Political astroturfing on twitter: How to coordinate a disinformation campaign

FB Keller, D Schoch, S Stier, JH Yang - Political communication, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Political astroturfing, a centrally coordinated disinformation campaign in which participants
pretend to be ordinary citizens acting independently, has the potential to influence electoral …

Twenty years of digital media effects on civic and political participation

S Boulianne - Communication research, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
More than 300 studies have been published on the relationship between digital media and
engagement in civic and political life. With such a vast body of research, it is difficult to see …

The political significance of social media activity and social networks

J Kahne, B Bowyer - Political communication, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This paper examines panel data from two waves of the Youth Participatory Politics Survey, a
nationally representative sample of young people in the United States. It employs a cross …

Revolution in the making? Social media effects across the globe

S Boulianne - Information, communication & society, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Social networking sites are popular tools to engage citizens in political campaigns, social
movements, and civic life. However, are the effects of social media on civic and political …

[BOK][B] Political participation in a changing world: Conceptual and empirical challenges in the study of citizen engagement

Y Theocharis, JW Van Deth - 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
In the last decades, political participation expanded continuously. This expansion includes
activities as diverse as voting, tweeting, signing petitions, changing your social media …

The good, the bad and the ugly: Three faces of social media usage by local governments

P Silva, AF Tavares, T Silva, M Lameiras - Government Information …, 2019 - Elsevier
This article explores the determinants of local governments' use of social networking sites. It
does so by analysing the relative impact of institutional, political and social determinants …

Digitally networked participation and lifestyle politics as new modes of political participation

Y Theocharis, J de Moor, JW Van Deth - Policy & internet, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Political participation has seen substantial changes in terms of both its structure and its
scope. One of the most prominent venues of citizen engagement today is participation that …

Understanding decentralized civic engagement: Focus on peer-to-peer and blockchain-driven perspectives on e-participation

M Kassen - Technology in Society, 2021 - Elsevier
Decentralized civic engagement, ie engagement which is not initiated and managed by
government, has been often used as a popular slogan in various public speeches to …

Digital politics: Mobilization, engagement, and participation

K Koc-Michalska, D Lilleker - Political Communication, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Rather, we find that controlled or faux interactivity is the norm in electoral political
communication with little opportunity for influence and visitors required to work for the …

What motivates digital activism? The case of the Save KPK movement in Indonesia

F Suwana - Information, Communication & Society, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Digital activism has enormous ability to amplify offline and online civic activism and political
participation. In Indonesia, digital activism has successfully supported social and political …