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Digital Civic Engagement and Youth Participation: Hungarian Lis Students' Perspective (abstracts)
(Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies, Dnipro, 2022) Yap, Joseph Marmol; Németh, Réka; Barátné, Ágnes Hajdu
ENG: Political participation and civic engagement are attributes of a democratic nation. While the youth of the 21st century share their thoughts and ideas on social media, there is a declining interest in politics or they must have created a novel way of discussing political information. The young generation’s political participation is essential for a functioning democratic nation. The youth is also expected to be politically knowledgeable with information readily available online. Access to this information will help them to make informed decisions. Sources of political information may also come from family and friends. As young people deal with an abundance of online information shared on social media, how was their experience in engaging with family and close friends? The research would like to understand how Hungarian LIS students use social media in online political participation and how social media political information affects the youth’s trust and judgment when interacting with their close family and friends online. The research is underlined by the fact that it was carried out at a particularly politically crucial time before the election.
Digital Civic Engagement and Youth Participation: Hungarian Lis Students' Perspective (presentation)
(Український державний університет науки і технологій, Дніпро, 2022) Yap, Joseph Marmol; Németh, Réka; Barátné, Ágnes Hajdu
ENG: Political participation and civic engagement are attributes of a democratic nation. While the youth of the 21st century share their thoughts and ideas on social media, there is a declining interest in politics or they must have created a novel way of discussing political information. The young generation’s political participation is essential for a functioning democratic nation. The youth is also expected to be politically knowledgeable with information readily available online. Access to this information will help them to make informed decisions. Sources of political information may also come from family and friends. As young people deal with an abundance of online information shared on social media, how was their experience in engaging with family and close friends? The research would like to understand how Hungarian LIS students use social media in online political participation and how social media political information affects the youth’s trust and judgment when interacting with their close family and friends online. The research is underlined by the fact that it was carried out at a particularly politically crucial time before the election.
Digital Civic Engagement and Youth Participation: Hungarian LIS Students’ Perspective of Political Information
(Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies, Dnipro, 2022) Yap, Joseph M.; Németh, Réka; Hajdu Barát, Ágnes
ENG: Objective. The research seeks to understand, how Hungarian LIS students use social media as an avenue to express their democratic actions and how social media political information affects the youth’s trust and judgement when interacting with their close family and friends online. Methods. The study employed a quantitative approach to determine the social media engagement of the participants with close family and friends. Convenience sampling was applied in this study (Students of Library and Information Science, University, Hungary), and an online questionnaire was sent to all the potential participants (to 197 students). Results. A total of 43% participated in this research. The youth give a high level of trust to their family members and close friends even if they share, post, like, or comment on something that is different from their point-of-view in social media. Moreover, the youth have a low level of judgement towards family and close friends. Conclusions. Political participation among youth is voluntary and engagement with political information in social media is rare/low.