Civic activism online: Making young people dormant or more active in real life?

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Highlights:

• Relationship between online and offline civic activism.

• Probability sample of 1023 adolescents from five Balkan countries.

• Activism measure combined eight different domains and six different forms of action, both online and offline.

• Online and offline activism were positively correlated.

• One factor model fitted data better than a two factor model, suggesting a new form of “hybrid activism”.

摘要

•Relationship between online and offline civic activism.•Probability sample of 1023 adolescents from five Balkan countries.•Activism measure combined eight different domains and six different forms of action, both online and offline.•Online and offline activism were positively correlated.•One factor model fitted data better than a two factor model, suggesting a new form of “hybrid activism”.

论文关键词:Online/offline activism,Civic participation,Young people

论文评审过程:Received 23 August 2016, Revised 17 December 2016, Accepted 28 December 2016, Available online 29 December 2016, Version of Record 5 January 2017.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.12.070