{"id":2804,"date":"2013-04-25T16:17:54","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T12:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ankakh.am\/?p=2804"},"modified":"2013-04-25T16:17:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T12:17:54","slug":"social-networks-act-as-political-rallying-sites-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=2804","title":{"rendered":"Social networks act as political rallying sites: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/facebook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2801\" alt=\"facebook\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/facebook.jpg\" width=\"245\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a>A Pew Research Center report indicated that online social networks have become political hotspots in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 39 percent of US adults engaged in political activity in Internet communities during the 2012 US presidential campaign, according to a Pew report titled Civic Engagement in the Digital Age released late Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, only 26 percent of people in the United States used online social networks in any form or fashion during the prior presidential election in 2008, Pew reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The typical American who is politically active engages with political content across a range of venues &#8212; online, offline, and in social networking spaces,&#8221; said Pew Internet Project researcher Aaron Smith, author of the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Pew Research Center report indicated that online social networks have become political hotspots in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-news","category-usa","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}