The emergence of Big Data is both promising and challenging for social research. This
article suggests that realising this promise has been restricted by the methods applied in …

Beginning in 2018, youth across the globe participated in protest activities aimed at
encouraging government action on climate change. This activism was initiated and led by …

This paper uses established systematic and transparent methods to review the evidence for
the effect of civic education on young people's normative political participation. Extensive …

New technologies raise fears in public discourse. In terms of digital media use and youth,
the advice has been to monitor and limit access to minimize the negative impacts. However …

The study of interest groups and their role in political life has undergone somewhat of a
renaissance in recent years. Long standing scholarly themes such as interest groups …

Over the course of the last decade, policy makers in Britain have become increasingly
concerned about the apparent and persisting withdrawal by young people from the formal …

How social media can enable opportunities for collaboration between citizens and
governments is an evolving issue in theory and practice. This paper examines the dynamic …

Considering insights from 'third-wave'literature, this paper examines the impact of young
women's online activism on the visibility of feminist engagement in New Zealand. Drawing …

The Internet is causing major changes in the field of political activism. One particularly
significant case is the 15M movement, which emerged from a popular initiative organized in …

Over the past decade, Internet and politics scholarship has been concerned with the effects
of the Internet on forms of civic and political participation. Recent research has moved on to …