In the past decade, new scientific developments in communications have changed the way many people gather information about politics. The most important of these new (1) is the Internet. Recent research suggests the use of the Internet for political information increases the (2) of participation.
While a(n) (3) relationship between Internet news and political participation has been found, a theoretical link as to why the Internet is (4) from other media forms is largely (5) This research is an attempt to (6) the "black-box" linking the Internet and political participation by building on two theoretical (7) The first, surge and decline theory, comes out of political science and the second, media systems dependency theory, (8) from communications. Both explanations focus on individual costs and benefits of political participation. The media can (9) the "costs" by providing s
A. technologies
B. materials
C. concepts
D. devices
In the past decade, new scientific developments in communications have changed the way many people gather information about politics. The most important of these new (1) is the Internet. Recent research suggests the use of the Internet for political information increases the (2) of participation.
While a(n) (3) relationship between Internet news and political participation has been found, a theoretical link as to why the Internet is (4) from other media forms is largely (5) This research is an attempt to (6) the "black-box" linking the Internet and political participation by building on two theoretical (7) The first, surge and decline theory, comes out of political science and the second, media systems dependency theory, (8) from communications. Both explanations focus on individual costs and benefits of political participation. The media can (9) the "costs" by providing s
A. practicability
B. feasibility
C. probability
D. stability
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