Loading...
Please wait, while we are loading the content...
Similar Documents
The Political Significance of Social Media Activity and Social Networks
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Kahne, Joseph Bowyer, Benjamin |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Description | 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 |
| Related Links | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10584609.2018.1426662?needAccess=true |
| Ending Page | 493 |
| Page Count | 24 |
| Starting Page | 470 |
| ISSN | 10584609 |
| e-ISSN | 10917675 |
| DOI | 10.1080/10584609.2018.1426662 |
| Journal | Political Communication |
| Issue Number | 3 |
| Volume Number | 35 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2017-09-08 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: Political Communication Communication Political Participation Social Media Youth Online Politics Social Networks |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Sociology and Political Science Communication |
