Purpose

The primary goal of this article is to review the existing studies and offer clarity regarding the association between social media adoption and youth civic engagement.

Design/methodology/approach

This research systematically summarizes and reviews 42 original articles published from 2010 to 2019 with an objective of offering insightful results. Additionally, a theoretical framework was carefully designed by adopting various conceptions from citizen participation and computer-mediated communication research literature.

Findings

The findings demonstrate that social media usage could generally have a positive correlation with civic participation among younger generations. Moreover, the result also highlights that certain functional features of social media uses including using social media for news consumption and expression could significantly predict civic engagement.

Originality/value

Despite the ever-growing importance of social media technologies, investigations on their differential, nonlinear and even inconsistent effects on civic engagement remain theoretically ambiguous and empirically unsubstantiated. The study represents one of the first scholarly attempts to review, summarize and analyze the extant research evidence from the past ten years.

中文翻译：

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社交网站能否促进公民参与？评估社交媒体与青少年公民活动之间的动态关系

目的

本文的主要目的是回顾现有研究，并阐明社交媒体采用与青年公民参与之间的关系。

设计/方法/方法

本研究系统总结和回顾了 2010 年至 2019 年发表的 42 篇原创文章，旨在提供有见地的结果。此外，通过采用公民参与和计算机媒介传播研究文献中的各种概念，精心设计了一个理论框架。

发现

研究结果表明，社交媒体的使用通常与年轻一代的公民参与呈正相关。此外，结果还强调社交媒体使用的某些功能特征，包括使用社交媒体进行新闻消费和表达，可以显着预测公民参与。

原创性/价值

尽管社交媒体技术越来越重要，但对其对公民参与的差异、非线性甚至不一致影响的调查在理论上仍然模棱两可，在经验上也没有得到证实。该研究是回顾、总结和分析过去十年现有研究证据的首批学术尝试之一。