Montgomery, Kathryn C.. Generation Digital : Politics, Commerce, and Childhood in the Age of the Internet. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press, 2007. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 12 October 2015.
The source Generation Digital: Politics, Commerce, and Childhood in the Age of the Internet, by Kathryn Montgomery, is an in depth look at the influence social media and technology have on politics and political involvement. It begins at the central of a cultural storm, the cycle that millennials live in where their everyday lives revolve around technology. Although many people were trepidatious when first using the internet, "These heightened concerns over online dangers are in sharp contrast to widespread beliefs about the positive role of technology in children’s lives", it has become a normal part of most people's lives. The chapter Peer-to-Peer Politics is most focused on the relationship technology plays in politics in the 21st century. "A growing number of advocacy groups, political parties, and youth organizations began going online to spread the word about youth voting." In each elections following 2000, social media has been a key role in the voting of millennials. The overall message of the book, and especially the two chapters mentioned, is that technology increases the awareness of millennial's idea of politics and aids them in seeking further knowledge about those politics.
Greenblatt, Alan. "Millennial Generation." CQ Researcher by CQ Press. N.p., 26 June 2015.
Web. 13 Oct. 2015. <http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre2015062600>.
In the article, “Will Today’s Young Adults Change American Society,” social media is a key aspect of a millennials' everyday life. Millennials are more involved with political issues than they are with actual politics according author Alan Greenblatt, "Millennials are carrying the weight of cultural expectations, with some commentators looking to them to insist on less partisan politics and more serious efforts to address climate change." Conveying those important issues is equally as important, and social media has been within most millennials' reach. Not many millennials are budding politicians because they believe they don't have a real affect on politics as a whole. It is still unclear what the future of politics will look like now that almost all millennials are of voting age, but in the upcoming 2016 election, millennials will hopefully have more involvement of the way they want to see America. The overall idea of the article is that technology helps bind political ideas and elaborate upon them, and as more millennials become interested in politics, social media will be more and more useful.
Millennials: We Suck and We're Sorry. Dir. Stephen Parkhurst. Perf. Sara Jonsson, Nick Schwartz, Ronnie Fleming, and Bridget Araujo. Youtube, 2013. Online Video.
In the video, "Millennials: We Suck and We're Sorry," millennials use sarcasm to mock the faults of their generation that aren't caused by the millennials, but instead the older generations: Baby Boomers and Gen Y. The video begins focusing on the over education of millennials, how most went to college because their parents encourage them, only to have collected tons of student debt due to the high price of college. Then the video discusses how difficult it is to get a regular job, and how they should just go out and get one like their parents did. Then they discuss that they don't like hard work even though 90% of jobs created since 2000 are part time. More stereotypes of millennials are brought into question, only to be shot down with the reason they occur. Each topic discussed is also addressed in politics, especially for the upcoming elections. Each candidate has a specific stance on most issues discussed in the video such as climate change and higher education.
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