Semi-Private Spheres as Safe Spaces for Young Social Media Users? Political Conversation: Virtual Haven or Digital Bubbles?

TARULLO, RAQUEL

Contemporary politics, communication, and the impact on Democracy

IGI GLOBAL

Lugar: Hershey PA; Año: 2021; p. 113 - 132

The incorporation of social media as spaces for political participation performances?especially amongyouth?has brought various issues into debate, including the formats of these practices and, at the sametime, the significances of these repertoires for public conversation. In order to address this topic, thischapter explores the digital practices of political participation among young people in Argentina. Basedon a qualitative approach in which 30 in-depth interviews to people from 18 to 24 years old were carriedout, the findings of this research note that these segments of the population join the discussion ofissues on the public agenda using emojis and hashtags and prefer reduced digital spaces to talk withtheir close contacts about polarized issues in order to avoid the aggression and violence that they saythey observe in the digital space