Comparing Digital Media and Politics Across Regimes

Abstract

The diffusion of digital media into peoples lives and into political processes is now sufficiently global in scale for good comparative analysis. Emerging research is overcoming the Anglo-American dominance of the first decade-and-a-half of research, which focused heavily on participation rates and electoral campaign effects. It is possible now to compare a wider array of issues and outcomes across a variety of nations. Research is beginning to show both some common trends as well as culturally- and institutionally-specific outcomes in varying settings. This panel is concerned with these similarities and differences, with an emphasis on matters of media systems and citizenship. Papers will address the following issues: What common themes and trends are emerging globally in digital media and politics and why? What are the most significant differences in consequences of digital media use? How are conceptions and practices of citizenship changing around the world because of digital media? Papers in this panel will address these questions across European countries and several African nations.

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