Mustapha, Lambe Kayode2018-07-182018-07-182017-05Mustapha, L. K. & Mustapha, M. L. (2017). Media and youths’ political engagement during the 2015 Nigerian general election. Estudos em Comunicação (Communication Studies), 24, 177-195http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1007Thecentralityofmediatopoliticalandcivicengagement has received tremendous exploration in many climes across the globe. Similarly, the dynamism that characterised media landscape has oftentimes calledforcontinuinginterrogationoftheroleofmedia in democratic and civic movements, discourses and participations. While the advent of new/social media led to the comparative exploration of the potency of legacy and novel media, mixed findings have characterised these research endeavours. Besides, most of the findings originated from advanced democratic hemisphere. In view of this gap in the literature, this study sampled 350 Nigerian university students in Kwara state during the 2015 Nigerian General Election to examine the differential contributions of legacy and novel media to the youths’ political engagement. Premised on media displacement theory, the study anticipates differences in the contribution of mainstream and new mediatoyouths’politicalengagement,withnewmedia precipitatingmorecivicengagementthanthemainstream media. Findings offer important contributions on the role of media to youths’ political engagementingeneralandthecontinuingimportanceofthe mainstreammediatocivicandpoliticalparticipation among the youths.endisplacement theory;legacy medianovel mediayouthpolitical engagementArticle