Digital Divide?: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide
Digital Divide?: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide
Democracy in the Digital Age: Challenges to Political Life in Cyberspace
Democracy in the Digital Age: Challenges to Political Life in Cyberspace
Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
Netactivism: How Citizens Use the Internet
Netactivism: How Citizens Use the Internet
Politics as Usual
Cybercitizen: How to Use Your Computer to Fight for All the Issues You Care About
Cybercitizen: How to Use Your Computer to Fight for All the Issues You Care About
Issues in New Information Technology
Issues in New Information Technology
Beyond logs and surveys: in-depth measures of people's web use skills
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Who participates and why?: an analysis of citizens on the internet and the mass public
Social Science Computer Review - E-government
Social stratification and the digital divide
Social Science Computer Review
Politics Online: Blogs, Chatrooms, And Discussion Groups In American Democracy
Politics Online: Blogs, Chatrooms, And Discussion Groups In American Democracy
Social Science Computer Review
The Digital Divide, Political Participation, and Place
Social Science Computer Review
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This study analyzes whether greater levels of Internet access closed the participation gap between individuals of lower and higher socioeconomic status (SES) in the early stages of the 2012 presidential campaign. Our analysis of data from the Pew Research Center demonstrates that greater levels of access to the Internet are significantly associated with greater political knowledge and engagement for low SES individuals, but not high SES individuals. We explain our results in the context of incidental learning among the disengaged public during high-profile political events, such as a presidential election.