Does Internet Use Affect Engagement? A Meta-Analysis of Research

By Shelley Boulianne. 2009

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Internet Use and Democratic Demands: A Multinational, Multilevel Model of Internet Use and Citizen Attitudes About Democracy (2012, background): “For example, a meta-analysis by Boulianne (2009) examined the influence of Internet use on political attitudes and behavior across 38 studies and 166 effects conducted in the United States between 1995 and 2005.”
Good News for the Future? Young People, Internet Use, and Political Participation (2011, background): “Many empirical studies from recent years, however, have not found evidence for either strong positive or negative effects of Internet use on (offline forms of) political engagement (see Boulianne, 2009).”
The Impact of Terrorism on Governance in African Countries (2017, background): “Information technologies including the internet and mobile phones have been documented to increase government quality because they improve space for accountability and transparency (Boulianne, 2009; Snow, 2009; Diamond, 2010; Grossman et al ., 2014).”
Media Effects: Theory and Research. (2016, background): “Boulianne (2009) Internet use Online news use Political engagement Political engagement 0.”
Motivations for Political Discussion: Antecedents and Consequences on Civic Engagement (2016, background): “Using social media and other digital services for interactive communication can also foster participatory behaviors (Boulianne, 2009; Gil de Zúñiga, 2015a; Shah, Cho, Eveland, & Kwak, 2005).”
A Meta-Analysis of News Media’s Public Agenda-Setting Effects, 1972-2015 (2018, background): “Boulianne (2009, 2015) treated multiple effect sizes within a study as independent.”
The Effects of Digital Media on Political Knowledge and Participation in Election Campaigns (2014, background): “As demonstrated in a recent meta analysis of studies focusing on Internet effects on civic and political engagement, academic research by and large supports the proposition that online media have a positive impact on engagement, as the number of studies that found positive effects significantly outn”
Facebook, Twitter, and Youth Engagement: A Quasi-experimental Study of Social Media Use and Protest Behavior Using Propensity Score Matching (2014, background): “Although Boulianne’s (2009) meta-analysis questions the strength of the influence of the Internet on individuals’ political participation in the United States (but see Anduiza, Cantijoch, & Gallego, 2009), data collected among Chilean youth—the population of interest in the current study—reveals oth”
Social media and citizen engagement: A meta-analytic review (2016, background): “This is consistent with the findings from an earlier meta-analysis by Boulianne (2009) who argued that easy and expanded access to diverse political information might reinvigorate citizen participation by improving political knowledge and stimulating political discussion.”
Stumbling upon news on the Internet: Effects of incidental news exposure and relative entertainment use on political engagement (2013, background): “Existing studies have produced inconsistent findings about whether the Internet has a positive or negative effect on political participation, in part, due to different operationalization of Internet use (Boulianne, 2009).”
Mobile phones, institutional quality and entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa (2017, background): “While the position accords with a bulk of the empirical literature on the relationship between ICT and governance (Suarez, 2006; Boulianne, 2009; Diamond, 2010; Grossman et al., 2014), it is also important to note that there is a contending strand which maintains that collective violent action can b”
Accidental exposure to politics on social media as online participation equalizer in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom (2016, background): “For one, as access to the Internet increased in the US population, studies found stronger correlations between Internet use and participation over time (Boulianne, 2009).”
Fact-Checking: A Meta-Analysis of What Works and for Whom (2019, background): “, 2018; Walter & Murphy, 2018), as well as political communication more broadly (e.g., Benoit, Hansen, & Verser, 2003; Boulianne, 2009; Paul, Salwen, & Dupagne, 2000) that aggregated and averaged outcomes across different topics.”