POLITICAL SOCIAL MEDIA USE AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN JAPAN
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Authors
Swope, Tiffany A.
Subjects
social media
political participation
Japanese politics
political engagement
political participation
Japanese politics
political engagement
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Weiner, Robert J.
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2021-12
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Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
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Social media has become a powerful platform for political communication across the world. However, despite high internet and social media penetration rates in Japan, research has shown political social media use to be significantly lower in Japan when compared to other Asian states with similar social, political, and cultural characteristics. This thesis seeks to understand why political social media use in Japan has remained low by using a comparative approach to examine polarization levels, conventional media environments, and government systems across Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore. It concludes that Japan’s low political social media use arises from a combination of its low levels of political polarization, the strength of the conventional media, and its stable government structure, institutions, and norms.
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National Security Affairs (NSA)
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