political participation) through internal (internal political efficacy) and external (political discussion) factors.

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Engaging Youth in the Hybrid Media Environment: Media Technological Attributes' Effects on Young People's Internet Political Efficacy During Second Screening

Motivations, Knowledge, Efficacy, and Participation: An O-S-O-R Model of Second Screening's Political Effects in China

Social Science Research Network, 2022

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Towards Engaged Citizens: Influences of Second Screening on College Students’ Political Knowledge and Participation

Southern Communication Journal, 2020

Commonly conducted alongside political TV viewing, second screening is a new media use behavior t... more Commonly conducted alongside political TV viewing, second screening is a new media use behavior that merits explorations at diverse levels. But the research on second screening is still in its infancy. To deeply understand the complicated mechanism of second screening and its influence in a political milieu, this study focuses on the second screening activities aroused by televised political campaign news and programs, and (1) identifies specific categories of second screening activities during television campaign exposure, and (2) establishes the indirect influences of each type of second screening activity on individuals' cognition (political knowledge) and behavior (political participation) through internal (internal political efficacy) and external (political discussion) factors.

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Profiles of Problematic Smartphone Users: A Comparison of South Korean and U.S. College Students

Korea Observer - Institute of Korean Studies, 2018

There is increasing public concern in Asian countries over the effects of increased mobile media ... more There is increasing public concern in Asian countries over the effects of increased mobile media use on individuals and society. Chief among these concerns is the fear that young people are becoming addicted to internet-enabled &quot; smartphones. &quot; The current research seeks to determine the antecedents and consequences of smartphone addiction (i.e., problematic smartphone use), using samples from South Korea (N = 241) and the U.S. (N = 222). In both samples, we find that lower levels of self-control and higher levels of need for belonging are both uniquely associated with problematic smartphone use and that checking social media is the type of phone use exhibiting the strongest association with problematic use. This suggests that problematic smartphone use is not culturally specific, and that self-regulatory and social components both contribute to its development.

Engaging Youth in the Hybrid Media Environment: Media Technological Attributes' Effects on Young People's Internet Political Efficacy During Second Screening

University of Alabama Libraries, Jul 1, 2021

Motivations, Knowledge, Efficacy, and Participation: An O-S-O-R Model of Second Screening's Political Effects in China

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022

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Beyond touchdown: College students' sports participation, social media use, college attachment, and psychological well-being

This study investigated how college students' sports participation and social media use relate to... more This study investigated how college students' sports participation and social media use relate to college attachment and their psychological well-being. An online survey was administered to 580 undergraduate students. Findings revealed that sports participation was positively related with social media use and college attachment, which in turn increases individuals' psychological well-being. This study offers empirical evidence of the mediating role social media use plays in the relationship among sport participation, college attachment, and well-being. The findings contribute to further understanding about the mechanisms by which sports participation leads to psychological well-being through social media use.

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Profiles of Problematic Smartphone Users: A Comparison of South Korean and U.S. College Students

by Benetta Liu and Elliot Panek

There is increasing public concern in Asian countries over the effects of increased mobile media ... more There is increasing public concern in Asian countries over the effects of increased mobile media use on individuals and society. Chief among these concerns is the fear that young people are becoming addicted to internet-enabled "smartphones." The current research seeks to determine the antecedents and consequences of smartphone addiction (i.e., problematic smartphone use), using samples from South Korea (N = 241) and the U.S. (N = 222). In both samples, we find that lower levels of self-control and higher levels of need for belonging are both uniquely associated with problematic smartphone use and that checking social media is the type of phone use exhibiting the strongest association with problematic use. This suggests that problematic smartphone use is not culturally specific, and that self-regulatory and social components both contribute to its development.

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Evolving Chinese Nationalism Using the 2015 Military Parade as a Case

Your article is protected by copyright and all rights are held exclusively by Springer Nature B.V... more Your article is protected by copyright and all rights are held exclusively by Springer Nature B.V.. This e-offprint is for personal use only and shall not be self-archived in electronic repositories. If you wish to self-archive your article, please use the accepted manuscript version for posting on your own website. You may further deposit the accepted manuscript version in any repository, provided it is only made publicly available 12 months after official publication or later and provided acknowledgement is given to the original source of publication and a link is inserted to the published article on Springer's website. The link must be accompanied by the following text: "The final publication is available at link.springer.com".

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Second screening use and its effect on political involvement in China: An integrated Communication Mediation Model

by Benetta Liu and Shuhua Zhou

The use of second screening to express emotions and opinions while watching television has prolif... more The use of second screening to express emotions and opinions while watching television has proliferated among media consumers. However, the relationships proposed so far between second screening and political outcomes are relatively limited in scope and simple. This study contributes to the literature in two ways. 1) We identify how second screening influences users' online participation through two mediators-elaboration on social media and social media political efficacy. As such, this study provides empirical evidence of second screening's political effects by uncovering specific indirect mechanism. 2) Using a sample of second screeners in China, this study fills in a blank of the current Western-dominant second screening research.

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Towards Engaged Citizens Influences of Second Screening on College Students Political Knowledge and Participation

Commonly conducted alongside political TV viewing, second screening is a new media use behavior t... more Commonly conducted alongside political TV viewing, second screening is a new media use behavior that merits explorations at diverse levels. But the research on second screening is still in its infancy. To deeply understand the complicated mechanism of second screening and its influence in a political milieu, this study focuses on the second screening activities aroused by televised political campaign news and programs, and (1) identifies specific categories of second screening activities during television campaign exposure, and (2) establishes the indirect influences of each type of second screening activity on individuals' cognition (political knowledge) and behavior (political participation) through internal (internal political efficacy) and external (political discussion) factors.

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Motivations, Knowledge, Efficacy, and Participation: An O-S-O-R Model of Second Screening's Political Effects in China

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Second screening use and its effect on political involvement in China: An integrated Communication Mediation Model

Computers in Human Behavior, 2019

The use of second screening to express emotions and opinions while watching television has prolif... more The use of second screening to express emotions and opinions while watching television has proliferated among media consumers. However, the relationships proposed so far between second screening and political outcomes are relatively limited in scope and simple. This study contributes to the literature in a two ways. 1) We identify how second screening influences users' online participation through two mediators-elaboration on social media and social media political efficacy. As such, this study provides empirical evidence of second screening's political effects by uncovering specific indirect mechanism. 2) Using a sample of second screeners in China, this study fills in a blank of the current Western-dominant second screening research.

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Evolving Chinese Nationalism: Using the 2015 Military Parade as a Case

East Asia, 2019

Nationalist discourse has long been an important apparatus in modern politics. This paper showed ... more Nationalist discourse has long been an important apparatus in modern politics. This paper showed a sharp, yet subtle departure of the Chinese government in its current manipulation of nationalism. Instead of the hardcore revolutionary rhetoric, the new phase of nationalist discourse incorporated many elements of Confucianism to better consolidate the communist regime. Using the 2015 military parade as an example, this paper analyzed how the Chinese central government evoked sentiments and consciousness of nationalism by utilizing and interweaving Confucianism elements of family value, benevolent (Ren), propriety (Li), equilibrium, and harmony into the party-state's official nationalist discourse. Significance of such organized endeavors in political discourse is discussed.

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Beyond touchdown: College students’ sports participation, social media use, college attachment, and psychological well-being

Telematics and Informatics, 2017

This study investigated how college students' sports participation and social media use relate to... more This study investigated how college students' sports participation and social media use relate to college attachment and their psychological well-being. An online survey was administered to 580 undergraduate students. Findings revealed that sports participation was positively related with social media use and college attachment, which in turn increases individuals' psychological well-being. This study offers empirical evidence of the mediating role social media use plays in the relationship among sport participation, college attachment, and well-being. The findings contribute to further understanding about the mechanisms by which sports participation leads to well-being through social media use.

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