El impacto de Internet en la participación política: Revisando el papel del interés político

Abstract

In this paper we aim to investigate the relationship between Internet use, motivation and political participation. In particular, we aim to find out if, by reducing participation costs, use of the Internet changes the importance of motivation in the classic explanations of participation. In order to explore this question, we have used data from survey 2736 by the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS), which addresses the issue of political participation andInternet use. The analysis shows that Internet use has a direct impact on participation, regardless of motivation, and that skilled Internet users do not need to be motivated or interested in politics in order to participate in at least one online political activity.

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“…This direct relationship between offline and online participation is also raised by Borge et al (2012) based on the theory of normalization by Margolis and Resnick (2000), who observed that individuals perform the same participatory actions in the digital environment that they have already developed offline; social media, and in general the Internet, do not increase the number of participants, but reinforce the participation of those already involved.…”

Participación y compromiso de los jóvenes en el entorno digital. Usos de las redes sociales y percepción de sus consecuencias

“…No obstante, autores como Borge et al (2012) sostienen que las formas online de compromiso complementan, pero no sustituyen, a las construidas en el entorno físico, no movilizan a nuevos individuos, sino que solo refuerzan los compromisos de los ya implicados. Desde hace una década diversos autores han puesto en tela de juicio que la participación ciudadana vaya en una doble dirección (Sampedro et al, 2008;Dader et al, 2011;Calvo et al, 2014;Dader et al, 2017, Dader et al 2014.…”