The longitudinal relation between online and offline political participation among youth at two different developmental stages

Kim, Yunhwan; Russo, Silvia; Amnå, Erik

doi:10.1177/1461444815624181

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“…Finally, while not a central focus of this study, the relationship between online political activity and offline political activity is also worthy of attention (see especially, Kim, Russo, & Amnå, 2017). Some scholars find that online and offline political activity are relatively independent (e.g., Emmer, Wolling, & Vowe, 2012), others find that online political engagement leads to greater offline political participation (Bode, Vraga, Borah, & Shah, 2014;Gil de Zúñiga et al, 2014), and some find online and offline participation to be reciprocally reinforcing (e.g., Harlow & Harp, 2012;Vissers & Stolle, 2014).…”

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The Political Significance of Social Media Activity and Social Networks

Kahne

Bowyer

2018

Political Communication

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This paper examines panel data from two waves of the Youth Participatory Politics Survey, a nationally representative sample of young people in the United States. It employs a cross-lagged design to investigate the extent to which common forms of online activity create pathways to online and offline forms of political activity. Specifically, we examine the influence of Friendship-Driven (FD) and Interest-Driven (ID) online activity on online participatory politics and on offline forms of political action. Our findings reveal that FD and ID activity relate to political engagement, but in different ways. In addition, we find that the size of young people's social networks interacts with both FD and ID online activity to promote political activity. This indicates that having exposure to "weak-ties" (resulting from large social networks) promote higher levels of political engagement. These findings demonstrate the need to specify the kinds of online activities in which youth are engaged and, more broadly, the political significance of social media and social networks

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The Political Significance of Social Media Activity and Social Networks

Kahne

Bowyer

2018

Political Communication

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“…Our evidence suggests that populist attitudes can be an important motivating factor for becoming more politically engaged in non-institutional expressive modes of participation such as petition signing (mostly done online) and the online expression of political opinions. While it may seem that the relevance of these two modes is smaller than that of others, research shows that, typically, online participation is positively related to and precedes other offline modes of political engagement (Conroy, Feezell and Guerrero, 2012;Gil de Zúñiga, Jung and Valenzuela, 2012;Vissers and Stolle, 2014;Kim, Russo and Amna, 2017). Online participation can thus be a stepping stone for additional engagement.…”

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Populism, participation, and political equality

Anduiza

Guinjoan

Rico

2019

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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This article analyses the relationship between populist attitudes and political participation. We argue that populist attitudes can be a motivation for participation through their identity, emotional, and moral components, and that they have the potential to narrow socioeconomic gaps in participation. Using survey data from nine European countries, our results show that populist attitudes are positively related to expressive non-institutionalized modes of participation (petition signing, online participation and, in some contexts, demonstrating), but not to turnout. In addition, populist attitudes are found to reduce education-based gaps and even reverse income-based inequalities in political participation. The implications of these findings are discussed.

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“…However, existing research provides robust support that digital participation encourages offline participation (e.g. Kim et al, 2017).…”

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Does incidental exposure on social media equalize or reinforce participatory gaps? Evidence from a panel study

Heiss

Matthes

2019

New Media & Society

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Existing research indicates that incidental exposure to political information on social media may function as an equalizer, stimulating political engagement among the politically detached. In this article, we challenge this notion and propose that there are good reasons to assume that incidental exposure may reinforce existing gaps. We test the equalizing against the reinforcing hypothesis using data from a two-wave panel study ( N = 559). We find a positive main effect of incidental exposure on low-effort digital participation. However, this effect was not conditional on political interest, as the equalizing assumption would have suggested. More interestingly, we found that the effect of incidental exposure on high-effort digital participation was conditional on political interest. However, against the assumption of equalization, individuals with low levels of political interest were negatively affected by incidental exposure, thus lending support for the reinforcement hypothesis. Possible reasons for these findings are discussed.

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The longitudinal relation between online and offline political participation among youth at two different developmental stages

Cited by 65 publications

References 36 publications

The Political Significance of Social Media Activity and Social Networks

The Political Significance of Social Media Activity and Social Networks

Populism, participation, and political equality

Does incidental exposure on social media equalize or reinforce participatory gaps? Evidence from a panel study

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