Vietnamese Young People and the Reactive Public Sphere

In order to frame this research into how young Vietnamese people use social media to engage in political issues, the study focuses on the most popular social media platform in Vietnam: Facebook (Steckman, L. M., & Andrews, M. J. (2017). Online around the world: A geographic encyclopedia of the internet, social media, and mobile apps. ABC-CLIO., p. 342). A “sequential explanatory design” (Ivankova et al., Field Methods 18:3–20, 2006) is proposed as a means of finding answers to the research questions. It starts with the collection and analysis of the quantitative data from Internet-based surveys.