Exploring Web 2.0 political engagement: Is new technology reducing the biases of political participation?

Steinberg, Alan

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2015.05.003

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“…When considering the potential impact of digital engagement learning opportunities on varied forms of online politics, we highlight two forms of online activity: Online Participatory Politics and Targeted Political Pressure. These forms of online political activity might be placed within a range of broader categories such as 'Connective Action' (Bennett and Segerberg 2012), 'e-expressive' participation (Gibson and Cantijoch 2013), 'cyber participation' (Steinberg 2015), and 'political social networking' (Bode et al 2014). By Online Participatory Politics (OPP), we refer to activities that are interactive and peer-based and through which individuals and groups aim to express voice and influence on issues of public concern.…”

Section: The Increasing Significance Of Digital Engagement Learning Omentioning

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Can media literacy education increase digital engagement in politics?

Kahne

Bowyer

2019

Learning, Media and Technology

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Online environments are now central to political life, especially for young people. They are prominent contexts for activities that include: fundraising, political debate, sharing political perspectives, mobilizing individuals and groups to act, and applying pressure to governments, corporations, and nonprofits. Much of this online politically focused activity occurs within a broader media ecology that can be characterized as a participatory culture (

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Section: The Increasing Significance Of Digital Engagement Learning Omentioning

confidence: 99%

Can media literacy education increase digital engagement in politics?

Kahne

Bowyer

2019

Learning, Media and Technology

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“…The ideological tendency, which represents the support of a party, is more interested in the news of the supportive tendency, and it decreases the political involvement as it is exposed to the opinion opposite to the support tendency of the individual [13,24,25,28]. On the other hand, there are also some studies that the intensity of political support is not statistically significant with increasing turnout or online political participation [31]. Income, education, and gender are also identified as factors affecting offline and online political participation [8,18].…”

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“…Income, education, and gender are also identified as factors affecting offline and online political participation [8,18]. On the other hand, traditional socioeconomic factors such as income, education level, and gender appear to have no effect on traditional participation and online participation [13,30,31].…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Does Online Political Participation Reinforce Offline Political Participation?: Using Instrumental Variable

Sung¹,

Jang²

2020

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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The purpose of this study is to investigate whether online political participation can predict the strengthening of offline political participation by using privacy concerns as an instrumental variable. Accordingly, the 2SLS analysis was applied using the Korea Media Panel Survey data of 2016 conducted by the Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI). As a result, age and ideological inclination were found to be more important factors in offline political participation than by socioeconomic status. In addition, the use of an instrumental variable to control the direction of causality indicates that online political participation reinforces offline political participation. As a result of habituated daily online activities, it is suggested that a new participatory group, especially low socioeconomic strata, may be mobilized due to the influence of online political participation. This research eliminating the possibility of two-way causality between online and offline political participation is meaningful in finding that online participation activities can reinforce offline political participation and that it is possible to mobilize the groups that were alienated from offline political participation.

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“…Having been developed for offline forms of political participation, it is debated to what extent these factors can be used to explain online participation. Up to now, numerous empirical analyses have been run addressing the question of who is politically active online and why (see, e.g., Anduiza, Jensen, & Jorba, ; Borge & Cardinal, ; Chadwick & Howard, ; Dalton, ; Emmer, Wolling, & Vowe, ; Schlozman, Brady, & Verba, ; Steinberg, ). In general, empirical studies have questioned and partly refuted initial expectations that online media could reach out to new, formerly inactive groups: Indeed, Internet‐based communication and participation options foremost attract those who are otherwise politically active.…”

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Does the Internet Encourage Political Participation? Use of an Online Platform by Members of a German Political Party

Gerl¹,

Marschall²,

Wilker³

2017

Policy & Internet

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Political parties can play a crucial role in linking citizen preferences to political decision making, but have been criticized for not accomplishing this task. In an attempt to address this linkage problem and enhance policy representation, political parties have recently opened up their decision‐making processes and promoted online participation among their members and supporters; for example, by establishing online platforms that allow citizens and party members to discuss policy issues and generate policy proposals. However, in most instances, participation is low. Drawing on the case of the German Green Party and applying three well‐established models of offline political participation, the article examines why only some party members and supporters use these channels to communicate their preferences. Comparing users and nonusers, we conclude that socioeconomic resources or attitudes alone cannot explain differences in participation. Instead, participation is motivated by process‐related and ideological incentives.

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Exploring Web 2.0 political engagement: Is new technology reducing the biases of political participation?

Cited by 33 publications

References 29 publications

Can media literacy education increase digital engagement in politics?

Can media literacy education increase digital engagement in politics?

Does Online Political Participation Reinforce Offline Political Participation?: Using Instrumental Variable

Does the Internet Encourage Political Participation? Use of an Online Platform by Members of a German Political Party

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