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Chapter 17 - Psychology, Democracy and the Media

Are Citizens Learning from the News? A Self-Regulated Learning Perspective

from Part III - For the People

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2022

By
Sharon Coen  and
Karl Turgut Maloney Yorganci
Edited by
Ashley Weinberg
Ashley Weinberg
Affiliation:
University of Salford
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Summary

This chapter discusses how news contributes to informed citizenship by reviewing the different approaches adopted in the literature to understanding how individuals learn from the news. After reviewing the main theoretical and empirical perspectives on how news contributes to citizens’ ‘knowledge’, we advance the hypothesis that adopting a self-regulated learning perspective might provide a more comprehensive theoretical framework for this type of research. We therefore propose a GAMES approach (Goal-Oriented, Active, Motivated, Emotion-Laden, Situated), derived from a synthesis of the literature on self-regulated learning in the field of educational psychology.

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newsmedialearningknowledgeeducationalself-regulated learning
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Psychology of Democracy
Of the People, By the People, For the People
 , pp. 377 - 402
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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