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  • Exploring the multidimensionality of active citizenship [Elektronski vir] : a preliminary study
    Lep, Žan ...
    Online communication is becoming a prevailing way of interaction, sometimes even substituting face-to-face interaction, and transforming active citizenship into an online engagement. In our ... preliminary study, we aimed to identify various domains of citizenship practices and explore whether they mirror the online/offline divide or converge into a single spectrum. The Slovenian emerging adults reported about the frequency of their engagement in online (e.g., commenting, sharing articles or posting civic content on social media, signing petitions) and offline (e.g., attending protests and meetings that benefit society) activities. The surveyed activities did not converge into a single dimension and they grouped beyond a mere online-offline division. We also noted that civic engagements in both online and offline settings were relatively scarce as almost a quarter of the participants reported they had never engaged in any form of active citizenship behaviour. However, a small percentage reported on frequent engagement across most of the activities considered. Further studies should consider the multidimensionality of civic engagement to provide a better insight into emerging adults% reasons for civic (non)engagement, focusing on the group of highly engaged individuals, and possible effects of their personality and living conditions on their online and offline civic activities.
    Source: Proceedings of the XXV Scientific conference Empirical studies in psychology, March 29th-31st, 2019, Faculty of psychology, University of Belgrade (Str. 133-135)
    Type of material - conference contribution ; adult, serious
    Publish date - 2019
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 70548834

    Link(s):

    http://empirijskaistrazivanja.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/proceedings_EIP_2019.pdf

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