YPP Network Description

The MacArthur Research Network on Youth and Participatory Politics (YPP) formed out of recognition that youth are critical to the future of democracy and that the digital age is introducing technological changes that are impacting how youth develop into informed, engaged, and effective actors.

A Hush Falls Over the Crowd: Diminished Online Civic Expression Among Young Civic Actors
by Emily C. Weinstein, Margaret Rundle, Carrie James
January 6, 2015
An earlier investigation of civically engaged youth’s online civic expression, conducted by the authors, revealed that most youth expressed their off-line civic views in their online lives. But do youth change their online civic expression over time? If so, how and why? A follow-up study of the original participants about two years later provides a longitudinal perspective on online civic expression.

WEINSTEIN, Emily C.; RUNDLE, Margaret; JAMES, Carrie. A Hush Falls Over the Crowd: Diminished Online Civic Expression Among Young Civic Actors. International Journal of Communication, [S.l.], v. 9, p. 23, jan. 2015. ISSN 1932-8036.