The networked young citizen : social media, political participation and civic engagement /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Loader, Brian, 1958- (Author, Editor), Vromen, Ariadne (Author, Editor), Xenos, Michael Andrew (Author, Editor)
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Routledge, 2014.
Series:	Routledge studies in global information, politics and society ; 5.
Subjects:	Social media > Political aspects. Online social networks > Political aspects. Young adults > Political activity. Youth > Political activity. Internet > Political aspects. Political participation > Technological innovations. Political socialization. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction : the networked young citizen : social media, political participation and civic engagement / Brian D. Loader, Ariadne Vromen and Michael Xenos
The great equalizer? : patterns of social media use and youth political engagement / Michael Xenos, Ariadne Vromen and Brian D. Loader
Spaces for public orientation? : longitudinal effects of Internet use in adolescence / Mats Ekström, Tobias Olsson, and Adam Shehata
Political influence across generations : partisanship and candidate evaluations in the 2008 election / Emily Vraga, Leticia Bode, Jung Hwan Yang, Stephanie Edgerly, Kjerstin Thorson, Chris Wells, and Dhavan V. Shah
Young citizens and the fine art of disengaging online / Kjerstin Thorson
Australian reflections on learning to be citizens in and with the social web / Suzanne Mellor
Perceptions of students and teachers in England about how social media are used (and how they could be used) in schools and elsewhere / Ian Davies and Edda Sant
"The outraged young" : young Europeans, civic engagement and the social media in a time of crisis / James Sloam
The contribution of websites and blogs to the students' protest communication tactics during the 2010 UK university occupations / Yannis Theocharis.