From the Communication and Information Technologies Section of the American Sociological Association, this volume contains nine studies of digital citizenship, focusing on political engagement, participation networks, and content production. Communications, sociology, and other researchers from North America, Israel, and France address relationships between new media and political efficacy, YouTube and young voters, and political interest and online news; participation in social, scholarly, familial, and support networks; and unequal production in terms of gendered digital production inequalities and the various responses of microbloggers to different kinds of media events and issues.
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Political Efficacy on the Internet: A Media System Dependency Approach. Engaging Young Voters in the Political Process: U.S. Presidential Debates and YouTube. Generating Political Interest with Online News. Do Social Network Sites Increase, Decrease, or Supplement the Maintenance of Social Ties?. How Far can Scholarly Networks Go? Examining the Relationships between Distance, Disciplines, Motivations, and Clusters. Family Social Networks, Reciprocal Socialization and the Adoption of Social Media by Baby Boomer and Silent Generation Women. To Know that You Are Not Alone: The Effect of Internet Usage on LGBT Youth’s Social Capital. The Gendered Digital Production Gap: Inequalities of Affluence. Event versus Issue: Twitter Reflections of Major News, A Case Study. About the Authors. Acknowledgements. Copyright page. Communication and Information Technologies Annual. Introduction: Politics, Participation, and Production. List of Contributors. Studies in Media and Communications. Communication and Information Technologies Annual. EDITORIAL BOARD. About the Editors.