Social Media’s Impact on Youths’ Physical and Online Political Engagement

Year : 2024 | Volume : 11 | Issue : 02 | Page : 15 20
    By

    Rajesh Ramachandran,

  1. Rehabilitation Officer, Department of Medical Science, National Institute for Empowerment of Persons with Multiple Disabilities (NIEPMD), Muttukadu, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract

Young people are thought to belong to 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 those aged 20 to 40 years. Findings show that the goal to participate in legislative issues both on the web and offline is emphatically affected by using Facebook to access and discuss political material. As would be expected, the impact is more prominent with regards to political movement on the web. Nonetheless, X (formerly 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 ]

How to cite this article:
Rajesh Ramachandran. Social Media’s Impact on Youths’ Physical and Online Political Engagement. Journal of Mobile Computing, Communications & Mobile Networks. 2024; 11(02):15-20.
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Regular Issue Subscription Review Article
Volume 11
Issue 02
Received 16/05/2024
Accepted 29/05/2024
Published 05/07/2024
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