Pew Social Media Report

A very prominent way technology and media plays a role in politics is through Twitter. Twitter has gained lots of interest and use from politicians as they try to get their views and interests of their political stance out on the web. While they use the media as a campaigning tool our generation of millennials continues to bring in and soak up all the information they put out there whether it is good, bad, true, or false. As people grow older, they would get more involved with politics, and twitter seems to be the main place people go to hash out political debates because it is where the candidates are most active. Since anything can be put on twitter people’s opinions can favor one idea over another based on information they see first or based on a person’s previous beliefs, therefore causing them to believe what they want to believe is right (citation?). According to the Pew social media report (2017), 36% of people from 18 to 29 use twitter. Twenty-five percent of these people are

Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, as of November 2016, out of the 14,498 female population between ages 18 to 24 only 53.2% reported registered and 42.4% reported voted. Through this data it is seen that the demographic of young women is a large group that politicians seem to not be reaching as is shown by the fact that only less than half of them voted. This is not to say, though, that young individuals are not active in political debates. Another study found that 41% of young people between the ages of 15 and 25 had participated in some kind of political discussion or activity online. These included sharing a video from a presidential candidate or tweeting about world events (“Game Changer: Social Media and the 2016 Presidential Election”, 2016). It also stated that “Spending on social media is estimated to account for more than half of the $1 billion budget for digital media” (“Game Changer: Social Media and the 2016 Presidential Election”, 2016, p.