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Young activists, political horizons, and the Internet: adapting the net to one's puroses

Author

Editor

  • Brian Loader

Summary, in English

Based on a series of interviews with young activists working in both parliamentarian and extra-parliamentarian contexts, this chapter underscores that political purposes steer the use of communication technology. This is an explicit position gainst technological determinism. The two different categories of activists generated two different kinds of civic cultures.

Publishing year

2007

Language

English

Pages

68-81

Publication/Series

Young Citizens in the Digital Age: Political Engagement, Young People and New Media

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Routledge

Topic

  • Media and Communications

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-0-415-40912-4