This study presents evidence for the mediation effect of political knowledge through political self-efficacy (i.e. internal political efficacy) in the prediction of political participation. It employs an action theoretic approach-by and large grounded on the Theory of Planned Behaviour-and uses data from the German Longitudinal Election Study to examine whether political knowledge has distinct ...

Five years after the murder of British MP, Jo Cox, during European Union referendum campaign in 2016, this article examines More In Common initiative through two sites participatory practice: on Twitter via related hashtags–#MoreInCommon and #LoveLikeJo–and ‘More Common’ exhibition (2021–2022) at People’s History Museum Manchester. We consider how both spaces help to organise public feeling way...

In our work we analyse the political disaffection or “the subjective feeling of powerlessness, cynicism, and lack of confidence in the political process, politicians, and democratic institutions, but with no questioning of the political regime” by exploiting Twitter data through machine learning techniques. In order to validate the quality of the time-series generated by the Twitter data, we hi...

Test is the majority of student’s life and test anxiety is an experience that has commonly been observed during exams. In fact, anxiety is a vague feeling and very uncomfortable that so often considered to be associated with one or more physical sense, for instance, the empty feeling of heart palpitations, headache and sweating. The purpose of this study is to investigate and to compare the sel...

This study examined college students’ use of online media for political purposes in the 2008 election. Social media attention, online expression, and traditional Internet attention were assessed in relation to political self-efficacy and situational political involvement. Data from a Web survey of college students showed significant positive relationships between attention to traditional Intern...