The COVID-19 Pandemic and Heightened Hostility Toward China: Expanding The Theoretical Underpinning and Scope Of The Third-Person Perception

肆虐全球之新冠狀肺炎與深化之仇中情結：擴展第三人效應理論之基礎和範疇

章光國(Kuang-Kuo Chang) ； 李天宗(Tien-Tsung Lee)

《資訊社會研究》 42期 (2022/01) Pp. 51-86

https://doi.org/10.29843/JCCIS.202201_(42).0003

摘要

This timely study examined the widely documented third-person perception in the context of the raging COVID-19 pandemic. It included a new variable, information transparency, normatively treated as a given in past research. Constructs of news exposure and news attentiveness were included for testing. Additionally, this study is among the first in media effects literature to treat TPP as a moderation variable. The implications, contributions, and limitations of this study are discussed in detail.

關鍵字

third-person perception ； third-person effect ； social distance ； information transparency ； news exposure ； news attentiveness ； moderation/interaction

並列摘要

此研究調查在新冠狀肺炎肆虐情境下，可能發生的第三人效應現象。研究納入與檢驗過往被視為理所當然的信息透明性；社會距離、新聞接收和新聞關注等概念亦納入分析模型中。此外，本論文亦是將第三人效應操作為調節變因的少數研究之一；本研究的意義、貢獻和侷限皆於文中深入論述。

並列關鍵字

第三人感知 ； 第三人效應 ； 社會距離 ； 信息透明性 ； 新聞接收 ； 新聞關注 ； 調節／交叉影響

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