Michael A. Xenos

TL;DR: The authors investigated whether young people's experience of national economic austerity and increasing material inequality shapes the everyday political issues they identify with, and how they understand inequality and the distribution of resources in their societies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the extent to which U.S. campaigns adapt traditional campaign strategies to the Web and/or develop innovative strategies that employ some of the particular affordances of Web technologies and on how well campaign characteristics, such as incumbency and major party affiliation, and race characteristics, explain the level of a campaign's adaptation of or innovation with Web technologies.

TL;DR: In this paper, a series of logistic and OLS regression analyses explore data from a laboratory experiment on information-seeking behavior, knowledge, and willingness to engage with the issue of nanotechnology in the future.

TL;DR: The authors found that those who perceive themselves as highly knowledgeable about fracking are the most likely to be polarized by political ideology in their perceptions of the level of risk and benefit associated with fracking and, in turn, their level of support for the technology.