, COM3706 Assignment 1 (COMPLETE ANSWERS)
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SEMESTER 01 ASSIGNMENT ACTIVITIES ASSIGNMENT 01
Research Topic: A voter apathy among South African (or your
home country) university students: a mixed-method study.
Introduction and Background As a political communication
research consultant, you have been approached by an
international youth and development organisation, Youth Vision
Society (YVS) based in Manitoba, Canada, to conduct a pilot
study of a mixed-method research approach to survey voter
apathy among South African (or your home country) university
students. You have been requested to first present a research
proposal (a research plan, which forms part of Assignment 01)
and to conduct the research pilot study (which forms part of
Assignment 03). The previous studies by Henn, Weinstein and
Forrest (2005:557) revealed that British young people generally
find “politics uninviting and irrelevant” to their lives. Another
study by Martin (2014) added revealed that Australian citizens
have little confidence in political parties in Australia. A South
African study (Oyedemi & Mahlatji 2016) notes that there is
voter apathy among the “born-frees” a generation of young
people born since 1994, who did not vote in the 2014 General
Elections. McKinley (2014) argues that this is a generation of
young people more concerned about their future in a society
characterized by high levels of poverty, mass unemployment,
Semester 1 2025 - DUE March 2025; 100%
TRUSTED Complete, trusted solutions and
explanations.
SEMESTER 01 ASSIGNMENT ACTIVITIES ASSIGNMENT 01
Research Topic: A voter apathy among South African (or your
home country) university students: a mixed-method study.
Introduction and Background As a political communication
research consultant, you have been approached by an
international youth and development organisation, Youth Vision
Society (YVS) based in Manitoba, Canada, to conduct a pilot
study of a mixed-method research approach to survey voter
apathy among South African (or your home country) university
students. You have been requested to first present a research
proposal (a research plan, which forms part of Assignment 01)
and to conduct the research pilot study (which forms part of
Assignment 03). The previous studies by Henn, Weinstein and
Forrest (2005:557) revealed that British young people generally
find “politics uninviting and irrelevant” to their lives. Another
study by Martin (2014) added revealed that Australian citizens
have little confidence in political parties in Australia. A South
African study (Oyedemi & Mahlatji 2016) notes that there is
voter apathy among the “born-frees” a generation of young
people born since 1994, who did not vote in the 2014 General
Elections. McKinley (2014) argues that this is a generation of
young people more concerned about their future in a society
characterized by high levels of poverty, mass unemployment,
