Despite early promise, scholarship has shown little empirical evidence of learning from the news on social media. At the same time, scholars have documented the problem of information 'snacking' and information quality on ...

© 2019, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.Literature on informal political institutions has focused on the national level, disregarding sub-national contexts where one can expect increased ...

This paper builds on recent work on “third spaces” to analyze political talk in comments on news about nonpublic affairs. It draws on content and discourse analyses of comments on news published by a leading Costa Rican ...

This article aims to understand the role of formal, non-formal and informal education in the training of three women who have an active participation in social movements and unions. The methodology used was semi-structured ...

The information and communication technologies potentiate, from the Internet, a space to the discussion and political deliberation, approaching citizens and governments through interactive resources such as e-mails, forums, ...