Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet
Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet
Internet and American Democracy
Internet and American Democracy
Digital Divide?: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide
Digital Divide?: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
Technology and Social Inclusion: Rethinking the Digital Divide
Technology and Social Inclusion: Rethinking the Digital Divide
Who participates and why?: an analysis of citizens on the internet and the mass public
Social Science Computer Review - E-government
Political Participation of Teenagers in the Information Era
Social Science Computer Review
Information and communication technology and women empowerment in Iran
Telematics and Informatics
Beyond the Online/Offline Divide: How Youth's Online and Offline Civic Activities Converge
Social Science Computer Review
Social Science Computer Review
Number Matters: The Multimodality of Internet Use as an Indicator of the Digital Inequalities
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Online Political Engagement, Facebook, and Personality Traits
Social Science Computer Review
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Conflicting claims have been put forward regarding the effects of Internet use on real-life political participation. Some argue that Internet use, and the accompanying political resources, stimulates political participation; others fear that intensive Internet use is associated with a withdrawal from public life. This article's authors test both claims on a representative sample of 6,330 16-year-olds in Belgium. They investigate young people's behavior, assuming that young people are the most avid information and communication technologies users and the most susceptible to the influence of various socialization experiences. The authors introduce a distinction between time spent on the Internet (time-replacement hypothesis) and various activities performed online. Results show time on the Internet does not have an effect on the propensity to participate in public life. Although some online activities are clearly and significantly associated with offline political participation, it remains to be investigated whether this relation is a form of causality.