Paper Short Abstract:

With the assumption that the new media tools can be politically powerful models for youth to express their political concerns, this proposal further argues that there is an unprecedented shift towards new technologies among third-world youth

Paper Abstract:

Today, youth activism has recently adopted an established media model of contemporary political mobilization in unwriting modes of rhetoric styles. This act of unwriting tends to boost young people’s empowerment, serving as a new forum for political socialization within cyberspace, highlighting a discursive turn in producing (sub)cultures. Youths seek to assert their voices through today's hybrid and grassroots media platforms, which enables them to politically address their cruxes while also wielding influence as agents of change. This deconstructive act aims to decenter the tradition of the accepted paradigm, giving young individuals multiple platforms to voice up about new public matters and a chance to hold politicians accountable for their campaign promises concerning issues involving larger power structures and public concern. This also seeks to restore social justice and dismantle hegemonic frameworks about young women by empowering them to demand more significant involvement in decision-making processes. This research proposal attempts to investigate how youth political activism on social media confirms and challenges youth political participation by unwriting the emphasis on the internet as a facilitator of political activism and hinting at the existing spaces of formal and informal youth political engagement. As an attempt to analyze and discuss the interplay of new media, culture, politics, and youth, the present proposal is theoretically guided by global and local research to critically review the existing literature to show how the constant challenges and pressure of technological innovation and globalism are putting on many countries’ democratic conditions.