Social network sites have recently garnered a great deal of attention from new media scholars. These sites are emerging as a source for political information among young adults. This study explores how use of social network sites by young adults for campaign information about the 2008...

Generally, the mass media perform the following social functions: information function, agenda setting, control function and criticism of social structures and institutions, educational function and function of socialization and integration (Jurcic, 2017). Through the digital revolution the...