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A Critical Review of Online Political Participation Studies

  • Informatization Policy
  • Abbr : 정보화정책
  • 2008, 15(3), pp.3-20
  • Publisher : NIA
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Policy

Yun, Seongyi 1

1경희대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

A main issue in the study of online political participation is to reveal a relation between Internet use pattern and level of political participation. Studies in this area have tried to solve a question whether the Internet creates new political participation. Two contradictory hypothesis have been suggested and tested to reveal an impact of Internet on political participation. The one is mobilization hypothesis which argues the Internet can create new political participation. The other is reinforcement hypothesis which rebuts an impact of the Internet and prospects that the Internet will reinforce the current pattern of political participation. In the future study of online political participation two research problems need to be dealt with. The first is to examine closely a causal relation between the Internet use pattern and the level of political participation. The second one is to define more specifically independent variable, Interent use, and dependent variable, political participation.

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