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Deliberation in Spite of Controversy? News Media and the Public's Evaluation of a Controversial Issue in South Korea

2011; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 88; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/107769901108800206

2161-430X

Sei‐Hill Kim, Dietram A. Scheufele, James Shanahan, Doo-Hun Choi,

Media Studies and Communication

Using a controversial issue in South Korea—a government plan to relocate the administrative capital—this study examines the role of news media use in facilitating informed issue evaluation, a form of deliberative decision making, where citizens carefully evaluate different attributes of an issue. Survey data indicated that respondents who used news media often were more able to articulate a specific reason why relocation would be a good or a bad idea. Heavy users of news media were also more firmly opinionated on key issue attributes and tended to think about the issue more carefully.