Why We Engage: How Theories of Human Behavior Contribute to Our Understanding of Civic Engagement in a Digital Era
@inproceedings{Gordon2013WhyWE, title={Why We Engage: How Theories of Human Behavior Contribute to Our Understanding of Civic Engagement in a Digital Era}, author={E. Gordon and Jessica Baldwin-Philippi and M. Balestra}, year={2013} }
As digital communication technologies have evolved over the past few decades, the convergence of network structure and accessibility with hardware and software advances has allowed individuals to interact in various, even contradictory, ways. They can explore, hide, reach out, evaluate, connect, negotiate, exchange, and coordinate to a greater degree than ever before. Furthermore, this has translated to an ever-increasing number of users interacting with information in unprecedented ways and… CONTINUE READING
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