"Fish and children dont have voices." The saying now is not only old but inaccurate. Youth in the US is taking more and more interest in politics. This means that people our age are no longer the future of the nation we are affecting our nation NOW. According to the Targeted News Service youth ages 17-29 will make up 17% of the nations voting population.
To me this shows the great power of the media. Although we are of course different then our parents generation or even generation X, the main difference is not us but our enviorment. We can now access more information then any other generation could think of. The US federal news tells us that experts think that the reason why our generation is so interested in voting is because we can easily get the information we need to be interested. Even if one does not have a specific interest in politics an interesting link or post on-line can lead a web surfer to research candidates. This non-aggressive and impersonal method makes the surfer not feel pressured.
We spend a large percentage of our lives on-line and are guided by its endless paths. But these paths impact our decisions and our political views.
Youth is not only more interested in politics then our predecessors, we also seem to lean more to the left with our political stances and not adhere to party lines. Does this mean that the internet is in some way socializing our though process and decision making. Is the new-media, the internet, invoking liberal views or are we already liberal and the internet may seem liberal because of the links we choose to follow. Does the internet have power over us or do we we have power over the internet? Does youth have more of a say in politics or is it the people who are more tech savy then others that have more influence over the elections?
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