Media Exposure as Political Participation Predictor of Young Voters in Presidential Election 2019

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10.2991/assehr.k.200728.019How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Political participation, political efficacy, political media exposure, young voters

Abstract

Citizen’s participation in elections is very important in democratic country. In general, this study examines the role of political information exposure from media and political efficacy to political participation of young people in the Indonesian presidential election in 2019. The data were collected by using 3 scales, namely political information exposure, political efficacy scale, and political participation scale. The research sample were 466 undergraduate students, aged between 17 to 21 years old who are being resident in Yogyakarta. The data were analyzed using the Smart Partial Least Square (PLS). The results of the study showed that the political information exposure from media and political efficacy contributed directly to the political participation of young people. The political information exposure also influenced indirectly to political participation through political efficacy.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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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  - 2020/07/28
TI  - Media Exposure as Political Participation Predictor of Young Voters in Presidential Election 2019
BT  - Annual International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities (AICOSH 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 87
EP  - 92
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200728.019
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200728.019
ID  - Kuncoro2020
ER  -