Social media, civic engagement, and the slacktivism hypothesis: lessons from Mexico’s “El Bronco”
Does social media use have a positive or negative impact on civic engagement? The cynical “slacktivism hypothesis” holds that if citizens use social media for political conversation, those conversations will be fleeting and vapid. Most attempts to answer this question involve public opinion data fro...
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School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University
2017
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