Participatory Inequality Across Countries: Contacting Public Officials Online and Offline

Boulianne, Shelley

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“…Our full sample includes 6,068 respondents from four countries: Canada (n = 1,568), the UK (n = 1,500), France (n = 1,500), and the US (n = 1,500). We employed quotas to ensure the composition of the online panel matched census data for each country (for a direct comparison of sample and official statistics, see Boulianne, 2022). The survey was administered in both English and French in Canada, in English in the UK and US, and in French in France.…”

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Conspiracy Beliefs, Misinformation, Social Media Platforms, and Protest Participation

Boulianne

Lee

2022

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Protest has long been associated with left-wing actors and left-wing causes. However, right-wing actors also engage in protest. Are right-wing actors mobilized by the same factors as those actors on the left? This article uses cross-national survey data (i.e., US, UK, France, and Canada) gathered in February 2021 to assess the role of misinformation, conspiracy beliefs, and the use of different social media platforms in explaining participation in marches or demonstrations. We find that those who use Twitch or TikTok are twice as likely to participate in marches or demonstrations, compared to non-users, but the uses of these platforms are more highly related to participation in right-wing protests than left-wing protests. Exposure to misinformation on social media and beliefs in conspiracy theories also increase the likelihood of participating in protests. Our research makes several important contributions. First, we separate right-wing protest participation from left-wing protest participation, whereas existing scholarship tends to lump these together. Second, we offer new insights into the effects of conspiracy beliefs and misinformation on participation using cross-national data. Third, we examine the roles of emerging social media platforms such as Twitch and TikTok (as well as legacy platforms such as YouTube and Facebook) to better understand the differential roles that social media platforms play in protest participation.

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Conspiracy Beliefs, Misinformation, Social Media Platforms, and Protest Participation

Boulianne

Lee

2022

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“…Meanwhile, the second problem is public political reactions upon election process (Rokkan, 2009) Even though election campaignrelated civic engagement is important, civic engagement is not only limited to those form of political communication online. Citizens engage in political activities in a number of ways including contacting government, commenting current policy, discussing public movements, talking politics in general and volunteering in community (Boulianne, 2022).…”

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Communicating Democratic Will Online: The Case of Mass Rejection to Fuel Price Adjustment Policy in Indonesia

Riski

2023

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The advance of communication technologies has evolved civic engagement in democratic countries. Social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram allow citizen to express their view freely and publicly. Citizens can easily communicate their views about the democratic process through social media. This study aims to assess online democratic engagement on Twitter in Indonesia regarding the policy to increase fuel prices in 2022. Computerized social network analysis is employed. NodeXL Pro is an open-source web scraping and visualization tool used to collect, process, and analyze Twitter data. The study finds that online civic engagement tends to be polarised in the network structure. Secondly, this study indicates that general public are important figure in the network. Meanwhile, the primary source of information discussed in the network is news media. Finally, this study demonstrates a link between online political discourse and traditional media coverage.

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“…Information and communication technologies (ICTs), particularly the Internet, have been considered essential in facilitating market access, reducing transaction costs, and augmenting income for a significant proportion of individuals residing in developing nations since the beginning of the century [10]. Internet accessibility has a positive impact on poverty reduction, with greater benefits seen in the rural sector for reducing extreme income and multidimensional poverty compared with urban areas [11].…”

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Internet Development and Urban–Rural Consumption Inequality: Evidence from Chinese Cities

2023

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The impact of the digital dividends from Internet development on urban and rural residents is influenced by the existing urban–rural dual structure, resulting in heterogeneous and time-varying impacts on urban–rural consumption inequality. This study aims to investigate the nonlinear effect and mechanism of the Internet development on urban–rural consumption inequality in China. Using panel data from 263 prefecture-level cities between 2016 and 2019, we employ a two-way fixed effect model and a threshold model to examine this relationship. The findings of our study are as follows: (a) Internet development exhibits a U-shaped relationship with urban-rural consumption inequality. This U-shaped relationship is statistically consistent and stable in the whole country and in cities outside the five major urban agglomerations. (b) The level of urbanization acts as a threshold for the relationship between Internet development and urban–rural consumption inequality. (c) The influence of Internet development on urban–rural consumption inequality operates through its impact on income inequality and premature industrial structure. To effectively harness the positive impact of Internet development in reducing urban–rural consumption inequality, several key aspects deserve attention: acknowledging regional disparities and leveraging the Internet’s positive impact on urban–rural consumption inequality, considering the joint effects of Internet and urbanization developments, addressing digital divides among vulnerable groups, and promoting effective integration between the Internet and industry, particularly in manufacturing.

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Participatory Inequality Across Countries: Contacting Public Officials Online and Offline

Cited by 4 publications

References 53 publications

Conspiracy Beliefs, Misinformation, Social Media Platforms, and Protest Participation

Conspiracy Beliefs, Misinformation, Social Media Platforms, and Protest Participation

Communicating Democratic Will Online: The Case of Mass Rejection to Fuel Price Adjustment Policy in Indonesia

Internet Development and Urban–Rural Consumption Inequality: Evidence from Chinese Cities

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