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Article
Potential Youth’s Civic Engagement on Virtual Public Sphere in Developing World
Author(s)
Nurşen Mazici, Khamis Juma Abdalla
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DOI:10.17265/2160-6579/2025.05.001
Affiliation(s)
Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
ABSTRACT
The emergence of new media
with multiple platforms has abundantly adjusted the socio-political
perspectives in such a way that our everyday conducts and professionalism point
of views are entrenched over technological diffusion. The young people remain
the potential users on the social media, considering their primary bases for
daily accomplishments, owing to the novel features and realistic methods
available. As an entry point, this paper intends to draw the conception of the
public sphere, whereby the notion of publics is vital on abstracting the sphere
of the internet, in which abundant spheres meant for the multiple clusters
embark on political communication for their ways distinctly. It’s the ideal
realm which converges the peripheral spheres into the inclusive domain through
communicative actions. In the developing countries, the youths along with
minorities’ engagement and reliance on the internet have been ominously
mounting, comprehensive for political identities and rationalizing their civic
opinions. Polling discussion on running candidates and political parties’
manifestations are common during the general election and some diaspora
communities and further foreign activists play a part in political affairs of
the countries. Thus, this article aims at tracing the potential civil integrity
for youths with political information efficacy fostered on digital public
spheres, by which traditional media are politically run-downed, remoted by
draconian legal framework and commercial determinants. Besides, this paper
argues about the offline publics which are ideally distant, and thus far
implies to the narrow unitary sphere theorization owing to the technology
division which so far entails partial civic life.
KEYWORDS
civic engagement, digital public sphere(s), social media, political information efficacy, youths’ citizenship
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