Digital Politics: Mobilization, Engagement and Participation
Coordonnateurs : Koc-Michalska Karolina, Lilleker Darren G.
This book discusses the implications of recent innovations in information and communication technology for civic and political engagement. The international mix of contributions offers insights across a broad spectrum of studies into the form of engagement: explaining the reasons, incentives and motivations for engaging, and the different forms and levels of engagement; contrasting traditional and non-traditional forms of engagement and how they interlink; and asking why people utilize or avoid certain forms of engagement.
It is a must-read for any scholar interested in the impact of social media on citizens? propensity to get involved in political actions. It depicts the role that parties, organizations and peers play in mobilizing or demobilizing others and how online behaviour can act as a springboard into what might be called real-world politics. The book gathers together prominent scholars, who offer their understanding of social and political phenomena and give theoretical and empirical insights into the highly complex questions around political participation in the digital age. ?
This book was originally published as a special issue of Political Communication.
Introduction – Digital Politics: Mobilization, Engagement, and Participation1. Three Prompts for Collective Action in the Context of Digital Media2. What Drives Political Participation?Motivations andMobilization in a Digital Age3. Social Media Social Capital, Offline Social Capital, and Citizenship: Exploring Asymmetrical Social Capital Effects4. Online Mobilization in Comparative Perspective: Digital Appeals and Political Engagement in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom5. Friend or Foe? Digital Technologies and the Changing Nature of Party Membership6. I Shield Myself From Thee: Selective Avoidance on Social Media During Political Protests
Karolina Koc-Michalska is Associate Professor at the Audencia Business School, Nantes, France and Associated Researcher at CEVIPOF – Sciences-Po, Paris, France. Her research focuses on the strategies of political actors in the online environment and citizens’ political engagement, especially the role of motivations and encouragement in both the online and the offline environment.
Darren G. Lilleker is Associate Professor of Political Communication and Head of the Corporate and Marketing Communication Academic Department in the Faculty of Media and Communication, Bournemouth University, Poole, UK. His research focuses on the professionalization and marketization of politics and its impact on citizen psychology and engagement.
Date de parution : 06-2020
17.4x24.6 cm
Date de parution : 08-2018
17.4x24.6 cm
Thème de Digital Politics: Mobilization, Engagement and Participation :
Mots-clés :
Cross-cutting Exposure; Offline Social Capital; political parties; Online Political Participation; political engagement; Offline Political Participation; citizenship; Discussion Network Size; digital media; Offline Participation; political communication; Political Participatory Behaviors; social media; Gil De; civic engagement; Offline Sphere; online political mobilization; Selective Avoidance; political participation; Online Mobilization; Darren G; Lilleker; Digital Affiliation; Bruce Bimber; Offline Political; Homero Gil de Zúñiga; Offline Mobilization; Matthew Barnidge; Digital Mobilization; Andrés Scherman; Mobile News Apps; Cristian Vaccari; Extrinsic Motivations; Rachel Gibson; Offline Social Ties; Fabienne Greffet; Online Participatory Behaviors; Marta Cantijoch; Contentious Political Activities; Qinfeng Zhu; Change Score Variable; Marko Skoric; Candidate Campaign Websites; Fei Shen; Individual Level Attributes; Virtual Support Networks; Digital Activists