@article{2019:weinmann:the_normat,
title = {The normative value of political entertainment: Deliberative antecedents and consequences of media users’ entertainment experiences},
year = {2019},
note = {This paper aims to explore the normative antecedents and consequences
of media users’ entertainment experiences during exposure to
political media content. More specifically, it builds upon two-process
models of entertainment and deliberative democratic theory in order to
conceptualize how certain normative content criteria of political
media might contribute to entertainment experiences of media users on
the one hand. On the other hand, it investigates how these experiences
might contribute to internal deliberative thought processes. The
suggested effects and relationships are tested through two empirical
studies relying on survey data, one with an experimental and one with
a correlational design. Taken together, the studies offer mixed
results with regard to the effects that deliberative content criteria
may have on entertainment experiences. However, both studies show that
eudaimonic entertainment experiences, in particular, have positive
effects on deliberative thought processes of citizens.},
journal = {SCM Studies in Communication and Media},
pages = {135--170},
author = {Weinmann, Carina},
volume = {8},
number = {2}
}