Comparative report (about 6,000 words). Presented as DigiGen Working Paper 6.1 with the provisional title ‘Online political behaviour and ideological production by young people'

Conducting netnography of online civic participation This task will focus on how young people make use of blogs websites of youth organisations and social media networks in relation to their online civic participation An emphasis will be placed on how socioeconomic gender and political culturerelated factors influence young peoples online civic participation Fieldwork will include the following research methods Discourse and semiotic analysis of youth narratives images including videos with an emphasis on the role of young people in producing online content and Online interviews with young people as users in the UK Greece and Estonia 1020 youth in each country Lead Partner UOL Participants UPSPS and TLU Duration 412