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Latest Pew Study on Civic Engagement
Posted by admin on May 13, 2013 in CRIB Notes, New Tools, Polls, Social Networking | Comments Off
Always a font of intriguing insight, the Pew Internet and American Life Project recently released the results of its yearly survey about civic life and the Internet. According to TechPresident, “buried beneath the survey’s top-line results are some surprising, and still statistically significant, results — things that tell us about the role of the Internet in politics that we did...
Read MoreHow Does Social Media Shape Elections?
Posted by admin on Oct 24, 2012 in CRIB Notes, Facebook, New Online Strategies, Polls, Social Networking, Twitter | Comments Off
The jury is still out on how social media organizing translates into voter turnout. But the outlines of the effects are becoming less blurry. Last August The Atlantic ran a intriguing story entitled “9 Concrete, Specific Things We Actually Know About How Social Media Shape Elections,” which tried to boil down the lessons learned thus far. Here are some highlights, but we encourage...
Read MoreParticipatory Politics: New Media and Youth Political Action
Posted by admin on Jul 1, 2012 in CRIB Notes, Polls, PTP, Social Networking | Comments Off
Prof. Joseph Kahne of Mills College and Cathy J. Cohen of the University of Chicago recently surveyed 3,000 American youth aged 15-25. Their goal was to explore how young people are engaging in participatory politics, specifically acts that are interactive, peer-based, and do not defer to elites or formal institutions. Their findings are relevant to both the long-term political picture in America...
Read MoreSocial Media Reality Check
Posted by brendan on Jun 2, 2011 in CRIB Notes, Facebook, New Tools, Polls, Social Networking, Twitter, Web 2.0, YouTube | Comments Off
Turns out there are not huge swaths of the American public spending their day using social media. Here are some surprising stats posted by our friends over at Frogloop: Twitter: 1.1 % of the U.S. population is on Twitter. (source: April 2011 results from Experian Hitwise.) Facebook: While Facebook says that they have 150M U.S. “active” users, which is 48% of the U.S. population, only 50%...
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