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 …

Political participation opportunities have been expanding for years, most recently through
digital tools. Social media platforms have become well integrated into civic and political …

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 …

Donald Trump, the Arab Spring, Brexit: digital media have provided political actors and
citizens with new tools to engage in politics. These tools are now routinely used by activists …

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 …

Research on the social implications of adolescent technology use often focuses on
identifying and preventing risk. However, adolescence is also a time of rapidly expanding …

The rapid rise of digital media use for political participation has coincided with an increase in
concerns about citizens' sense of their capacity to impact political processes. These dual …

The framing question for this chapter is: How have both the new participatory turn and
individualisation changed, and how do organisations and movements mobilise participants …

This study extends past research on the relationship between news use and participation by
examining how youth combine news exposure across an array of media devices, sources …

Amidst concern about declining youth political engagement, it is often suggested that social
media can provide a solution to this challenge. In this article, however, we argue that these …