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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 fr...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Moffett, Kenneth W. (Author), Rice, Laurie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2016]
Series:Lexington studies in political communication.
Subjects:
College students > Political activity.
Web 2.0 > Political aspects.
Students > Political activity.
Étudiants > Activité politique.
Web 2.0 > Aspect politique.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Students > Political activity
College students > Political activity
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Participation, technology, and age
  • The issues that push students online
  • A portrait of offline participation
  • Friending and following as a pathway for political participation
  • Blogging and tweeting as attractors to political participation
  • Going offline? Online participation's mobilizing effects
  • Causality, endogeneity, and the complex web of participation
  • 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 2008 and 2012 Pew surveys variables.

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