The video from our last post somehow indicated what America does in order to encourage young people to vote. Media plays a big role in many young people's lives. New media, such as television and computer technics are preferred by most young people, rather than by older people. Their everyday life focuses upon these mediums. Many young people have social networks, such as facebook or MySpace. This can be seen as a new possibility to reach young people's interest in politics: social networks which normally allow people to meet friends, to chat about parties or to interchange photos from last Saturday's bar-hopping. Today, young people should be attracted via facebook and co. to a greater awareness towards politics. During the last American presidential election, Barack Obama found many supporters on facebook. There was for example a young politically interested student called Farouk Olu Aregbe from the University at Missouri at Columbia who created a group called "One Million Strong for Barack". His group "had 100 members in the first hour. In less than five days, 10,000. By the third week, nearly 200,000[members]".
Obama's supporters post photographs of him, chat with other supporters about their favourite quotes of their candidate. One can see a "real enthusiasm for Obama's candidacy among young people", more than for any other candidate. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/16/AR2007021602084.html
It is a great success to give the "Web Generation's" private lifestyle some political character.
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