How Privacy Concerns and Social Media Platform Use Affect Online Political Participation in Germany

Lutz, Christoph; Hoffmann, Christian

How Privacy Concerns and Social Media Platform Use Affect Online Political Participation in Germany

dc.contributor.author	Lutz, Christoph
dc.contributor.author	Hoffmann, Christian
dc.date.accessioned	2023-08-29T12:20:20Z
dc.date.available	2023-08-29T12:20:20Z
dc.date.issued	2019
dc.description.abstract	Digital inequalities research has investigated who engages in online political participation, finding gaps along socioeconomic variables such as gender and education. Recent research has also highlighted how online platforms may facilitate political participation. Especially for multi-purpose platforms such as Facebook, where users are supposed to use their real names, issues of adequate self-presentation arise. The diversity of multiple audiences engenders privacy concerns, particularly when controversial political issues are discussed. We add to existing research on digital inequalities by focusing on privacy concerns as a critical construct. Using a survey of German Internet users, we test the effect of privacy concerns on online political participation. Unexpectedly, privacy concerns increase political participation. As privacy concerns are spread evenly throughout the population, they contribute little to the socioeconomic stratification of online political participation. Social media use, however, exerts a strong positive effect on political participation, and differs significantly among socioeconomic groups.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	This work has been funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF) (grant no.: 16DII111, 16DII112, 16DII113, 16DII114, 16DII115, 16DII116, 16DII117 – „Deutsches Internet-Institut“)
dc.identifier.citation	Lutz, C., & Hoffmann, C. P. (2019). How Privacy Concerns and Social Media Platform Use Affect Online Political Participation in Germany. Proceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2019: Challenges of Digital Inequality, 27–35. https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.CP/2.5
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.cp/2.5
dc.identifier.eissn	2510-7666
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/122
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	Weizenbaum Institute
dc.relation.ispartof	https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.CP/2.32
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Weizenbaum Conference Proceedings
dc.rights	open access
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	News media, journalism, publishing	en
dc.subject	Political science	en
dc.subject	Interactive, electronic Media	en
dc.subject	Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture	en
dc.subject	data protection	en
dc.subject	social media	en
dc.subject	utilization	en
dc.subject	social network	en
dc.subject	socioeconomic factors	en
dc.subject	Federal Republic of Germany	en
dc.subject	privacy	en
dc.subject	political participation	en
dc.subject	digital divide	en
dc.subject	digital media	en
dc.subject	inequality	en
dc.subject	Politikwissenschaft	de
dc.subject	Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen	de
dc.subject	interaktive, elektronische Medien	de
dc.subject	politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur	de
dc.subject	Bundesrepublik Deutschland	de
dc.subject	Digitale Medien	de
dc.subject	soziales Netzwerk	de
dc.subject	Privatsphäre	de
dc.subject	Digitale Spaltung	de
dc.subject	Soziale Medien	de
dc.subject	Nutzung	de
dc.subject	sozioökonomische Faktoren	de
dc.subject	Datenschutz	de
dc.subject	Ungleichheit	de
dc.subject	politische Partizipation	de
dc.subject.ddc	320 Politik
dc.subject.ddc	070 Publizistische Medien, Journalismus & Verlagswesen
dc.title	How Privacy Concerns and Social Media Platform Use Affect Online Political Participation in Germany
dc.type	ConferencePaper
dc.type.status	publishedVersion
dcmi.type	Text
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.booktitle	Proceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2019
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplace	Berlin
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend	35
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart	27