Participación Política, Medios de Comunicación y Redes Sociales en los Adolescentes Catalanes

Abstract

"The degree of political involvement of adolescents is an open question that cros ses academic debate generation after generation. Currently, this issue is punctuated by the emergence of social networks and new media. This article examines the link between the use of media and social networks, and the interest for politics of a large sa mple of final year of secondary school Catalan students. The research concludes that the dynamics of political participation and discussion platforms used by teens do not differ too much from the older generations and, therefore, that social networks seem not to have affected the degree of political involvement of adolescents."