A Specific Approach

I agree that looking at political activism along with voter turnout would be interesting. It may be possible that our research may not show a link between increase in media with increases in voter turnout, but instead increases in other modes of political participation such as: signing petitions, organizing/attending events or protests, joining interest groups, communicating with local MLAs or MPs etc. Personally, I think social media has increased political participation in other avenues outside of voter turnout, and if we could measure those changes along with voter turnout it could provide us a more accurate measurement of political participation and its relationship with the increase of media in the last 10 years or so.