Can Political Information Media Exposure Affect Young People to Participate?

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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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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  -