Engaging with European Politics Through Twitter and Facebook : Participation Beyond the National?
(2017) In Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology p.53-76- Abstract
- Our chapter illustrates how citizens can enact varying styles and degrees of political engagement through social media. It also investigates if citizens engage with political content in ways unhindered by national boundaries. We distinguish between three primary types of content styles (factual, partisan and moral) and four degrees of engagement (making, commenting, diffusing and listening). Moreover, we argue that differences in Twitter and Facebook’s digital architectures encourage certain styles and degrees of engagement over others, and that the two social platforms sustain different levels of transnational activity. Supporting our argument with European cases, we suggest that Twitter is more suitable to fulfil social media’s... (More)
- Our chapter illustrates how citizens can enact varying styles and degrees of political engagement through social media. It also investigates if citizens engage with political content in ways unhindered by national boundaries. We distinguish between three primary types of content styles (factual, partisan and moral) and four degrees of engagement (making, commenting, diffusing and listening). Moreover, we argue that differences in Twitter and Facebook’s digital architectures encourage certain styles and degrees of engagement over others, and that the two social platforms sustain different levels of transnational activity. Supporting our argument with European cases, we suggest that Twitter is more suitable to fulfil social media’s transnational promise than Facebook, which is better adept at stimulating political participation. (Less)
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- author
- Bossetta, Michael LU ; Dutceac Segesten, Anamaria LU and Trenz, Hans-Jörg
- organization
- publishing date
- 2017
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Social Media, European Politics, Citizens, Participation, Transnational, Democracy
- host publication
- Social Media and European Politics : Rethinking Power and Legitimacy in the Digital Era - Rethinking Power and Legitimacy in the Digital Era
- series title
- Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
- editor
- Barisione, Mauro and Michailidou, Asimina
- pages
- 53 - 76
- publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 978-1-137-59890-5
- 978-1-137-59889-9
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 19e27789-a9e2-4a64-9dd0-4e1d6f2f1cae
- alternative location
- https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/978-1-137-59890-5_3
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- 2017-08-04 14:10:40
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