Young Citizens and New Media: Learning for Democratic Participation

by Dahlgren; Peter

• ISBN13: 9780415395991
• ISBN10: 0415395992
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-06-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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, andsociology.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Civic Engagement and Learning via New Media Youth, Media, and Democracy: Late Modern Landscape

From Big Brother to Big Brother: Two faces of interactive engagement

Changing life courses, new media, and citizenship: The impact of reflexive biographization on young people's democratic engagement

Civic learning in changing democracies: Challenges for citizenship and civic education Situating Young Citizens' Media Use

Young people's identity construction and patterns of media use: participation in Germany and Austria

Interactivity and participation on the internet: Young people's response to the online invitation to engage in the civic sphere

Patterns of media use and political development among youth: International comparisons

Finding a global voice? Migrant children, new media and the limits of empowerment Media, Engagement, and Daily Practices

Democratic familyship and negotiated ICT users' practices

An indispensable resource: The internet and young citizens' political engagement

Mobile monitoring: Questions of risk and democratic perspectives in Young Danes' uses of mobile phones

Social networks of young political activists in the alter-globalisation movement

Contributors

Index

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