Political Participation of young university students in the social distancing caused by Covid 19

Abstract

With the arrival of COVID-10, a great set of sanitary restrictions have been carried outto prevent the spread of the virus, one of the main measures has been the closure of several activities. Modified the usual environment mainly by social distancing, which can be modifying the process of political participation in the university students their local community activities. To this end, it is relevant to review the political participation from the conventional to the new digital incidence. We consider as an objective determinate the process of political participation in university students around the consumption of information in electronic communication platforms, given the social distancing. Approaching from the methodological point of view, with the qualitative approach of correlational cut, finding as main findings, a relationship between political participation in digital media and social capital in university students in social distancing. So, it can be concluded that for young university students, the social media contribute to build trust among members of society to influence from the comments.