The Mediating Path to a Stronger Citizenship: Online and Offline Networks, Weak Ties, and Civic Engagement

By Homero Gil de Zúñiga, Sebastián Valenzuela. Communication Research, 2011

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Anger, Fear, and Echo Chambers: The Emotional Basis for Online Behavior (2019, background): “On one hand, studies have shown that the Internet and social media create an information overflow that allows for exposure to information that is more heterogeneous (Gil de Zúñiga & Valenzuela, 2011; Ksiazek, Malthouse, & Webster, 2010; Wojcieszak & Mutz, 2009).”
Social Media Use for News and Individuals' Social Capital, Civic Engagement and Political Participation (2012, background): “In our view, trust may be an antecedent or consequence of social capital, but it is a different concept altogether from social capital (See Gil de Zúñiga & Valenzuela, 2011).”
Expressive Versus Consumptive Blog Use: Implications for Interpersonal Discussion and Political Participation (2013, background): “In particular, expressive uses of blogs should lead to the formation of larger networks, which, in turn, may provide access to novel resources and information that are not available in users’ immediate circle (Gil de Zúñiga & Valenzuela, 2011).”
Motivations for Political Discussion: Antecedents and Consequences on Civic Engagement (2016, background): “Most of current work has previously established a positive association between these two variables (see Eveland et al., 2011, 2013; Gil de Zúñiga & Valenzuela, 2011).”
Facebook and political engagement: A study of online political group membership and offline political engagement (2012, background): “Recent scholarship has assessed the impact of SNS network size and strength (Ellison, Steinfield, & Lampe, 2011; Gil de Zuniga & Valenzuela, 2011; Rojas, 2008; Son & Lin, 2008) on political engagement, but not necessarily smaller groups or cliques that exist within social networking sites.”
Accidental exposure to politics on social media as online participation equalizer in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom (2016, background): “First, Gil de Zúñiga and Valenzuela (2011) found that social media facilitate exposure to diverse political information via weak ties, which can be a first step toward political activity among the uninvolved.”