Volltext herunterladen
(206.9 KB)
Zitationshinweis
Bitte beziehen Sie sich beim Zitieren dieses Dokumentes immer auf folgenden Persistent Identifier (PID):
https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.cp/2.5
Export für Ihre Literaturverwaltung
How Privacy Concerns and Social Media Platform Use Affect Online Political Participation in Germany
[Konferenzbeitrag]
Dieser Sammelwerksbeitrag gehört zu folgendem Sammelwerk:
Proceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2019 "Challenges of Digital Inequality - Digital Education, Digital Work, Digital Life"
Abstract Digital inequalities research has investigated who engages in online political participation, finding gaps along socioeconomic variables such as gender and education. Recent research has also highlighted how online platforms may facilitate political participation. Especially for multi-purpose platfo... mehr
Digital inequalities research has investigated who engages in online political participation, finding gaps along socioeconomic variables such as gender and education. Recent research has also highlighted how online platforms may facilitate political participation. Especially for multi-purpose platforms such as Facebook, where users are supposed to use their real names, issues of adequate self-presentation arise. The diversity of multiple audiences engenders privacy concerns, particularly when controversial political issues are discussed. We add to existing research on digital inequalities by focusing on privacy concerns as a critical construct. Using a survey of German Internet users, we test the effect of privacy concerns on online political participation. Unexpectedly, privacy concerns increase political participation. As privacy concerns are spread evenly throughout the population, they contribute little to the socioeconomic stratification of online political participation. Social media use, however, exerts a strong positive effect on political participation, and differs significantly among socioeconomic groups.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Digitale Medien; soziales Netzwerk; Privatsphäre; Digitale Spaltung; Soziale Medien; Nutzung; sozioökonomische Faktoren; Datenschutz; Ungleichheit; politische Partizipation
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
interaktive, elektronische Medien
Freie Schlagwörter
Weizenbaum-Institut; Weizenbaum Institute
Titel Sammelwerk, Herausgeber- oder Konferenzband
Proceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2019 "Challenges of Digital Inequality - Digital Education, Digital Work, Digital Life"
Konferenz
2. Weizenbaum Conference. Berlin, 2019
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2019
Erscheinungsort
Berlin
Seitenangabe
9 S.
Status
Erstveröffentlichung; begutachtet (peer reviewed)