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Gender Differences and Political Deliberations on Social Media
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Abstract
Social media has emerged as an arena for political deliberation. Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp are major platforms where political debates/deliberation take place. This study was undertaken to investigate if attitude and perception towards these online platforms for political deliberation diffe... view more
Social media has emerged as an arena for political deliberation. Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp are major platforms where political debates/deliberation take place. This study was undertaken to investigate if attitude and perception towards these online platforms for political deliberation differs for male and female. For this purpose, a quantitative study was conducted using a structured questionnaire among 400 students of a private university. The finding suggests that males are more likely to be involved on political deliberation on social media than their female counterparts. Also male students value social media as an arena for political deliberation more than their female students.... view less
Classification
Interactive, electronic Media
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
Free Keywords
Gender differences; political deliberation; social media
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 437-446
Journal
Media Watch, 9 (2018) 2
ISSN
0976-0911
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0