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Good morning everyone, today I'm going to present my major findings in IES, my enquiry title is how does the internet affects adolescents' socio-political participation. Objectives of the present studies are as follows, First, to know whether the internet changes the form of socio-political participation of adolescents. Secondly, is to find out if the internet raise their awareness to social issues. At last, the project aims to find out does the internet affect their political inclination.

The focus questions are written on the PowerPoint, please take a look, in short, they are about the effects brought by internet on adolescents' socio -political participations concerning the willingness, frequency , form and level of participation.

Let's look at the research methodology together, the present studies contains primary information and secondary, for primary information, questionnaires are distributed in Feb 2014, 79 of them were collected and 76 of them fall in the target group. 3 of them which are above 20 and are ignored.

So, it's the time for my major findings, first of all, the table in the slide shows the Frequency of participating socio-political events before and after approaching the internet. As we can all see that, more people participated in socio political events after they have approached the internet. For example, the number of respondents who rates 'sometimes' as their frequency of participation increased from 9.2% to 30.2% of the total respondents. Also, fewer respondents rate their frequency as 'never'. It show that adolescents participate more in socio-political events after approaching the internet.

The graph shown in the slide shows the relationship between frequency of using the internet and frequency of jo...

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...heir viewpoint most easily. One thing that is mentioning is that 19 respondents claimed that they will never change their political inclination/ viewpoint. From the above information, we can see that the internet play an important role in changing or establishing adolescent's political inclination. It is a common factor of them changing their viewpoint.

In conclusion, I've find out the positive relations between adolescents online frequency and their frequency, willingness, perception of usefulness of socio-political participation. Also, adolescents will have a higher interest in current affairs if they approach the internet more. The changes brought by the internet on the form of participation are also found. Also, I know that the internet plays an important role in establishing their viewpoint towards social issues.

This is the end of my presentation, thank you!