Tag: youth

Young people see the media as powerful but don’t trust it: particularly not the tabloids

  • December 1, 2009 at 4:42 pm

  • Recent research reveals that young people in the UK have little faith in journalists, but see them as having the greatest influence on government decisions. And tabloid journalists, it seems, are the worst of a bad bunch. The research was undertaken last week by online pollsters YouGov, on behalf of the Citizenship Foundation. Almost 4,000 [...]

Young people don’t value the political power of social media, but they would vote

  • November 30, 2009 at 3:42 pm

  • According to new research, most young people aged 14-25 would be likely to vote in an election and would be more likely to if they could do so online. However, they don’t see social networking as particularly useful for furthering a cause, favouring instead an email to their Member of Parliament. A recent YouGov poll [...]