Sara Vissers

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate young people's behavior, assuming that young people are the most avid information and communication technologies users and the most susceptible to the influence of various socialization experiences, and show that time spent on the Internet does not have an effect on the propensity to participate in public life.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed survey data on various forms of offline and online political engagement among undergraduate students from 2011 and found that young people were known to be the most fervent Internet users.

TL;DR: The authors examined the medium-specific and spill-over effects from various aspects of using social networking sites (SNS) to other forms of online and offline political participation and found a reciprocal relationship between the posting of Facebook messages and offline protest, confirming that Facebook political activity is both mobilizing and reinforcing.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the lack of strong conclusions might be due to the failure to distinguish different behavioral outcomes of mobilization, and more specifically, a distinction between online and off-line forms of participation is missing.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on a mobilization experiment using both traditional (face-to-face) and modern (Web site) incentives for mobilization among undergraduate students in Belgium and Canada and include a test of medium-term mobilization effects.