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Young activists, political horizons, and the Internet: adapting the net to one's puroses

Dahlgren, Peter LU and Olsson, Tobias LU (2007) p.68-81
Abstract
Based on a series of interviews with young activists working in both parliamentarian and extra-parliamentarian contexts, this chapter underscores that political purposes steer the use of communication technology. This is an explicit position gainst technological determinism. The two different categories of activists generated two different kinds of civic cultures.
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Young Citizens in the Digital Age: Political Engagement, Young People and New Media
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Loader, Brian
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68 - 81
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Routledge
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978-0-415-40912-4
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English
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The work for this text was in part funded by the research school LearnIT, part of the Swedish Knowledge Foundation, within the project Young Citizens and New Media.
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