Social Media and The Politics Annotated Bibliography
Douglas, Sara, et al. (2015) “Community Matters: How Young Adults Use Facebook to Evaluate Political Candidates,” Information Polity, 20 (1): 1-26
In this article authors investigate how social and non-social media influence political preferences of the technically savvy Millennials. The research shows that Millennials often find information about political figures accidently, when they check social media, rather than they intentionally seek for it. In addition, this study shows that social, as well as non-social media increase Millennials’ expectations from the political candidates, especially, in relation to candidate’s stance and character. The methodology is based on the semi-structured interviews, as well as on the post-exposure recalls, sine this research is a part of the large study on the interaction of social and traditional media. In the process of data-collection seventy students were interviewed, from which thirty-nine are males and thirty-one females. In addition, during the formation of the sample, political preferences of the participants were taken into account. As a result, twenty-nine participants identify themselves as Independent, twenty-seven as Democrats, and thirteen as Republicans. Overall, it could be stated that this study is useful for further researches since it considers how political preferences of the newest generation of voters will be affected by social and non-social …