Annotation
The
seminary paper on the topic Does the user generated content influence the
democratic engagement among young people discusses the contemporary research
about how new media influence the politic participation in the society. In the
beginning of the paper, the issue is set into a broader context of new media
studies when different academic views on the potential of new media to boost
political engagement are reflected. The next chapter introduces a Swedish study Information, expression, participation:
How involvement in user-generated content relates to democratic engagement
among young people by Johan Östman that tried to determine how involvement
in user generated content determines the ways young people engage in democratic
mechanisms. According to his findings, involvement in user generated content
helps improve political engagement among young people through special audience
experience by incorporating expressivity, performance and collaboration. On the
other hand, the last part of this paper puts the implications of his findings
into question because a Czech survey of voters’ turn-up shows that the most
important determinant of active participation is neither age nor the
involvement in internet based activities but the plain interest in political
issues.
Zdrojový článek
OSTMAN, J. Information, expression, participation: How
involvement in user- generated content relates to democratic engagement among
young people. New Media & Society.
2012-08-21, vol. 14, issue 6, s. 1004-1021. DOI: 10.1177/1461444812438212.
Dostupné z: http://nms.sagepub.com/cgi/doi/10.1177/1461444812438212
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