New Media & Society Special Section: Political Engagement October 2016; Vol. 18, No. 9

New Media & Society
Special Section: Political Engagement
October 2016; Vol. 18, No. 9
Editorial
Civic political engagement and social change in the new digital age
Karolina Koc-Michalska, Darren G Lilleker, and Thierry Vedel

Articles
Social media and citizen engagement: A meta-analytic review
Marko M Skoric, Qinfeng Zhu, Debbie Goh, and Natalie Pang

Online news, civic awareness, and engagement in civic and political life
Shelley Boulianne

Accidental exposure to politics on social media as online participation equalizer in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom
Augusto Valeriani and Cristian Vaccari

Political persuasion on social media: Tracing direct and indirect effects of news use and social interaction
Trevor Diehl, Brian E Weeks, and Homero Gil de Zúñiga

‘It’s not about me, it’s about my community’: A mixed-method study of civic websites and community efficacy
Marta Cantijoch, Silvia Galandini, and Rachel Gibson

Agenda setting in the twenty-first century
GR Boynton and Glenn W Richardson, Jr

E-campaigning on Twitter: The effectiveness of distributive promises and negative campaign in the 2013 Italian election
Andrea Ceron and Giovanna d’Adda

Me versus them: Third-person effects among Facebook users
Mina Tsay-Vogel

Social media and protests: An examination of Twitter images of the 2011 Egyptian revolution
Tamara Kharroub and Ozen Bas

Good citizenship as a frame contest: Kony2012, memes, and critiques of the networked citizen
Neta Kligler-Vilenchik and Kjerstin Thorson

The impact of copyright permissions culture on the US visual arts community: The consequences of fear of fair use
Patricia Aufderheide, Tijana Milosevic, and Bryan Bello

News via Voldemort: Parody accounts in topical discussions on Twitter
Tim Highfield

Digital diplomacy as transmedia engagement: Aligning theories of participatory culture with international advocacy campaigns
James Pamment

Defining and measuring youth digital citizenship
Lisa M Jones and Kimberly J Mitchell

‘Can you hear me?’ Mobile–radio interactions and governance in Africa
Iginio Gagliardone

Political information repertoires and political participation
Gadi Wolfsfeld, Moran Yarchi, and Tal Samuel-Azran

Reclaiming the music: The power of local and physical music distribution in the age of global online services
Yngvar Kjus

Review Essay
Digital publics: Re-defining ‘the civic’ and re-locating ‘the political’
Paul Candon

Book Reviews
Mind change: How digital technologies are leaving their mark on our brains
Todd Davies

Digital sociology
Pedro Jacobetty