Internet and Political Socialization of Young People: Formal and Informal Practises to be Engaged

Many Scholars point out that ICT's internet offer the prospect of stimulating new forms of mobilization by young citizens, a new mechanism of political socialization. At the same time, the process of individualization in western societies has loosed up connection between individuals and tradicional structures. Social individualization means that people are becoming less strongly connected to traditional communities but they might be increasing engaged in multiple and differentiated networks. The basic idea here is the technology plays an importante role in account of political individualization in several ways. For analyse this theme we consider political choices of young people both formallly and informally. 

The objective is to enhance our understanding of offline and online processes political socialization.The question of how and to which extend new media contribute to political socialization in different activities managed by young people is open to debate.