Read the article Political Interest and Awareness Lower Among
Millennials at http://www.journalism.org/2015/06/01/political-interest-and-awareness-lower-among-millennials/ and state your opinion
on it.
Owls are nocturnal creatures. They’re wide awake at night and they sleep during the day. If this sounds like bliss to you, then, like about 20 percent of the population who find themselves most active at around 9 pm, you may fall into the same category as our feathered friend. Night owls often have difficulty waking up in the morning, and like to be up late at night. Studies of animal behaviour indicate that being a night owl may actually be built into some people’s genes. This would explain why those late-to-bed, late-to-rise people find it so difficult to change their behaviour. The trouble for night owls is that they just have to be at places such as work and school far too early. This is when the alarm clock becomes the night owl’s most important survival tool. Experts say that one way for a night owl to beat their dependence on their alarm clocks is to sleep with the curtains open. The Theory is that if they do so, the morning sunlight will awaken them gently and natura...
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I can say from my perspective that people in my age including me are rather interested in political situation. We are aware of what is going on, we even discuss with each other all incidents or when elections comes. In comparison to older people of course we may be less interested but it is simple - we work, study, do thousands of things, when the older are on pension and have plenty of time to do nothing, so they have a lot of time to watch tv, listen to radio and be more engaged in political life.
I can't say anything about people younger then me, because I know only few and it is hard to say exactly what is their's stand, but I think that we as a nation can be defined as people very interested in political affairs no matter what our age is.
If anyone would like to prove (or disprove) that young people have no political awareness, they should do a quiz about current political situation, or at least ask people if they feel informed on the subject; naming it as one of your interest is simply irrelvant.
You can find everything in the internet and I think that the youngers simply find a lot much interesting things than the political news there.
Wisdom gained through observing years of living history, which was strongly connected with policy, makes old generation more concerned about the future while, youngers are more concerned about here and now.
I also agree with Patrycja that not being able to name every news source there is doesn't indicate someone's ignorance. Sure, Buzzfeed isn't a reliable source, but it has its moments. Alternatively, the quality of its articles may encourage people to find better sources somewhere else.
I also agree that most people in our group age get their political news off social networks instead of "old media".
With age people have more experience and can relate how things changed and what do they really support in terms of politics, so they are more interested in what may come.
create memes with politicians. Therefore, it isn't for them indifferent.
As for using different news sources, traditional media aren't and won't be too influential amongst young people. The Internet gives everyone freedom of choice between countless news sources as subjective or objective as possible. Right now we've got more news sources than ever before and choosing 36 of them isn't really saying much.(I would also argue that anything Sean Hannity does isn't a real news source.)
big generalisation. Obviously young people tend to focus on other subjects like education or job market. It's not surprising, such an interest growth with life experience. The more often we encounter problems that arose from bad political decision the bigger your awareness and interest become.
First of all, one of the reasons could be that they live by the rule 'carpe diem' and are interested in current activities and actions in their lives. Secondly,it could be the mobility and accessability of traveling to other countries, which makes them feel more secure as there would always be an option to leave the country and move out somewhere else. Thirdly, they may not feel so connected to the society, nationality and the country's condition, since they focus on their own lives and activities.
Regarding the sources of information, in my opinion the reason for the Millenials being not aware of a number of information sources in comparison to the older generations, is that Millenials' common habitat is digitalized. This means that they seek for sources of information on blogs, social media channels as well as political and news portals instead of newspapers and even tv.
However I am not so sure about the truth in this article, since it doesn’t look like authors tried their best to find out how it looks like. They had just small research based on one country and draw conclusions from that. This article looks to predictable and I would not believe what is written there.