+CIUDADANÍA DIGITAL: ACTIVISMO JUVENIL EN PLATAFORMAS DE E-PETICIONES.

This work addresses the issue of youth solidarity participation through the signing of e-petitions on online platforms. From a questionnaire of own elaboration to 463 university students of both sexes, it has been tried to prove if the signing of e-petitions is a generalized practice or not among young people, what are the motivations when they sign the e-petitions and if it is a clickactivism behavior or there is a more committed involvement. The results show that e-petition signing is a widespread form of social participation, with no gender differences, although young people do not fully identify with it. They are idealistic and altruistic when they sign, although they doubt that it has a lot of social repercussion and serves to change the world. The psychological and emotional proximity of the causes they sign is what motivates them to support some causes or others. The profile of these young people who sign e-petitions is characterized by a self-perception of more socially committed than those who do not usually sign, with a more left-wing ideological tendency and for exhibiting their social activism mainly through the Internet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]