TY  - JOUR
T1  - Social Media and Digital Participation in Politics
AU - Jinarat, Veerasak 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 16
IS  - 6
SP  - 108
EP  - 111
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2021.108.111
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2021.108.111
KW  - Social media
KW  -participation
KW  -digital participation
KW  -statistical analysis
KW  -political participation
AB  - The objective of the study is to investigate the
influence of social media and digital participation in
politics of the first time eligible voters in 2019, university
students in Thailand. The 29 items of a questionnaire was
developed from literature review and tested validity
(KMO = 0.899, 0.937) and reliability (Alpha = 0.89, 0.92)
and collected 400 respondents of the university students
before the election in March, 2019 in Thailand. The
statistical analysis are variance analysis and Stepwise
Multi Regression analysis. Facebook, Twitter and
Instagram are social media usage in this study. The results
revealed that the sub-variables of social media usage such
as time in using social media (Sm4) and sharing like
(Sm12) and sub-variables of political participation in
terms of supporting activity (Sa), voting and following
information (Ei), predicted significantly at 0.05, on digital
participation in politics. Moreover, these 4 sub-variables
also demonstrated moderately the coefficient at R<sup>2</sup> = 0.43,
0.36, 0.009 and 0.023, respectively, to digital participation
in politics. Consequently, the utilizing of Facebook and
Twitter for the benefits of political participation should be
related mainly to solving the civic problems.
ER  -