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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Understanding the Internet -- 2 Internet exposure of Chinese university students -- 3 Internet exposure and political beliefs -- 4 Internet exposure and political resistance -- 5 Internet exposure and nationalism -- 6 Conclusions and new challenges -- Appendix -- Index

Se presentan algunos de los determinantes fundamentales de la participación ciudadana juvenil, los cuales podrían ser clasificados en intrínsecos y extrínsecos y que responden a dimensiones culturales, psicológicas, políticas y socioeconómicas. Internet se vuelve un recurso valioso para lograr vínculos con quienes viven a partir de los mismos códigos culturales y competencias comunicativas, conformando redes que integran comunidades. Aspecto clave, este, si se considera que el reconocimiento de problemas y necesidades comunes constituye un elemento fundamental para el inicio de actividades orientadas a la coordinación de esfuerzos para cumplir objetivos que parecen amalgamarse con expectativas y valores también compartidos. Será interesante indagar acerca de cómo una mayor implicación en redes sociales generada por internet puede realmente incidir en mayor o menor implicación en la participación política por parte de las nuevas generaciones. Las tecnologías digitales representan un punto de partida, y no de llegada, hacia facilitar la participación de los ciudadanos en la toma de decisiones públicas. ; Important variables, such as cultural, psychological, political and socio-economical, determinant in youth citizenship involvement are presented, according to extrinsic and intrinsic origin, and the impact of internet on them is analyzed. Internet becomes a valuable resource to networking with individuals who share similar codes and competences, basic issue, since sharing problem perception and needs is basic to initiate organizational efforts to fulfill expectations. It thus becomes interesting to explore whether a larger involvement with internet may really generate a larger political involvement in younger generations. The digital technologies are a starting point, rather than the end of the road, to citizen involvement in public affairs. ; Es presenten alguns dels determinants fonamentals de la participació ciutadana juvenil, els quals podrien ser classificats en intrínsecs i extrínsecs i que responen a dimensions culturals, psicològiques, polítiques i socioeconòmiques. Internet es torna un recurs valuós per aconseguir vincles amb els qui viuen a partir dels mateixos codis culturals i competències comunicatives, conformant xarxes que integren comunitats. Aspecte clau, aquest, si es considera que el reconeixement de problemes i necessitats comunes constitueix un element fonamental per a l'inici d'activitats orientades a la coordinació d'esforços per complir objectius que semblen amalgamar-se amb expectatives i valors també compartits. Serà interessant indagar sobre com una major implicació en xarxes socials generada per Internet pot realment incidir en major o menor implicació en la participació política per part de les noves generacions. Les tecnologies digitals representen un punt de partida, i no d'arribada, cap al fet de facilitar la participació dels ciutadans en la presa de decisions públiques.

​Igniting the Internet is one of the first books to examine in depth the development and consequences of Internet-born politics in the twenty-first century. It takes up the new wave of South Korean youth activism that originated online in 2002, when the country's dynamic cyberspace transformed a vehicular accident involving two U.S. servicemen into a national furor that compelled many Koreans to reexamine the fifty-year relationship between the two countries. Responding to the accident, which ended in the deaths of two high school students, technologically savvy youth went online to organize demonstrations that grew into nightly rallies across the nation. Internet-born, youth-driven mass protest has since become a familiar and effective repertoire for activism in South Korea, even as the rest of the world has struggled to find its feet with this emerging model of political involvement.Igniting the Internet focuses on the cultural dynamics that have allowed the Internet to bring issues rapidly to public attention and exert influence on both domestic and international politics. The author combines a robust analysis of online communities with nuanced interview data to theorize a "cultural ignition process"--the mechanisms and implications for popular politics in volatile Internet-driven activism--in South Korea and beyond. She offers a unique perspective on how local actors experience and remember the cultural dynamics of Internet-born activism and how these experiences shape the political identities of a generation who has essentially come of age in cyberspace, the so-called digital natives or millennials.South Korea's debates on the nature of youth-driven Internet protest reverberated around the world following the events in Tahrir Square in 2010 and Zuccotti Park in 2011. Igniting the Internetoffers numerous points of comparison with countries following a path of technological development and urban youth formation similar to that of South Korea with a thorough consideration of general structural changes and locally specific triggers for Internet activism. Readers interested in social movement theory and new media in social context as well as students and scholars of Korean studies will find the work both far-reaching and insightful. --

"Andy Bennett and Brady Robards bring together thirteen timely essays from across the globe that consider a range of 'mediated youth cultures', covering topics such as how stories about growing up are mediated on Facebook, the phenomenon of dance imitations on YouTube, the circulation of zines online, the resurgence of roller derby on the social web, drinking cultures, Israeli blogs, Korean pop music, and more. The collection, drawing on research conducted with young people into their social and cultural lives, provides readers with a deep, fine-grained understanding of how youth culture circulates online. It is clear that, although the internet affords young people with new opportunities and risks, many of the youth cultures covered in this collection are not 'new' in themselves, but are instead mediated - played out - in new, and imaginative forms."--

PurposeThe relationship between knowledge and power appears to be assumptive in marketing; the study reported here attempts to justify this assumption.Design/methodology/approachThe study is set in a family decision context. The research divides families according to the domain‐specific internet use of sons, and then the analysts inspect family decision‐power patterns for a range of products. Analysis is by factor analysis in the first instance, followed by ANOVA to test the research hypotheses.FindingsThe relationship between the internet‐enabled, domain‐specific knowledge acquisition of young consumers and their consequent increase in power in group decisions is supported.Research limitations/implicationsAcademics need to adjust their existing beliefs about family decisions, given the impact technology is having on knowledge patterns.Practical implicationsMarketers not only must be cognizant of the increasing power of youth in family purchase decisions as technology changes knowledge structures, but also must realize the potential of technological promotion channels for reaching this newly empowered target audience.Originality/valueThe concept that knowledge leads to power is not original, but the application of the idea to consider the structure of group decisions in a family context is. Most observers accept that the youth market is large and growing in its own right. It also seems possible, though, that many young consumers will have even more importance than previously considered because of their increasing influence within their family group.

Turkey ranks 7th in Europe and 13th in the world in Internet use. As a non-hierarchical realm, internet, instead of enabling individuals a limitless space for movement, has become an area where surveillance and supervision have become obvious and freedoms are constrained. The first section of this study examines the Internet experience in Turkey where users are aware that they are being monitored and have feelings of dismay while browsing the Internet. It will address the reason of delay of the arrival of communication technologies to Turkey, starting from the printing houses operated under the governance of government 200 years after the West, the relation to this situation of surveillance and with Turkey's tradition of democratization and politics. The second section deals with the emergence and legitimatization of Internet in Turkey as an underdeveloped country. Arguing that the Internet and new technologies encompass utopian and dystopian aspects in one pot, the last section will point towards a survey on attitudes of university student users. Thus, Turkish people's opinions on surveillance and prohibition will be manifested. The the study will strive to provide insight to the dilemma between Internet's liberalization, democratization and surveillance potentials within the context of Turkish society. DOI:10.5901/jesr.2013.v3n7p374

The study is on youth engagement in Internet begging and national development. It was designed to examine how internet begging by youths influences the development of our nation Nigeria. The rationale for the study stemmed out of the high rate of youths engagement in internet begging and the fear of the detrimental effect it might have in the development of the nation. The study adopted the survey design. The study was guided by three research questions. Sample was 150 respondents drawn from Jos metropolis. Data were collected by means of a researcher made questionnaire titled Internet Begging and National Development Questionnaire (INBENDEQ) with reliability index of 0.78. Personal contact method was adopted in data collection. Simple percentage was used for data analysis with 50% as bench mark for all the research questions. Results revealed that poverty, displacement from homes and loss of jobs are the main reasons for internet begging by youths. Also it was gathered that internet begging makes youths lazy, and less responsible. The study found that internet begging affects national development due to propensity of leading to poverty and indebtedness among others. The author recommended that the government should empower youths to reduce poverty. Also situations that cause displacement and unemployment like crises, wars should be addressed so that people can go about their businesses well and earn their living.

Internet usage in China has recently grown exponentially, rising from 59 million users in 2002 to 710 million by mid-2016. One in every two Chinese has currently been exposed to the Internet. This upsurge has made political communication among citizens and between the government and citizens less costly and almost instantaneous in China. Despite these advances, scholars are only beginning to understand and systematically explain the ways in which increased Internet exposure may affect behavior and values of Chinese netizens. Can the Internet help liberalize Chinese society due to its innate pluralism? Has the Internet become an efficient tool assisting the ruling elite to remain in power given the tendency of Internet service providers and users to be easily manipulated by the Chinese state? This book addresses these questions by focusing on the most digitally embedded segment of Chinese population - university students. Using survey evidence from more than 1200 observations, data confirm that Internet exposure to information generated by fellow netizens promotes democratic orientation, enhances political resistance to indoctrination, and boosts popular nationalism. However, exposure to government-managed websites encourages regime support and, at a less significance level, decreases democratic orientation, and elevates official patriotism. People who perceive the Internet as a tool enhancing the vertical communication between the Chinese government and netizens tend to become patriotic and supportive of the regime. Building upon quantitative evidence, this book draws a nuanced picture of Internet exposure and its political implications.