Practices of media-consumption of social and political content by regional youth audience

The article explores the consumption practices of socio-political content by Russian youth. The authors present the results of a sociological survey of residents of the Leningrad region aged 18-25 and highlight the main trends in changes in media consumption by young people. They stress the decline in the popularity of television, radio, the printed press, and the increase in consumption of Internet content, the decrease in demand for socio-political information and news content. In addition, the give some recommendations concerned improving information policy for youth.