@article{2017:arlt:communicat,
title = {Communication behavior and protest participation in the refugee debate: The role of personal conversations, mass media and social media usage in citizen participation},
year = {2017},
note = {Beginning in summer 2015, the increasing number of refugees coming to
Europe and the question of how to handle this challenge has ignited a
heated public debate in many European countries. In Germany, public
discourse has become progressively intense, and on both sides of the
controversy, citizens have attempted to actively influence and to
shape the public debate through their actions. Against this
background, this paper examines whether or not personal conversations,
mass media and social media usage make it more likely for citizens to
participate in the public debate on refugees. To do this, an online
survey (N = 1,579) was conducted in February 2016, in the midst of the
German refugee debate. The results show that different sources of
information and forms of communication related to refugees may either
foster or hinder people’s participation in a public demonstration
against or in support of refugees.},
journal = {SCM Studies in Communication and Media},
pages = {81--94},
author = {Arlt, Dorothee},
volume = {6},
number = {1}
}