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Abstract A modern newspaper is a record and an information bank in miniature. The actions that take place everyday are documented in newspapers. A good deal of occurrence is going on every day and everyone should keep abreast of it. It is obligatory for all alike to read the progression that is going on from day to day in the affairs of the world. Unless one knows these changes, it is hard to move with the times smoothly and easily. Newspaper seeks out not only to inform us with current affairs, but also to inspire and to excite us as it has themes of individual preference as well as social activities. It has the motive of informing, educating and entertaining the public. A newspaper contains a lot of general knowledge in it. It makes available reports on both local news and foreign news. It plays a part in deciding the destiny of the politicians and also in imparting patriotic feeling among the citizens of the country. It caters to the need of each and every person by providing information on various fields like politics, science, culture, literature, sports etc. When a person reads what is happening in all parts of the world, he gets out of the narrow circle of the personal affairs for a while and gets refreshed. Reading a newspaper makes a person fit to participate usefully in a cultivated society. So, reading newspaper has become an imperative thing to the people all over the world.

The case of the 2010 municipal elections in Calgary, Canada, is used here to explore the discursive construction of social media in relation to political engagement. This article examines the way in which 59 undergraduate students at the University of Calgary discuss political engagement through Facebook and Twitter. Participants enthusiastically constructed a vision of 'engagement' fostered by social media's alleged intrinsic features. Social media, it was argued, create a feeling of community, provide access to information as well as the ability to share it, and open up new means of building personal connections between politicians and citizens. In this articulation, social media appeared as both the tool that produced engagement and the space where this engagement unfolded. The focus of the article is on questioning the implications of this discursive construction by asking what political possibilities are opened up or closed down in this articulation? The construction of social media as the solution to the problems of democracy remains highly problematic, yet also indicative of a deep preoccupation with the conditions of modern life, and particularly the desire to find solutions to the increased complexity of the social systems.

<p dir="ltr"><span>Este artículo presenta perspectivas conceptuales para el análisis de la acción política de los jóvenes. Tiene como base las percepciones de estudiantes de primer semestre que hicieron parte del grupo estudiado en el proyecto "Emergencia de sujeto político en jóvenes universitarios", en el cual se indagó por las nociones, acciones, intereses y valoraciones que tienen sobre la política los estudiantes de la Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span>Se hace referencia al contexto sociopolítico en el cual se ha desarrollado la acción política de los jóvenes en el país y, a partir de lo encontrado en la investigación, que dio cuenta del rechazo de estos a toda forma institucional de ejercicio de la política por su vínculo con prácticas corruptas, se construye la reflexión sobre los factores que impiden la acción política. Se discuten las posibilidades de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación para facilitar la participación política, y finalmente se hace un acercamiento a las manifestaciones del sujeto político en el grupo estudiado. La discusión se apoya en los aportes de diversas investigaciones y en autores como Bauman (2007), Perea (2008), Mejía (2009) y Martín-Barbero (2010).</span></p><div><span><br /></span></div>