Student engagement with political news is generally sporadic and superficial, a post-Super Tuesday survey of 200 US undergraduates found.
The majority of survey participants spent less than 30 minutes over the three-day period straddling Super Tuesday following political news.
“Students appear willing to scan political news that they stumble upon, but they don’t go out of their way to search it out,” lead investigator Elia Powers said.
pete whiting
anthro
When I was growing up we had bands like the Manic St. Preachers who were intellectual, political (with degrees) and basically had something to say and deep convictions about politics, culture, society etc. A generation of people got engaged and educated because of them. Today no one has anything to say in music. Youth and music are a marriage so if students are apathetic and dont care or have little passion then I wonder if it is because of the music.
Simple and reductionist I know, but you see my point.
Tim Hawes
Mr.
And yet Occupy Wall Street.
Not terribly nuanced in itself I know, but it was mass activism.