Positive Effects of Internet Use by College Freshmen

Clark, Elizabeth A.; Everhart, Deborah

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“…So the results have some limitation. Clark and Everhart (2007) examined the relationship between quantity of internet use and positive effect of internet use by college freshmen. An online student survey of behaviours and concerns was administrated to 182 college freshmen of Northeastern University.…”

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“…The main objective of the study is to know the influence of social media on participation of young voters in electoral politics. In order to fulfill the main objective, the research paper specifies: (1) to find out the label of interest on electoral participation (2) to assess the changes of perception about the electoral participation. (3) to examine how the young voter is influenced by social media.…”

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Social Media on Participation of Young Generation in Electoral Politics: A Case Study

Haque

Liza²

2019

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It is assumed that excessive usage of social media among young generations, i.e., students of universities make them more socially integrated and politically informed. Political parties use media as well as social media to portrait candidates and their various issues which attract mass people. Though there are some studies around, which validates these influence of social media on participation of young generation in electoral politics is done previously for some countries of world but yet, for the country Bangladesh, there is no such study still existing which reveals these issues with explanatory-descriptive analysis, particularly done for any specialized public university, where internet is more viable than to other kinds of universities, because of the additional attention is given to information and communications technology there. Mixed method has been applied to make the study more reliable. The study here perhaps is done with a format of structured questionnaire and Focus Group Discussion; simple random sampling and cluster sampling to fulfill the subsisting gap thus have found the most common kinds of websites used by respondents, average duration of them in daily basis, whether on other hand, have assessed that effectiveness of social media to inspire young generation in political participation.

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Social Media on Participation of Young Generation in Electoral Politics: A Case Study

Haque

Liza²

2019

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Influence of Social Media on Voter Behaviour

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Reddy

2021

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Social media, a 21th century platform and a tool to help nation and its societies to create, express, exchange their thoughts and ideas widely. People of all age group are fascinated to use and make this tool as any other media, to connect it to the world with lesser time and energy. Social media technology is wide enough to include blogging, picture-sharing, wall-posting, music-sharing, crowd sourcing and voice over IP, blogs etc, which today people are enjoying to utilize it to communicate with each other and also stimulate themselves to innovate more ideas and expressions. Social media, emerging as a hottest promotion tool during elections by the political parties to influence, connect and express their vision, objective to help them increase their visibility, or to gain majority. Today people live on social media, where even political parties want to reach out to hit them where they live. The purpose of writing this research paper is to understand the role social media plays in decision making of voters while they vote. The results of the study show that the social media have significant influence on voting decision especially young voters. The study also support that the remarks/tweets/comments by political leaders significantly influence their decision to vote for that party.

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Positive Effects of Internet Use by College Freshmen

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Social Media on Participation of Young Generation in Electoral Politics: A Case Study

Social Media on Participation of Young Generation in Electoral Politics: A Case Study

Influence of Social Media on Voter Behaviour

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