Facebook: The enabler of online civic engagement for activists

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Highlights：

• We examined online civic engagement among activists on social issues.

• We used social activist as our unit of study and Facebook as the platform.

• Five modes of Internet Activism were used by activists.

• Facebook appears to be a civic communicative tool to gather, mobilize and organize information.

摘要

•We examined online civic engagement among activists on social issues.•We used social activist as our unit of study and Facebook as the platform.•Five modes of Internet Activism were used by activists.•Facebook appears to be a civic communicative tool to gather, mobilize and organize information.

论文关键词：Social networking sites,Civic engagement,Facebook,Activists,Social media,Social issues

论文评审过程：Available online 14 January 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2013.12.017