Dylan Mullinax

Mrs. Marlowe
Expo R/W
November 27th 2016

Potter, Andrew, Mr. "Envision Blog." EnvisionExperience, 24 Dec. 2015,

www.envisionexperience.com/blog/are-teens-interested-in-politics. Accessed
15 Nov. 2016.
Teenagers currently do not feel the need to be involved with
political affairs, and things relating to it because they feel that it
simply will not affect their lives. While in fact, these kids are not
thinking of their next four years, and how it could effect them with going
to college, with student loans, or even specific laws currently in place.
The author interviewed a few students, and often got the response "I don't
care what's going on because I don't have to pay for my life insurance, so
it doesn't effect me". That statement shows that these kids simply do not
care who is in charge of their nation due to sheer ignorance. They think
that who is in charge of the states and nation has no effect on their lives
personally. The info I learned with this article is that teens really do
not know about politics, they just are ignorant, and they feel it does not
matter. This can help my project, because I know I can interview teens, and
discover what makes them feel being involved is pointless. This is
extremely relevant because it further proves my point, that teens are not
involved with politics.

Journalists Resource. 3 Dec. 2015, journalistsresource.org/studies/society/

social-media/facebook-millennial-politics-election. Accessed 22 Nov. 2016.
This article explains that in this new generation of teenagers and people
close to their age, it appears they receive most of their outright "news"
straight from Facebook, and other social medias. The issue with that being
is that the social media could become biased to one side, giving a lot of
incredible information to the readers. Having all your news come from just
one source, even like Facebook, can be very dangerous because of the fact
that it could simply not be true. A lot of the time those types of outlets
will add eye catching titles even to get more views on their articles.
Up to 85% of the current people born from 1980-2000's admit to using
Facebook as a primary source for news. I feel I can use this in my Capstone
because I can ask people currently where they get such news that they know,
and perhaps show them more effective ways to interpret what happens.

Taylor, Paul, Mr. Interview. Paw Research Center, Paw Research, 16 July 2012,
www.pewresearch.org/2012/07/16/
ask-the-expert-young-people-and-political-engagement/. Accessed 24 Nov.
2016. This interview is a very good choice for me because he interviews
someone who has been studying how this new generation views political
affairs. He explains that now, there is much more of a fan in the people
that vote because people now become more independent when they turn 18.
Their lives become centralized around themselves. They do not view policies

that important because they just simply do not see how it directly effects
them. This comes from them seeing consistency up to now, and they do not
think it is likely that anything will ever change, which is wrong, this
generation just hasn't had to see a transition of power. This new
generation has a cloud of ignorance over them, which covers their desire to
learn about these political affairs and the candidates. In my project, I
think it would be a good idea to try and uncover the ignorant things people
have perceived in this new generation.

Gallup. 4 Jan. 2005, www.gallup.com/poll/14515/

teens-stay-true-parents-political-perspectives.aspx. Accessed 25 Nov. 2016.
this article shows that most children will take on the political views of
their parents most of the time. That shows that if you were to just tell a
child something, they are probably going to believe it because they know no
other way. When people who are not educated in politics have children, they
carry on the ignorance they have about the political affairs. This new
generation however seems to be siding more with the Republican way of
things. The kids just stick to what they learned when they were younger.
Because I'm this new world, the norm goes along with Liberal beliefs. I
think that this article is going to prove to be very beneficial to me and
my capstone because now I know that a lot of what teenagers believe about
politics, they more often than not, are just going off of what their parents told them is
true.

KQED. 10 Oct. 2014, ww2.kqed.org/learning/2014/10/10/vote-election/. Accessed 27

Nov. 2016. This article explains how children, teenagers think their vote does not matter
because t would be over shadowed by all the highly educated voters. While in this
article it was shown that around 60% of the voters were in fact younger people, around
the age of 18-25. They are in the highest percentage of the voters that voted in this past
Bi-Election. It is commonly thought that most teens do not vote, and they actually do,
regardless of how much knowledge they have in politics. This is important for my
Capstone, because once people turn 18, their able to vote, so they should not wait until
then to start learning about who has the better views, who is a better candidate, and so
on. So I do believe it is important for the younger generation to start learning about
politics, so when the time comes, we have a new generation of educated voters.