Pathways to environmental activism in four countries: social media, environmental concern, and political efficacy

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dc.contributor.authorBoulianne, Shelley
dc.contributor.authorOhme, Jakob
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-26T16:17:30Z
dc.date.available2024-01-26T16:17:30Z
dc.date.collected2019-09/2019-11
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractIn 2018-9, millions of youth participated in climate-related marches across the globe. This activism reflects youth’s distinctive form of political participation: cause-oriented, expressive, and networked. However, the pathway between environmental concern and environmental activism is complicated in some contexts and for some citizens. This article uses survey data from four countries (Canada, France, the United Kingdom, the United States) gathered in autumn 2019. We focus on the environmental activism of youth and young adults (aged 18–33 years, n = 1574). We find the role of social media is consistent and strong for all environmental activities in all countries; the role of political efficacy depends on activity and country but has a positive role in environmental activism; and environmental concern is a positive and significant correlate of boycotting and signing petitions but a weak predictor of participating in environmental marches. The relationship between environmental concern and environmental marches is distinctive in the United Kingdom. Overall, we find that concern about a social cause does not automatically translate into increased activism related to that cause. Moreover, online social networks, political efficacy, and political context are critical to understanding this mobilization process.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) under Grant (435-2019-04-94).
dc.identifier.citationShelley Boulianne & Jakob Ohme (2022) Pathways to environmental activism in four countries: social media, environmental concern, and political efficacy, Journal of Youth Studies, 25:6, 771-792, DOI: 10.1080/13676261.2021.2011845
dc.identifier.issn1367-6261
dc.identifier.issn1469-9680
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/464
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.issupplementedbyhttps://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/834
dc.relation.issupplementedbyhttps://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16613869.v1
dc.rightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectEnvironment
dc.subjectyouth
dc.subjectsocial media
dc.subjectpolitical efficacy
dc.subjectcross-national
dc.subject.ddc320 Politikwissenschaft
dc.titlePathways to environmental activism in four countries: social media, environmental concern, and political efficacy
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi10.1080/13676261.2021.2011845
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.issue6
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitleJournal of Youth Studies
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend792
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart771
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume25
dcterms.spatialUnited Statesen
dcterms.spatialUnited Kingdomen
dcterms.spatialFranceen
dcterms.spatialCanadaen
local.researchgroupNachrichten, Kampagnen und die Rationalität öffentlicher Diskurse
local.researchtopicDemokratie – Partizipation – Öffentlichkeit
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