The Internet and Civic Engagement | Pew Internet & American Life Project.
….internet is not changing the fundamental socio-economic character of civic engagement in America.
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Still, there are hints that the new forms of civic engagement anchored in blogs and social networking sites could alter long-standing patterns. Some 19% of internet users have posted material online about political or social issues or used a social networking site for some form of civic or political engagement. And this group of activists is disproportionately young.
