Thought education was the most crucial factor when it came to explaining who is most likely to engage in political discussions, writing letters to the editors or joining a political party? Or perhaps you thought what mattered was money: the richer, the more activity or at least stronger feeling of being able to influence political processes? Well, perhaps you’re right. But there’s one factor that overrules both: “virtual capital”.<\/p>\n
In a yet unpublished study Danish political scientist, Professor Jens Hoff<\/a> shows that the more experienced a computer user you are (which he terms “virtual capital”), the more likely you are to be engaged in political processes – and believe that you’re able to influence them. Based on a survey conducted in collaboration with The Institute of Social Research, Hoff concludes at statistical significant levels that “virtual capital” has a higher explanatory power than both education and income.<\/p>\n When presenting the results at a closed conference recently Hoff said jokingly: “What this means? It means you should tell your kids to go play more computergames and leave the homework undone”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thought education was the most crucial factor when it came to explaining who is most likely to engage in political discussions, writing letters to the editors or joining a political party? Or perhaps you thought what mattered was money: the richer, the more activity or at least stronger feeling of being able to influence political… L\u00e6s mere »Breaking news: Political participation surges with increased internet usage – education and income outweighted<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3857,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/3857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}