Urban youth and social networks in Mozambique: the political participation of the helpless connected

Autores

  • Dércio Tsandzana IEP Sciences Po Bordeaux

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17231/comsoc.34(2018).2948

Palavras-chave:

Youth, social networks, political participation

Resumo

In the last 10 years, studies on political participation through social networks have marked the debate in the field of media studies. In Mozambique, particularly, and in the world, in general, youth represent the galvanizing centre that finds in the use of social networks an almost ideal tool of expression about their frustrations due to their situation of blatant social misery – unemployment and constant life uncertainty to which youth are exposed. With this article, we intend to analyse the role of social networks, specifically Facebook, in the political and social engagement of urban youth in Mozambique, considering a timeline that covers the last four years, 2014 to 2017. As a result, it is concluded that, despite the expansion of social networks in recent years, they cannot yet be considered as spaces for effective political participation by youth, due to the fact that the internet is less comprehensive, on the one hand, and the weak youth interest in political issues in Mozambique, on the other.

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Publicado

17-12-2018

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Tsandzana, D. (2018). Urban youth and social networks in Mozambique: the political participation of the helpless connected. Comunicação E Sociedade, 34, 251–265. https://doi.org/10.17231/comsoc.34(2018).2948