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I Tweet Therefore I Vote: the Relationship Between Twitter Activity and offline Political Participation of Youth Voters

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Twitter over the past few years has grown to connect 230 million users across the world, often working as a discussion platform and likened to a public sphere for political discussions. Those between 17-29 years old are assumed to be exposed to tweets and discussions of political content, thereby affecting them on some level to engage in forms of political participation offline in the real world. This thesis investigates whether there exists a relationship between the time a user spends on Twitter and the amount of offline political participation he takes part in. We also investigated whether a users amount of Twitter activity affects his decision to vote. a quantitative research method was employed, using a questionnaire to collect information from 128 respondents regarding the amount of Twitter usage and their subsequent offline political participation activity and voting behaviour. the results of this study shows us that heavy Twitter users are participate in more offline political activities compared to light Twitter users. However, voting behaviour is found to be unrelated to the amount of time a user spends on Twitter. Seeing that Twitter usage does have a significant impact on offline behaviour, we recommend political organizations to utilize it to engage the Indonesian youth.

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1793

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: Swiss German University., 2014

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English

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Political participation
PR
Youth voters
Twitter activity

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