Purpose: The primary goal of this article is to review the existing studies and offer clarity regarding the association between social media adoption and youth civic engagement. Design/methodology/approach: This research systematically summarizes and reviews 42 original articles published from...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the Chinese microblog users’ psychological motivations and the association between users’ motivations and their offline civic and political engagement. Specifically, this study examines what the psychological impetuses of Weibo use are and...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to systematically unpack whether and how WeChat network size is correlated with perceived social capital and life satisfaction among Chinese overseas students in Germany. Design/methodology/approach: Based on a web-based survey data collected from 218...