The Role of the Youth in Egypt

As I blogged last week, there seems to be a decline in reading the news among the younger generation, myself included.  With this decline, according to Esther Thorson's "Mobilizing Citizen Participation," there will also be a decline in community involvement and an interest in politics and the being involved in the political process.  Therefore I find it fascinating that the uprising in Egypt was spearheaded by the youth, the very group that is supposed to be the least involved and interested in civil society.  Of course we cannot ignore the use of social media in Egypt and therefore one has to wonder if what Thorson argues is indeed the true future for the our generations and those that come after us.