Mobilizers Mobilized: Information, Expression, Mobilization and Participation in the Digital Age

摘要

This study assesses differences in use of Information Communication Technologies (ICT)nand relates them to patterns of expressive political participation, mobilization efforts, andntraditional civic participation. Relying on data collected in August 2008 from a randomnsample of respondents designed to represent Colombia’s adult urban population, thisnpaper provides evidence that informational uses of ICTs (Internet and mobile phones) arensignificantly related to expressive participation in the online domain, which in turn results inna host of traditional or offline civic and political participatory behaviors indirectly throughnmobilization efforts. That these relationships occur within the context of a society in crisisnsuggests that new communication technologies offer an additional pathway to democraticnpolitical engagement in such societies.