Contemporary Youth Politics and The Creation of a Network of Political Participation and Fake News Literacy

Abstract

        Contemporary Youth Politics and The Creation of a Network of Political Participation and Fake News Literacy is mixed method research that combines both quantitative and qualitative methodology. The first part is survey research on the attitudes and behaviors of higher education youth about political participation and political fake news literacy and the second part is action research on contemporary youth alliance building activities with political participation and political fake news literacy. It has 3 objectives: (1) to enhance knowledge of political participation for higher education youth; (2) to enhance knowledge of political fake news literacy for higher education youth; and (3) to create a contemporary youth network with political participation and fake news literacy.

        The results of the quantitative research found that people from different demographic backgrounds, there will be a behavior of exposure to political news knowledge and behavior about political participation, knowledge and behavior about political fake news literacy differing statistically significant at the .05 level and found that knowledge and behavior about political participation were correlated with knowledge and behavior about political fake news literacy statistically significant at the .05 level, which is according to the assumption. As for the results of action research, it was found that the construction of contemporary youth alliance mechanisms and political participation requires three important components: (1) youth (students or students); (2) educational institutions; and (3) media professional organizations arising from the cooperation of three parties voluntarily, the importance of youth and political participation in democratic development through activities that are learning processes in terms of knowledge and skills. In addition, the budget for activities to instill the seeds of youth who are aware of political participation that benefits the nation in any form that they are interested and have expertise in. Under the supporting from 3 main organizations directly related, The National Broadcasting and Telecommunication Commission, Thai Media Fund and Thai Health.