Political participation has seen substantial changes in terms of both its structure and its scope. One of the most prominent venues of citizen engagement today is participation that relies on online means. Several approaches to online participation have attempted to understand its nature as a continuation of offline acts into the online realm, or as an independent form. In this article, we determine the place of online participation in the repertoire of political participation with greater precision. We ask whether, in particular, digitally networked participation (DNP) is an expansion of lifestyle politics, or whether there are empirical grounds to classify it as a new, independent mode of participation. We study a large variety of participatory activities using data from an online survey conducted among 2,114 politically active individuals in Belgium in 2017. We use an innovative measurement approach that combines closed‐ with open‐ended questions, which allows us to explore new forms of participation that have previously not been considered or measured. Our results show that DNP is a core part of today's activists' repertoire and a distinct mode of political participation that is clearly attractive to younger, critical citizens.

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数字化网络参与和生活方式政治作为政治参与的新模式

政治参与的结构和范围都发生了重大变化。当今最重要的公民参与场所之一是依赖在线手段的参与。在线参与的几种方法已尝试理解其本质，即脱机行为在在线领域中的延续或作为一种独立形式。在本文中，我们以更高的精度确定了在线参与在政治参与范围中的位置。我们询问特别是数字化网络参与（DNP）是生活方式政治的一种扩展，还是有经验依据将其归类为一种新的，独立的参与模式。我们使用来自2的在线调查中的数据来研究各种各样的参与性活动。2017年，比利时有114名政治活跃人士。我们使用创新的衡量方法，将封闭式和开放式问题结合在一起，这使我们能够探索以前从未考虑过或无法衡量的新型参与方式。我们的结果表明，DNP是当今维权人士剧目的核心组成部分，并且是独特的政治参与模式，显然对年轻，重要的公民具有吸引力。