Kenneth W. Moffett, Laurie L. Rice

Web 2.0 and the Political Mobilization of College Students (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Web 2.0 and the Political Mobilization of College Students investigates how college students' online activities, when politically oriented, can affect their political participatory patterns offline. Kenneth W. Moffett and Laurie L. Rice find that online forms of political participation-like friending or following candidates and groups as well as blogging or tweeting about politics-draw in a broader swathe of young adults than might ordinarily participate. Political scientists have traditionally determined that participatory patterns among the general public hold less sway in shaping civic activity among college students. This book, however, recognizes that young adults' political participation requires looking at their online activities and the ways in which these help mobilize young adults to participate via other forms. Moffett and Rice discover that engaging in one online participatory form usually begets other forms of civic activity, either online or offline.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498538589
• Artikelnr.: 47255615

Autorenporträt

By Kenneth W. Moffett and Laurie L. Rice

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Chapter
One: Participation, Technology and Age Chapter Two: The Issues that Push
Students Online Chapter Three: A Portrait of Offline Participation Chapter
Four: Friending and Following as a Pathway for Political Participation
Chapter Five: Blogging and Tweeting as Attractors to Political
Participation Chapter Six: Going Offline? Online Participation's Mobilizing
Effects Chapter Seven: Causality, Endogeneity and the Complex Web of
Participation Chapter Eight: College Students and the Future of Political
Participation Appendix A: Question Wording and Summary Statistics for
Student Election Survey Variables Appendix B: Question Wording and Summary
Statistics for Pew Surveys Variables References About the Authors