All Political Participation Is Socially Networked?

Abstract

This research examined the influence of attention to specific forms of traditional and online media on young adults’ online and offline political participation as well as voter turnout during the fall 2012 presidential campaign. A three-wave panel survey demonstrated that attention to traditional media did not increase offline and online political participation in September; instead, participation was heightened by attention to online sources, particularly presidential candidate websites, Facebook, Twitter, and blogs. In the following months, individual-level change in participation was attributable to attention to several online media sources as well as change in media attention. In the case of voter turnout, results suggest that television attention was positively linked to voter likelihood in September but was negatively linked to individual-level change in voter turnout in November.

Participação política online e offline nas eleições presidenciais de 2014 em Salvador

“…It also confirms the results of previous studies (TOWNER, 2013: vITAK, 2011, demonstrating that interactions promoted in digital social media platforms influenced political-electoral participation of electors offline and online.…”

“…Some scholars argue that the use of such platforms promotes increased political offline participation (BODY, 2008;TOWNER, 2013;DUlIO, 2011;vITAK et al, 2011). Others advocate no links to it (BAUMGARTNER; MORRIS, 2010;ZHANG et al, 2010).…”

Youth Online Political Participation: The Role of Facebook Use, Interactivity, Quality Information and Political Interest

“…Studies have suggested that youth are now using Facebook to seek for political information, mobilize like minds, create user-generated content and share political views [15][16]. Increasingly, Facebook has been used to mobilize individuals to participate in politics and protest around the world.…”

Líderes latinoamericanos en Twitter. Viejas costumbres para nuevos medios en tiempos de crisis políticas

“…Así se ha destacado el potencial que estas herramientas poseen para permitir incluir en la esfera pública a voces alternativas y disminuir la atención prestada por los medios a la elite política tradicional (Hong, 2013). En este sentido los medios digitales pueden, al menos idealmente, fomentar la participación política entre sus usuarios (Towner, 2013),funcionar como vehículo de difusión de visiones alternativas a las ofrecidas por los grandes medios convencionales (Gleason, 2013), como plataforma para la expresión de minorías tradicionalmente marginadas en los medios tradicionales (Bekafigo y McBride, 2013) o como canal de información sobre temas y cuestiones que las autoridades prefieren censurar o mantener ocultas (Tufecki y Wilson, 2012).…”