Abstract
Facebook is a leading social networking site across the world. Facebook has
allowed its users to access political information and can freely express their
views to others. Presently, there are almost 32 million Facebook users in
Pakistan. Majority of them are young people and they use this platform
form retrieving political information and expressing their views about
Pakistani politics. This study was designed to see the effect of students’ age
and academic performance (GPA) on their political participation; to
investigate a relationship between general Facebook use and political
participation of the students; to examine specific use of Facebook for seeking
and sharing political information and its relationship with political
participation of the students. The research was conducted with social
sciences students studying at International Islamic University Islamabad.
158 undergraduate students were randomly selected from sociology,
education, political science and mass communication. The results showed
that Facebook use for retrieving political information determined political
participation of young Pakistani Facebook users. Nonetheless, Facebook use
for general purposes, age and academic performance of young adults did
not predict their political participation. The possible implications of these
findings are also discussed
Dr. Qaiser Khalid Mahmood, Dr. Niaz Ahmed Bhutto, Junaid R Soomro, Dr. Hakim Ali Mahesar. (2019) Facebook Use For Political Information And Political Participation Among Pakistani Youth, The Women - Annual Research Journal of Gender Studies, Volume-11, Issue-1.
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