| Subject: | Political Science |
| Title: | Youth engagement on the Digital democratic space: A case of Nagaland |
| Author(s): | Mr. Menosele Yhoshu |
| Published on: | 30th October 2025 |
| Published by: | Lyceum India |
| Name of the Journal: | Lyceum India Journal of Social Sciences |
| ISSN/E-ISSN: | 3048-6513 |
| Volume & Issue: | Volume: 2, Issue: 5 |
| Pages: | 69-77 |
| Original DOI (if any): | 10.5281/zenodo.17466245 |
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| Abstract: | This study examines how youth leverage social media for non-electoral political participation, addressing the gap between digital engagement and sustained political action. Drawing on theoretical frameworks on cyberspace democracy theory and digital activism, I analyse the 2025 Nagaland protest on 147 faculty recruitment as a case study. The study contributes to digital democracy literature by demonstrating how ‘digitally-enabled’ activism creates new pathways for collective action for marginalised groups, such as the youth, to strategies social media campaigns to effect policy change. Further, the persistent challenges of youth political engagement are being discussed. |
| Keywords: | Youth, social media, Political Participation, Collective Action, Digital Activism, Nagaland |
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