{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,2]],"date-time":"2026-01-02T07:37:51Z","timestamp":1767339471669,"version":"3.38.0"},"reference-count":51,"publisher":"SAGE Publications","issue":"11","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2018,4,12]],"date-time":"2018-04-12T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1523491200000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/page\/policies\/text-and-data-mining-license"}],"content-domain":{"domain":["journals.sagepub.com"],"crossmark-restriction":true},"short-container-title":["New Media &amp; Society"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2018,11]]},"abstract":"<jats:p> For several decades, academics and political commentators have lamented the decline in electoral participation among younger citizens. In the United Kingdom, the proportion of 18- to 24-year-olds voting in general elections fell from over 60% in 1992 to an average of 40% between 2001 and 2015. Nevertheless, the high youth turnout in 2017 showed that young people will vote if they are interested in an issue or cause. Despite the scholarly interest in youth turnout, few studies have investigated the individual motivations for electoral participation among young people. This article aims to fill this gap. It presents a qualitative analysis of \u2018#Votebecause\u2019, an offline\u2013online initiative to encourage students to vote in the 2016 referendum on British membership of the European Union. The findings identify the importance of social networks, appropriate spaces for communication, deliberation, prior group membership and internal efficacy for engaging young people in the campaign. <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1177\/1461444818766701","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,4,12]],"date-time":"2018-04-12T13:33:07Z","timestamp":1523539987000},"page":"4017-4034","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["#Votebecause: Youth mobilisation for the referendum on British membership of the European Union"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"20","author":[{"given":"James","family":"Sloam","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Royal Holloway, University of London, UK"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,4,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"bibr1-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/1354068815605304"},{"key":"bibr2-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1017\/S0022381610000976"},{"key":"bibr3-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1017\/CBO9781139198752"},{"key":"bibr4-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1468-2885.2005.tb00340.x"},{"key":"bibr5-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1038\/nature11421"},{"volume-title":"The Making of Citizens: Young People, News, and Politics","year":"2000","author":"Buckingham D","key":"bibr6-1461444818766701"},{"volume-title":"Networks of Outrage and Hope","year":"2012","author":"Castells M","key":"bibr7-1461444818766701"},{"key":"bibr8-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/0032321716631350"},{"key":"bibr9-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/10584600590933160"},{"volume-title":"The Good Citizen","year":"2009","author":"Dalton R","key":"bibr10-1461444818766701"},{"key":"bibr11-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/10584600500311345"},{"key":"bibr12-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/acprof:osobl\/9780199604432.001.0001"},{"key":"bibr13-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1017\/CBO9780511616884"},{"key":"bibr14-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.4324\/9780203881965"},{"key":"bibr15-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/14742837.2012.708858"},{"key":"bibr16-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/15377857.2011.540209"},{"key":"bibr17-1461444818766701","unstructured":"Gastil J, Levine P (eds) (2005) The Deliberative Democracy Handbook: Strategies for Effective Civic Engagement in the Twenty-first Century. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, p. 308."},{"key":"bibr18-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/1369118X.2015.1043316"},{"key":"bibr19-1461444818766701","first-page":"6","volume":"55","author":"Goffman E","year":"1949","journal-title":"American Journal of Sociology"},{"key":"bibr20-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/0002716296546001008"},{"volume-title":"Political Research: Methods and Practical Skills","year":"2012","author":"Halperin S","key":"bibr21-1461444818766701"},{"key":"bibr22-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/pa\/gsr046"},{"key":"bibr23-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1017\/S1537592705050115"},{"key":"bibr24-1461444818766701","unstructured":"Hix S (2015) Most Brits know little about the EU (and those that do don\u2019t necessarily like it). LSE Blog. Available at: http:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/brexit\/2015\/11\/30\/most-brits-know-little-about-the-eu-and-those-that-do-dont-necessarily-like-it\/ (accessed 1 September 2017)."},{"key":"bibr25-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.polgeo.2014.10.008"},{"key":"bibr26-1461444818766701","unstructured":"IpsosMori (2016) How Britain Voted in 2015. Available at: https:\/\/www.ipsos-mori.com\/researchpublications\/researcharchive\/3575\/How-Britain-voted-in-2015.aspx (accessed 1 December 2016)."},{"key":"bibr27-1461444818766701","unstructured":"James T (2015) Individual electoral registration needs further reform to counteract its negative side effects. Democratic Audit Blog. Available at: http:\/\/www.democraticaudit.com\/2015\/02\/06\/individual-electoral-registration-needs-further-reform-to-counteract-its-negative-side-effects\/ (accessed 1 December 2016)."},{"key":"bibr28-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1068\/a38204"},{"key":"bibr29-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/acprof:oso\/9780199782536.001.0001"},{"key":"bibr30-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/000312240607100303"},{"volume-title":"Young People and Politics in the UK: Apathy or Alienation?","year":"2006","author":"Marsh DO","key":"bibr31-1461444818766701"},{"key":"bibr32-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/14725860500244001"},{"key":"bibr33-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/978-0-230-34502-7"},{"key":"bibr34-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1017\/CBO9780511610073"},{"key":"bibr35-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/pa\/gsr055"},{"key":"bibr36-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/1467-923X.00544"},{"key":"bibr37-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/13562576.2011.567897"},{"key":"bibr38-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/978-3-319-58250-4_7"},{"volume-title":"Mobilization, Participation, and Democracy in America","year":"1993","author":"Rosenstone S","key":"bibr39-1461444818766701"},{"key":"bibr40-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1002\/pa.197"},{"key":"bibr41-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1017\/S1537592710001210"},{"key":"bibr42-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1002\/9780470767603"},{"key":"bibr43-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/pa\/gsm035"},{"key":"bibr44-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/01402382.2012.749652"},{"key":"bibr45-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/0010414012453441"},{"key":"bibr46-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/1369118X.2013.862563"},{"key":"bibr47-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/13676261.2014.933198"},{"key":"bibr48-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.4159\/9780674044951"},{"key":"bibr49-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/1356257032000133919"},{"key":"bibr50-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.4135\/9781412985383"},{"key":"bibr51-1461444818766701","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.2478\/s13374-012-0023-2"}],"container-title":["New Media &amp; Society"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1177\/1461444818766701","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full-xml\/10.1177\/1461444818766701","content-type":"application\/xml","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1177\/1461444818766701","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,2,28]],"date-time":"2025-02-28T23:45:11Z","timestamp":1740786311000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/1461444818766701"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2018,4,12]]},"references-count":51,"journal-issue":{"issue":"11","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2018,11]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1177\/1461444818766701"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/1461444818766701","relation":{},"ISSN":["1461-4448","1461-7315"],"issn-type":[{"type":"print","value":"1461-4448"},{"type":"electronic","value":"1461-7315"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2018,4,12]]}}}