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- Title
La mirada de los jóvenes españoles hacia el activismo online: ventajas, escepticismos y causas apoyadas.
- Authors
MORALES-CORRAL, ENRIQUE; RUIZ-SAN ROMÁN, JOSÉ ANTONIO; CÁCERES-ZAPATERO, MARÍA DOLORES; BRANDLE, GASPAR
- Abstract
New public communication processes among young people have facilitated a new way of understanding collective citizen participation: the so-called e-participation. Not much has been published and researched on this phenomenon, which represents a new perspective for understanding these social processes. This study aims to present the general opinion of this phenomenon among young Spaniards and to provide the possible advantages and disadvantages of this new form of participation, as well as to point out the main causes supported and the most widely known and used platforms. Finally, the aim is to analyse to what extent young people's online activism is a proactive activism or not. It is an exploratory study that opens up new avenues of research into a communicative and participatory trend that, in the current context of global communication, will be strengthened and justified in the years to come. Primary data are used in a mixed methodology, using an original survey (N=463) and qualitative methodology based on discussion groups, seeking a methodological triangulation in youth people (18 to 22 years). The results show how this phenomenon is deeply rooted among young Spaniards, who see it as a complementary form of traditional methods, and not as a substitute. Moreover, they highlight above all the monitoring of socio-political and environmental causes as the main axes in this type of e-participation as opposed to more traditional causes.
- Subjects
SPANIARDS; YOUNG adults; SKEPTICISM; POLITICAL participation; ENVIRONMENTAL monitoring; SOCIAL processes; COMMUNICATION; INTERNATIONAL communication; ACTIVISM
- Publication
EMPIRIA: Revista de Metodología de Ciencias Sociales, 2022, Issue 56, p107
- ISSN
1139-5737
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5944/empiria.56.2022.34440