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spir-10044	Daskal, Efrat; Orlova, Anna	Performing Internet Governance: The Case Study of Youth Participation in The Internet Governance Forum	2017.0	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1229	50	42	Thus, in order to assess these youth related initiatives, and furthermore to analyze the political processes that are meant to enable young people to construct youth representation at the IGF, this study asks, what are the characteristics of youth participation at the IGF? Methodology To answer this question, we used several research methods triangulated to produce a thick description of youth activities within the IGF: content analysis of all youth-related materials from IGF meetings (n=35 documents), in-depth interviews with key activists who participated in youth activities in the IGF (n=5), and participatory observation conducted at IGF Mexico during December of 2016. Nevertheless, this kind of guidance currently hardly exists even within the framework of YCIG The future – Three trends will influence the future of youth involvement within the IGF: (1) The strengthening of traditional geo-political forces within the IGF, manifested in the rise of national IGF youth initiatives and the identity of the YCIG steering committee delegates, who for the first time will be determined by their geo-political affiliation (2)	cache/spir-10044.pdf	txt/spir-10044.txt