Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Facebook and Twitter 'help to politicize' today's youth

The web, social networking in particular, is helping to politicise younger people, according to the University of California’s Humanities Research Institute.

The research studied over 2,500 members of the Generation Y over a number of years and found that based on social media updates, younger people are more likely to engage with their government if given the accessibility to so. | ZDNet

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