Facebook and political engagement: A study of online political group membership and offline political engagement

Conroy, Meredith; Feezell, Jessica T.; Guerrero, Mario

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2012.03.012

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“…Thus, Facebook use for online political participation yield significant influence on youth. Conroy, Feezell and Guerrero [10] demonstrate that information exchange on Facebook fosters civic participation, trust, political and life contentment among youth.…”

Section: Online Political Participationmentioning

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

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Abstract. This paper focuses on the role of Facebook use, interactivity with politicians, quality of information and political interest as the predictors of online political participation among youth. The paper argues that Facebook use, interactivity, quality of information and political interests have the potential to engender online political participation among Nigerian youth. Also, by offering them an avenue for acquiring political information necessary for making an informed political decision through deliberations on Facebook; in order to bring new political changes and group mobilization. Therefore, the study was implemented with survey questionnaires collected from youth in Bauchi metropolis (N= 372). Findings reveal that Facebook use, quality of information and political interest positively correlates with online political participation while interactivity with the politicians did not significantly influence online political participation among youth.

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Section: Online Political Participationmentioning

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

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“…In fact, they seem to represent complementary efforts (Smith 2013). As well, Conroy, Feezell, and Guerrero (2012) suggest that online groups may produce similar effects as offline groups in fostering political engagement. This debate notwithstanding, the idea that social media can produce positive social outcomes is promoted.…”

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“…For example, disabled people have found social networking platforms to be liberating in the absence of physical and visual barriers experienced in other public venues (Guo, Briscout, and Huang 2005;Seymour and Lupton 2004). However, the idea that online engagement actually produces positive "offline" outcomes in terms of activism, civic engagement, or political engagement, in any age bracket, is still being debated in the academic literature (Bennett, Wells, and Freelon 2011;Christiansen 2011;Conroy, Feezell, and Guerrero 2012;Obar, Zube, and Lampe 2012;Olorunnisola and Martin 2013). There appears, however, to be a correlation between online political engagement and offline political engagement among adults, thus countering the assumption that online political activity replaces offline political activity.…”

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Social media and senior citizen advocacy: an inclusive tool to resist ageism?

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Tsang

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Politics, Groups, and Identities

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With population aging, interest groups demand that governments act to prevent a perceived financial crisis. Senior citizens remain frustrated in their efforts to influence the response of policy-makers. In an effort to strengthen their voice, one group of senior citizens, engaged in a participatory action research project, questioned how online social media could be used in their advocacy efforts. This query led to an examination of the literature with the primary objective of determining what is known about the use of social media by senior citizens for the purposes of social advocacy. The outcomes of the review revealed that very few studies specifically examined this question. Senior citizen online roles were depicted as consumers of health information or socializers with family and friends. Ageist assumptions informed the design of computer hardware, online formats and norms for social engagement. Senior citizens have concerns about the trustworthiness of social networking sites and while social media can exclude senior citizens from public debate, the authors conclude that the pressing issue is to focus on age-friendly design and supports. With these in place, social media can provide a venue for senior citizens to challenge ageism and influence public policy discourses.Keywords: social media; ageism; senior citizenship; advocacy; political activism IntroductionThe questions examined in this paper arose from discussions with a group of senior citizen activists involved in the participatory action research project (PAR), Exercising Senior Citizenship in an Ageist Society, under the facilitation of the first author and fourth author. This group of senior citizens (the term "senior citizen" used advisedly to convey seniors as participants in valued social roles who hold the rights and responsibilities of citizens) is actively involved in advocacy work focused on the provision of adequate supportive home services within the province of Ontario, Canada. In their efforts to be heard, the group is exploring the use of social media as a tool and venue to give voice to their message. Early on, one of the senior members and long-time activist (age 93) expressed frustration with the increasing use of online technologies for communication and advocacy work, which she experiences as a form of social exclusion. She lamented that while younger people grew up with this technology, many older adults are left "in a void" © 2015 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License (http:// creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. *Corresponding author. Email: b.trentham@utoronto.ca Politics, Groups, and Identities, 2015 Vol. 3, No. 3, 558-571, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2015 and at a disadvantage when it comes t...

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“…Nesse sentido, algumas pesquisas têm sido feitas relacionando o uso do Facebookàs performances acadêmicas dos estudantes (Grosseck,Bran & Tiru, 2011;Hew, 2011;Junco, 2012) e outras para expressar como os perfis organizacionais podem se aproximar de seus consumidores (Waters et al, 2009;Hsu, 2012) e empregados (Smith & Kidder, 2010), além de utilizarem a rede para fazer engajamento político (Kim, Jeong & Lee, 2010;Conroy, Feezell & Guerrero, 2012 Percebe-se que os usuários definem objetivos mais racionais diferentes dos usuários hedônicos que são mais intencionados pelas emoções. Eles argumentam que o Facebook é uma fonte de eficiente de produção e utilidade que lhes permite sentir funcionais,interagindo com outros indivíduos, de modo que isso não seja banal e fútil atrapalhando suas tarefas diárias.…”

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Usabilidade E Prefer�ncia De Uso Na Rede Social Facebook: Uma An�lise Netnogr�fica Dos Usu�rios Tecnol�gicos

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Filho

2015

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This article presents a study about the preference of use in virtual social networks, using Facebook as object of study, to identify the motivational factors for the usability of this technology platform. The social network Facebook has been chosen to present a technological scenario of high sociability and virtual interaction. The methodology used was the netnography, being made through the collection of discussions in North American sites of news and forums online, where there is a large critical user participation on the internet, about the gains and frustrations in this context. The content analysis was performed comparing the categories of users found in the literature about values that motivate consumer technology, describing the hedonic, social, utilitarian values and perceptions of risk in consumption when related to lack of privacy. The results show two main groups of users of this technology and 7 subgroups. Therefore, the contribution of the study is that the formation of these groups may reflect technological usability of user groups around the world. The study also brings to the discussion issues related to the behaviors of the users of virtual networks which can be useful for businesses and their relationships with consumers and also the development of new knowledge from such criticism and demands that digital consumers expose about the technologies.

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Facebook and political engagement: A study of online political group membership and offline political engagement

Cited by 287 publications

References 55 publications

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

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

Social media and senior citizen advocacy: an inclusive tool to resist ageism?

Usabilidade E Prefer�ncia De Uso Na Rede Social Facebook: Uma An�lise Netnogr�fica Dos Usu�rios Tecnol�gicos

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