Community work and limited online activism among India youth

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12898577
AutoresP Vigneswara Ilavarasan (0000-0002-9431-3520, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen75
Número3
Páginas284-299
Fecha de publicación2013-02-11
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Communication Gazette (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1748-0485 • E-ISSN: 1748-0493
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1748048512472945
OpenAlexW2144900575
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas12

This article explores how youth in India understand, get involved in and actively use information and communication technologies (ICTs) in civic engagement. Despite a variety of opportunities for civic engagement, young people in India today show little interest in politics. Many cite a perceived inability to effect changes in India’s corrupt political system as the reason for their apathy. Indian youth do, however, engage in other forms of civic engagement. Helping the needy outside of work and college is a common form of community work for young Indians. Others engage with their communities through paid work at non-governmental organizations (NGOs). ICTs are used in the everyday lives of Indian youth for personal purposes like entertainment and social networking, but relatively little for activism. Of all ICTs in India, mobile phones are arguably the most important, with laptops a key ICT at NGOs

Civic engagement · Entertainment · ICTS · Information and Communications Technology · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social engagement · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Youth work · Gender, Feminism, and Media · ICT in Developing Communities · Social Media and Politics