Relationship between online and offline political participation in sub-national campaigns
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https://doi.org/10.7764/cdi.46.1712Keywords:
new media, online political participation, conventional political participation, democracyAbstract
As part of the study of electoral behavior in digital environments, the question arises as to whether electoral campaigns with a high presence in socio-digital networks stimulate online participation by citizens and if this translates into a higher offline participation. In order to know and compare the relationship between online and offline political participation, in its conventional and non-conventional modalities, we applied a post-electoral digital analytical survey to the electoral campaigns of the Mexican states of Nuevo León in 2015 (N = 294) and Puebla in 2016 (N = 301), the first highly focused on digital media as opposed to the second. We found differences in digital involvement, which have an impact on the electoral game. For Nuevo León, we found a greater relationship between the use of social networks and the predisposition to participate online, while in Puebla nonconventional political participation was most related to the predisposition to participate politically online. We explain these findings in relation to the degree of digitization of each campaign and the techno-social context in general.
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Brussino, S., Rabbia, H., & Sorribas, P. (2009). Perfiles Sociocognitivos de la Participación Política de los Jóvenes (Sociocognitive Profiles of Youth Political
Participation). Interamerican Journal of Psychology, 43(2), 279-287. Retrieved from https://ri.conicet.gov.ar/handle/11336/36867
Calenda, D. & Meijer, A. (2009). Young people, the Internet and political participation. Information, Communication & Society, 12(6), 879–898. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691180802158508
Castells, M. (2009). Comunicación y poder (Communication Power). Madrid: Alianza.
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Colomer, J. (2001). Instituciones políticas (Political institutions). Barcelona: Editorial Ariel.
Córdoba Hernández, A. (2017). El slacktivismo como recurso de movilización en redes sociales: el caso de #BringBackOurGirls (Slacktivism as a mobilization resource in social networks: The #BringBackOurGirls case). Comunicación y Sociedad, (30), 239-263. https://doi.org/10.32870/cys.v0i30.6241
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Delfino, G. & Zubieta, E. (2010). Participación política: concepto y modalidades (Political participation: concept and types). Anuario de Investigaciones, 17, 211-220. Retrieved from https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/3691/369139946011.pdf
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Gill, J. & Johnson, P. (2010). Research methods for managers. SAGE.
Harlow, S. (2011). Social media and social movements: Facebook and an online Guatemalan justice movement that moved offline. New Media & Society, 14(2), 225–243. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444811410408
Hirzalla, F., van Zoonen, L., & de Ridder, J. (2010). Internet Use and Political Participation: Reflections on the Mobilization/Normalization Controversy. The Information Society, 27(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/01972243.2011.534360
INEGI. (2018). Encuesta Nacional sobre Disponibilidad y Uso de Tecnologías de la Información en los Hogares (National Survey on Availability and Use of Information Technologies in Households) Retrieved from https://www.inegi.org.mx/programas/dutih/2018/
Keane, J. (2008). Monitory Democracy? Paper prepared for the ESRC Seminar Series, Emergent Publics, The Open University, Milton Keynes, 13th-14th March 2008. Milton Keynes: Open University.
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Navarrete, J. (2008). Sistema político mexicano: desarrollo y reacomodo del poder (Mexican political system: development and readjustment of power). Iberofórum. Revista de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Iberoamericana, 3(6), 131-148. Retrieved from https://ibero.mx/iberoforum/6/default.html
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Norris, P. (2001). Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Quintelier, E. & Vissers, S. (2007). The Effect of Internet Use on Political Participation. Social Science Computer Review, 26(4), 411-427. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894439307312631
Rivas, J. A. (2003). El neoinstitucionalismo y la revalorización de las instituciones (Neoinstitutionalism and the revaluation of institutions). Reflexión política, 5(9).
Retrieved from https://revistas.unab.edu.co/index.php/reflexion/article/view/748
Sabucedo, J. & Arce, C. (1991). Types of Political Participation: a multidimensional analysis. European Journal of Political Research, 20(1), 93-102. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6765.1991.tb00257.x
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Tolbert, C. J. & Mcneal, R. S. (2003). Unraveling the Effects of the Internet on Political Participation? Political Research Quarterly, 56(2), 175-185. https://doi.org/10.1177/106591290305600206
Treré, E. & Cargnelutti, D. (2014). Social movements, social media and web 2.0: The case of the movement for peace with justice and dignity. Communication & Society, 27(1), 183-203. Retrieved from https://www.unav.edu/publicaciones/revistas/index.php/communication-and-society/article/view/36010
Velasquez, A. & LaRose, R. (2015). Youth collective activism through social media: the role of collective efficacy. New Media & Society, 17(6), 899–918. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444813518391
Vissers, S. & Stolle, D. (2014). Spill-Over Effects Between Facebook and On/Offline Political Participation? Evidence from a Two-Wave Panel Study. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 11(3), 259-275. https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2014.888383
Wang, S. I. (2007). Political Use of the Internet, Political Attitudes and
Political Participation. Asian Journal of Communication, 17(4), 381–395.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01292980701636993
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Rodríguez-Estrada, A., Muñiz, C., & Echeverría, M. (2020). Relationship between online and offline political participation in sub-national campaigns. Cuadernos.Info, (46), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.7764/cdi.46.1712
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