Digital Divide?: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide
Digital Divide?: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide
What's the Matter with the Internet?
What's the Matter with the Internet?
The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
Web of Politics: The Internet's Impact on the American Political System
Web of Politics: The Internet's Impact on the American Political System
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
Cyberpolitics: Citizen Activism in the Age of the Internet
Cyberpolitics: Citizen Activism in the Age of the Internet
Politics as Usual
Technology and Social Inclusion: Rethinking the Digital Divide
Technology and Social Inclusion: Rethinking the Digital Divide
Has the Internet become indispensable?
Communications of the ACM - Has the Internet become indispensable?
Fix my street or else: using the internet to voice local public service concerns
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Theory and practice of electronic governance
e-Participation experiences and local government in Catalonia: an explanatory analysis
ePart'10 Proceedings of the 2nd IFIP WG 8.5 international conference on Electronic participation
Communications of the ACM
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance
New voices or old voices in political talk?
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance
Whose e-democracy?: the democratic divide in American electoral campaigns
Information Polity - Special issue on Freedom of Information
The impact of information and communication technologies on the costs of democracy
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
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A healthy civil society has long been held as vital to a healthy democracy and there is interest in whether the Internet affects this linkage. This paper explores the relationships between offline and online modes of associational life and also analyzes offline and online interactions with local governments in the US context. Based on our empirical analyses of 1,203 respondents, we show that online participation is not simply an extension of offline participation, but can be distinguished in important ways. First, we find that political and community-oriented engagements cluster separately from more private-regarding engagements. Second, participants of online democratic engagement are not characterized by the SES markers associated with offline democratic engagement who are older, have higher incomes, and have lived in the community longer. Finally, we find significant links between democratic engagement with the political system and involvement with political associations (but not social and community-oriented associations).