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.

Revisiting the Measurement of Political Participation for the Digital Age
Benjamin T. Bowyer & Joseph Kahne
October 17, 2016
In this book chapter in Civic Media, Technology, Design, Practice, edited by Eric Gordon and Paul Mihailidis, Bowyer and Kahne examine how one measures political participation in the digital age.

Ben Bowyer & Joseph Kahne, Revisiting the Measurement of Political Participation for the Digital Age in Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice,Eric Gordon and Paul Mihailidis (eds). p. 539. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016. ISBN 9780262034272