Twenty Years of Digital Media Effects on Civic and Political Participation

Boulianne, Shelley

doi:10.1177/0093650218808186

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“…E-participation. Much has been written about the role of the Internet in increasing political participation (Boulianne, 2015(Boulianne, , 2018(Boulianne, , 2019. Academics have long argued about what actually constitutes political participation (Brady et al, 1995) with several schema being put forward in the classical literature (Parry et al, 1992).…”

Section: Youth Disengagement and Online Political Expressionmentioning

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By any memes necessary? Small political acts, incidental exposure and memes during the 2017 UK general election

McLoughlin

Southern

2020

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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Following the 2017 UK general election, there was much debate about the so-called ‘youthquake’, or increase in youth turnout (YouGov). Some journalists claimed it was the ‘. . . memes wot won it’. This article seeks to understand the role of memes during political campaigns. Combining meta-data and content analysis, this article aims to answer three questions. First, who creates political memes? Second, what is the level of engagement with political memes and who engages with them? Finally, can any meaningful political information be derived from memes? The findings here suggest that by far the most common producers of memes were citizens suggesting that memes may be a form of citizen-initiated political participation. There was a high level of engagement with memes with almost half a million shares in our sample. However, the level of policy information in memes was low suggesting they are unlikely to increase political knowledge.

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Section: Youth Disengagement and Online Political Expressionmentioning

confidence: 99%

By any memes necessary? Small political acts, incidental exposure and memes during the 2017 UK general election

McLoughlin

Southern

2020

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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“…On the other side of the debate, evidence of a positive relationship between online and offline activism is not scarce (Boulianne, 2018;Slavina & Brym, 2020;Conroy et al, 2012). On the one hand, online participation is believed to act as a gateway to offline political participation, by preparing people and helping them acquire the qualities and psychological preconditions (e.g., thick social identity, self-efficacy, shared beliefs and grievances) to engage in more demanding offline protests (Velasquez & LaRose, 2015;Rohlinger & Bunnage, 2018;Alberici & Milesi, 2018).…”

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The interdependency of online and offline activism: A case study of Fridays For Future-Barcelona in the context of the COVID-19 lockdown

Soler‐i‐Martí¹,

Ferrer‐Fons²,

Terren³

2020

Hipertext.net

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The lockdown imposed in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak as well as the resulting surge in the use of digital technologies and social media for activism or social life all represent a unique opportunity to study the relationship between online and offline activism. To do so, we focus on the Barcelona branch of Fridays For Future, the recent and global youth climate movement that expanded through social networks and organised several large-scale global protests. Based on data from Fridays For Future-Barcelona’s Twitter account, the analysis looks at and compares the level of activity and interactions during normal times and during the lockdown. The results suggest a close and mutually-reinforcing relationship between offline and online activism, with peaks of Twitter activity and interactions usually revolving around offline protest actions. They also show that the lockdown period was characterised by an increase in the number of tweets but a decrease in the number of interactions and thus in the repercussion of the movement on social networks.

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“…Because it takes place virtually with a limited sentence capacity, content on Twitter can share short bursts of political opinion. Various other platforms seek to increase political participation, including Facebook, Line, Instagram, WhatsApp, and others (Boulianne 2018).…”

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The role of social media in promoting political participation: The Lebanon experience

Saud

Hariri

Ashfaq

2020

MKP

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Social media, as part of the political experience, is an emerging trend in the sociology of youths and politics. The present study aimed to investigate the dynamic role of social media in the context of promoting political participation in Lebanese society. A quantitative survey method was used to collect the data from the field, and a total number of 260 questionnaires were filled in throughout the study. The study suggests that people are openly sharing their political opinions on social media platforms and that their expression rate in terms of sharing and learning political knowledge is increasing. The majority of respondents are using Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for political purposes. The creation of social media has brought about an innovative advancement when it comes to individuals participating freely for political reasoning. Additionally, with exciting features and the freedom to share videos, pictures, and status updates, social media applications increasingly allow them to participate in political discussions. Where social media is providing opportunities for the public to participate in politics, electronic media is also facilitating a generation in terms of them gaining political knowledge from political talk shows. Social media’s appropriateness for spreading something broad has triggered a contagious phenomenon that allows every notice polled to be accessed by everyone. It is possible to conclude that social media is suitable for use as an online political platform, and it provides an opportunity for the respondents to participate in the political sector of their country.

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Twenty Years of Digital Media Effects on Civic and Political Participation

Cited by 172 publications

References 37 publications

By any memes necessary? Small political acts, incidental exposure and memes during the 2017 UK general election

By any memes necessary? Small political acts, incidental exposure and memes during the 2017 UK general election

The interdependency of online and offline activism: A case study of Fridays For Future-Barcelona in the context of the COVID-19 lockdown

The role of social media in promoting political participation: The Lebanon experience

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