Barberá, Pablo, Vaccari, Cristian, Valeriani, Augusto, Bonneau, Richard, Jost, John T., Nagler, Jonathan and Tucker, Joshua A. (2015) Political expression and action on social media: exploring the relationship between lower- and higher-threshold political activities among Twitter users in Italy. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 20 (2). pp. 221-239. ISSN 1083-6101
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Scholars and commentators have debated whether lower‐threshold forms of political engagement on social media should be treated as being conducive to higher‐threshold modes of political participation or a diversion from them. Drawing on an original survey of a representative sample of Italians who discussed the 2013 election on Twitter, we demonstrate that the more respondents acquire political information via social media and express themselves politically on these platforms, the more they are likely to contact politicians via e‐mail, campaign for parties and candidates using social media, and attend offline events to which they were invited online. These results suggest that lower‐threshold forms of political engagement on social media do not distract from higher‐threshold activities, but are strongly associated with them.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10836101 |
| Additional Information: | © 2015 International Communication Association |
| Divisions: | Methodology |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JC Political theory Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Apr 2018 11:40 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Oct 2024 08:27 |
| Projects: | RBFR12BKZH, 1248077 |
| Funders: | Italian Ministry of Education “Future in Research 2012”, Dean Thomas Carew and the NYU Faculty of Arts and Science Research Investment Fund, United States National Science Foundation |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/87413 |
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