Jeffrey Wimmer is Professor in the Institute of Media, Knowledge and Communication at Augsburg University, Germany.

Cornelia Wallner is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Communication Science and Media Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany.

Rainer Winter is Professor of Media and Cultural Theory and head of the Institute of Media and Communication Studies at Klagenfurt University, Austria.

Karoline Oelsner is a researcher in the Department of Public Relations and Communication of Technology at Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany.

Introduction: (Mis-)Understanding political participation

Jeffrey Wimmer, Cornelia Wallner, Rainer Winter, and Karoline Oelsner

Part I: Practices of participation and citizenship

1. (New) Forms of digital participation? Toward a resource-model of adolescents' digital engagement

Annika Schreiter, Sven Joeckel and Klaus Kamps

2. Long-lasting shadows of (post)communism? Generational and ethnic divides in political and civic participation in Estonia

Veronika Kalmus, Ragne Kõuts-Klemm, Mai Beilmann, Andu Rämmer and Signe Opermann

3. Enhanced inter-visibility. The experience of civic engagement in social media

Maria Francesca Murru

4. 'I am not a consumer person' - Political participation in repair cafés

Sigrid Kannengießer

5. Intimate citizenship politics and digital media: Teens' discourses, sexual normativities and popular social media

Sander de Ridder and Sofie van Bauwel

Part II: Mediated representations of participation and citizenship

[...] Indignados in the European Press: beyond the protest paradigm?

Maria Kyriakidou, José Javier Olivas Osuna and Maximillian Hänska Ahy

7. Speak your mind: Mediatized political participation through second screens.

Udo Göttlich and Martin R. Herbers

8. "My body, my decision". The abortion debate and twitter as a counterpublic sphere for women in Turkey

Perrin Ö¿ün Emre and Gülüm ¿ener

9. Repeat, remediate, resist? Meme activism in the context of the refugee crisis

Elena Pilipets and Rainer Winter

Part III: (Re-)Framing participation and citizenship

10. Towards a framework for studying political participation in social media

Julie Uldam