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Replication Data for: Digital activism and democratic culture: can digital technologies help save democracy?

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Title Replication Data for: Digital activism and democratic culture: can digital technologies help save democracy?
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KGMB8R
 
Creator Silva, Diego Moraes
Kemer, Thaise
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description This study investigates digital activism and democratic culture among citizens of São Paulo, Brazil. It aims to understand: 01. whether digital participation is becoming a surrogate instance of other forms of participation; and 02. whether digital activists share a specific political culture regarding democratic attitudes and behaviors. Drawing on a representative sample of 2,417 interviews, we apply multivariate analysis techniques to characterize digital activists in terms of political participation and democratic culture. Our findings show that digital participation complements – rather than replaces – other forms of participation. We also found that although the levels of democratic culture among digital-only activists were lower than among activists who participate in several arenas, digital-only activists embrace democratic culture more significantly than non-activists. This finding suggests that digital-only participation could be an important first step in developing democratic attitudes in individuals, albeit this form of participation is not sufficient to foster the highest level of democratic culture.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Digital democracy
Digital activism
Political participation
Democratic culture
Local democracy
 
Contributor Martins, Debora