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- Title
The Third-Person Effect Goes to Congress.
- Authors
Dewberry, DavidR.
- Abstract
This article examines floor speeches of members of the U.S. Congress, who introduced and supported legislation regarding online pornography, to test the current understanding of the Third-Person Effect (TPE). This article makes three substantive contributions to the TPE literature. First, the article confirms the presence of the TPE in a context where people are empowered to engage in actual censorship. Second, this article utilizes a naturalistic method as opposed to the self-report and experiment-based methodologies that dominate the TPE literature. Third, this article identifies subtleties of the TPE that have not yet been examined fully in past scholarship.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SPEECH; UNITED States. Congress; PORNOGRAPHY laws; THIRD-person effect; CENSORSHIP
- Publication
Southern Communication Journal, 2014, Vol 79, Issue 4, p279
- ISSN
1041-794X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/1041794X.2014.906642