Social media and citizen engagement: A meta-analytic review

New Media and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1817-1839

  Skoric, Marko M ^a   Zhu, Qinfeng ^a   Goh, Debbie ^b   Pang, Natalie ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Civic engagement; meta analysis; political participation; social capital; social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84987788893     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444815616221     Document Type: Article

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