TY - BOOK ID - 7208152 TI - Digital media and political engagement worldwide AU - Anduiza Perea, Eva AU - Jensen, Michael James AU - Jorba, Laia PY - 2012 SN - 9781107021426 9781107668492 9781139108881 9781139424127 1139424122 1139108883 1107021421 1107668492 9781139422086 1139422081 1139411667 110723154X 1280774967 9786613685353 1139423053 1139420038 1139417991 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Political participation KW - Communication in politics KW - Technological innovations KW - Internet KW - Political aspects KW - Political science KW - General. KW - Political scienceTechnological innovations KW - General.InternetPolitical aspects KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / General. KW - #SBIB:324H60 KW - #SBIB:309H103 KW - DARPA Internet KW - Internet (Computer network) KW - Wide area networks (Computer networks) KW - World Wide Web KW - Political communication KW - Citizen participation KW - Community action KW - Community involvement KW - Community participation KW - Involvement, Community KW - Mass political behavior KW - Participation, Citizen KW - Participation, Community KW - Participation, Political KW - Political activity KW - Political behavior KW - Political rights KW - Social participation KW - Political activists KW - Politics, Practical KW - Politieke socialisatie KW - Mediatechnologie / ICT / digitale media: sociale en culturele aspecten KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / General KW - Participación política KW - Comunicación KW - Innovaciones tecnológicas KW - Política KW - Aspectos políticos KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science KW - Political participation - Technological innovations - Cross-cultural studies KW - Communication in politics - Technological innovations - Cross-cultural studies KW - Internet - Political aspects - Cross-cultural studies UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7208152 AB - "This book focuses on the impact of digital media use for political engagement across varied geographic and political contexts, using a diversity of methodological approaches and datasets. The book addresses an important gap in the contemporary literature on digital politics, identifying context dependent and transcendent political consequences of digital media use. While the majority of the empirical work in this field has been based on studies from the United States and United Kingdom, this volume seeks to place those results into comparative relief with other regions of the world. It moves debates in this field of study forward by identifying system-level attributes that shape digital political engagement across a wide variety of contexts. The volume brings together research and scholars from North America, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia. The evidence analyzed across the fifteen cases considered in the book suggests that engagement with digital environments influences users' political orientations and that contextual features play a significant role in shaping digital politics"-- ER -