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24 - Social Media and Political Participation

from Part III - Activities in Cyber Behavior

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2024

By
Thomas J. Johnson  and
Taeyoung Lee
Edited by
Zheng Yan
Zheng Yan
Affiliation:
University at Albany, State University of New York
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Summary

1 Introduction

2 Types of Political Participation

 2.1 Institutional Participation

 2.2 Political Protests

 2.3 Civic Engagement

 2.4 Political Consumerism

 2.5 Social Media as Political Participation

3 Affordances of Social Media and Political Participation

 3.1 The Origin of Affordances Scholarship

 3.2 Conceptualization of Affordances

  3.2.1 Technological Affordances

  3.2.2 Communicative and Social Affordances

 3.3 Affordances in Social Media

 3.4 Social Media Affordances and Political Participation

  3.4.1 Facebook

  3.4.2 Twitter

  3.4.3 YouTube

  3.4.4 Reddit

  3.4.5 Instagram

  3.4.6 Snapchat

  3.4.7 WhatsApp

4 How People’s Social Media Use Translates into Political Participation

 4.1 Uses and Gratifications Approach

 4.2 New Approach: When U&G Meets Affordances

 4.3 Motivations of Social Media Use and Political Participation

5 Active and Passive Uses of Social Media and Political Participation

 5.1 Low-Effort and High-Effort Social Media Activities

6 Conclusions

 6.1 Affordances

 6.2 Uses and Gratifications

 6.3 Active and Passive Uses of Social Media and Political Participation

 6.4 Social Media in the Political Process

7 Future Directions

Keywords

social mediaFacebookTwitterRedditYouTubeInstagramWhatsApppolitical participationpolitical protestscivic engagementpolitical consumerism
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The Cambridge Handbook of Cyber Behavior , pp. 696 - 736
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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