This article discusses the impact of social media and new technologies of participation on citizen participation in lawmaking. This article focuses on electronic petitioning and examines how Uber, a controversial ride-sharing digital platform, has employed a traditional instrument of civic...

Millionen von Menschen weltweit beteiligen sich in verschiedenen Online-Kontexten und kreieren Inhalte auf Blogs, Wikis, persönlichen Seiten, in Online Communities oder auf sozialen Medien, wie Facebook und Twitter. Die Sozialwissenschaften untersuchen vermehrt die Formen, Treiber und Folgen...

Does Facebook make people lonely and unhappy? Empirical studies have produced conflicting results about the effect of social networking sites (SNS) use on individual welfare. We use a representative sample of the Italian population to investigate how actual and virtual networks of social...