The concept of piggybacking is partly based on the ELM. Piggybacking refers to embedding politically relevant information into entertainment media, so that viewers may hope to incidentally learn political information. However, not enough research has been done to determine if this practice works through the central route due to the viewer being motivated to attend to entertainment media, or the peripheral route due to the relatively superficial nature of
The concept of piggybacking is partly based on the ELM. Piggybacking refers to embedding politically relevant information into entertainment media, so that viewers may hope to incidentally learn political information. However, not enough research has been done to determine if this practice works through the central route due to the viewer being motivated to attend to entertainment media, or the peripheral route due to the relatively superficial nature of