Resumen de The third-person effect goes to Congress
This article examines floor speeches of members of the U.S. Congress, who introduced and supported legislation regarding online pornography, to test the current understand- ing 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.
