Social Media and Youth Protest Behavior
The year of Quarantine has taught us to live Online, so it is possibly predictable that is was what we saw online that directed us back onto the streets. Social Media is not about website to spend time for enjoyment, it is more about platform of expression, to grab the idea about national and international affairs, highlighting global concerns and much more. Social media has provided freedom of expression to every gender without biasness. It can only be restricted under certain conditions. Accordingly, Countries have positive and negative obligations for the protection of Freedom of expression. Protest activity on social media has become central means of Political change. Use of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram is significantly associated with the protest behavior. Youth have been enormously vigorous in political action because of their “post materialism ideology”. Most of the Protest activities that we observe nowadays, is a consequence of community protesting and connecting as a wh...