Dr. Rajesh Ramachandran
- Rehabilitation Officer NIEPMD, ECR, Muttukadu, Chennai, 603112 Tamil Nadu India
Abstract
Young people are thought to be the age group that is least interested in politics and political issues. It is a socially desirable objective to raise young people’s political participation, given that they will be the ones influencing politics in the future. More youthful ages were principally influenced by the coming of the Web and new media, and almost certainly, new media — like informal communities — will keep on having a major impact in their lives. Interpersonal organizations can subsequently be a helpful device in missions to urge youngsters to engage in governmental issues. The objective of this study is to learn how much youngsters utilize web-based entertainment for political talk and whether utilizing these stages to get political data influences their support in governmental issues both on the web and disconnected. The review incorporated a web-based survey to accumulate information from adolescents matured 20 to 40. Discoveries show that the goal to partake in legislative issues both on the web and disconnected is emphatically affected by using Facebook to access and discussion political material. As would be expected, the impact is more prominent with regards to political movement on the web. Nonetheless, Twitter firmly affects youngsters’ internet based political investment yet not their disconnected political cooperation.
Keywords: Social Media, Online Political Engagement Impact, Physical Engagement.
[This article belongs to Journal of Mobile Computing, Communications & Mobile Networks(jomccmn)]
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Journal of Mobile Computing, Communications & Mobile Networks
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 02 |
| Received | May 16, 2024 |
| Accepted | May 29, 2024 |
| Published | July 5, 2024 |
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