Building Bridges: Promoting Political Participation of Young People
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Politics, Young people with a migration background, participation, Serious GameAbstract
The «Politics for all - bridging the sociodemographic divide»-project analyses the causes of political disinterest among children and young people. This multi-stage project aims to motivate young people to participate in politics in the long term. A central component of the project is developing a serious game that aims to promote intrinsic motivation for political participation in a playful way.
The theoretical basis of this study is the knowledge gap hypothesis, which states that access to knowledge is unequally distributed in the population. Studies show that people with a higher level of education and higher income tend to be more politically active.
The survey results indicate that socioeconomic background plays an important role in political participation and that serious games have great potential to get young people interested in politics in a playful way.
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