Full Description
Web 2.0 and the Political Mobilization of College Students investigates how college students' online activities, when politically oriented, can affect their political participatory patterns offline. Kenneth W. Moffett and Laurie L. Rice find that online forms of political participation—like friending or following candidates and groups as well as blogging or tweeting about politics—draw in a broader swathe of young adults than might ordinarily participate. Political scientists have traditionally determined that participatory patterns among the general public hold less sway in shaping civic activity among college students. This book, however, recognizes that young adults' political participation requires looking at their online activities and the ways in which these help mobilize young adults to participate via other forms. Moffett and Rice discover that engaging in one online participatory form usually begets other forms of civic activity, either online or offline.
Contents
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Chapter One: Participation, Technology and Age
Chapter Two: The Issues that Push Students Online
Chapter Three: A Portrait of Offline Participation
Chapter Four: Friending and Following as a Pathway for Political Participation
Chapter Five: Blogging and Tweeting as Attractors to Political Participation
Chapter Six: Going Offline? Online Participation's Mobilizing Effects
Chapter Seven: Causality, Endogeneity and the Complex Web of Participation
Chapter Eight: College Students and the Future of Political Participation
Appendix A: Question Wording and Summary Statistics for Student Election Survey Variables
Appendix B: Question Wording and Summary Statistics for Pew Surveys Variables
References
About the Authors
