Abstract

ORTIZ-AYALA, Alejandra  and  OROZCO, Margarita María. Involvement, political participation and types of media consumption in Colombia. Signo pensam. [online]. 2015, vol.34, n.66, pp.80-94. ISSN 0120-4823.  https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.syp34'66.1ppt.

In the last ten years the relationship between politics and citizens has been affected by the surge of social media and the Internet, potentially democracy empowerers, as they bring information and more accessible spaces for political participation. This study is intended to analyze two dimensions of the use of the Internet and social networks: entertainment and active political Internet uses (APIU), with the purpose of examining their impact on political involvement and participation on Colombians. Results suggest that political active uses of the Internet do not have significant effects on political involvement or on political voting participation. Nonetheless, they significantly and positively affect the political protest variable. Besides, data show that news consumption by means of newspapers positively affects political involvement of citizens, while the consumption of entertainment in traditional media, as well as in the Internet and social media, affects negatively the participation in social protests.

Keywords : Latin America; Colombia; social networks; internet; political involvement; political participation.

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