Young Citizens and New Media: Learning for Democratic Participation

✍ Scribed by Peter Dahlgren (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought; 52
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book integrates four distinct topics: young people, citizenship, new media, and learning processes. When taken together, these four topics merge to define an arena of social and research attention that has become compelling in recent years.

The general international concern expressed of declining democratic engagement and the role of citizenship today becomes all the more acute when it turns to younger people. At the same time, there is growing attention being paid to the potential of new media – especially internet and mobile telephony – to play a role in facilitating newer forms of political participation. It is clear that many of the present manifestations of ‘new politics’ in the extra parliamentarian domain, not only make sophisticated use of such media, but are indeed highly dependent on them.

With an impressive array of contributors, this book will appeal to those interested in a number of spheres, including media and cultural studies, political science, pedagogy, and sociology.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Youth, civic engagement and learning via new media
PART I Youth, media, and democracy: Late modern landscapes
2 From big brother to Big Brother: Two faces of interactive engagement
3 Changing life courses, citizenship, and new media: The impact of reflexive biographization
4 Civic learning in changing democracies: Challenges for citizenship and civic education
PART II Situating young citizens' media use
5 Young people's identity construction and media use: Democratic participation in Germany and Austria
6 Interactivity and participation on the internet: Young people's response the civic sphere
7 Patterns of Internet use and political engagement among youth
8 Finding a global voice? Migrant children, new media and the limits of empowerment
PART III Media, engagement, and daily practices
9 Democratic familyship and negotiated practices of ICT users
10 An indispensable resource: The Internet and young civic engagement
11 Mobile monitoring: Questions of trust, risk, and democracy in young Danes' uses of mobile phones
12 Social networks of young political activism and cultural practices
Contributors
Index