Effects of Sociodemographic Variables and Facebook Group Membership on Students' Political Participation

Autor/inn/en	Mahmood, Qaisar Khalid; Bhutta, Mazhar Hussain; ul Haq, Muhammad Ahsan
Titel	Effects of Sociodemographic Variables and Facebook Group Membership on Students' Political Participation
Quelle	In: Education and Information Technologies, 23 (2018) 5, S.2235-2247 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1360-2357
DOI	10.1007/s10639-018-9715-5
Schlagwörter	Social Media; Politics; Student Participation; College Students; Computer Mediated Communication; Foreign Countries; Social Influences; Demography; Student Characteristics; Pakistan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziale Medien; Politik; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Collegestudent; Computerkonferenz; Ausland; Sozialer Einfluss; Demografie
Abstract	This research study was designed to examine manifestation of online and offline political participation of educated Pakistani youth. The second objective of the study was to locate variation in political participation of the students on the basis of sociodemographic variables and the membership of Facebook pages of the users. The population of the study was university students studying in various degree awarding institutes of Lahore city, capital city of the Punjab province. The data were collected through structured questionnaire from 1245 students of various university students. Factor analysis was performed to see the manifestation of both kinds of political participation. Independent sample t-test and one way ANOVA were used to see differences in political participation of the students based on their sociodemographic variables and membership of Facebook pages. The findings confirmed that university students practiced both kinds of political participation. However, they were more inclined towards online political participation than offline political participation. The results also approved that sociodemographic variables and the membership of Facebook pages had significant effect on online and offline political participation of the students. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01