İnternet ve Siyasal Katılım: Türkiye Gençliği Üzerinden Bir Değerlendirme

Türkiye’de ve dünyada İnternet’in yaygınlaşması çok sayıda fırsat sunmaktadır. Bu fırsatlardan en önemlilerinden biri de vatandaşlara sağladığı siyasal katılım olanaklarıdır. Türkiye gibi hem yetişkinlerin hem de gençlerin siyasal katılım düzeylerinin düşük olduğu bir ülkede, İnternet’in sağladığı olanaklar demokrasinin niteliği açısından çok hayati bir rol oynayabilir. Elimizdeki istatistikler gençlerin yüzde 90’ınına yakının bir oranının İnternet erişimi olduğunu gösterirken, İnternet’in siyasal amaçla kullanımı son derece sınırlı kalmaktadır. Ocak 2016’da 1804 gencin katılımıyla yürütülen araştırma çalışması verileri Türkiye’de gençlerin İnternette siyasal katılım davranışlarını keşfetmeyi ve bu davranışların belirleyicilerini sergilemeyi amaçlamaktadır

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Türkiye Gençliği, İnternet, Siyasal Katılım

The rising penetration of the Internet in the World and Turkey provides a lot of opportunities. One the most important opportunities of the Internet is in the domain of political participation, especially in countries like Turkey, characterizerd with very low level of political participation. These opportunities may have crucial roles in contributing the quality of Turkish democracy and closing the democratic deficit in the country. Recent data shows that about 90 percent of Turkish youngsters have Internet access whereas political participation scores over the Internet are very low. Our objective in this article is to discover political participation patterns of Turkish youth over the Internet and understand the determinants of these patterns; based on the analysis of the dataset of 1804 face to face interviews conducted in Turkey with a sample representing Turkish youth between 18-29 ages

Keywords:

Youth in Turkey, Internet, Political Participation,

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ISSN: 2147-8473
Yayın Aralığı: Yılda 3 Sayı
Başlangıç: 2012
Yayıncı: T.C. Gençlik ve Spor Bakanlığı Eğitim, Kültür ve Araştırma genel Müdürlüğü