@inbook{03b67ef6af3241eda2a9d62628b65cc9,
title = "Engaging with European Politics through Twitter and Facebook: Participation beyond the National? ",
abstract = "This chapter illustrates how citizens can enact varying styles and degrees of political engagement through social media. It also investigates if citizens engage with political content in ways unhindered by national boundaries. We distinguish between three primary types of content styles (factual, partisan, and moral) and four degrees of engagement (making, commenting, diffusing, and listening). Moreover, we argue that differences in Twitter and Facebook{\textquoteright}s “digital architectures” encourage certain styles and degrees of engagement over others, and that the two social platforms sustain different levels of transnational activity. Supporting our argument with European cases, we suggest that Twitter is more suitable to fulfill social media{\textquoteright}s transnational promise than Facebook, which is better adept at stimulating political participation. ",
keywords = "Faculty of Social Sciences, Social Media, European politics, Facebook, Twitter, political participation, transnationalization",
author = "Michael Bossetta and {Dutceac Segesten}, Anamaria and Hans-J{\"o}rg Trenz",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.1057/978-1-137-59890-5",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781137598899",
series = "Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "53--75",
editor = "Mauro Barisione and {Michailidou }, Asimina",
booktitle = "Social media and European Politics",
address = "United Kingdom",
}