Yannis Theocharis

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative content analysis of tweets sent during the heydays of each of the three protest campaigns is conducted, showing that, although Twitter was used significantly for political discussion and to communicate protest information, calls for participation were not predominant.

TL;DR: The authors present a simple framework for reconciling these contradictory developments based on two propositions: 1) that social media give voice to those previously excluded from political discussion by traditional media, and 2) that although social media democratize access to information, the platforms themselves are neither inherently democratic nor nondemocratic, but represent a tool political actors can use for a variety of goals, including, paradoxically, illiberal goals.

TL;DR: In this paper, a survey with a representative sample of the German population demonstrates that old and new forms are systematically integrated into a multi-dimensional taxonomy covering voting, digital networked participation, institutionalized participation, protest, civic participation, and consumerist participation.

TL;DR: In terms of digital media use and youth, the advice has been to monitor and limit access to minimize the negative impacts as discussed by the authors, however, this advice woud not work well in the case of social media.

TL;DR: The conceptualization and measurement of political participation has been an issue vibrantly debated for more than 50 years as mentioned in this paper, and the arrival of digital media came to add important parameters to the deb...