Can Political Information Media Exposure Affect Young People to Participate?
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.200529.249How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- media exposure, political participation, diffuse support, specifics support, election
- Abstract
In a democratic country, participation in general elections can be interpreted as a form of citizens’ responsibility towards sustainability for their country. In general, this study examines the effect of political information exposure from media on political participation of young people in the Indonesian presidential election in 2019. The data research was collected by using 2 scales, namely political information exposure, and political participation scale. The research sample was 466 undergraduate students, with ages varied from 18 to 21 years who lived in Yogyakarta. The data were analyzed by using structural model analysis through The Partial Least Square (PLS). The results of the study showed that political information exposure from media contributed directly to the political participation both diffuse support and specific support. In addition, the result of the research also found that age is the important aspect of demographic that influences on political participation of young people. The older the respondents, the more level of their political participation.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - Muhammad Wahyu Kuncoro AU - Koentjoro AU - Arie Sujito PY - 2020 DA - 2020/05/04 TI - Can Political Information Media Exposure Affect Young People to Participate? BT - Proceedings of the 1st Borobudur International Symposium on Humanities, Economics and Social Sciences (BIS-HESS 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1190 EP - 1195 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200529.249 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200529.249 ID - Kuncoro2020 ER -