Article
French
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Abstract
During the French webcampaign 2012, a whole range of opportunities were offered by campaign teams to get citizens participating online and engaging for candidates. The development of these practices questions the methods and concepts that might be necessary to the analysis of these phenomena, the stretching of online political participation as a concept and the links between online and offline participation and activism (for instance, the attendance to a public meeting or the engagement in offline political discussions). In this paper, the authors firstly elaborate a typology of online political actions during the campaign, in order to grasp the diversity of these actions. Secondly, they explore the demographics of users depending on what they do online, and the way online and offline political practices intertwine. This analysis is based on an online survey conducted after the second round of the French Presidential election campaign 2012, that includes 827 net-users who used the internet to engage in the campaign.