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Eszter Hargittai and Aaron Shaw on The Internet, Young Adults and Political Participation around the 2008 Presidential Elections

February 22nd, 2011

How are online and offline political activities linked? Berkman Fellows Eszter Hargittai and Aaron Shaw collected data soon after the 2008 presidential elections on a diverse group of young adults from Obama’s home city of Chicago. In this presentation Hargittai and Shaw look at the relationship of online and offline political engagement based on this data, and consider the relative importance of numerous factors in who was more or less likely to vote and engage in other types of political action.

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  • 1. Daily Links for February &hellip  |  February 23rd, 2011 at 9:22 am

    […] Eszter Hargittai and Aaron Shaw on The Internet, Young Adults and Political Participation around the… […]

  • 2. Northwestern college  |  September 17th, 2012 at 6:14 am

    The young guns . thats so cool

  • 3. James  |  February 19th, 2013 at 1:37 pm

    Very interesting video, especially when Aaron Shaw is speaking…

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