A survey of people in the market distribution area of the Florida Times-Union (T-U) showed that amount of exposure to the newspaper indirectly predicted positive attitudes about civic participation and civic participation behaviors such as volunteering and religious activities, as mediated through connectivity with the T-U and news interest. Online and offline communication were also directly related to positive civic participation attitudes and indirectly to community volunteering and religious activities.
AjzenI. (1991). The theory of planned behavior. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 50, 179-211.
2.
AjzenI.FishbeinM. (1980). Understanding attitudes and predicting social behavior. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
3.
Barzilai-NahonK. (2008). Toward a theory of network gatekeeping: A framework for exploring information control. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59, 1493-1512.
4.
BlomquistD.ZukinC. (1997). Does public journalism work? The campaign central experience. Washington, DC: Pew Center for Civic Journalism.
5.
ClarkR. (1979, May). Changing needs of changing readers. Reston, VA: The American Society of Newspaper Editors.
DentonF.ThorsonE.CoyleJ. (1998). Effects of a multimedia public journalism project on political knowledge and attitudes. In LambethE. B.MeyerP.ThorsonE. (Eds.), Assessing public journalism (pp. 143-157). Columbia: University of Missouri Press.
8.
EvelandW. P.Jr.ShahD. V.KwakN. (2003). Assessing causality in the cognitive mediation model: A panel study of motivations, information processing, and learning during campaign 2000. Communication Research, 30, 359-386.
9.
FriedlandL.SotirovicM.DailyK. (1998). Public journalism and social capital: The case of Madison, Wisconsin. In LambethE. B.MeyerP.ThorsonE. (Eds.), Assessing public journalism (pp. 191-220). Columbia: University of Missouri Press.
10.
GastilJ.XenosM. (2010). Of attitudes and engagement: Clarifying the reciprocal relationship between civic attitudes and political participation. Journal of Communication, 60, 318-343.
11.
Gil de ZúñigaH.HinsleyA. (2013). The press versus the public: What is “good journalism?”Journalism Studies, 14, 926-942.
12.
Gil de ZúñigaH.JungN.ValenzuelaS. (2012). Social media use for news and individuals’ social capital, civic engagement and political participation. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 17, 319-336.
13.
JungN.KimY.GildeZúnigaH. (2011). The mediating role of knowledge and efficacy in the effects of communication on political participation. Mass Communication and Society, 14, 407-430.
14.
KimJ.WyattR. O.KatzE. (1999). News, talk, opinion, participation: The part played by conversation in deliberative democracy. Political Communication, 16, 361-385.
15.
LambethE. B. (1998). Public journalism as a democratic practice. In LambethE. B.MeyerP.ThorsonE. (Eds.), Assessing public journalism (pp. 15-35). Columbia: University of Missouri Press.
16.
LazarsfeldP. F.BerelsonB.GaudetH. (1944). The people’s choice: How the voter makes up his mind in a presidential election. New York, NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce.
17.
LewisS. C.HoltonA. E.CoddingtonM. (2014). Reciprocal journalism: A concept of mutual exchange between journalists and audiences. Journalism Practice, 8, 229-241.
18.
MasseyB. L. (1998). Civic journalism and nonelite sourcing: Making routine newswork of community connectedness. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 75, 394-407.
19.
MasseyB. L.HaasT. (2002). Does making journalism more public make a difference? A critical review of evaluative research on public journalism. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 79, 559-586.
20.
McLeodJ. M. (2001). Steven Chaffee and the future of political communication research. Political Communication, 18, 215-224.
21.
McLeodJ. M.ScheufeleD. A.MoyP. (1999). Community, communication, and participation: The role of mass media and interpersonal discussion in local political participation. Political Communication, 16, 315-336.
22.
MoyP.McCluskeyM. R.McCoyK.SprattM. A. (2004). Political correlates of local news media use. Journal of Communication, 54, 532-546.
23.
NewhagenJ.NassC. (1989). Differential criteria for evaluating credibility of newspapers and TV news. Journalism Quarterly, 66, 277-284.
24.
NicholsS. L.FriedlandL. A.RojasH.ChoJ.ShahD. V. (2006). Examining the effects of public journalism on civil society from 1994 to 2002: Organizational factors, project features, story frames, and citizen engagement. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 83, 77-100.
25.
O’DonnellP. (2009). Journalism, change and listening practices. Continuum, 23, 503-517.
ShahD. V.ChoJ.EvelandW. P.Jr.KwakN. (2005). Information and expression in a digital age: Modeling Internet effects on civic participation. Communication Research, 32, 531-565.
28.
SotirovicM.McLeodJ. M. (2001). Values, communication behavior, and political participation. Political Communication, 18, 273-300.
29.
ThorsonE.OgnianovaE.CoyleJ.LambethE. (1998). Audience impact of a multimedia civic journalism project in a small midwestern community. In LambethE. B.MeyerP.ThorsonE. (Eds.), Assessing public journalism (pp. 158-177). Columbia: University of Missouri Press.
30.
TullyM.HarmsenS.SingerJ. B.EkdaleB. (2017). Case study shows disconnect on civic journalism’s role. Newspaper Research Journal, 38, 484-496.
VosT. P. (2015). Revisiting gatekeeping theory during a time of transition. In VosT.HeinderyckxF. (Eds.), Gatekeeping in transition (pp. 17-38). New York, NY: Routledge.
33.
XuW. W.FengM. (2014). Talking to the broadcasters on Twitter: Networked gatekeeping in Twitter conversations with journalists. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 58, 420-437.
