Is Online Participation Distinct from Offline Participation? A Latent Class Analysis of Participation Types and Their Stratification

Weaving Between Online & Offline Community Participation

Much effort has been expended in creating online spaces for people to meet, network, share and organize. However, there is relatively little work, in comparison, that has addressed creating awareness of online community activities for those gathered together physically. We describe our efforts to advertise the online community spaces of CHIplace and CSCWplace using large screen, interactive bul...

Digital prefigurative participation: The entwinement of online communication and offline participation in protest events

This article reviews the main findings of a three year empirical study that examined the possible contribution of computer-mediated communication (CMC) to participation in offline social movement protest events. Participation was examined as manifest in mobilisation, identity-building and organisational transformation. Digital prefigurative participation is a tentative construct that attempts t...

Do personality traits predict civic engagement and political participation? Understanding offline and online engagement and participation

Measuring Online News Participation

Social plugins for sharing news through Facebook and Twitter have become increasingly salient features on news sites. Together with the user comment feature, social plugins are the most common way for users to contribute. The wide use of multiple features has opened new areas to comprehensively study users’ participatory practices. However, how do these opportunities to participate vary between...

Analyzing online news participation

The development of social media applications, such as blogs, Facebook and Twitter, has offered new participatory opportunities for everyday media users. This article contributes to research by looking into one specific aspect of the increasingly more participatory media ecology – the news comment feature. Drawing on a quantitative content analysis of 1100 news pieces, as well as spaces for user...