Sponsored by the Communication and Information Technologies Section of the American Sociological Association

This volume brings together nine studies of the digital public sphere. The contributions illuminate three key areas of digital citizenship, namely political engagement, participation networks, and content production.

First Section

Authors address relationships including: new media and efficacy, YouTube and young voters, political interest and online news.

Second Section

The contributions speak to the importance of participation in social, scholarly, familial, and support networks.

Third Section

In section three on production, two contributions offer insight into unequal production, more specifically, gendered digital production inequalities and the varied responsiveness of microbloggers to different kinds of media events and issues.

As a whole, the contributions revisit old questions and answer important new queries about netizenship and the digital public sphere.