Mapping Global Youth and Religion. Big Data As Lens to Envision a Sustainable Development Future

Having fun and buying goods. For the young people of the world between 18 and 25, these are their main concerns on social media, as demonstrated by this study, which aims to identify the interests of global youth and also to unveil religion’s place in this generation (Lim and Parker, 2020; Tilleczek...

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Authors: Sabaté Gauxachs, Alba, Israel Turim, Verónica, Micó, Josep-Lluís, Diez-Bosch, Miriam
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2020
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Ramon Llull (URL)
Repository:DAU Arxiu Digital de la Universitat Ramon Llull
OAI Identifier:oai:dau.url.edu:20.500.14342/646
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14342/646
https://doi.org/10.51698/tripodos.2020.48p33-52
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Dades massives
Religió
Joves
Mitjans de comunicació social
Desenvolupament sostenible
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Summary:Having fun and buying goods. For the young people of the world between 18 and 25, these are their main concerns on social media, as demonstrated by this study, which aims to identify the interests of global youth and also to unveil religion’s place in this generation (Lim and Parker, 2020; Tilleczek and Campbell, 2019). The role of values and education among them (Zamo-ra-Polo et al., 2020), and the influenc-ers and social leaders they follow are also included among the results of this research, which also plans to discern their potential alignment with the chal-lenges of the Sustainable Development Goals.For this purpose, more than 540 million Facebook and Instagram profiles have been analyzed using social listening (Couldry, 2006) through a Big Data based methodology. The results are new values (Kimball, 2019) and new ways to envisage religion, and depict an evolving landscape with change, culture and consumption pointing the way.