Predictors Model I
Demographics
Model II
News Access
Model III
Network Size
Model IV
Interaction between
News Access and PND
Model V
Cross-cutting
Discussion
Model VI
Interaction between
CCD and STPH
Gender -0.08 (-2.65)** -0.06 (-1.92) -0.06 (-1.98)* -0.05 (-1.72) -0.03 (-1.73) -0.03 (-2.01)*
Age -0.03 (-0.91) -0.02 (-0.57) -0.02 (-0.60) -0.01 (-0.32) -0.02 (-1.23) -0.02 (-1.26)
Education 0.06 (2.23)* 0.06 (2.01)* 0.06 (2.00)* 0.06 (2.00)* 0.02 (1.07) 0.01 (0.90)
Monthly income 0.10 (3.40)*** 0.07 (2.48)* 0.07 (2.54)* 0.06 (2.08)* 0.01 (0.37) 0.01 (0.43)
Political news interest 0.17 (5.72)*** 0.16 (5.36)*** 0.16 (5.41)*** 0.15 (5.02)*** -0.001 (-0.08) -0.01 (-0.43)
ML knowledge -0.13 (-3.97)*** -0.12 (-3.49)*** -0.12 (-3.55)*** -0.11 (-3.45)*** -0.12 (-7.22)*** -0.12 (-7.34) ***
ML efficacy 0.21 (6.00)*** 0.16 (4.63)*** 0.16 (4.54)*** 0.12 (3.57)*** 0.05 (2.76)** 0.04 (2.45)*
Newspaper 0.13 (4.36)*** 0.13 (4.28)*** 0.10 (3.51)*** 0.07 (4.76)*** 0.07 (4.56)***
TV news -0.05 (-1.55) -0.05 (-1.75) -0.06 (-2.02)* -0.04 (-2.23)* -0.03 (-2.20)*
YouTube news 0.12 (3.94)*** 0.11 (3.78)*** 0.02 (0.55) 0.01 (0.53) 0.01 (0.43)
Strong ties size -0.02 (-0.66) -0.04 (-1.18) -0.02 (-0.94) -0.02 (-0.93)
Weak ties size 0.08 (2.18)* 0.08 (2.29)* 0.003 (1.73) 0.01 (0.30)
Mediated latent ties size -0.06 (-1.67) -0.08 (-2.24)* -0.03 (-1.37) -0.03 (-1.44)
Twitter news x PND 0.18 (5.23)*** 0.08 (4.10)*** 0.08 (3.94)***
Facebook news x PND 0.06 (1.60) -0.001 (-0.06) 0.00 (0.01)
CCD 0.84 (55.50)*** 0.74 (21.79)***
CCD x STPH 0.11 (3.27)**
Adjusted R2 .10 .13 .13 .17 .77 .77
R2 Change .11*** .03*** .004 .03*** .60*** .002**