A Systematic Literature Review on Civic Engagement Form among Youth: Online Participation

Digital citizen is mushrooming among youth. The usage of internet among them are high and also time spending on online network as well. This systematic review article present what are the online participation activities among youth that help them to connect with civic engagement and enhance their awareness about public issues. The methodology used in this systematic literature review are guided by Preferred Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analysis guideline. 38 article from Scopus as main database and Google Scholar as supported database were selected through the process of identification, screening, eligibility and inclusion exclusion process. Nine main theme are found as a result but this article is focus on online participation theme as civic engagement among youth. The online participation theme were examine which have resulted to five main activities on in which are information sharing, online networking, civic content creating, active participating and usage of other digital platforms. The analysis on online participation also found that focus is given more to social media contribution but lack in other digital technologies platform benefit. Future literature is recommend by focus more on how other digital platforms can contribute to the civic engagement among youth and finally result in forming a good citizenship.