Democracy in an IT-framed society: introduction
Communications of the ACM
Digital Divide?: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide
Digital Divide?: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide
Growing up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation
Growing up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation
Politics as Usual
The Digital Divide: Facing a Crisis or Creating a Myth?
The Digital Divide: Facing a Crisis or Creating a Myth?
The impact of Internet use on the other side of the digital divide
Communications of the ACM - Has the Internet become indispensable?
Technology and Social Inclusion: Rethinking the Digital Divide
Technology and Social Inclusion: Rethinking the Digital Divide
The Information Revolution and Developing Countries (Information Revolution & Global Politics)
The Information Revolution and Developing Countries (Information Revolution & Global Politics)
Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCHI conference on Creativity & cognition
Digital Citizenship: The Internet, Society, and Participation
Digital Citizenship: The Internet, Society, and Participation
The Role of Income Inequality in a Multivariate Cross-National Analysis of the Digital Divide
Social Science Computer Review
The impact of the digital divide on e-government use
Communications of the ACM - A Direct Path to Dependable Software
Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World HC
Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World HC
The Myth of Digital Democracy
Participative Web And User-Created Content: Web 2.0 Wikis and Social Networking
Participative Web And User-Created Content: Web 2.0 Wikis and Social Networking
The Role of Social Networking Services in eParticipation
ePart '09 Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Electronic Participation
Social Science Computer Review
Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business
Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business
Supply of and demand for e-democracy: A study of the Swedish case
Information Polity
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This study examines whether a democratic divide (a gap in political participation via the Internet) exists among demographic segments during the campaign season of the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Five different types of online political activity are compared in terms of the divide pattern: conversation, mobilization, information consumption, information production, and activity on social networking sites. Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics such as age, gender, race, education and income are determinants for the degree of online political activism. Although political users of social networking sites mostly fall into the Y generation (DotNets), a high proportion of senior citizens who already use the Internet frequently communicate about politics by email and get political information through the Internet. The occurrence of more active online political participation by the better educated and more affluent is magnified for White males in comparison to non-Whites or females.