Youth wings exist worldwide, connect youths with political parties, and mobilize youth to political engagement. Youth wings engagement often entails offline political engagement such as debates and demonstrations. However, during the two-year pandemic, youth wings and their members had to move their political engagement mostly online since they and the rest of the world needed to conduct social distancing to stop the spread of the coronavirus. The pandemic ended this year, 2022, and studies have been conducted around political engagement during social distancing. However, no study has researched how the digitalization effect of the pandemic has affected youths' wings and its member's online mobilization and engagement. This study intends, therefore, to study how the eight Swedish youth wing and their members view how their online mobilization and political engagement during the pandemic has changed. Therefore, to understand the youth wings and its members' political mobilization and engagement does the study use semi-structured interviews to gain a subjective understanding of their perspectives. The data was then analyzed through thematic analysis and later theoretical examined through the dimensions of political engagement and mobilization and the private sphere. Finally, these theories were applied to the data to understand what actions can be viewed as political mobilization and engagement and how digital media affect political actions. Youth wings exist worldwide and connect youths with political parties and mobilize youth to political engagement. Youth wings engagement often entails offline political engagement such as debates and demonstrations. However, during the two-year pandemic, youth wings and their members had to move their political engagement mostly online since they and the rest of the world needed to conduct social distancing to stop the spread of the coronavirus. The pandemic ended this year, 2022, and studies have been conducted around political engagement during social distancing. However, no study has researched how the digitalization effect of the pandemic has affected youths' wings and its member's online mobilization and engagement. This study intends, therefore, to study how the eight Swedish youth wing and their members view how their online mobilization and political engagement during the pandemic has changed. Therefore, to understand the youth wings and its members' political mobilization and engagement does the study use semi-structured interviews to gain a subjective understanding of their perspectives. The data was then analyzed through thematic analysis and later theoretical examined through the dimensions of political engagement and mobilization and the private sphere. Finally, these theories were applied to the data to understand what actions can be viewed as political mobilization and engagement and how digital media affect political actions.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 Tese - José Elias Domingos Costa Marques - 2016.PDF: 4189898 bytes, checksum: 2e0859014e269cd8e7ebb009443af06c (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-10-21 / This doctoral thesis works with the theme of youth and political participation, specifically with regard to youth organizations militating within the political parties, namely youth wings. While subunits institutionally recognized by the parties in Brazil, the youths in the parties is a key area not only as a fertile field for formal political socialization, but mostly because participate in the arena of disputes and intra-party influences. These points draw the central issue: how institutional working dynamics of party youth organizations and what their role and influence in the arena party politics? In order to delimit the object of research and enable a higher breath study, from a specific focus subject, we analyzed in depth the Party's Youth Organisation of Workers Party (Brazil). The objective of the research in this sense is to analyze a party subunit "Juventude do PT" as the dynamics of organizational operation and intra-party political position, trajectory of institutional performance, as well as the motivations, goals, beliefs of young people who choose to military in a political party. The methodology from the point of view of the problem approach is qualitative and quantitative nature and the technical procedures for collecting consisted of indirect documentation collection technique and technique of intensive direct observation. We conclude that the ongoing institutionalization of JPT over three decades is accompanied by the maintenance of control of party leadership in some aspects of its political movement and deliberation, wich directly affecting its organizational autonomy. To function effectively, the JPT needs partisan leaders approval of material incentives and ratification of more general initiatives. The youth militants of PT reproduce in their youth organization disputes between the trends observed in the party sphere and the axes student movement and elections have been incorporated in the last decade other fronts of political intervention. And they envisage in a political party the opportunity to concretize in the field of political dispute their concerns about social problems and the building of ideals. / Esta tese de doutorado trabalha com a temática da juventude e participação política, especificamente no que se refere às organizações de jovens que militam dentro dos partidos políticos, a saber, as Juventudes Partidárias. Enquanto subunidades reconhecidas institucionalmente pelos partidos no Brasil, as juventudes nos partidos constituem um espaço crucial não somente como campo fértil de socialização política formal, mas principalmente porque participam na arena das disputas e influências intrapartidárias. Destes pontos extraímos a problemática central: como é a dinâmica de funcionamento institucional das organizações juvenis partidárias e qual seu papel e influência na arena política partidária? De forma a delimitar o objeto da pesquisa e possibilitar um estudo de maior fôlego, partindo de um recorte específico do tema, analisamos em profundidade a organização Juventude do Partido dos Trabalhadores. O objetivo da pesquisa, neste sentido, visa analisar uma subunidade partidária “Juventude do PT” quanto a sua dinâmica de funcionamento organizacional e posicionamento político intrapartidário, trajetória de atuação institucional, bem como as motivações, objetivos, crenças dos jovens que optam por militar em um partido político. A metodologia, do ponto de vista da abordagem do problema, é de cunho quali-quantitativa e os procedimentos técnicos de coleta consistiram no acesso a documentação indireta e técnica da observação direta intensiva, seguida da triangulação dos dados e análises sintonizadas com os objetivos propostos para esta pesquisa. Constatamos que a institucionalização em curso da JPT ao longo de três décadas vem acompanhada da manutenção do controle da direção partidária em alguns aspectos de sua movimentação política e deliberação, afetando diretamente sua autonomia organizativa. Para funcionar efetivamente, a JPT precisa da anuência dos dirigentes partidários em relação aos incentivos materiais e ratificação das iniciativas mais gerais. Os jovens petistas reproduzem em sua organização de juventude as disputas entre as tendências observadas na esfera partidária e aos eixos movimento estudantil e eleições progressivamente vêm sendo incorporadas na última década outras frentes de intervenção política. E eles vislumbram em um partido político a oportunidade de concretizar no campo da disputa política suas inquietações quanto aos problemas sociais e edificação de ideais.

The theme of my thesis is "Civic engagement though the eyes of political parties youth wings." I chose three specific associations, which cover the classical political spectrum. The goal of the thesis is to discover what kind of relationship these young people have to civic engagement. Civic engagement is represented by the new type of engaged NGOs. I also wanted to know what was their motivation to join the youth wing and if their opinions about civic engagement corespond with the Party point of view. In the theoretical part I introduce concepts of political participation and civic engagemant connected with the third sector and political parties. In the empirical part is presented the analysis with the findings. I used qualitative research strategy and data were obtained mostly trom interviews. In the end the findings are summarized and connscted with the theoretical framework.