Springtide Research Institute was recently mentioned by National Catholic Reporter, in an article featuring our data and quotes from Cyrus, 18, a Springtide Ambassador. You can see an excerpt of this article in part below, but we encourage you to visit their site to read the piece in its entirety.

On social media, Harris is connecting with pop culture, whether it’s with “Brat summer,” the color green or coconut tree emojis. Walz, for his part, is rocking the cool dad memes. It’s more than fun; it’s a political strategy, given that more than a quarter of young people say that social media influences their opinions about political issues, according to a recent study by Springtide Research Institute.

That study, conducted last winter and spring, also found that young people were unhappy with U.S. partisan politics, said Springtide’s senior researcher Nabil Tueme, a sociologist. “They were really looking for something different than the things they were observing,” she told NCR.

Yet the stereotypes of young people as either politically apathetic or zealots are not accurate, Tueme said. Despite their perception of partisanship and incivility in politics, coupled with low trust in institutions overall, only 6% of respondents reported not caring about any political issues, she said.

“We found that they care deeply about our shared politics and communal world in ways that were really complex and nuanced,” Tueme said.

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