The Study of Young People's Civic Participation on the Internet: Appraising an Emerging Research Field

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Author(s): Fadi Hirzalla (Independent Researcher, The Netherlands)and Shakuntala Banaji (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 16
Source title: Civic Engagement and Politics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7669-3.ch069

Keywords: Civic Engagement / Information Science Reference / Political Science / Social Sciences & Humanities

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This chapter reviews the body of academic literature about young people's online civic participation. It will first sketch how this literature has developed historically in the context of old and changing scholarly discussions about what civic participation and democratic citizenship more generally do or should envelop. The second section outlines how extant empirical studies on young people's civic participation online may be subdivided into four strands of research, each focusing on different questions and relying on different methods. The closing section provides a number of directions for further research, mostly calling for innovative and more pressing context-specific and people-centered research approaches.

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