Social media has skyrocketed to popularity in the past few years. The Arab Spring in 2011
as well as the 2008 and 2012 Obama campaigns have fueled interest in how social media …

As people spend increasing proportions of their daily lives using social media, such as
Twitter and Facebook, they are being invited to support myriad political causes by sharing …

Is the Internet democratizing American politics? Do political Web sites and blogs mobilize
inactive citizens and make the public sphere more inclusive? The Myth of Digital Democracy …

This study examined college students' use of online media for political purposes in the 2008
election. Social media attention, online expression, and traditional Internet attention were …

Many citizens feel powerless in the current globalized political context, despite the potential
of digital media to increase their perceptions of being informed about politics and expand …

Scholars disagree about the impact of the Internet on civic and political engagement. Some
scholars argue that Internet use will contribute to civic decline, whereas other scholars view …

Social networking is a phenomenon of interest to many scholars. While most of the recent
research on social networking sites has focused on user characteristics, very few studies …

Using data from the 2000 National Annenberg Election Survey, this study looks at the
relationships between Internet access and online exposure to information about the …

This article examines the political uses of social networking (SN) Web sites by young adults
in context of the early stages of the 2008 presidential primary season. Using a survey of over …

Given the significant rise in the number of Americans who turn to the Internet for political
information, we examine the effects of these behaviors on political and civic engagement in …