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Social Media Political Engagement. Young peoples political engagement on social media has been on the rise at a time when the 2020 election the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement are major topics of conversation and action. 2014 Taylor Francis Corrresponding author. In this study the role of social media for political participation is discussed and the result shows that social media. 831 For a long long time research has consistently said that social inequality hugely influences and determines whether people are likely to participate in politics and have an interest in politics.
Further online engagement has become a global phenomenon and individuals from different cultural backgrounds discuss political and civic issues on social media. Rather results suggest that those who are more connected with social media are more likely to be politically engaged. The use of social media is becoming a feature of political and civic engagement for many Americans. Proceeded the research more specific than Gil de Zuniga and. Social media users who have regular political discussions in their daily lives are presumably regular users of. Social media use may also weaken engagement.
Seven in ten young people say theyve seen information about the 2020 election on at least one social media source.
Although social media is an emerging platform for communication researchers have already started their work and studied the role of social media in political context. The present study provides a brief over view of the existing research in this field and subsequently suggests avenues. But during the national elections 2010 politicians with higher Social Media engagement got relatively more votes within most political parties. There is optimism that social media and the digital practices that they engender such as blogging content sharing and social networking will help to ameliorate or even reverse this disengagement by expanding the public sphere thus enabling young people to develop alternative and more direct modes of democratic participation. Seven in ten young people say theyve seen information about the 2020 election on at least one social media source. Rather results suggest that those who are more connected with social media are more likely to be politically engaged.