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1 The development of media literacy and digital skills in citizenship is one of the main challenges acknowledged within the context of the European Union's 2020 Strategy. Boosting these digital skills and media literacy as necessary requirements in the ...

With the arrival of television, voters began to care not only about political candidates' stances on issues, but also about character, as demonstrated by Kennedy's and Nixon's 1960 debate. In the current qualitative study, we investigate how the ...

An increasing number of people are turning to social media to find political information and discuss politics, including the technologically savvy Millennial generation. Our study looks at how young voters use social media to evaluate political ...

User comments posted on the Facebook walls of the two major 2010 California gubernatorial candidates were analyzed for their trends over a 22-month time period leading up to the election. Changes in content reflected an early emphasis on community ...

This paper argues that access to public e-services encourages citizen engagement in the e-government policy making processes and the further empowerment of citizens through participation in the democratic processes of developing/transitional countries ...

Both candidates and voters have increased their use of the Internet for political campaigns. Candidates have adopted many internet tools, including social networking websites, for the purposes of communicating with constituents and voters, collecting ...

This paper examines the linkage patterns of people who posted links on the Facebook "walls" of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain over two years prior to the 2008 U.S. Presidential election. Linkage patterns indicate the destinations to which ...