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First-time voters and electoral campaigns: Explaining online engagement in Romania

First Monday, 2023-09, Vol.28 (9), p.1 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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First-time voters and electoral campaigns: Explaining online engagement in Romania
Author: Gherghina, Sergiu ; Mitru, Bettina
Subjects: Information ; Political behavior ; Political campaigns ; Politics ; Social networks ; Voters
Is Part Of: First Monday, 2023-09, Vol.28 (9), p.1
Description: This article aims to explain why young people engage politically with their preferred candidates during electoral campaigns. It uses an original survey conducted on first-time voters — as a group of heavy Internet users — in the 2019 Romanian presidential elections to identify determinants of such a behavior. Our statistical analysis argues and tests the explanatory power of three categories of determinants: importance of politics, information, and general political participation. We find that online engagement with a preferred candidate is an extension of young people’s regular activities on social media. It is driven by a genuine interest in what happens in politics and is the result of high levels of information. Online engagement of young people is not random, cannot be associated with boredom, and goes beyond clicktivism.
Publisher: Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago Library
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1396-0466
EISSN: 1396-0466
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v28i9.12741
Source: Digital Library of the Commons

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